Underdog · 21 hours ago
Senior Analytics Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$160K/yr - $190K/yr
4+ years expUnderdog is a fast-growing sports company focused on making sports more fun through innovative products. As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining data models and ensuring data quality, directly influencing business strategy and product innovation.
eSportsFantasy SportsGaming
Responsibilities
Build and maintain core dbt data models that turn raw data into clean, trusted, analysis-ready assets (e.g., User 360, Contest Fact, Marketing Attribution)
Implement and manage a semantic layer (dbt MetricFlow, Omni, or equivalent) to standardize definitions of key metrics across the company
Own data quality and reliability, setting up automated testing, monitoring, and alerting frameworks
Collaborate with analysts and data scientists across Product, Marketing, Finance, and Ops to understand needs and deliver data models that scale
Contribute to self-service analytics enablement by making models discoverable in tools like Omni, Hex, and Sigma, and building user-friendly dashboards and explores
Champion software engineering best practices in analytics: Git workflows, code review, CI/CD for dbt, and reusable SQL patterns
Document business logic and metric definitions in a central data catalog, ensuring clarity and consistency
Qualification
Required
SQL and data modeling expert, with 4+ years in analytics engineering, BI, or related data roles
Skilled in dbt and modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
Experienced with semantic layers and BI tools (Omni, Looker, Sigma, Hex) to drive metric consistency
Comfortable with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and Git-based workflows
Detail-oriented with a passion for data quality and reliability
Strong communicator who can translate complex data models into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical partners
Collaborative teammate with a bias for action, comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
Preferred
Experience in the sports, fantasy, or gaming industry
Background in real-time or streaming analytics
Contributions to the dbt community or open-source analytics projects
Familiarity with data observability platforms (Monte Carlo, Elementary)
Benefits
Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Home office stipend
A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
Company
Underdog
We’re the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever. Our mission is to build innovative games and products for American sports fans.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$115MKey Investors
Spark CapitalBlackRockKevin Carter
2025-03-26Series C· $70M
2022-07-26Series B· $35M
2021-05-03Series A· $10M
Leadership Team
Jeremy Levine
Founder & CEO
Rishi Garg
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
Mergers & Acquisitions
2025-10-19
2025-10-18
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