Data Engineer, Amplify
Platform (Contractor)
The hourly rate range for this role is $60.00 - $100.00
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
The hourly rate range for this role is $60.00 - $100.00
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
- 2+ years of professional software development, site reliability, or data engineering experience
- Strong CS and data engineering fundamentals
- Proven fluency in SQL and a development language such as Python
- Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support
- Experience working with a modern data stack (Airflow, Snowflake, and dbt)
- Understanding of different data formatting (JSON, CSV, XML) and data storage techniques (3NF, EAV Model, Star Schema, Data Lake)
- Experience working with infrastructure or configuration as-code (IAC) frameworks (Terraform)
- Strong communication skills in writing, conversation
Desirable
- Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB)
- ETL/BI: Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Looker
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS Kinesis, Lambda, API Gateway, Terraform
- 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
- Experience in education or ed-tech
What the job involves
- You’ll be building data systems, but also the sharing-and-learning culture so that every team uses these tools to improve their own lives, and those of our students and teachers
- Helping teams create fun, compelling apps by using millions of data points
- Helping teachers understand their students by building reusable data pipelines
- Developing, Automating and Maintaining a scalable and secure data platform
- Implementing and managing data storage solutions (e.g., data lakes, databases)
- Optimizing data processing and retrieval workflows
- Collaborating with data scientists and analysts to facilitate data access and utilization
- Ensuring data privacy and compliance with relevant regulations
- Analyzing and Improving performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, SQL, Python, Looker, Terraform, and Datadog
- Immersing oneself in agile rituals and using our infrastructure
- Leading collaboration, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a multi-functional team
- Participating in cross-team share-outs, brown bags, and workshop series
- Becoming an expert in the data models and standards within Amplify and the educational industry in order to deliver quality and consistent solutions
- Building well-tested and optimized ETL data pipelines for both full and delta extraction
- Collaborating with data analysts and learning scientists to gather, design, and implement ETL and Data Warehousing requirements
- Contributing to leading industry data standards (Caliper Analytics or xAPI), communities or open source projects (dbt)
- Improving deployment and testing automation data platform services and infrastructure
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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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 benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
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.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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