design and maintain high-quality data models, marts, and pipelines that make analysis fast, reliable, and reusable.
Manage the data warehouse
help own warehouse architecture, environments, permissions, performance, cost, data lifecycle, and operational hygiene so the platform scales cleanly.
Make the warehouse AI-readable
own the documentation, semantic context, metadata, lineage, and retrieval patterns that AI systems depend on to understand and query Perplexity's data correctly.
Own data modeling standards
define and champion dbt patterns, dimensional modeling practices, naming conventions, tests, and review processes.
Lead data governance practices
define standards for access, ownership, lineage, documentation, retention, quality, and sensitive data handling across the analytical warehouse.
Build with security and privacy in mind
partner with engineering, security, legal, and finance where needed to ensure data access, sharing, and AI-enabled workflows are appropriate and controlled.
Automate data quality and maintenance
build AI-assisted workflows that detect issues, explain root causes, suggest fixes, generate tests, and reduce manual firefighting.
Improve data team productivity
automate repetitive workflows, improve tooling, streamline development, and make it easier for data scientists and stakeholders to answer questions.
Partner across the company
work closely with data scientists, engineering, product, finance, and GTM teams to translate analytical needs into durable data systems.
Shape tooling decisions
evaluate build-versus-buy tradeoffs, manage vendor relationships when needed, and choose tools that scale with the team.
Requirements
6+ years
of experience as an analytics engineer, data engineer, data scientist, or closely related role.
Deep SQL expertise
you can reason about correctness, performance, joins, grain, and edge cases in complex warehouse queries.
Strong data modeling experience
you've built, maintained, debugged, and improved production data pipelines.
Warehouse management experience
you've worked with warehouse administration, access patterns, permissions, performance tuning, cost management, or operational ownership.
you think clearly about data ownership, access controls, privacy, retention, lineage, auditability, and the risks of making data too easy to access.
Stakeholder fluency
Preferred
Snowflake administration, optimization, cost management, or warehouse performance tuning.
Experience with RBAC, PII handling, data classification, retention policies, audit workflows, or privacy/security reviews.
Experience with Databricks or other modern data infrastructure.
Experience building semantic layers, metrics layers, metadata systems, or data catalogs.
Python experience for data tooling, automation, orchestration, or quality checks.
Previous experience as an early analytics engineer or data engineer at a high-growth startup.
What We're Looking For
you've worked hands-on with dbt (or a similar transformation framework) in production, and you understand dimensional modeling, data contracts, testing, and how analytical schemas should evolve.
Pipeline ownership
Governance mindset
AI-native working style you already use AI to speed up development, documentation, QA, exploration, and repetitive workflow automation.
you know how to turn messy analytical requirements into trusted models, metrics, and reusable data assets.
Autonomy and execution you can take projects from ambiguous problem to production-quality system with minimal oversight.
Operational judgment you care about reliability, governance, security, cost, and long-term maintainability.
Why This Role
Own the foundation your work will determine how fast and confidently the company can use data.
Build for humans and AI the next generation of data infrastructure needs to be understandable by agents as well as analysts.
High leverage better models, pipelines, and tools multiply every data scientist and every stakeholder who depends on data.
Small team, broad scope you'll have room to define standards, choose tools, and ship systems that become company-wide defaults.
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