Analytics Engineer

About This Role

This role involves building and owning the data models and metric definitions that various stakeholders at Zillow depend on for consumer analytics, including marketing, lead generation, and site traffic. You will work with your team and business domain stakeholders to create and manage metrics that drive daily operations and strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain dimensional data models and metric definitions using SQL and dbt (or equivalent)
• Design data-quality tests, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data products are trusted by default
• Partner with data engineering to define upstream requirements and fix data-quality issues at the source
• Work directly with US-based BI analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to understand their actual needs
• Contribute to semantic layer definitions that make metrics usable by BI tools, data scientists, and AI systems alike

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional data experience, with metrics-as-code and semantic modelling preferred
• Strong SQL, with understanding of how grain, joins, and schema evolution affect relational modeling and metric implementation
• Experience with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework, plus Git and CI/CD basics
• Comfort operating across a large time-zone gap; proactive asynchronous communication
• A track record of evolving how AI systems, conversational analytics tools, and machine learning workflows consume structured data
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar) and BI tools (Tableau, Looker, or similar)

Important Details

• Schedule: regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of your time each month

About the Company

Zillow Group is constantly innovating ways to operate, monetize, and improve its nationwide real estate marketplace. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., Zillow helps people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. The company has been recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list.