Data Platform Engineer

Renaissance Learning North America

20h • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a mid-level Data Platform Engineer to join our data platform team. You’ll help build and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and code that make data accessible, reliable, and scalable across our organization. As an important part of our growing team, you will contribute to our technology choices, architecture, and the capabilities of our platform, while continuing to scale Nearpod and Renaissance Intelligence. You’ll work closely with product managers and peer engineers to develop innovative solutions that enable great classroom learning experiences.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in ETL / ELT using cloud-based databases at scale, such as MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Redshift, and/or Snowflake
• Experience designing, coding, and supporting enterprise-scale ETL / ELT pipelines that balance efficiency and intuitive usage.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining data warehouses, data lakes, and data meshes that are organized, performant, and easy to use.
• Experience mentoring fellow team members and demonstrating how to stay proficient with new technologies, methodologies, and frameworks.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding K-12 education data
• Experience with the tools we use, like AWS (including S3, Glue, and Lambda), Airflow, Redshift, Data Build Tool (DBT), Snowflake, and Docker - plus experience with tools we don’t use, but should, and the wisdom to know when to recommend them
• Enjoy working in a 100% remote environment - we have engineers across the US, as well as remote teams in Latin America.

Responsibilities

• Craft fault-tolerant data pipelines and distributed systems to support millions of students.
• Effective communicator who collaborates well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams; experience explaining data architecture to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure that timely, accurate data and metrics are delivered consistently.
• Partner with your peer engineers and product owners on getting features and products to market.
• Evolve data ownership and fluency across our teams, allowing us to bring new insights to customers easily and cost-effectively.

Benefits

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed