Senior Analytics Engineer

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United States · Remote · Safety

Reddit is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer for their Data Science organization, focusing on the Sales and Marketing domain. The role involves curating, developing, and deploying data and analytic tooling to support business goals. Responsibilities include leading analytics engineering efforts, acting as a data steward, developing data pipelines, creating user-friendly tools, and providing technical guidance. Requires advanced degree in a quantitative discipline and significant industry experience in ETL, data modeling, and programming (Python, SQL, Spark).

What you'd actually do

  1. Be the Analytics Engineering lead within the Sales and Marketing organization and a key contributor to the success of Data Science data quality, performance, and automation initiatives.
  2. Be the data steward for Sales and Marketing: architect and improve the collection of underlying data while also creating ETLs, reporting dashboards, data aggregations and other deliverables needed for business tracking, advertiser outreach and acquisition, marketing campaigns, and other data-driven activities.
  3. Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and workflows for data ingestion, processing, and transformation. Work closely with engineering to ensure the quality and reliability of these data pipelines.
  4. Create user-friendly tools and applications for internal use across Data Science and cross-functional teams, streamlining data analysis and reporting processes. Drive widespread adoption of these tools and applications with a relentless focus on automation, consistency, and reliability.
  5. Lead transformational efforts to build a data-driven culture at Reddit by enabling data self-service.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, operations research, computer science, applied mathematics, economics, or physics)
  • 5+ years of industry experience (for M.S. holders) or 4+ years (for Ph.D. holders) working with large-scale ETL systems (implementation, strategy, and maintenance)
  • Building clean, maintainable, code and systems (Python preferred) in a production environment
  • Experience working in Sales and Marketing domains
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, etc.
  • Experience with data modeling, ETL and ELT concepts, and patterns for efficient data governance
  • Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data
  • Experience with data workflows (such as Airflow), data modeling, front-end or back-end engineering
  • Experience in data visualization and dashboard design (Looker, Tableau, R visualization packages, streamlit, D3, etc.)
  • Deep understanding of technical and functional designs for relational and MPP Databases
  • Proven track record of cross-functional execution and collaboration
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience in mentoring junior data scientists and analytics engineers
  • Self-starter, ability to work independently and autonomously, as well as part of a team

Nice to have

  • Sales and Marketing domain experience
  • Past experience collaborating closely with data scientists, sales, and marketing managers

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale ETL systems (implementation, strategy, and maintenance)
  • building clean, maintainable, code and systems (Python preferred) in a production environment
  • Experience working in Sales and Marketing domains
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, etc.
  • Experience with data modeling, ETL and ELT concepts, and patterns for efficient data governance.
  • Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data.
  • Experience with data workflows (such as Airflow), data modeling, front-end or back-end engineering.