Senior Analytics Engineer: Data Platform & Governance

Harness; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Harness, a leader in AI software delivery, seeks a Senior Analytics Engineer to own warehouse transformations end to end and build data models for product usage, customer adoption, and account health. You will set governance and lineage standards, ensuring trustworthy data across teams.

You’ll debug data issues across the stack, improve self-serve documentation, and collaborate with stakeholders to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped data models, reducing bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or similar with ownership of production data models.
• Strong SQL with a track record shipping analytic models others depend on.
• Hands-on with a modern cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
• Experience with a transformation framework (dbt, SQLMesh, or equivalent).
• Scripting (Python) for ingestion, validation, or automation.
• Experience with a BI tool (Tableau, Looker, Metabase, or similar).
• Demonstrated judgment on data access and sensitive data handling.

Responsibilities

• Own warehouse transformations end to end — from raw ingestion through documented, stable tables downstream teams depend on.
• Build and maintain curated data models for product usage, customer adoption, account health, and go-to-market reporting.
• Set and enforce data practices: governance, access patterns, model ownership, freshness standards.
• Debug data issues across the full stack — source systems, pipelines, warehouse models, BI dashboards.
• Improve documentation and lineage so teams can self-serve without tribal knowledge.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped data models.
• Unblock teams on access, metric definitions, and data discoverability to reduce bottlenecks.

Skills

SQL

Production data models ownership

Analytics engineering

Python

BI tools usage

Data governance / sensitive data

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

dbt

SQLMesh

Airflow

Tableau/Looker/Metabase

Job description

Harness, a leader in AI software delivery, seeks a Senior Analytics Engineer to own warehouse transformations end to end and build data models for product usage, customer adoption, and account health. You will set governance and lineage standards, ensuring trustworthy data across teams.

You’ll debug data issues across the stack, improve self-serve documentation, and collaborate with stakeholders to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped data models, reducing bottlenecks.