Launch Potato · 10 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expLaunch Potato is a profitable digital media company that connects consumers with leading brands through data-driven content and technology. The Lead Data Engineer will lead scalable data engineering efforts, ensuring that analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth by providing reliable, actionable data.
Marketing & Advertising
Responsibilities
Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth
Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business
Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units
Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth
Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows
Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity
Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support
Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams
5+ years of data engineering experience in an AWS-based environment where data powers decision-making across product, marketing, and operations
Company
Launch Potato
As The Discovery and Conversion Company, we connect advertisers to customers at all parts of the consumer journey, from awareness to consideration to purchase.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Ryan Van Horn
CTO / Founder
Apurva Shah
Chief Financial Officer
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