
Senior Analytics Engineer
Spark
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design, optimization, and maintenance of scalable ELT pipelines using AWS tooling, Snowflake and dbt.
- Own Spark’s most critical data models, ensuring they are well-documented, tested, performant, and trusted across the organization.
- Drive standardization and automation across data workflows to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and enable faster iteration.
- Partner deeply with cross-functional stakeholders to understand ambiguous business problems and translate them into clear, scalable data solutions.
- Set best practices for data quality, testing, and observability, continuously raising the bar for accuracy and consistency.
- Lead medium- to large-scale data initiatives end-to-end, including technical design, execution, stakeholder communication, and delivery.
- Mentor and support Analytics Engineers and other Data teammates, providing technical guidance, code review, and coaching.
- Contribute to data team strategy, influencing tooling decisions, modeling patterns, and long-term architecture.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering or a closely related role.
- Advanced SQL expertise, with a strong track record of building and maintaining production-grade data models.
- Deep experience with dbt, including testing, documentation, and modular modeling patterns.
- Proven ability to own ambiguous problems and turn them into durable, well-designed data solutions.
- Strong instincts for data quality, correctness, and edge-case handling, especially in messy or incomplete datasets.
- Experience automating and improving data workflows using modern cloud and analytics tooling.
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback, and helping teams converge on shared standards and best practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
- Flexible work location; co-working available
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
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Hard Skills & Tools
ELT pipelinesAWSSnowflakedbtSQLdata modelsdata qualitydata workflowsautomationdata solutions
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingfeedbackcoachingstakeholder engagementstandardizationleadershipadaptability