Staff Analytics Engineer, Clickstream Platform

Reference: 3337Posted: 2026-10-17Location: Austin, TXCompany: Realtor.comStaff Analytics Engineer, Clickstream PlatformLocation: Austin, TX, United StatesCategory: Data Science & AnalyticsJob ID: 3337Apply NowDescriptionJob Title: Staff Analytics Architect, Clickstream PlatformAbout Realtor.comCome to work for Realtor.com! As a leader in online real estate and backed by industry experience and the News Corp brand, Realtor.com's vision is to be the leading destination to discover and create your perfect home. With 100 million unique users visiting our website and mobile apps monthly, we have the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.At Realtor.com, what you do has the potential to touch people in a real and meaningful way. We are dedicated to making the process of buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding. With the most comprehensive and accurate real estate listings, we empower consumers with up-to-date information to help them find their dream homes. The Data and Analytics team processes and analyzes vast amounts of data to support millions of home buyers, sellers, and renters. You'll engage with some of the best and brightest coworkers and leaders, learn and contribute, and have a great time. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic, cutting-edge environment and desire to make a meaningful contribution to the business, then make the move!Job Summary:We are looking for a Staff Analytics Engineer to own the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery outcomes for our digital analytics clickstream platform. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad technical authority: you will define the measurement strategy, standards, architecture, and roadmap that other teams and engineers across product, marketing, and engineering build against.The Clickstream Platform and Digital Analytics team sits at the intersection of the analytics and business teams who depend on trusted data and the engineering teams who build the systems that produce it. This role is where those worlds meet. You will act as the subject matter expert for clickstream data collection and measurement strategy across the organization, own the full lifecycle from defining what gets measured and why, through implementation and validation, to ensuring downstream teams have reliable, well-documented data they can build on. You will also drive cross-functional alignment on architecture decisions, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, analysts, and peers, and represent the data and analytics function in technical leadership and architecture review forums.If you hold yourself to a standard of data quality that makes the difference between insights an organization trusts and data it works around, and you want to shape how an entire organization collects and governs its data, we encourage you to apply!What You'll DoDefine the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for clickstream data collection across the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and KPIs at scaleOwn data collection outcomes across web and mobile products, accountable for the completeness, accuracy, and usability of clickstream dataDefine what gets measured, why it matters, and how behavioral signals and event schemas serve analytics, reporting, and experimentation needsConvert stakeholder questions into precise instrumentation specs (events, parameters, identifiers, schemas, data contracts) that engineers can implement without ambiguity across platformsProactively identify instrumentation gaps and drive resolution with engineering and QA teamsAnalyze data to audit tagging and tracking health, surface improvement opportunities, and shape future measurement decisionsLead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex data discrepancies and tracking issues, and drive the architectural changes that prevent recurrenceMentor senior and mid-level engineers, analysts, and peers, and share instrumentation expertise across the organizationWhat You'll Bring8-10+ years in digital analytics or clickstream tracking implementation at enterprise scale, with a record of owning outcomes end-to-end, not just executing tasksExperience architecting, implementing, and operating enterprise clickstream platforms with technologies such as Amplitude, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Segment, Snowplow, Google Tag Manager, and KafkaHands-on experience designing event-based data models for web and mobile, including event taxonomies, parameter and identifier design, and data contractsAbility to translate ambiguous business questions into precise instrumentation specifications and to orchestrate delivery across Product Engineering, Analytics, QA, and platform partnersStrong JavaScript for tracking implementation, fluency with browser and mobile debugging tools, and experience designing scalable data pipelinesSQL proficiency in a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake) to validate data quality, investigate anomalies, and own your analysisWorking knowledge of data governance, privacy, and consent frameworks (GDPR, CCPA) and their implications for instrumentation designExperience enabling self-service analytics at scale through standardized metrics frameworks, reporting taxonomies, or dashboardsDemonstrated use of AI-enabled tools (Claude, Gemini, Cortex, Copilot, etc.) as a force multiplier in how you workExcellent written and verbal communication: precise technical specs, documented architecture and governance decisions, and clear explanations of tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders, with the ability to influence across engineering, product, marketing, and analyticsExperience with consumer digital products at scale, such as real estate, media, or marketplace platformsBachelor's degree in Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Economics, Marketing, or a relevant fieldApply Now