Hybrid Senior Analytics Engineer

at Upside

• Job title: Senior Analytics Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $180,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Analytics Engineer building trusted data products for Upside’s core data platform. Collaborating with teams to improve analytics platform and enabling high-quality data work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build complex, scalable data products that support internal analytics and power product features, using tools like dbt, Snowflake, and Dagster.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into structured, trustworthy data assets—owning development end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to shared platform tooling that improves pipeline orchestration, testing, access control, and observability for both engineers and analysts.
• Evaluate and implement new platform capabilities, such as Semantic Views, Cortex, or SnowML, to improve performance, maintainability, and user experience.
• Support and enable teammates across the org, including onboarding new users, resolving data issues, and documenting patterns and best practices.
• Maintain reliability and data quality through shield support rotations, strong monitoring, alerting, and test coverage.

Requirements

• Have 2–4 years of experience working in data or analytics engineering roles, preferably in a modern data stack environment (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, Airflow).
• Are fluent in SQL, and comfortable writing performant, modular transformations at scale.
• Have working knowledge of Python, particularly in the context of data orchestration, transformations, and testing.
• Understand tradeoffs between different modeling approaches (e.g., Kimball vs. OBT), and can choose appropriate techniques based on data volume and business needs.
• Can independently communicate technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Think critically about ROI, know when to automate, and understand how to balance long-term quality with short-term delivery.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1
• Equity (ISOs)
• 401(k) program
• Family planning programs + paid parental leave
• Physical fitness and wellness memberships
• Emotional and mental health support programs
• Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break
• Flexible work environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
• Employee Resource Groups
• Learning and Development stipend
• Transparent culture
• Amazing mission!