Smalls is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to own our data infrastructure and unlock insights that drive decision making across the company. You will be a key partner to multiple departments, designing analytics frameworks, improving data quality, and increasing access to data and analysis tools. You will own our data infrastructure fully from ideation through delivery.
What You'll Do
- Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and models using SQL, dbt, and cloud warehouses, owning the entire data engineering function.
- Implement and optimize ETL/ELT workflows to transform raw data into high-quality datasets while reducing latency and costs.
- Develop semantic layers and data catalogs that enable self-service analytics and flexible dashboarding for business users.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, data contracts, and translate business goals into scalable solutions.
- Balance urgent needs with long-term infrastructure goals while diagnosing and resolving production issues at scale.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years in data engineering with experience building data infrastructure from early stages and making architectural decisions.
- Strong judgment and autonomy—comfortable with ambiguity, can prioritize effectively, explain trade-offs to executives, and balance speed with quality.
- Strong hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing (Snowflake preferred), orchestration tools (Airflow), and dbt.
- Advanced SQL skills for complex queries on large datasets, with understanding of performance and cost trade-offs.
- Experience with data quality, governance, and leading technical discussions across teams of varying expertise.
- Proficiency with GitHub, Python, and data visualization tools.
Nice to Have
- Bonus points for ML feature engineering or AI agents experience.
Technical Stack
- SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Airflow, GitHub, Python, Data visualization tools
Team & Environment
This role is a key partner to multiple departments within our organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- Fully paid Health, Vision, and Dental insurance.
- 4-day work week.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Fully Remote Office & Culture.
- Free cat food every month.
- Competitive Salary
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in the US.
Smalls is an equal opportunity employer.
