Remote Analytics Engineer: Build Self-Serve Data & Dashboards

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible environment

Remote work with asynchronous collab

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking an Analytics Engineer to join the Data Team. You will improve data quality, enable faster data delivery, and build self-serve data models and dashboards. Collaborate with Go-To-Market, Product and Engineering to translate questions into data products, and drive data governance and best practices across the stack.

Work remotely with a focus on autonomy, ownership, and impact. The role requires strong SQL and data modeling skills, dbt experience, and proficiency with Looker,

Qualifications

• Experience as an analytics engineer, data analyst, BI engineer, or similar in a modern data stack.
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling concepts (star schemas, dimensional modeling, semantic/metrics layers).
• Experience with dbt and data transformation workflows.
• Experience creating dashboards with Looker, Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience with data warehouses or lakes (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
• Ability to gather requirements from stakeholders and translate into data products.
• Detail-oriented with data quality, tests, and documentation.
• Clear communication and enabling self-service data for teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Data Team and stakeholders to understand data questions and propose data solutions.
• Build and maintain self-serve data models and dashboards in Looker and BigQuery.
• Define, document, and standardize key business metrics with cross-functional teams.
• Improve data quality, testing, and automation for accurate reporting.
• Identify repetitive data requests and create reusable datasets, dashboards or automations.
• Support data governance: documentation and metric definitions.
• Help maintain and evolve our data stack and workflows (dbt, Fivetran, BigQuery, Looker).
• Troubleshoot data discrepancies with Data Platform team and build confidence in data.
• Create a culture of self-service by enabling others to use data tools.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Semantics layer

Communication

Self-service data

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

dbt

Fivetran

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

Job description

Tailscale is seeking an Analytics Engineer to join the Data Team. You will improve data quality, enable faster data delivery, and build self-serve data models and dashboards. Collaborate with Go-To-Market, Product and Engineering to translate questions into data products, and drive data governance and best practices across the stack.

Work remotely with a focus on autonomy, ownership, and impact. The role requires strong SQL and data modeling skills, dbt experience, and proficiency with Looker,