
Senior Analytics Engineer
Life360
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $148,000 - $216,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and implement robust dimensional and relational data models that support analytical use cases across Product, Marketing, Operations, and Finance.
- Build and maintain scalable dbt transformation pipelines, ensuring high data quality, performance, and cost-efficiency from raw ingestion to business-ready outputs.
- Own the transformation and modeling of curated (Silver/Gold) datasets, ensuring clear contracts and traceability from raw to business-ready data.
- Collaborate with data analysts, product analytics, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into durable data products that support experimentation, A/B testing, and advanced analytics.
- Implement data quality tests, monitoring, SLAs, and alerting to ensure reliability of critical analytical datasets.
- Partner with Data Engineers to define and enforce data contracts, ensuring schema stability and minimizing downstream breakage.
- Establish and evangelize analytics engineering best practices, including version control, code review, testing standards, and documentation.
- Empower self-service analytics by building intuitive, well-documented data marts and semantic layers.
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data modeling, or similar roles working with enterprise-scale data, and demonstrated ownership of data products and cross-functional collaboration.
- Expert-level SQL skills with deep understanding of query optimization and performance tuning.
- Extensive experience with dbt (data build tool) including testing, documentation, and package management.
- Strong programming skills in Python for data manipulation, automation, and custom analytics workflows.
- Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, star schemas, one big table, and other data modeling methodologies.
- Experience with modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks SQL Warehouse).
- Familiarity with orchestration frameworks and how analytics transformations are scheduled within broader data workflows.
- Experience working with version control systems (Git) and implementing CI/CD for analytics code.
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate business requirements into well-designed data models.
- Understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance requirements (GDPR, CCPA, and SOX).
- Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Mode, or similar) and how analysts consume data.
- Strong ownership mindset with a passion for deeply understanding ambiguous business problems and translating them into clean, maintainable, and well-tested data models.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Dedication to data quality, documentation, and empowering others through self-service analytics.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
- Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SQLdbtPythondimensional modelingstar schemasdata modeling methodologiescloud data warehousesSnowflakeBigQueryRedshift
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationbusiness acumenownership mindsetcommunication skillsproblem-solvingdocumentationdata quality dedicationtranslating business requirementsempowering otherstechnical explanation
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field