Analytics Engineer

Linear; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Daily meal and coffee stipend

Health coverage

5 weeks paid vacation

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2

Job summary

Linear is a remote-first company building the product development system that powers teams to plan, build, and ship software. The Data team partners with Product, Engineering, and GTM to create scalable data products and dashboards.

You will own end-to-end data projects, design robust data models, and drive insights that influence product adoption and sales efficiency. The role emphasizes strong SQL, dbt, and cloud warehouse expertise, collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, and a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analytics, or data engineering at a fast-moving software company.
• Exceptional SQL and hands-on experience with dbt and a modern cloud data warehouse.
• Track record of owning data projects end-to-end, from problem framing to shipping usable data products.
• Strong data modeling judgment: grain, reusable components, interfaces, dependencies, and maintainability.
• Analytical judgment: know when to answer quickly vs. dig deeper and how to present findings clearly.
• Comfortable moving between technical implementation and business context.
• High ownership mentality: self-directed, pragmatic, and challenging requests when needed.
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering with technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable using LLMs and coding agents in day-to-day development workflow.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous questions and operational needs into metrics, models, analyses, and workflows.
• Build and maintain dbt models and pipelines for trusted views of product, customers, and business.
• Design clear data models and improve testing, docs, performance, and reliability of the data stack.
• Build dashboards and self-service reporting in Metabase and Hex; go deeper when needed.
• Operationalize data through reverse ETL and collaborate on scoring, segmentation, automations.
• Balance fast answers with durable solutions; convert one-off requests into reusable models or workflows.
• Leverage emerging tools, LLMs, and coding agents to accelerate development while maintaining high correctness.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Data Modeling

Analytical Thinking

Cross-functional partner',

Tools

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

Hubspot

Pocus

Clay

Job description

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

The Data team works across Linear, supporting Product, Engineering, and GTM. We own our data pipelines, warehouse, dashboards, analysis, and integrations with third-party tools. As a small team, we focus on building systems that make data accessible and useful across Linear. We’re looking for someone who wants to help shape how we architect, build, and use data as we grow.

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you’ll do

Work across Product and GTM (Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Finance) to turn ambiguous questions and operational needs into useful metrics, models, analyses, and workflows

Build and maintain dbt models and pipelines that create trusted views of our product, customers, and business

Design clear, maintainable data models and improve the testing, documentation, performance, and reliability of our data stack

Build dashboards and self-service reporting in Metabase and Hex, and dig deeper when the answer requires more than a chart

Operationalize data through reverse ETL and partner with GTM Engineering on the scoring, segmentation, automations, and internal tools that help our teams scale

Balance fast, pragmatic answers with durable solutions, recognizing when a one-off request should become a reusable model or workflow

Find ways to leverage emerging tools, LLMs, and coding agents to accelerate development, analysis, testing, and documentation while maintaining a high bar for correctness

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analytics, or data engineering, ideally at a fast-moving software company

Exceptional SQL and strong hands-on experience with dbt and a modern cloud data warehouse

Track record of owning data projects end-to-end, from shaping an ambiguous problem to shipping something people rely on

Strong data modeling judgment: you think clearly about grain, reusable components, interfaces, dependencies, and maintainability without relying on a single prescribed methodology

Analytical judgment: you know when to answer quickly, when to investigate deeply, and how to turn complex findings into a clear recommendation

Comfortable moving between technical implementation and business context, from debugging a data model to understanding product adoption or sales efficiency

High ownership mentality: self-directed, pragmatic, and willing to challenge a request or approach when something does not make sense

Strong communication skills and experience partnering directly with both technical and non-technical teams

Comfortable using LLMs and coding agents as part of your day-to-day development workflow

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems you’ll work in. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be comfortable learning quickly and working across the full lifecycle of data.

Data Warehouse: Snowflake, dbt Cloud

GTM tools: Hubspot, Pocus, Clay

What we offer

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
• Health coverage (based on country requirements)
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter
• Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.