Data Platform Analytics Engineer: Drive Impact

Upside; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 149,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Equity (ISOs)

401(k)

Parental leave

Wellness membership

Mental health support

Unlimited PTO

Flexible work environment

Lunch reimbursement

Employee Resource Groups

Learning stipend

Transparent culture

Amazing mission

Job summary

Upside is seeking a Data/Analytics Engineer in Washington, DC to own dbt models, optimize data pipelines, and provide trustworthy analytics for marketing, product, and data teams. You will design, test, and monitor models, write design docs, and turn vague asks into concrete work.

You should have 3–5 years in data or analytics engineering, strong SQL, Python, and experience with dbt, Snowflake, and orchestration tools. Join a collaborative team that values clear docs and mentorship.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in data or analytics engineering.
• Fluent in SQL and comfortable with complex joins.
• Experience owning dbt models in a version-controlled repo.
• Python for orchestration, transformations, and tests.

Responsibilities

• Own a scoped domain of dbt models: design, build, test, ship, and monitor them, with a clear point of view on how they should be structured
• Turn ambiguous asks from Marketing and Product into scoped work, and talk openly about tradeoffs when the ask and the timeline don't fit together
• Write the design doc for the features you own and break the work into pieces teammates can pick up
• Add monitoring and alerting to your models so your team catches problems before stakeholders do
• Take your turn on our support rotation, debug what breaks, and prevent the repeat
• Leave behind runbooks, schema docs, and diagrams that make your work easy for the next person to own
• Coach engineers earlier in their careers on the team, in code review and day to day

Skills

Analytics experience

SQL proficiency

Python knowledge

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Dagster

Data warehouse

Job description

Upside is seeking a Data/Analytics Engineer in Washington, DC to own dbt models, optimize data pipelines, and provide trustworthy analytics for marketing, product, and data teams. You will design, test, and monitor models, write design docs, and turn vague asks into concrete work.

You should have 3–5 years in data or analytics engineering, strong SQL, Python, and experience with dbt, Snowflake, and orchestration tools. Join a collaborative team that values clear docs and mentorship.