Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. About The Data Engineering Team Thumbtack's Data organization is responsible for the foundations of our marketplace data: the event taxonomy used across product surfaces, the core entity models for requests, projects, pros, and customers, and the financial models that support company reporting. Data Engineering is organized as domain-aligned teams, each embedded with the parts of the business it serves, working alongside a platform team that owns the systems underneath. Data modeling at Thumbtack is a function of how well you understand the domain you're modeling, so we put engineers close to it and hold them to a high bar on correctness, testing, and the durability of what you ship. This team works at the intersection of financial data governance and rapid product iteration. The team has already introduced anomaly detection into its core pipelines to identify upstream definition changes before they affect revenue reporting, but the next step is to develop predictive capabilities that show how proposed product and data-model changes could affect financial results before those changes are released. dbt testing and CI are already established, with significant opportunities to expand automation. The team also owns the governance tooling used to protect core pipelines and maintain trusted data across the company.



this team will be responsible for helping architect the resulting data beginning next year. Deliver well-modeled, durable datasets for requests, projects, pros, and customers that the rest of the company builds on without asking who owns them. Raise the reliability floor on the core pipelines: dbt tests, CI, anomaly detection, and transparent contracts so a definition change three hops upstream doesn't quietly move a reported number. Hire and grow mid-level and senior data engineers, and develop TLs who can own a domain end-to-end. Set the engineering standards for a team that's still forming, including review, testing, and how the team decides what not to build. Lead as a technical manager. 6+ years building data or software systems in production. ~ Depth in SQL and dimensional and event modeling, and comfort in Python. Experience owning datasets that other teams depend on, with the testing, contracts, and versioning discipline that requires. ~ Commitment to building inclusive teams and team culture. Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: recruitingops@thumbtack.
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📌 Principal Data Engineering (Canada)
🏢 Thumbtack
📍 Canada