Analytics Engineer, Data

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