Senior Data Analyst

looking for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated Senior Data Analyst to help us develop and improve our IP-address based data products through sophisticated data analysis. We help protect thousands of companies worldwide from fraud, screening over three billion online transactions each year, and we provide IP intelligence data to thousands more. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will play an important role in helping develop and maintain our products and platform.

This is a full time remote position, and we welcome candidates to apply from anywhere in Canada. You must be eligible/authorized to work in Canada.

The Position

As a Senior Data Analyst, your job will be to carry out analysis projects both big and small on IP-based data. You may work on adding data-based features to existing products, investigate and improve existing data pipelines and code, automate data analyses, and develop entirely new services. We’re looking for someone with a background in data analysis who is comfortable working both independently and on a team, can make good technical decisions, and is comfortable with coding as part of data analysis. A code-based data analysis exercise will be given to all applicants.

Our salary range for the Senior Data Analyst role begins at $115K CAD, with the specific offer depending upon skills and experience. See more about benefits and compensation below.

About You — Minimum qualifications
Strong statistics-based data analysis skills and love of finding patterns and answering questions with large data sets.
Able to write high quality Python for data analysis. Familiar with SQL, and experience or willingness to learn Go.
Comfortable using analysis notebooks such as Collab or Jupyter rather than Business Intelligence tools for data analysis.
Comfortable running data analysis on Google Cloud or similar environments.
Experience writing code and producing documentation.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
The ability to work with a geographically dispersed team.
Desired, but not required
Experience with networking, security, or fraud problems and use of IP geolocation in these use cases.
Experience using data analysis to create data-based products for internal use or for sale to customers.
Continuing to build data science skills.
An interest in picking up new programming languages. Most of our data pipeline production code is Go and Perl.
Open source code or data analysis contributions. Tell us about them!
An interest in performance, security, and data privacy.
Experience with Postgres or other relational databases.
Working at MaxMind

Our culture is very important to us. We’re friendly, collaborative, and work-focused. We don’t like office politics and unnecessary stress. We like to have productive workdays and don’t like work to chase us when we’re done for the day. We maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but are flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life events. We care about helping each other succeed.

In a recent survey, employees listed having a supportive work culture, good co-workers, autonomy, and feeling trusted, valued, and respected as some of the things they liked most about working here.

MaxMind has a social mission. MaxMind donates over 60% of profits to charities.

MaxMind’s compensation strives to reward getting stuff done, quality of work, and working well with others.

We are a fully remote company, so communication centers around video chat, group chat, and Agile planning tools.

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, our Canadian benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical Illness, short and long term disability insurance, Employee and Family Assistance Program, and paid parental leave. You also have access to a group Retirement Savings Plan. In lieu of a Canadian RRSP contribution we provide a bonus payout at the end of each year that employees may decide to use toward retirement savings.

Everyone participates in a company performance-based bonus plan. MaxMind offers a $2,000 USD professional development budget and five days for professional development annually.

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion and are mindful of incorporating them into all aspects of our company.

We encourage and sincerely welcome applications from candidates of color, women, queer candidates, candidates with family caregiving responsibilities, transgender candidates, and from other communities not well represented in the tech world.