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# Senior Data Engineer at TripleLift 

- **Company:** TripleLift 
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://triplelift.com/careers-posts/?gh_jid=8223758

## Job description

## About TripleLift

We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.

As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at[triplelift.com](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3665616-1&h=429054733&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftriplelift.com%2F&a=%C2%A0triplelift.com).

## Overview

TripleLift is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a small, influential Data Engineering team.  This hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Senior Data Engineer will support our software engineers, product managers, business intelligence analysts and data scientists on data initiatives, and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

## Responsibilities

- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
- Explore and assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Spark, EMR, Kafka and other big data technologies
- Work with stakeholders across different teams, including product managers, engineers and analysts to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

Education & Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on data and ML processes running in production at scale.
- Experience with optimizing big data and ML pipelines like Spark and Kafka at scale
- Fundamental knowledge of ML and AI operations and processes. Experience in MLFlow, Feast, Ray, and other AI training technologies a plus
- Understanding of a variety of database technologies such as OpenSearch, Druid, Clickhouse, InfluxDB, etc
- Proven track record of cross-functional data modeling
- Strong command of SQL and expertise in one or familiarity with multiple of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java
- Experience in containerization, K8s and ArgoCD is a plus

Life at TripleLift

At TripleLift, we’re a team of great people who like who they work with and want to make everyone around them better. This means being positive, collaborative, and compassionate. We hustle harder than the competition and are continuously innovating.

Learn more about TripleLift and our culture by visiting our [LinkedIn Life page.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/triplelift/life/tripleliftdei/?viewAsMember=true)

Establishing People, Culture and Community Initiatives

At TripleLift, we are committed to building a culture where people feel connected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We invest in our people and foster a workplace that encourages curiosity, celebrates shared values, and promotes meaningful connections across teams and communities. We want to ensure the best talent of every background, viewpoint, and experience has an opportunity to be hired, belong, and develop at TripleLift. Through our People, Culture, and Community initiatives, we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and feel a true sense of belonging.

Privacy Policy

Please see our Privacy Policies on our [TripleLift](https://triplelift.com/privacy/) and [1plusX](https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/) websites.

TripleLift does not accept unsolicited resumes from any type of recruitment search firm. Any resume submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of TripleLift and no fee shall be due.

## About TripleLift 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TripleLift is a creative supply-side platform (SSP) that orchestrates data, creative, and supply to help brands move from buying impressions to engineering measurable advertising impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (founder names are not listed on the company’s official site or in the provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Technology (AdTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – publishers (supply side) and brands/advertisers (demand side)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Impact by Design” – every impression has the potential to deliver impact when creative, data, supply, and measurement are designed intentionally to work together from the start.

## Products & Services
- **Creative SSP**: The core platform that connects data, creative, and supply into one coordinated system for omnichannel advertising.
- **TL Spark**: An intelligence layer that connects every signal across campaigns and continuously improves advertising performance.
- **Supply & Curation**: Tools for publishers to unlock the full impact of their inventory while elevating the user experience.
- **Measurement**: Solutions that track attention, perception, and outcomes – including brand lift in CTV, purchase intent in retail media, and ad recall benchmarks.
- **Optimization**: Features that reduce waste (50%+ reduction claimed) and improve conversion rates.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not publicly available; total funding not disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 350+ employees (335 according to Built In)
  - 6 global offices across 4 continents
  - Reported performance metrics: 3.6x ROI (Forrester TEI study), 272% increase in purchase intent for retail media, 7.9x brand lift in CTV, 50%+ waste reduction
  - Strong presence in native advertising, now evolved to full omnichannel coverage

## Competitive Advantages
- **Creative-first approach**: Built on innovative ad formats starting with native, now spanning all channels.
- **Orchestration layer**: TL Spark coordinates creative, curation, audience, and measurement as one system rather than siloed point solutions.
- **First-party publisher data focus**: Future-forward data strategy built around publisher first-party data, making it privacy-compliant and scalable.
- **Proven results**: Case studies and third-party studies (Forrester) show significant lifts in attention, brand perception, and conversion.

## Strategic Focus
- **Orchestration era**: Moving beyond simple impression delivery to engineering impact through coordinated systems.
- **Retail media & CTV**: Key growth areas where TripleLift claims strong performance (purchase intent, brand lift).
- **Continuous innovation**: Emphasis on learning and adapting to a dynamic ecosystem, with a founder’s mentality across the organization.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Core values include “Win as a Team,” “Learn & Grow,” “Embrace & Drive Change,” “Operate with a Founder’s Mentality,” and “Own Your Piece, Know the Puzzle.”
- **Learning & Development**: Annual learning stipend, coaching/mentoring opportunities, internal rotation programs.
- **Work-Life Balance**: Paid time off, leave options, and a 5-year sabbatical (1 month).
- **Wellness**: Headspace subscription, mental wellbeing support, physical care, financial advice, paid parental leave.
- **Health Benefits**: Competitive medical, dental, vision; company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site), with in-office locations in New York and other global offices.
- **Community**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), monthly Lift Lab sessions, events, and company-wide Pulse meetings to stay connected.
- **Tenure Celebrations**: 5-year anniversary includes a 1-month sabbatical.

## Sources
1. [triplelift.com](https://triplelift.com/)
2. [triplelift.com/careers/](https://triplelift.com/careers/)
3. [triplelift.com/about/](https://triplelift.com/about/)
4. [triplelift.com/careers-posts/](https://triplelift.com/careers-posts/)
5. [builtin.com/company/triplelift](https://builtin.com/company/triplelift)

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