Senior Data and Analytics Engineer

March 11

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

Although this job is listed in Colorado, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

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🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🍁 Vermont – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $175k - $191.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Kickstarter

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Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that allows creators to bring their projects to life with the support of backers. It covers a wide range of categories, including art, comics, design, film, games, and technology. Kickstarter has successfully funded over 270,000 projects, with over $8 billion pledged by backers worldwide. The platform also highlights projects from diverse creators, such as Black, Hispanic, Latin, LGBTQIA+, and others to promote creativity and inclusivity.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

📱 Media

💰 Series D on 2022-01

📋 Description

• Kickstarter is the go-to crowdfunding platform for creative projects across everything from film, games and music to art, design, and technology. • Seeking an experienced Senior Data & Analytics Engineer II to join our Insights team. • Foundational role in modernizing our data stack, building scalable and cost-efficient pipelines, enabling deeper insights across the organization. • Work closely with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure Kickstarter’s data is high-quality, well-structured, and accessible for decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related fields. • Strong experience with cloud-based data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery) and query performance optimization. • Expertise in SQL, Python, and data transformation frameworks like dbt. • Experience building scalable data pipelines with modern orchestration tools (Airflow, MWAA, Dagster, etc.). • Knowledge of real-time streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.) and event-based telemetry best practices. • Experience working with business intelligence tools (e.g. Looker) and enabling self-serve analytics. • Ability to drive cost-efficient and scalable data solutions, balancing performance with resource management. • Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) and experimentation tooling is a plus. • Strong problem-solving and communication skills—comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• A fully remote workforce with plenty of opportunities to get to know your colleagues • 100% employer-paid health plan offerings • 16 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, and a company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Years • 25 volunteer hours each year to give back to your community • 16 weeks of parental leave plus fertility/family planning resources • Kickstarter currently operates with a 4-day workweek, a model that aligns our belief in a healthy work-life balance and gives staff the space to be more than their work • Incredibly talented and inspiring colleagues who know how to blend their creative endeavors into their work