Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics

22 hours ago

Remote, United States +2 moreMid Level

Base Salary

$230k - $295k/yr

Responsibilities

Own and operate recurring analytics pipelines, including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements.
Lead architectural evolution through schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows.
Drive cross-team alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs.
Build and maintain analytics tables and metrics with disciplined schemas and reproducible computation.
Define and implement reliability standards, observability patterns, SLOs, runbooks, and incident-response practices.
Improve documentation, dataset discoverability, metadata, lineage, and data contracts.
Optimize distributed compute, SQL queries, partitioning, file sizing, and columnar storage layouts.
Mentor engineers through design reviews and improve operational and data-modeling rigor.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
At least 3 years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems.
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems.
Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure.
Strong data-modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility.
Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and robust data-governance principles.
Preferred experience leading architectural migrations or major data-platform refactors.
Preferred familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on-premise compute clusters such as Slurm, SSH, and Unix.
Preferred exposure to quantitative research or machine-learning environments.

501-1,000 employees