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Principal Analytics Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $136,400–$136,400🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Shape the analytics engineering practice and data infrastructure to support AI-powered analytics and business decision-making across Zillow's real estate marketplace.

Role type

Principal Analytics Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Semantic layer architecture, reusable metrics platforms, and scalable data infrastructure for BI, data science, and AI tools.

Domain

Real Estate / Data Engineering & Analytics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Semantic layer design, metrics-as-code patterns, data governance, SQL, data modeling, cross-organizational influence, AI system data consumption, analytics tooling evaluation

Preferred skills

Experience with dbt, Databricks, Snowflake, conversational analytics tools, machine learning workflows

Technologies

dbt, Databricks, Snowflake

Responsibilities

Design semantic layer architecture for consistent data across BI and AI; lead cross-organizational data initiatives; drive alignment on metric definitions and governance; mentor senior engineers; influence tooling and infrastructure decisions; ensure high availability reporting within SLA.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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