Staff Analytics Engineer (Data Analytics)

Location: Toronto, Canada; hybrid schedule with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays

Salary: 147,700–191,900 CAD annually, plus variable compensation including short-term and long-term incentives.

Company

hirify.global, including its ecobee subsidiary, develops connected-home, smart thermostat, backup generator, and sustainable energy products for homes and businesses.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the Silver and Gold layers of the lakehouse using dbt.
• Publish certified, reusable datasets and maintain the semantic and metrics layer for self-service analytics.
• Design transformation workflows and collaborate with data engineering on ingestion, schemas, architecture, and end-to-end pipelines.
• Implement data quality, observability, governance, data contracts, schema change management, and SLO-driven reliability practices.
• Operate critical production data flows, including incident response, runbooks, root cause analysis, alerting, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical standards, code reviews, documentation, stakeholder alignment, and mentorship across analytics engineering.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience with dbt, modular tested models, project structures at scale, and dimensional data modeling.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience optimizing warehouses and cloud compute, storage, and query costs.
• Experience with GCP services including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage, plus Apache Airflow or Cloud Composer.
• Experience designing batch and real-time processing solutions and familiarity with distributed processing technologies such as Spark and Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of data quality, governance, observability, data contracts, SLO-driven operations, lineage, versioning, and data-as-a-product principles.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, GitHub, privacy and security controls, and communicating architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with remote flexibility on days without required office attendance.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, and paid holidays.
• RRSP retirement benefits and variable compensation opportunities.
• Background check required for the hired candidate.

Hiring process

• 30-minute phone call with Talent Acquisition.
• 75-minute video interview with the Hiring Manager covering technical, behavioral, and situational questions.
• 90-minute technical video interview with team members followed by a 45-minute final interview with the VP.