Senior Engineer, Platform Analytics
Pluralsight
Dallas, United States of America
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Shift work Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 190KJob location
Remote
Dallas, United States of America
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Airflow
Software Quality
Databases
Continuous Integration
Data Governance
Data Warehousing
Software Debugging
Dimensional Modeling
Middleware
Online Analytical Processing
Operational Databases
Performance Tuning
Reference Data
Data Streaming
Web Analytics
Workflow Management Systems
Delivery Pipeline
Snowflake
Change Data Capture
GIT
Kafka
Vertica
Stream Processing
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Job description
The Senior Engineer, Platform Analytics builds and operates the data pipelines and models behind Platform Analytics - the customer-facing analytics experience that delivers a single, trustworthy source of truth for the metrics customers use to measure learning progress. This is a deeply hands-on role focused on traditional data-engineering ELT - ingesting, curating, and modeling data into trusted, conformed datasets - while contributing to the target-state platform-analytics architecture. They partner closely with the engineers in the data org and use AI coding tools fluently to build faster and better.
Who you're committed to being:
- You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.
- You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.
- When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.
- You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link.
- You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.
What you'll do:
- Build and operate the data pipelines that feed Platform Analytics - event ingestion and entity/reference ingestion into Snowflake - to a high standard of reliability and quality.
- Build and operate the traditional data-engineering ELT to create a reliable source of truth in the data warehouse.
- Contribute to the data models, curating and modeling source-system data into trusted, conformed datasets and applying dimensional modeling and engineering best practices.
- Support production performance, reliability, and cost - performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, and resource management.
- Help evolve the platform toward its target-state architecture, implementing the design and providing architectural and scale recommendations.
- Lead the development lifecycle for your work - implementation, testing, and deployment - collaborating with the team to deliver and maintain the platform.
- Help mentor junior engineers and contribute to team standards for code quality and ways of working.
- Use AI coding tools productively in daily engineering work - accelerating development, testing, and debugging.
Requirements
- Familiarity with high-performance OLAP serving layers (e.g., ClickHouse) for product- or customer-facing analytics.
- Experience reducing reliance on integration/middleware tooling by migrating transformation logic into governed models.
- Experience partnering with a data governance function on company-wide standards, schema/version control, and PII classification., * Requires a minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent experience; or 6+ years with an advanced degree.
- Strong, current, hands-on experience designing and delivering data warehouses and analytical datasets - including data curation, integration, and data-quality processes.
- Strong SQL development and performance tuning on analytical databases (e.g., Snowflake).
- Experience with streaming and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka) and with change-data-capture (CDC) ingestion for entity/reference data.
- Experience with dimensional data modeling and with source control, testing, and deployment workflows for ELT (e.g., dbt, git-based CI/CD).
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) for scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring of production data pipelines.
- Productive, fluent use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work.
- Ability to provide architectural, scale, and reliability recommendations, and to collaborate effectively within an Agile team.
- Good communication skills - a strong collaborator and trusted teammate, able to partner with the product and the team.
- This is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.
Benefits & conditions
- We work in a blended environment that supports collaboration, flexibility, and connection across teams.
- We are mission-driven, shaping the future of tech up-skilling and delivering impact that matters.
- We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can contribute and thrive.
- We are always learning, creating an environment where you can take on new challenges, expand your skills, and grow with purpose.
- Benefits include competitive compensation, bonus eligibility, comprehensive medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursement, professional development funds, and more., The annual US base salary range for this role is $144,400 - $190,000 USD. Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors. Additional benefits and bonuses may apply.
About the company
Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today's tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.