Senior Analytics Engineer

SupportFinity™; United States; Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% covered health plan option

OneMedical membership for concierge care

Equity grant with quarterly vesting

Job summary

A leading technology platform in the United States is seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to democratize data and reporting across the organization. The role focuses on building data pipelines, collaborating with product stakeholders, and ensuring the accessibility and quality of mission-critical data. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years of experience in data engineering, strong SQL skills, and proficiency with BI tools like Looker. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years working in data engineering or analytics.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries.
• Experience with Looker or another BI/visualization tool.

Responsibilities

• Own reporting tools, pipelines, and dashboards.
• Partner with key stakeholders on KPI development.
• Build datasets and reports for key metrics.

Skills

SQL expertise

Data engineering experience

Strong communication skills

Data visualization tools

Problem-solving ability

Tools

Looker

ETL/ELT pipelines

Job description

Overview

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.

#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.

Meet Your Future Neighbors In the Analytics Engineering team at Nextdoor, we believe in the transformative power of information, bringing together data from a wide variety of sources and making it digestible and attainable by everyone in the company. We are a lean but powerful team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, because that’s what we seek out and respect in others. We collaborate cross-functionally to make the numbers available and clear, playing a key role in the company’s overall effort to foster stronger and healthier communities.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.

The Impact You’ll Make

As an Analytics Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll work to democratize data and reporting to drive strategy and measure performance against KPIs across the business. In this role, you will work with various Consumer product stakeholders, building data pipelines, owning and defining metrics in collaboration with the data scientists, and be a trusted resource for all the data needs. You\'ll be responsible for understanding where our data comes from, transforming it, and making it available to stakeholders across the company via queries, tools, and dashboards. The ideal candidate is a tech-savvy, strong communicator who understands how to make data understandable by everyone.

You should be excited to bring your experience and expertise every day in order to:

• Own reporting tools, pipelines, and dashboards to ensure consistent availability and accuracy of mission-critical data
• Partner with key stakeholders on KPI development and tracking across the Consumer organization
• Build datasets and reports that represent the source of truth for our key metrics
• Keep data sources fresh even while requirements and definitions change. Address data quality issues and build in alerting
• Partner with data science, finance & strategy, marketing, sales, product, and engineering on analytics engineering strategy to enable data-driven decision making across the company
• Set expectations and SLAs on data availability, and own communications around SLA performance to the business
• Drive self-service and data literacy for business users on our data platform by creating and documenting data structures and sets, SQL and data tools training, and dashboard development
• Care deeply about data quality and empowering employees to leverage data to help them succeed in their careers and help Nextdoor grow and succeed
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 6+ years working in data engineering or analytics
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries in multiple dialects
• Experience with Looker (preferred) or another BI/visualization tool
• Experience working with ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to understand, tackle, and solve problems from both technical and business perspectives
• Experience in effectively presenting insights and summarizing complex data to diverse audiences through visualizations and other means
• Demonstrated experience working with and delivering to cross-functional stakeholders from multiple parts of the company (Finance, Engineering, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience driving projects end-to-end and can speak to outcome and impact
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $163,000 - $229,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your level of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate\'s geographic location.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.