Senior Analytics Engineer

About the role

The Analytics Engineering & Governance Enablement (AEGE) team builds and operates the infrastructure that enables a cross-functional analytics engineering function to work reliably and at scale. We own the dbt services powering N26's core data warehouse and lakehouse - its CI/CD pipelines, runtime configuration, data quality standards, and the tooling that keeps a broad community of data producers, analytics engineers, data analysts, and data scientists productive.

What you'll do

• Own and evolve our core dbt services - maintain CI/CD infrastructure, drive performance improvements, enforce quality standards, and support a large community of data practitioners building on top of it
• Be the engineering interface for the analytics engineering community - unblock practitioners, review and improve shared patterns, and raise the bar on project quality, model structure, and SQL craft
• Improve data quality and governance infrastructure - contribute to services covering anomaly detection, freshness monitoring, drift detection, and data contract enforcement
• Shape data governance practices - drive standards around data ownership, data product thinking, and contract-first design across the data mesh
• Contribute to our Python based tooling - feature extensions, integrations, and observability utilities; write well-tested, maintainable Python that practitioners can build on
• Stay close to the platform - collaborate with our data platform team on the direction of shared infrastructure, representing the analytics perspective in technical decisions

What you'll need

• Problem solving - you scope problems quickly, find root causes rather than treating symptoms; you know when to ship a pragmatic fix and when to go deeper
• Solid Python - typed, tested, maintainable code; you can contribute to shared tooling
• Strong SQL - you can read and reason about query plans, identify performance bottlenecks, and set a high standard for the SQL that goes into production
• Community and craft orientation - you're energised by helping others do better work; you can influence without authority and make good practices stick
• Track record of impact - you've improved reliability, quality, or productivity in a data organisation and can speak concretely about what changed
• dbt at scale - macros, hooks, incremental models, project structure, CI/CD integration; you've worked on large, multi-team dbt projects and understand the tradeoffs

What they offer

• Personal development budget and work from home budget
• Discounts on fitness & wellness memberships, language apps, and public transportation
• Premium N26 bank account subscription, plus accounts for friends and family
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service
• Relocation package with visa support