Data Platform Engineer
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Mid-level Data Platform Engineer at Renaissance, operating data infrastructure for millions of students. Collaborating on innovative solutions to enhance educational experiences.
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.
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.
- 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.
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



















