Engineering Jobs at Nextdoor with Visa Sponsorship
Nextdoor's Engineering team builds the technology behind neighborhood-level social infrastructure, with roles spanning backend systems, mobile platforms, and data engineering. The company has an established track record of sponsoring work visas for engineers, making it a viable target for international candidates navigating the U.S. job market.
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Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
Meet Your Future Neighbors
The Analytics Engineering team at Nextdoor transforms diverse data sources into solutions for business challenges. As a lean yet impactful team, we cover the entirety of the Nextdoor business and excel in cross-functional collaboration to empower company-wide data-driven decision-making.
By amplifying the voices of our platform's users, we play a pivotal role in building stronger, healthier communities. We're at an exciting transition, evolving from a traditional Business Intelligence focus to a broader mandate that includes strengthening data foundations and developing data products, such as analytics self-serve, for all Nextdoor data consumers.
At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in-office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.
The Impact You'll Make
As a Senior Analytics Engineering Manager, you will
- Develop and own the vision for Analytics Engineering, delivering curated datasets, dashboards, and internal data products. Define outcomes and communicate prioritization, progress, and impact to leadership
- Establish and enforce standards for metrics, data governance, documentation, and SLAs, overseeing data quality with proactive issue resolution through alerting and root-cause analysis
- Build, coach, and elevate a high-performing analytics engineering team, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of inclusion, learning, and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with data science, finance, marketing, sales, product, and engineering to prioritize the analytics engineering roadmap and drive data-driven decision-making
- Scale data self-service and literacy by expanding documentation, training, and enablement in key tools and dashboards, empowering stakeholders to explore data independently
- Guide architectural and operational excellence across ETL/ELT pipelines, championing best practices in code review and version control for enhanced reliability
- Cultivate a proactive data product builder culture within the team, shifting from a service-oriented approach to identifying needs, recognizing patterns, and implementing solutions in phases
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor's company culture
What You'll Bring To The Team
- 10+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics, with strong hands-on SQL, Python, and data modeling expertise
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management in analytics/data teams
- Proven ability to define semantic layers and build scalable dashboards; experience with Looker (preferred) or other BI/visualization tools, including in tool selection, setup and governance
- Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines with robust validation and monitoring; high bar for data quality
- Excellent communication; proven success partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (Finance, Product, Engineering, etc.) to define KPIs and deliver measurable outcomes
- Track record of driving projects end-to-end and demonstrating clear outcomes and impact
- Appetite for applying AI and emerging tools to increase productivity and reimagine how AE teams deliver impact (without sacrificing rigor and decision quality)
- Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
- It's ok if you don't have all of these requirements; if you think you'd be a good fit for the role, please apply
Bonus Points
- Experience with consumer products, user-generated content, and ad-supported business models
- Proficiency with version-controlled code (e.g., GitHub) and scripting in Python
- Experience with agile or kanban workflows
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $204,000 to $301,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate's geographic location.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For information about our collection and use of applicants' personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.
#TeamNextdoor
Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
Meet Your Future Neighbors
The Analytics Engineering team at Nextdoor transforms diverse data sources into solutions for business challenges. As a lean yet impactful team, we cover the entirety of the Nextdoor business and excel in cross-functional collaboration to empower company-wide data-driven decision-making.
By amplifying the voices of our platform's users, we play a pivotal role in building stronger, healthier communities. We're at an exciting transition, evolving from a traditional Business Intelligence focus to a broader mandate that includes strengthening data foundations and developing data products, such as analytics self-serve, for all Nextdoor data consumers.
At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in-office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.
