Senior Analytics Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Employee stock options

Medical, dental, vision with HSA

401k with match

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Learning stipend

Well-being benefits

Hybrid work Tue–Thu in Manhattan

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in New York City for an early, high-leverage Analytics Engineering function. You will model, govern, and expose data across teams, building robust dbt models and a semantic layer to support internal analytics and client-facing data products.

You will collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Engineering to ensure a reliable, scalable data platform on Snowflake, with a focus on standards, testing, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering or data engineering.
• Strong command of dbt and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse.
• Experience building/maintaining a semantic or metrics layer (dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow).
• Strong data modeling fundamentals with opinions on denormalization and slowly changing dimensions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust dbt models as the authoritative foundation for analytics and data products.
• Own and evolve the semantic layer with metrics and dimensions for internal and external users.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to ensure a well-structured, performant Snowflake data warehouse.
• Establish best practices for data modeling, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
• Deliver native warehouse data delivery to customers and partners.
• Identify data quality issues and build observability and governance frameworks.

Skills

dbt

SQL

Snowflake

Semantic Layer

Data Modeling

CDC Tools

Artie

Looker

Tableau

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Looker

Tableau

Artie

Job description

the company is where you belong!

the company is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that accelerates onboarding, stops fraud, and scales compliance across the customer lifecycle so financial organizations can grow without limits. More than 900 of the world's leading financial institutions and fintechs trust the company for smarter risk management that drives growth.

Through our values: Be Bold, Go Fast, Collaborate, and Celebrate Our Differences, we are creating a workplace where you can grow, thrive, and belong. See how we’ve been continuously recognized and named one of Inc.Magazine’s Best Workplaces, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers, Best Fintech to Work for by American Banker, year after year.

Check out our investors and read more about us here.

About the team

The Data Platform team sits within the company's Intelligence vertical and owns the infrastructure that powers how data is modeled, governed, and delivered — both internally and to customers. We work at the intersection of data engineering and analytical depth, with a stack built around dbt, Snowflake, and Artie, and a growing investment in our semantic layer.

This is an early but high-leverage moment for Analytics Engineering at the company. We have the tooling, the data, and the leadership experience to build this function the right way — and this role is central to that effort. The person who joins will help establish the patterns, standards, and culture of Analytics Engineering here.

The strategic stakes are real: native warehouse data delivery is becoming a core part of how we serve customers, agentic workflows depend on a well-maintained semantic layer, and OLAP infrastructure is increasingly woven into our product stack. Analytics Engineering sits at the center of all three.

the company operates in a hybrid-work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite three days a week.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will be a technical anchor for how the company models, governs, and exposes data. You'll work closely with Data Science, Product, Engineering, and client-facing teams to ensure our data assets are trustworthy, well-documented, and built for scale.

• Design and build robust dbt models that serve as the authoritative foundation for analytics, machine learning features, and customer-facing data products.
• Own and evolve our semantic layer defining metrics, dimensions, and business logic in a way that supports both internal consumers and emerging agentic tooling.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to ensure our Snowflake data warehouse is well-structured, performant, and aligned with product needs.
• Establish and champion best practices for data modeling, testing, documentation, and code review across the team.
• Collaborate with client-facing and product teams to scope and deliver native warehouse data delivery to customers.
• Identify and address data quality issues proactively, building the observability and governance frameworks that keep data trustworthy at scale.
• Influence how Analytics Engineering is practiced at the company—this is a greenfield opportunity to set the standard.

Who we’re looking for

We're looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer who combines deep technical craft with the instincts of a cross-functional partner. You don't just model data—you think about how it will be used, by whom, and what it needs to look like to be genuinely useful. An ideal candidate has:

• 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related role, with a strong command of dbt and SQL.
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse, including performance tuning and warehouse design.
• Experience building or maintaining a semantic layer or metrics layer (e.g., dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, or similar).
• A strong sense of data modeling fundamentals. You have opinions about when to denormalize, how to handle slowly changing dimensions, and what makes a model trustworthy.
• Familiarity with data ingestion and CDC tooling; experience with Artie or similar streaming/replication tools is a plus.
• The ability to partner effectively with Data Science, Engineering, and Product. You translate between technical and non‑technical stakeholders without losing precision.
• Experience establishing standards: testing frameworks, documentation practices, naming conventions, and review processes that teams actually follow.
• Comfort working in an environment where the function is still being shaped—you see that as opportunity, not ambiguity.
• Someone who embodies our shared the company values: be bold, get scrappy, collaborate, and celebrate our differences.
• Must be local to New York City; hybrid work with Tuesday-Thursday in‑office at our Union Square HQ.

Nice to Have's

• Experience with native warehouse data delivery or data sharing patterns (e.g., Snowflake Data Sharing, Marketplace).
• Background in fintech, financial services, or a similarly data-intensive regulated industry.
• Exposure to agentic or LLM-based workflows and the data infrastructure that supports them.
• Experience with BI tooling (e.g., Looker, Tableau) and how semantic layer investments connect to the presentation layer.

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately, and opportunities will grow as the company scales up.

the company is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Below is the anticipated starting base compensation range for this role; however, pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, in‑demand skills, relevant experience, and/or geography. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package.

*This position has a salary range of $198,000 - $250,000.*

Benefits and Perks

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
• Employee stock options
• Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation
• Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Home office stipend for new employees
• Annual Learning & Development annual stipend
• Well‑being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health
• Hybrid work environment: employees are expected to work Tuesdays through Thursdays from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan. Tasty lunches catered from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee‑organized cultural events contribute to our positive office energy. On Monday/Friday most employees Zoom into work from home while some take advantage of the quieter office.

the company is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and employer. We’re committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pre