Tailscale is building a new Internet by providing software that enhances secure interconnections for users and devices. They are seeking a hands-on Analytics Engineer to join their growing data team, focusing on delivering scalable data solutions across various business operations including finance and product analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with teams across Finance, Engineering, Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to uncover their workflows, challenges, and data needs
- Design, build, and maintain scalable dbt models and data pipelines supporting financial reporting (ARR, billing, revenue recognition) as well as operational, product, and GTM analytics
- Tackle ambiguous, high-complexity problems, untangling systems, manual processes, and unclear logic to produce clear, durable data solutions
- Translate user challenges and incomplete requirements into structured data models, automated workflows, and end-to-end solutions
- While building towards automation, understanding the user needs to process manual tasks
- Own solutions from ingestion to transformation to data quality, documentation, and stakeholder enablement
- Connect data and logic across domains, identifying how systems relate and surfacing opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate
- Advocate for high standards in data quality, clarity, documentation, and maintainability
Requirements:
- You have delivered production data models and pipelines that power real business decisions
- You operate autonomously and make thoughtful tradeoffs in a fast-paced environment
- You're skilled in SQL and modern data modeling, and you write clean, maintainable, well-organized code
- A track record of converting manual, ad hoc workflows into automated, durable pipelines or self-service solutions
- You can take a vague problem, ask the right questions, and turn it into a clear technical plan and high-quality solution
- You work well with both technical and non-technical partners, helping teams clarify their needs, understand tradeoffs, and driving alignment
- You're a generalist who enjoys learning new domains and solving a wide range of challenges from Finance to Product to GTM
- You are curious, resourceful, and comfortable challenging assumptions thoughtfully and advocating for approaches that improve scalability and data quality
- You enjoy untangling complexity and turning chaos into clarity
- You care about building simple, transparent, robust data foundations
- You think in terms of systems and scalability, not one-off fixes, and are able to weigh in trade-offs and build systems to solve problems as needed
- You're motivated by helping teams work more effectively through data
- You're team-oriented, collaborative, and communicate with clarity
- You're excited to grow your impact and take on increasing ownership as the team expands
- Experience in a high-growth product-led SaaS company
- Familiarity with billing systems, revenue recognition, GAAP accounting, or financial operations
- Experience partnering with Finance and accounting during month-end/quarter-end cycles
- Exposure to Stripe, Salesforce, Looker, or other financial and GTM systems