Staff Data Engineer, Amplify
$145-155k
+ Bonus
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Be an early applicant
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$145-155k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Our data analytics teams transform, model, and aggregate the data that empowers our customers to make sense of and tell stories with their data.
- You’ll be working with data scientists, data analysts, data engineers, and software engineers to provide clean, accurate, reliable models and metrics for our products
- 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
- Example Projects You Might Work On
- 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
Application process
- If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
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