Senior Data Engineer

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,370 - 186,444; Full time

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Data Analyst/BI lead to partner with executives to define metrics, build scalable data products, and drive data-driven decisions across the business. You will shape dashboards, data models, and analytics workflows that empower teams to act on insights.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in BI/Analytics, strong SQL, and experience with cloud warehouses like BigQuery, plus dbt and Looker/Tableau proficiency. Hybrid work model in SF/Bay Area preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in BI or Analytics teams.
• Cloud data warehouse experience (BigQuery a plus).
• Driven by logical, analytical thinking with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executives and stakeholders to prioritize and fulfill analytics needs.
• Identify KPIs driving business growth and define them with business teams.
• Design and build data products (models, dashboards, analysis) to enable data-driven decisions.
• Promote self-service data culture by building easy-to-use analytics products.
• Document analytics best practices, governance, and data discoverability.
• Communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Looker

Tableau

dbt

BigQuery

Data modeling

Dashboards

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Job description

Overview

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Responsibilities

• You’ll collaborate and partner with executives, stakeholders, and decision-makers to prioritize, design, and fulfill their data analytics needs
• You’ll identify KPIs driving business growth and performance and work closely with the business teams to define them
• You’ll work across the data stack to design and build various data products (data models, dashboards, analysis) that enable the business to make data backed decisions
• You’ll help garner trust in data from the business by documenting analytics best practices, assisting with data discoverability, governance, and accuracy
• You’ll promote and drive a self-service data culture by building easy to use analytics products and teaching the business users how to use them
• You’ll communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of hands-on experience in BI or Analytics teams.
• You have experience with cloud data warehouse technologies (BigQuery is a plus)
• You are driven by logical and analytical thinking to solve problems. And have an eye for detail-oriented analysis and design
• You have hands-on experience in building and managing data transformations (dbt experience is a plus)
• You are able to craft functional and user-friendly data products (pipelines, data models, dashboards, etc..) for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You have experience with a data visualization tool (ie. Looker, Tableau, etc)
• You are a SQL expert, capable of complex, efficient, and logical SQL to accomplish data analysis goals
• You have functional knowledge of financial, sales, or other core business metrics
• You are able to manage professional relationships across a variety of stakeholders, including executives
• You are able to identify and prioritize multiple requirements and manage expectations accordingly
• You are collaborative and willing to traverse and contribute to the entire data stack, from front-end to back-end as needed

Work & Location

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: For office/hybrid role only

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA USA
• Denver, CO USA
• New York, NY USA
• Culver City, CA USA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary & Benefits

Salary: The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370.00 to $186,444.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [e-mail] or 501-287-4901.

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