Principal Data Engineer, Newsela
Online platform for education content
Job no longer available
Online platform for education content
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide meaningful classroom learning for every student.
Role
Who you are
- Mastered proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)
- Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)
- Advanced experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling
- Advanced experience in managing large-scale data migrations in relational datastores
- Advanced experience in optimizing SQL query performance
- Advanced experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic
- Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices
- Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelines
- Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata
- Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure
- Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plus
- Experience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plus
What the job involves
- Work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquires
- Lead initiatives and problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints
- Develop documentation, technical presentation, discussion, and incident reviews with your deep domain knowledge
- Build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling
- Establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata
Our take
While textbooks have been standard issue in classrooms for centuries, digital instructional materials are now more prevalent. Newsela offers a learning platform that curates and rewrites news articles, historical speeches, and scientific papers to help accelerate learning.
The platform is available in both English and Spanish and includes quizzes, exercises, and writing prompts to help engage students at any level. Millions of teachers and K-12 students use the platform, which has proved extremely popular so far.
In 2021, the company reached unicorn status. Since then, research has shown that Newsela is 70% more effective at promoting reading skills compared to an average summer reading program. This demonstrates the value it brings to the space, and places it well for continued expansion and innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $172.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare (pets included)
- Continue your learning - on us!
- Discounts and resources to stay healthy
- Commuter savings (trains/bikes)
- Generous time off for your most important job — maternity, paternity, and adoption
- Unlimited time Off
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dan Cogan-Drew
(Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer)A qualified teacher with extensive and varied experience. Recent roles include Director of Programs at EDUCATION CONNECTION and Director of Digital Learning at Achievement First Public Charter Schools.
Matthew Gross
(Co-Founder & Director)Former CEO of the company. Co-founded and was CEO at Grouper Education. Was also a Board Member at New Classrooms, Executive Director at Regents Research Fund and VP at PENCIL.
Pep Carrera
(CEO)Board Member at Follett Higher Education. Was CEO at Nearpod, President at ProQuest, and President and COO at VitalSource Technologies.
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