Senior Analytics Engineer

#Team Nextdoor At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees. Meet Your Future Neighbors In the Analytics Engineering team at Nextdoor, we believe in the transformative power of information, bringing together data from a wide variety of sources and making it digestible and attainable by everyone in the company. We are a lean but powerful team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, because that’s what we seek out and respect in others. We collaborate cross‑functionally to make the numbers available and clear, playing a key role in the company’s overall effort to foster stronger and healthier communities. The Impact You’ll Make As an Analytics Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll work to democratize data and reporting to drive strategy and measure performance against KPIs across the business. In this role, you will work with various Consumer product stakeholders, building data pipelines, owning and defining metrics in collaboration with the data scientists, and be a trusted resource for all the data needs. You'll be responsible for understanding where our data comes from, transforming it, and making it available to stakeholders across the company via queries, tools, and dashboards. The ideal candidate is a tech‑savvy, strong communicator who understands how to make data understandable by everyone. You should be excited to bring your experience and expertise every day in order to: Own reporting tools, pipelines, and dashboards to ensure consistent availability and accuracy of mission‑critical data Partner with key stakeholders on KPI development and tracking across the Consumer organization Build datasets and reports that represent the source of truth for our key metrics Keep data sources fresh even while requirements and definitions change. Address data quality issues and build in alerting Partner with data science, finance & strategy, marketing, sales, product, and engineering on analytics engineering strategy to enable data‑driven decision making across the company Set expectations and SLAs on data availability, and own communications around SLA performance to the business Drive self‑service and data literacy for business users on our data platform by creating and documenting data structures and sets, SQL and data tools training, and dashboard development Care deeply about data quality and empowering employees to leverage data to help them succeed in their careers and help Nextdoor grow and succeed Participate in in‑person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off‑sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises Build in‑person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture What You’ll Bring To The Team 6+ years working in data engineering or analytics Advanced knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries in multiple dialects Experience with Looker (preferred) or another BI/visualization tool Experience working with ETL/ELT pipelines Strong communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to understand, tackle, and solve problems from both technical and business perspectives Experience in effectively presenting insights and summarizing complex data to diverse audiences through visualizations and other means Demonstrated experience working with and delivering to cross‑functional stakeholders from multiple parts of the company (Finance, Engineering, etc.) Demonstrated experience driving projects end‑to‑end and can speak to outcome and impact Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done Rewards Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography. The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $163,000 - $229,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date. When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee‑only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care. At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor’s Personnel Privacy Notice, found here. #J-18808-Ljbffr