Our Mission and Opportunity
Early childhood education is one of the strongest predictors of positive long‑term outcomes, is essential for working families, and creates lasting social and economic value. Brightwheel’s vision is to make high‑quality early education accessible to every child by giving teachers more meaningful time with students, helping parents stay involved in their children’s development, and empowering the small businesses that drive the $175 billion early education sector. Brightwheel is the most trusted technology brand in early education worldwide, used by thousands of educators and millions of families.

Our Team
We operate fully remotely, with employees across all U.S. time zones. Our team is passionate, skilled, and dedicated to serving customers. Our investors include Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban.

We believe everyone—our employees and the students, teachers, and administrators we support—deserves the chance to grow and excel, regardless of background. We value diversity in all its forms because it strengthens our team and the communities we serve. Our daily work and decision‑making are rooted in our Leadership Principles.

Who You Are
Brightwheel is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join the Analytics team.

You are enthusiastic about data and bring strong SQL, DBT, and data modeling expertise. You excel at exploring data in response to business challenges and enjoy creating scalable models that support self‑service analytics. You can manage multiple shifting priorities while consistently delivering business value. You are curious, detail‑oriented, and self‑motivated, taking full ownership of high‑impact projects with visibility across the organization.

What You’ll Do
As an analytics engineer, you will build and maintain the data layer across our analytics stack. Your work will span raw data through fully structured, ready‑to‑analyze datasets. You will apply software engineering practices—such as version control, automated testing, documentation, code reviews, and continuous integration—to our data environment. In a typical week, you will:

• Write SQL in DBT to create reliable, scalable, high‑performance data models in a cloud data warehouse that power company‑wide insights
• Partner with business teams and analysts to design and build models that support their analysis and data exploration
• Work with engineers to understand complex existing data structures and design simpler models that improve clarity and unlock insights
• Enhance organizational capabilities by managing data discovery and cataloging tools that help non‑technical users understand business processes
• Troubleshoot, refine, and scale existing data models and reports

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities
• 4+ years of experience as an analytics engineer, data engineer, data analyst, or DBA
• 2+ years of advanced SQL development in a version‑controlled environment
• Proven ability to refactor complex SQL for better performance
• 1+ years of hands‑on DBT experience
• Strong data discovery and analytical skills with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical partners
• Experience gathering requirements, designing solutions, and documenting models
• Solid understanding of data quality and testing approaches
• Experience monitoring or troubleshooting ETL pipelines using Airflow or Python

Preferred Experience
• 2+ years building DBT models in a cloud data warehouse
• Experience deploying DBT with CI/CD and automated testing
• Background in developing data warehouses from large transactional systems and third‑party data sources
• Experience building product usage data models and defining product metrics
• Experience modeling and validating financial data

Compensation and Benefits
$137,000–$185,000 per year

Brightwheel is committed to pay equity and offers competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits. Benefits include premium medical, dental, and vision coverage; generous paid parental leave; flexible paid time off; monthly wellness and productivity stipends; and a Learning & Development stipend.

Compensation ranges are based on role, level, and location, benchmarked against similar high‑growth companies. Final offers depend on location, experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the range for your area, please ask your recruiter.

Brightwheel is dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.