Staff Data Engineer, Experimentation Platform

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts

• – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years : we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.
• Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

About Credit Karma

Credit Karma is a mission-driven fintech company committed to helping our members make financial progress. We provide free credit scores, reports, and monitoring, personalized financial recommendations, and a suite of tools to help members manage their finances. By leveraging data and technology, we strive to make financial progress possible for everyone.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Data Engineer to lead the data architecture and engineering strategy for our experimentation platform. In this role, you will build and scale the data systems that enable reliable, consistent, and timely experimentation insights across the company. You will partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and other engineering teams to design robust data models, pipelines, and governance practices that support thousands of metrics and diverse statistical methodologies.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility position that demands strong software engineering and data engineering expertise, architectural leadership, and a passion for building highly available and performant distributed systems. You will define the technical roadmap and strategy for the experimentation platform’s analytics infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in experimentation and data analysis.

Our experimentation platform leverages Google Cloud technologies, including Cloud Composer for workflow orchestration, Dataflow for data processing, and BigQuery for data warehousing. Our statistical engine applies a combination of Python libraries (e.g., Statsmodels, SciPy) and custom algorithms to analyze experiment results.

Responsibilities :

Provide the roadmap and architecture for the experimentation platform’s analytics infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and adherence to industry best practices.

Lead critical initiatives to build our next-generation near real-time ecosystem, leveraging Scala, Pub / Sub, Akka, and Dataflow on Google Cloud.

Architect and maintain large-scale batch data pipelines using Google Dataflow, BigQuery, and Airflow / Cloud Composer to handle high-volume, batch data processing.

Optimize Data Infrastructure

Drive efficiency and performance improvements across experimentation pipelines, frameworks, and query layers. Evaluate trade-offs in system design, balancing speed, scalability, cost, and accuracy.

Research, evaluate, and integrate the latest advancements in experimentation methods, data analysis techniques, and cloud-based technologies to continually improve the platform.

Provide technical leadership and support to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Partner with marketers, analysts, and data scientists to build infrastructure that supports thousands of metrics and various statistical methods (e.g., t-tests, sequential testing, Bayesian analysis).

Qualifications :

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Pay Transparency Notice :

Credit Karma’s mission of championing financial progress for all starts from within. That’s why we implemented role-based compensation, which ensures people who are in the same role receive the same pay with variations for geographic location only. It’s all part of a more comprehensive DEI strategy that helps level the playing field. The base salary range for this role is $354,878, (Oakland, CA) plus equity and benefits.

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Equal Employment Opportunity :

Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws.

Credit Karma is also  committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.

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