Amplify · 3 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$145K/yr - $155K/yr
8+ years expAmplify is a leader in K–12 education, providing next-generation curriculum and assessment. The Staff Data Engineer will work with data scientists and engineers to build analytical models and data solutions that support school administrators and teachers in improving educational outcomes.
EdTechEducationHigher Education
Responsibilities
Help school administrators build great schools by:
Respecting privacy and ensuring security while offering valuable insights
Making inquisitive choices in tech stack, database design, masking policies, and encryption
Building analytical models to fuel reporting we offer to administrators
Helping school principals understand how teachers are teaching and how students are learning by
Architecting data warehouse schemas and SQL transforms with just the right CTEs, window functions, and pivots
Creating data solutions using tools like Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, SQL, Python, Cube.dev
Learn every day by:
Immersing yourself in agile rituals and leveraging our infrastructure
Leading collaboration, pull request-ing, CI/CD processes, and mentoring on a cross-functional team
Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
Becoming an expert in the data models and standards within Amplify to deliver quality and consistent solutions
Build well-tested and documented ELT data pipelines for full and incremental dbt models to funnel into Cube Sematic Layer models
Engineer novel datasets that express a student's progress and performance through an adaptive learning experience that allows for flexible comparison across students and deep analysis of individual students
Craft slowly changing dimensional models that take into account the nuances of K-12 education such as School Year changes and students moving schools or classes
Improving our pipeline deployments and tests
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent experience
8+ years of professional software development or data engineering experience
5+ years experience in computer, data, and analytics engineering
Expertise in computer, data, and analytics engineering
Expertise in SQL and its use in code-based ETL frameworks, preferably dbt, focusing on reuse and efficiency
Expertise in ETL/ELT pipelines, analytical data modeling, aggregations, and metrics
Expertise in dbt and git preferably with automation skills
Expertise in analytical modeling architectures, including the Kimball design
Strong communication skills in writing and conversation, including writing engineering training documentation
Preferred
Fluency in a development language such as Python
Familiarity with metadata management tools such as Atlan
3+ years Experience building dashboards, reports, and models in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker
Expertise with tools we use every day: Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB) and Postgres
ETL/ELT: Airflow, dbt, Matillion, Fivetran
BI: Cube.dev, Looker, Tableau
Experience with tools we don't use, but should
Proven passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers
Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
Proven technical leadership in project delivery
Experience in education or ed-tech
Benefits
401(k) plan
Competitive health insurance and mental health options
Basic life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Access to best-in-class development programs
Company
Amplify
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and formative assessment.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$215MKey Investors
Cox Enterprises
2023-05-23Series C
2021-10-26Series Unknown· $215M
Leadership Team
Nathan Potter
Senior Vice President Engineering
Philipp Legner
VP of Mathigon
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