Description
We are looking for a talented and driven individual to be a key part of our Analytics Engineering team within the Data Science organization, focused on the Consumer domain.
As an Analytics Engineer, you will work closely with Data Scientists and members of Consumer cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, and Design) to curate, develop, and deploy the right data and analytic tooling to drive Reddit's product forward and provide a data and tooling foundation that will last decades.
Your work will empower thousands of your colleagues to improve the user experience and grow our consumer base.
Successful candidates have a strong track record of understanding and deeply caring about the purpose of data to support business goals, and can act as an effective conduit between Data Producers and Data Consumers.
This role sits at the intersection of Data Science and Data Engineering, and the ideal candidate has skills, experience, and passion in both areas.
Responsibilities:
- Be an Analytics Engineering leader within the Consumer organization and a key contributor and collaborator to the success of Data Science data quality, performance, reliability, and automation initiatives.
- Be the data steward for Consumer products: architect and improve the collection of underlying data while also creating ETLs, reporting dashboards, data aggregations and other deliverables needed for product feature tracking, user retention analysis, A/B testing, and a large number of other data-driven activities.
- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and workflows for data ingestion, processing, and transformation. Work closely with engineering to ensure the quality and reliability of these data pipelines.
- Create user-friendly tools and applications for internal use across Data Science and cross-functional teams, streamlining data analysis and reporting processes. Drive widespread adoption of these tools and applications with a relentless focus on automation, consistency, and reliability.
- Lead transformational efforts to build a data-driven culture at Reddit by enabling data self-service.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, coaching and/or training to data scientists and other technical partners.
- Serve as a thought partner for data scientists, engineering managers, and leadership on data foundations, communicating and shaping the data foundations roadmap and strategy for Reddit.
Qualifications:
- Degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, operations research, computer science, applied mathematics, economics, or physics
- 4+ years of experience working with large-scale ETL systems (implementation, strategy, and maintenance), building clean, maintainable code and systems (Python preferred) in a production environment.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, etc.
- Experience with data modeling, ETL and ELT concepts, and patterns for efficient data governance. Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data.
- Experience with data workflows (such as Airflow), data modeling, front-end or back-end engineering.
- Experience in data visualization and dashboard design.
- Deep understanding of technical and functional designs for relational and MPP Databases.
- Proven track record of cross-functional execution and collaboration. Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders at all levels of the company, of differing levels of technical acumen.
- Self-starter, ability to work independently and autonomously, as well as part of a team.
- Consumer product domain experience is a big plus.
- Agentic AI-assisted development experience.
Benefits:
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions
- Income Replacement Programs
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave