Senior Staff Analytics Engineer — Remote Data Platform Lead

Recruiting from Scratch LLC; El Centro (CA); Remote; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401(k) retirement plan

Mental health and wellness support

Professional development and learning

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a Staff Analytics Engineer to design scalable ELT pipelines and semantic data layers for education analytics. You will own data modeling, warehouse schemas, and performance-focused transformations across Snowflake and cloud tooling.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data scientists and business stakeholders, and help shape the analytics strategy for a fully remote team serving education customers in the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/data/analytics engineering
• 5+ years in analytics engineering or modern ELT
• Deep SQL and dbt expertise
• Experience with Kimball dimensional modeling
• ETL/ELT workflows and semantic data layers
• Knowledge of Snowflake and cloud storage
• Airflow, Fivetran, Matillion experience
• BI tools like Looker/Tableau/Cube.dev familiarity
• Git, CI/CD, and engineering practices
• Strong communication and mentoring abilities

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using dbt, Airflow, SQL, and cloud tooling
• Build clean analytical data models and semantic layers for reporting and product analytics
• Architect warehouse schemas and metrics systems for performance and maintainability
• Create datasets supporting student performance analysis and educational insights
• Develop slowly changing dimensional models for school-year transitions
• Improve deployment workflows, testing infrastructure, and CI/CD practices
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and knowledge sharing
• Shape long-term analytics strategy and technical direction across the organization

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

ETL/ELT design

Mentorship

Communication

CI/CD

Engineering workflows

Analytical thinking

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Snowflake

Fivetran

Matillion

Looker

Tableau

Cube.dev

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a Staff Analytics Engineer to design scalable ELT pipelines and semantic data layers for education analytics. You will own data modeling, warehouse schemas, and performance-focused transformations across Snowflake and cloud tooling.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data scientists and business stakeholders, and help shape the analytics strategy for a fully remote team serving education customers in the United States.