Analytics Engineer II - Data Engineering

Rapid7

Rapid7

Data Science
Prague, Czechia
Posted on Oct 5, 2023

We are seeking an Analytics Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You will collaborate closely with both our internal Data Platform team as well as our stakeholders to gather requirements and build out curated datasets for their consumption. The ideal candidate will have a passion for data and love building out business solutions from complex datasets, both structured and unstructured.

About the Team
The Data Platform team is responsible for providing Rapid7 stakeholders with timely, credible, democratised and integrated data solutions to gain insights and scale the business. Our team also enables Rapid7 stakeholders with the tools and training they need to explore the data themselves.

About the Role

The analytics engineering role will serve as a SME for our Data Platform team. You will provide high-quality accessible data to our Rapid7 stakeholders using the Modern Data Stack (Snowflake, DBT, Tableau) and help enable other Rapid7 developers to do the same.

In this role, you will:

  • Collaborate with team members and business partners to collect business requirements, define successful analytics outcomes, and design data models

  • Build trust in all interactions, working backwards from a business impacting outcome, utilizing Agile data-product development

  • Serve as the Directly Responsible Individual for major sections of the Enterprise Dimensional Model.

  • Design, develop, and extend dbt code repository to extend the Enterprise Dimensional Model (Co-owned by Data Engineering, BI and Go-To-Market Analytics)

  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices (such as the SQL Style Guide) for a high-scale database environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review

  • Provide data modeling expertise to all Rapid7 teams through code reviews, pairing, and training to help deliver optimal, DRY, and scalable database designs and queries in Snowflake and in Tableau.

  • Play a vital role in identifying strategic data opportunities for the business by highlighting / investigating areas of opportunity across Rapid7

  • Assist with onboarding users and other administration tasks in DBT and Tableau

  • Assist with DBT and Tableau office hours to support developers across Rapid7

The skills you’ll bring include:

  • Proficiency in complex SQL (Snowflake preferred)

  • Proficiency in engineering best practices (sprints, code reviews, etc.)

  • Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross functionally

  • DBT experience strongly preferred

  • Tableau experience strongly preferred, or similar visualization tool

  • GitHub experience preferred

  • Python experience preferred (For use with DBT & airflow)


We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact.

Here, we’re building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10,000 global customers ahead of whatever’s next.

Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world’s biggest security challenges.

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