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Staff Analytics Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote, San Francisco, CA, New York, New York, Pittsburgh, PA, Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA, Boston, MA, Raleigh, NC, Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Denver, Colorado, Baltimore, Maryland, Mountain View, CA, Palo Alto, CA, Washington D.C., Santa Monica, CA, Culver City, CA, Miami, FL, Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, Princeton, NJ, Cambridge, MA, Stanford, CA, Ithaca, NY, Ann Arbor, MI, Philadelphia, PA, Madison, WI, Hanover, Maryland, Atlanta, GA, Columbus, OH, Evanston, IL, West Lafayette, IN, New Haven, CT, Durham, NC, Bloomington, IN, Nashville, TN, San Diego, CA, Venice Beach, CA, Charlotte, NC, Huntsville, Alabama, Boulder, CO, Colorado Springs, CO, Trenton, NJ, Minneapolis, MN, Pleasanton, CA, Oakland, CA, Albuquerque, NM, Bozeman, MT, Cincinnati, OH, Clearwater, FL, Cupertino, CA, Detroit, MI, El Segundo, CA, Fairfield, CT, Hartford, CT, Honolulu, HI, Irving, TX, Salt Lake City, UT, Provo, Utah, Milwaukee, WI, Tucson, AZ, San Bruno, CA, Kennewick, WA, San Antonio, Texas, Wichita, Kansas, Omaha, Nebraska, Rochester, New York, Elk Grove, California, Hilliard, Ohio, Mira Mesa, California, Overland Park, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Castro Valley, California, Littleton, Colorado, Medford, Massachusetts, Kentwood, Michigan, Livonia, Michigan, Watauga, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, NY, NYC - 2, Chicago - Loop, Cicero, Illinois, Lakeview, Illinois, Santa Barbara, CA, Waltham, MA, Frisco, TX, Santa Clara, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Menlo Park, CA, Redwood City, CA, San Carlos, CA, Chevy Chase, DC, Bethesda, DC, Germantown, DC, Queen Anne, WA, Plymouth, Michigan, Brisbane, CA, Carmel Valley, CA, Canada - Vancouver, Canada - Toronto, Canada - Calgary, Canada - Edmonton, Canada - Ottawa, Canada - Waterloo, Canada - Victoria, Berkeley, CA, Fremont, CA, Hoboken, NY, Jersey City, NY, Los Altos, CA, Burlingame, CA, Mill Valley, CA, South San Francisco, CA, Milpitas, CA, Cleveland, OH, Fort Worth, TX, Memphis, TN, San Jose, CA, Saratoga, CA, Daly City, CA, San Rafael, CA, Emeryville, CA, El Cerrito, CA, Albany, CA, Antioch, CA, Union City, CA, Pacifica, CA, San Ramon, CA, Los Altos, Concord, CA, Concordia, CA, Hayward, CA, Foster City, CA, Dublin, CA, Hybrid, SF, CA, Newark, NJ, Andover, MA, Oxnard, CA, Torrance, CA, Torrance, Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV, Cypress, CA, Mesa, AZ, Hudson, NH, Hawthorne, CA, Flatiron, NY, Scottsdale, Arizona, Kendall Square, MA
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Data analytics
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Fluency in Python or another programming language
- Familiarity with metadata management platforms such as Atlan
- Experience building business intelligence dashboards and reporting frameworks
- Experience within education technology or highly regulated data environments
- Passion for mentorship, teaching, and improving engineering culture
- Open-source contributions, side projects, or demonstrated technical curiosity
Full description
Staff Analytics EngineerLocation: Remote – United States
Company Stage: Established EdTech / Growth-Stage Education Technology
Office Type: Remote
Salary: $175K – $185K Base + Bonus
Company Description
This education technology company is building modern curriculum, analytics, and assessment products used by millions of students and educators nationwide. Their data organization powers large-scale reporting, analytics, and decision-making systems that help schools better understand student learning outcomes and operational performance. The team operates at the intersection of analytics engineering, data infrastructure, and business intelligence, building scalable platforms and semantic data layers that support educators and administrators at scale.
What You Will Do
- Design and maintain scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using dbt, Airflow, SQL, and modern cloud data tooling
- Build clean, reusable analytical data models and semantic layers powering reporting and product analytics
- Architect warehouse schemas, transformations, and metrics systems optimized for performance and maintainability
- Create datasets that support student performance analysis, adaptive learning systems, and educational insights
- Build and improve slowly changing dimensional models handling school-year transitions and student movement across systems
- Improve deployment workflows, testing infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and data reliability practices
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, software engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing initiatives
- Help shape long-term analytics engineering strategy and technical direction across the organization
Ideal Background
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or analytics engineering
- 5+ years specifically focused on analytics engineering, data modeling, or modern ELT systems
- Deep expertise in SQL and dbt for production-grade transformation pipelines
- Strong experience with analytical data modeling and Kimball dimensional modeling principles
- Experience designing scalable ETL/ELT workflows and semantic data layers
- Strong understanding of warehouse technologies such as Snowflake and cloud storage systems
- Experience with orchestration and ingestion tools such as Airflow, Fivetran, and Matillion