Data Engineer

The role

You will join the Publisher Data Platform team to build infrastructure, a data marketplace, and standards for secure data sharing. You will develop automated processes to provision publisher infrastructure and uphold governance standards for IPN data.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the Terraform that provisions the data platform, primarily Databricks on AWS.
• Implement engineered controls to ensure compliance with data governance policies.
• Develop and support secure external data exchange capabilities.
• Automate audit evidence collection and reporting.
• Identify, design, and implement improvements to the data platform.
• Perform incident resolution and manage workspace health monitoring.
• Optimize cloud costs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Use AI-assisted development while independently validating code, tests, and system behavior.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on data platform engineering, external data sharing integrations, or backend development.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with distributed data processing patterns.
• Experience operating governed data environments.
• Experience building big data pipelines that support data transformation, metadata, dependency management, and workload orchestration.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with Terraform and maintaining reusable deployment modules.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Databricks.
• Understanding of tenant isolation, clean rooms, data privacy, and compliance requirements in a cloud context.

Nice to have

• Experience with Medallion Architecture (bronze/silver/gold) or similar layered data design patterns.
• Practical experience with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Flexible time off
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 401k match
• Paid parking
• Snacks
• Occasional meals

Before you apply

• Candidates must live in the United States.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

About the company

Ibotta is a performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The company is headquartered in Denver.