Business Intelligence Engineer, Snap Inc.
$130-196k
+ RSUs
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, CA)
Social media & camera company
Job no longer available
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$130-196k
+ RSUs
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in building data pipelines to serve reporting needs
- Experience owning all or part of a team roadmap
- Experience with data visualization tools like Looker and Tableau
- Ability to prioritize requests from multiple stakeholders in disparate domains
- Ability to effectively communicate complex projects to non-technical stakeholders
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent years of experience in a relevant field
- 3+ year experience in SQL or similar languages
- 3+ years development experience in at least one object-oriented or scripting language (Python, Java, Scala, etc), Python preferred
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery
- Experience using and sharing notebook solutions like Jupyter
- Experience in version control systems such as Git
- Data architecture and warehousing experience
- Experience with Airflow
- Experience in ETL / Data application development
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer on our Finance Team. Working from one of our west coast offices in Santa Monica, CA or Seattle, WA, you’ll collaborate with teams across the organization (Engineering, Finance, Operations, etc.) to build metric consumption pipelines and coach fellow contributors, delivering the data necessary for making the right decision in the moment
- Our team strives to improve decision quality across the company by ensuring metrics are trustworthy, discoverable, and easily consumable
- Work closely with stakeholders in Engineering, Finance, Operations and other teams to design, implement and support key datasets that provide timely access to key business metrics
- Partner with non-technical customers to capture business needs and condense them into technical requirements for metrics or analytics based projects
- Deliver projects/data-pipelines that allow non-technical end-customers to self-serve
- Orchestrate ETL Pipelines using Airflow and a combination of BigQuery and Spark
- Deliver performant reporting datasets consumed through our visualization portals
- Build reporting tools to facilitate consumption consistency across teams
Our take
Snap Inc. is the social-media company behind Snapchat, a mobile app launched in 2011 that prioritises visual and emotive communication over traditional texting. Born from a desire to share real-time moments with authenticity, the app now boasts a massive global reach with daily active users surpassing 460M and monthly active users well beyond 900M.
After rejecting a billion-dollar acquisition offer from Meta Platforms (then Facebook) in 2023, Snapchat entered into a long-term rivalry with Meta's apps (most notably Instagram). Despite the competition, Snap has carved out a distinct place in the social-media landscape by innovating features such as the "Discover" tab, augmented-reality (AR) lenses, in-app gaming, paid subscriptions via Snapchat+, and robust ad-monetisation options.
Snap has yet to post a full-year profit since going public in 2017, but the company is clearly making progress. In Q1 2025, the net loss was narrowed to roughly $140M, down from $305M the year before, and revenue rose 14% to $1.36B. Advertising revenue remains periodic, and macro-factors still pose headwinds, yet Snap's enduring popularity and its expanding product mix suggest that further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance
- Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
- Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
- Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breastmilk shipping coverage
- For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits
- Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services
- Business Travel Insurance
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Well-being reimbursement
- Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem
- 15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra
- Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:
- Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members
- 12 paid holidays per year
- 15 sick and safe days per year
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs
- Social gatherings, team outings, and volunteering programs
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega backdoor option!) Snap will also match 100% up to 3% of your contribution and then 50% on your 4th and 5th%
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, daycare and commuter
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programs
- Snap exclusive discounts and perks
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a BS in Product Design.
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