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Senior Analytics Engineer

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140K-196K
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140K-196K
Senior level
The Senior Analytics Engineer will design and maintain data models, develop user-facing data products, optimize BI systems, and troubleshoot data pipelines while ensuring data quality and security standards.
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Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

Analytics Engineers bridge the gap between data engineering and data analysis, focusing on transforming raw data into clean, structured, and accessible datasets that empower stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. Their role combines technical expertise, collaboration, and software engineering best practices to ensure reliable and scalable analytics systems. Analytics Engineers commercial, finance, platform, and R&D teams with trusted, high-quality data to drive business decisions at speed.

Responsibilities
  • Design and maintain efficient data models for company-wide analysis, collaborating closely with business users.
  • Develop user-facing data products using SQL and analytics on core infrastructure managed by the Data Engineering team.
  • Optimize and improve Liftoff's Looker-based BI layer to scale and meet business needs.
  • Independently complete tasks, managing your priorities and contributing to larger projects with minimal supervision.
  • Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews, following best practices (e.g., version control, CI/CD) to ensure quality and scalability.
  • Identify and resolve technical debt, improving team productivity and project health.
  • Maintain and troubleshoot data pipelines, ensuring reliable operation.
  • Collaborate with users to optimize queries, design aggregations, and suggest performance improvements.
  • Ensure high-quality work that meets security, reliability, and privacy standards.
Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience with SQL, including expertise in writing efficient, optimized queries.
  • Strong experience with Data Analytics and a solid understanding of query plans and data model optimization.
  • 2+ years of experience with Looker, including developing user-facing dashboards, reports, and complex data models.
  • Experience with DBT, Rill, and Looker for data modeling and BI tools.
  • Proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and integrating with data workflows, along with a solid understanding of data structures and algorithms for writing efficient code.
  • Familiarity with big data technologies like Trino, Apache Spark, or Databricks, and a strong understanding of distributed data processing principles, including execution plans, join strategies, and large-scale query execution, with the ability to optimize performance.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with different teams to understand requirements.
Nice to Have
  • Experience in ad-tech.
  • Knowledge of AgroCD, Kubernetes, AWS, and Github.
  • Experience with a second programming language (especially Scala).
  • Familiarity with machine learning workflows.

Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities in the Pacific Time Zone: CA, NV, OR, and WA.

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Costa Mesa and New York City. This role must work in the Pacific Time Zone.

Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

This role is required to travel (domestically and internationally) a minimum of 1 week per quarter of planning meetings and other work events.

Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.

The following are our annual salary ranges for this role: 

  • SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $165,000 - $196,000
  • Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $150,000 - $180,000 
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $140,000 - $170,000

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Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next.


Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.


Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

Top Skills

Agrocd
Spark
AWS
Databricks
Dbt
Git
Kubernetes
Looker
Python
Rill
SQL
Trino

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