Senior Data Engineer

Hi, We're Centerfield!

Supercharged customer acquisition. Centerfield delivers outcome-based digital marketing solutions and personalized omnichannel experiences for the world’s leading brands. Powered by our proprietary Dugout platform, Centerfield acquires customers at scale for leading residential service, insurance, e-commerce, and B2B brands. Centerfield’s digital experiences and digital brands, such as Business.com and BroadbandNow.com, reach more than 150 million in-market shoppers annually. Centerfield is headquartered in Silicon Beach and is proud to be recognized by Built in LA as a Best Place to Work in Los Angeles.

The Opportunity...
We’re looking for a full-time data expert to own our data pipelines, warehouse, reporting, and analytics. This person will be responsible for building a reliable data foundation and turning raw data into clear, actionable insights that support decisions across marketing, operations, and finance.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who is comfortable working end-to-end, from ingestion and modeling to BigQuery performance and stakeholder-facing reporting.

How You'll Contribute...

• Build and maintain data pipelines from MySQL and external sources into BigQuery

• Own CDC ingestion using Google Cloud Datastream and API or batch ingestion with dlt

• Design and manage BigQuery tables with proper partitioning and clustering to ensure performant, cost efficient queries

• Build and maintain transformations and analytics models in dbt using staging, intermediate, and mart layers

• Orchestrate scheduled and incremental pipelines using Dagster

• Develop and maintain dashboards and automated reports used by marketing, operations, and finance

• Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs and translate business questions into data insights

• Ensure data quality, reliability, and consistency across the analytics stack

• Support forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis with trusted data
  

What We're Looking For...

• 5 or more years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or business intelligence

• Strong SQL and Python skills

• Hands-on experience with BigQuery, including query optimization, partitioning, and clustering

• Experience working with modern data stacks, including dbt and an orchestration tool such as Dagster or Airflow

• Strong understanding of data modeling, incremental processing, and ETL best practices

• Ability to clearly explain data concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Self-directed, organized, and comfortable owning systems independently in a remote environment

Bonus Points…

• Experience with performance or marketing analytics

• Familiarity with attribution modeling or predictive analytics

• Experience working with CDC pipelines and large append-only datasets

• Exposure to Elasticsearch or evaluating migrations to analytics engines such as ClickHouse

• Prior experience in high-growth or data-driven environments

Life at Centerfield...

• Competitive salary + generous semi-annual bonus

• Unlimited PTO – take a break when you need it!

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision plans + generous parental leave

• 401(k) company match plan – fully vested day 1

• Award-winning culture & unprecedented team spirit (featured in LA Business Journal & Built In LA)

• Paid charity and volunteer days (local mentor programs, adopt a pet, beach cleanup, etc.)

• Career growth – we enjoy promoting from within!

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Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

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