Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, Kickstarter
$175-191.3k
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Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
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Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-191.3k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help bring creative projects to life.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer II, you will play a foundational role in modernizing our data stack, building scalable and cost-efficient pipelines, enabling deeper insights across the organization, and architecting a data foundation that allows teams to leverage data towards our goals.
- You will work closely with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure Kickstarter’s data is high-quality, well-structured, and accessible for decision-making
- Develop, own and improve Kickstarter’s data architecture—optimize our Redshift warehouse, implement best practices for data storage, processing, and orchestration
- Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to transform raw data into clean, usable datasets for analytics, product insights, and machine learning applications
- Enhance data accessibility and self-service analytics by improving Looker models and enabling better organizational data literacy
- Support real-time data needs by optimizing event-based telemetry and integrating new data streams to fuel new products, personalization, recommendations, and fraud detection
- Lead cost optimization efforts—identify and implement more efficient processes and tools to lower costs
- Drive data governance and security best practices—ensure data integrity, access controls, and proper lineage tracking
- Collaborate across teams to ensure data solutions align with product, growth, and business intelligence needs
Our take
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that is dedicated to the creative ecosystem, providing its community of painters, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and all other creatives with a space to raise money for specific projects.
Kickstarter Campaigns operate on an “all-or-nothing” basis, meaning that if a campaign misses a deadline, they don’t get any of the money pledged to their project, however, creators are able to set deadlines and funding goals themselves in order to make the success of their campaign more manageable.
The company also launched a new feature in early 2023, called Drip, which enables creators to receive continued support from backers through subscription-based payments, ensuring sustainable funding for their projects.
By ensuring creatives retain 100% ownership of their work, the company simplifies the fundraising process by eliminating the need for long and complicated grant application processes, donors asking creators to make modifications, or last-minute edit requests from investors. Since its launch in 2009, 22 million people around the globe have pledged over $7.2 billion to help fund projects such as the early version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2011
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $120m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Three percent safe harbor 401K contribution
- Equity
- Healthcare coverage
- 16 annual paid vacation days + 25 annual paid volunteer hours to all full-time employees
- Yearly reimbursable stiped for Remote Working and Wellness
- Continuous Learning
Company HQ
Greenpoint, NY
Leadership
Everette Taylor
(CEO, not founder)Founder of ET Enterprises. Former CMO of Artsy and Skurt. They also previously worked as Head of Growth (Interim) at Microsoft China.
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