SQL & Analytics Engineer Expert
We're hiring analytics engineers as contractors to author and grade the SQL and data modeling scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Why Apply
- $60 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe.
- 100% remote and fully async.
- Shape how frontier models write and reason about SQL.
- Ongoing project work with hours you set each week.
Responsibilities
- Author realistic analytics scenarios, from raw tables through tested data models.
- Write reference answers with the modeling and query reasoning behind each decision.
- Grade model output for SQL correctness and warehouse efficiency.
- Flag queries that read clean but return wrong or expensive results.
- Author realistic analytics scenarios from raw tables through tested data models.
- Write reference answers with the modeling and query reasoning behind each decision.
- Grade model output for SQL correctness and warehouse efficiency.
- Flag queries that read clean but return wrong or expensive results.
Required skills
- Expert SQL across joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization.
- Hands on experience with a modern warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.
Preferred skills
- dbt or a similar transformation framework.
- Dimensional or semantic data modeling experience.
- Orchestration exposure such as Airflow or Dagster.
Experience and education
- Practitioners with at least 2 years of analytics engineering or SQL heavy analytics work.
- Experts in SQL across joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization.
- Builders with hands on experience in a modern warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.
- Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind a data modeling decision.
- 2+ years of professional analytics engineering or SQL heavy analytics work.
Language requirements
- Clear written English for documenting data modeling reasoning.
Assessment requirements
Apply at /apply/sql-analytics-engineer-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.
Schedule details
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $60 - $100/hr.
- $60 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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