Director Of Engineering, Data Platform
San Francisco, California, Us
Productionalizing data science models and scaling Tapjoy's backend ad serving solution. The role entailed managing the data science engineering team, the ETL team, and the initial egress into the BI/business model layer. Data Science Engineering - The team was responsible for running an ad serving engine capable of responding to billions of ad requests daily whilst drawing on the outputs of the statistical+ML models built by the DS team. The engine also accounted for a host of business rules enforced by our ad partners to ensure effective targeting and delivery of ads.ETL - The ETL team was responsible for managing the infrastructure used by the data scientists to train models, ingest the ad event stream from the engineering side, maintain a datawarehouse for long-term storage, and the data lake used by the BI/Analytics team for downstream analysis.In addition to a BI engineer, the role involved scoping and planning infrastructure needs, budgets, and vendor contracts for the DS/DSE/ETL teams.