Senior Analytics Engineer

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, 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.
• 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.
• Follow best practices like version control and CI/CD, ensuring maintainable and scalable code.
• Ensure high-quality work that meets security, reliability, and privacy standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 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.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and integration with data workflows.
• Experience with JupyterLab for interactive analysis, data exploration, and creating reproducible workflows.
• Experience with DBT, Rill, and Looker for data modeling and BI tools.
• Strong knowledge of database fundamentals (execution plans, join strategies, etc.), with the ability to tune queries for 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.
• Familiarity with Big Data technologies like Apache Spark or Databricks.
• Experience with a second programming language (especially Scala).
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows.

Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in Canada. We prefer for this role to be based 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 (internationally from Canada) 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: 

• Canada: 130,000-150,000 CAD

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

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.