The Impact You'll Make
As a Senior Analytics Engineering Manager, you will
- Develop and own the vision for Analytics Engineering, delivering curated datasets, dashboards, and internal data products. Define outcomes and communicate prioritization, progress, and impact to leadership
- Establish and enforce standards for metrics, data governance, documentation, and SLAs, overseeing data quality with proactive issue resolution through alerting and root-cause analysis
- Build, coach, and elevate a high-performing analytics engineering team, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of inclusion, learning, and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with data science, finance, marketing, sales, product, and engineering to prioritize the analytics engineering roadmap and drive data-driven decision-making
- Scale data self-service and literacy by expanding documentation, training, and enablement in key tools and dashboards, empowering stakeholders to explore data independently
- Guide architectural and operational excellence across ETL/ELT pipelines, championing best practices in code review and version control for enhanced reliability
- Cultivate a proactive data product builder culture within the team, shifting from a service-oriented approach to identifying needs, recognizing patterns, and implementing solutions in phases
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor's company culture
What You'll Bring To The Team
- 10+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics, with strong hands-on SQL, Python, and data modeling expertise
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management in analytics/data teams
- Proven ability to define semantic layers and build scalable dashboards; experience with Looker (preferred) or other BI/visualization tools, including in tool selection, setup and governance
- Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines with robust validation and monitoring; high bar for data quality
- Excellent communication; proven success partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (Finance, Product, Engineering, etc.) to define KPIs and deliver measurable outcomes
- Track record of driving projects end-to-end and demonstrating clear outcomes and impact
- Appetite for applying AI and emerging tools to increase productivity and reimagine how AE teams deliver impact (without sacrificing rigor and decision quality)
- Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
- It's ok if you don't have all of these requirements; if you think you'd be a good fit for the role, please apply
Bonus Points
- Experience with consumer products, user-generated content, and ad-supported business models
- Proficiency with version-controlled code (e.g., GitHub) and scripting in Python
- Experience with agile or kanban workflows
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $204,000 to $301,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate's geographic location.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For information about our collection and use of applicants' personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.
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Align your portfolio with Nextdoor's stack
Nextdoor's engineering work centers on large-scale distributed systems, location-aware services, and mobile applications. Before applying, make sure your portfolio or GitHub reflects experience with these areas so your technical background speaks directly to their open roles.
Target roles with specialty occupation alignment
USCIS requires H-1B roles to qualify as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning roles at technology companies like Nextdoor typically meet this standard, which strengthens the petition.
Prepare your credentials for PERM early
If you're pursuing a Green Card through EB-2 or EB-3, your employer will need to run a PERM labor certification with the DOL. Gather official academic transcripts and employment verification letters before your offer stage so that process doesn't stall after you're hired.
Use Migrate Mate to surface Nextdoor's open engineering roles
Nextdoor posts engineering positions across several specializations, and availability shifts frequently. Use Migrate Mate to filter for open roles that align with your visa type so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is actively available.
Clarify OPT STEM extension eligibility before your start date
F-1 students in engineering fields typically qualify for a 24-month STEM OPT extension beyond the standard 12 months. Confirm your degree classification with your DSO before accepting an offer, since this extension significantly widens your timeline before an H-1B petition is needed.
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Does Nextdoor sponsor H-1B visas for Engineers?
Yes, Nextdoor sponsors H-1B visas for engineering roles. The company has an active sponsorship track record across software and data engineering positions. If you're on OPT or another nonimmigrant status, you'll want to raise sponsorship during the offer stage so your employer can coordinate the H-1B petition timeline with USCIS.
How do I apply for Engineering jobs at Nextdoor?
Applications go through Nextdoor's careers page, where roles are posted by team and discipline. Migrate Mate also aggregates Nextdoor's open engineering positions and filters them by visa sponsorship type, which makes it easier to identify which roles align with your status. Tailor your resume to reflect system design experience and the specific technical stack listed in each posting.
Which visa types does Nextdoor commonly sponsor for Engineering roles?
Nextdoor sponsors H-1B, F-1 OPT and CPT, TN, J-1, and employment-based Green Cards through EB-2 and EB-3 for engineering positions. F-1 candidates with a STEM degree can often bridge to H-1B using the 24-month STEM OPT extension, which reduces time pressure on the H-1B lottery cycle.
What qualifications does Nextdoor expect for Engineering roles?
Most engineering roles at Nextdoor require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. Practical experience with distributed systems, APIs, or mobile development is weighted heavily in the hiring process. For H-1B purposes, your degree must align directly with the role's technical requirements to satisfy USCIS specialty occupation criteria.
How do I time my application given H-1B lottery deadlines?
USCIS opens H-1B registration in March each year, with an October 1 start date for approved petitions. If you're on OPT, your employer needs enough lead time to register you before the March window closes. Starting your job search in the fall or early winter for an engineering role gives you the best chance of securing an offer before registration opens.
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