InStride ยท 2 days ago
Sr. Data Engineer
LA Metro Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expInStride is a human capital management company dedicated to empowering employees through education programs. The Sr. Data Engineer will work with a diverse team to build and maintain a scalable data platform, ensuring high-quality data workflows and supporting data-driven decision-making.
Continuing EducationE-LearningEdTechEducationHigher Education
Responsibilities
Work as part of an agile team to develop new features and functionality
Provide hands-on technical leadership for a team of data engineers to build, deliver, and maintain a best-in-class data platform and pipelines
Demonstrate technical expertise by contributing to architecture discussions and decisions around data platforms, tooling, and workflows
Drive best practices on schema design, data modeling, and performance optimization
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve high-quality, elegant solutions
Constantly apply best practices and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
Protect operations by keeping information and data confidential
Proactively communicate and manage expectations with your leader and team
Qualification
Required
Strong expertise in building batch and streaming data pipelines, designing and implementing ETL/ELT workflows, and ensuring high-quality, reliable data movement across systems
Proficiency with tools like Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and similar
Proficiency with cloud data platforms and services, especially AWS and Databricks, to build scalable and reliable systems
Extensive experience in delivering projects using agile methodologies, ensuring efficient and effective project execution
Proven ability to work closely with SRE, release engineering, security, product, UX, project management, business development, customer success, growth marketing, and executive teams
Expertise in delivering SaaS solutions for large enterprise customers, ensuring performance and scalability
Over 5 years of progressive experience in data engineering and data infrastructure roles, delivering robust and scalable data solutions for high-growth businesses
At least 2 years working with Python for data workflows
At least 2 years experience leveraging open-source data tools and frameworks
At least 2 years of experience leading or mentoring other engineers, showcasing your ability to guide teams towards achieving technical excellence
Deep understanding of open-source technologies and cloud services, enhancing the scalability, reliability, and innovation of platforms
Passionate about helping customers enable economic mobility for their employees; establishing equitable access to education for partners' employees
Preferred
Experience working with MongoDB and TypeScript is a plus
Experience with product, user experience, and project management teams is a plus
Benefits
401(k) plan with company match
Flexible vacation policy
Paid family leave
Best-in-class health care benefits
2,800+ online certificate and degree programs through our Step Forward program
Company
InStride
The premier global provider of strategic enterprise education programs.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Craig Maloney
Chief Executive Officer
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