Staff Analytics Engineer

About Vercel:

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build scale and secure a faster more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour eBay The Washington Post Johnson & Johnson and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

At Vercel our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

About the Role:

As a Staff Analytics Engineer you will be working cross-functionally with business domain specialists analytics and engineering teams to design and implement logical data models that powers all scientific analytical and reporting use cases across Engineering Product Finance and our various functional business units.

What You Will Do:

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders in defining and documenting company-wide single source of truth data models that power analysis throughout the enterprise

• Architect build publish and maintain performant and reliable data models and pipelines to power:

  • Self-service data consumption throughout the enterprise

  • Flexible querying and data visualization

  • Advanced analytical and scientific use cases

• Serve as a data steward and subject-matter expert for a dedicated set of business and technology domains.

• Build and improve data tooling in partnership with internal Data Platform teams including:

  • Tooling for auditing error logging and validating data tables

  • Tooling to help democratize data model and pipeline ownership

  • Tooling to make data more discoverable easy to use well and difficult to use incorrectly

  • Tooling to make analysts scientists and analytics engineers more efficient

• Drive data quality by transforming dynamic data and business logic into consistent and trustworthy datasets

• Develop and evangelize development standards and best practices for data modeling and working with our data and tools.

About You:

• 8+ years of work experience querying visualizing and presenting data; prior experience at a modern technology company with a well-developed data organization

• Advanced skills with writing clean performant scalable SQL

• Advanced familiarity with modern BI tools in particular: Hashboard Superset

• 6+ years of advanced experience with Snowflake or Bigquery

• 2+ years with dbt or spark-based data pipelines

• 6+ years of extensive experience in schema design and data modeling strategies (e.g. dimensional modeling data vault etc)

• Significant experience with general-purpose programming (e.g. Python Java Go) dealing with a variety of data structures algorithms and serialization formats

Bonus if You:

• Ability to solve ambiguous problems independently

• Detail oriented and excited to learn new skills and tools

• Ability to write clear concise documentation and to communicate generally with a high degree of precision

• Passion for high data quality and building systems and processes that scale

Our Stack:

• Ingestion: Kafka Snowpipe Fivetran Polytomic

• Warehouse: Snowflake

• Orchestration: Airflow

• Transformation: dbt

• BI: Preset Hashboard

• Reverse ETL: Polytomic Rudderstack

• Cloud: AWS

Benefits:

• Great compensation package and stock options.

• Inclusive Healthcare Package.

• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.

• Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year and paid holidays.

• Remote Friendly - Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe.

• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco CA base pay range for this role is $164000-$246000.  This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job related skills experience and location. Pay ranges outside San Francisco may be  adjusted based on employee location.  The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

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