Life360

Senior Analytics Engineer

Life360

full-time

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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

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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