Perplexity
Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer)
$175K–$330K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 6+ years as an analytics engineer, data engineer, data scientist, or in a closely related role.
About the job
Build and maintain the data models, pipelines, warehouse workflows, governance, and AI-readable systems that enable trusted company-wide data use.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain data models, marts, and pipelines; manage warehouse architecture, permissions, performance, cost, and operations.
- Establish data modeling and governance standards, including documentation, metadata, lineage, access, retention, and sensitive-data handling.
- Build AI-assisted data quality and maintenance workflows and partner across teams to improve data tooling and productivity.
What they ask for
- Deep SQL expertise and hands-on production experience with dbt or a similar transformation framework.
- Experience building, maintaining, debugging, and improving production data pipelines.
- Warehouse administration or operational experience, including access, permissions, performance, or cost management.
- Ability to apply governance principles and use AI for development, documentation, QA, exploration, or workflow automation.
Nice to have
- Snowflake administration, optimization, cost management, or performance tuning.
- Experience with RBAC, PII handling, data classification, retention, audit workflows, privacy/security reviews, Databricks, semantic layers, or Python.
Pay
$175K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Python
AI focus
Make the data warehouse understandable and usable by AI systems; build AI-assisted workflows for data quality, issue diagnosis, test generation, and maintenance; use AI to accelerate development, documentation, QA, exploration, and automation.
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