Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer)

Perplexity is AI for people who expect more. On the data team, that means building the systems that make our data reliable, understandable, and usable by both humans and AI. We're looking for an analytics engineer or data engineer who wants to build the foundation for an AI-native data organization. You'll design core data models, pipelines, semantic layers, data quality systems, governance practices, and warehouse workflows that power the entire company: helping teams make strategic decisions, operate the business, and move faster with trusted data. You'll also make sure those systems are secure, privacy-aware, and legible to AI agents, data scientists, and the rest of the company. This role is for someone who can operate at the boundary of analytics engineering, data engineering, data governance, and internal product. You care about dimensional modeling, dbt standards, cost-aware warehouse design, access controls, privacy, and the details that make data trustworthy. You also believe AI should make the data stack faster, easier to maintain, and more accessible across the company without weakening security or governance. What You'll Do Build the core data foundation - 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, perf [... source excerpt omitted ...] rformance, joins, grain, and edge cases in complex warehouse queries. Strong data modeling experience - 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 - 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. Governance mindset - you think clearly about data ownership, access controls, privacy, retention, lineage, auditabilit [... source excerpt omitted ...] tyle - you already use AI to speed up development, documentation, QA, exploration, and repetitive workflow automation. Stakeholder fluency - 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. Bonus Snowflake administration, optimization, cost management, or warehouse performance tuning. Experience with RBAC, PII handling, data classification, retention policies, audit workflows, or privacy/secu