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