Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer, Guild Education
$175-210k
+ Variable (bonus) compensation and company stock options
More information about location
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Open for applications
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$175-210k
+ Variable (bonus) compensation and company stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys end-to-end ownership, and brings a deep understanding of both data systems and business context
- Long-term, platform-based thinking is highly desirable
- 6–10 years of experience in data engineering or related roles
- Expert-level skills in SQL (window functions, CTEs, performance tuning) and Python (data pipelines, API integrations, automation)
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, and Fivetran
- Can navigate unix systems, terraform, and git as appropriate
- Deep familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, AuroraDB) and NoSQL systems like DynamoDB
- Extremely comfortable using AI tools to boost individual and team productivity
- Experience building out data platforms for AI Agents / AI Products
- Strong understanding of data modeling, warehousing best practices, and ETL/ELT frameworks
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and connect technical design with commercial objectives
- Experience in a high-growth, agile environment with modern data stack tools
- Exposure to data governance, privacy, and compliance best practices
- Strong understanding of engineering best practices related to delivery (CI/CD, continuous delivery, change management)
- Experience with CDC (Change Data Management)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data & AI Platforms Engineer, you will join a small, high-performing team dedicated to building a robust, scalable, and modern data ecosystem
- You will partner closely with data analysts, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to design data solutions that power analytics, operational insights, and product innovations
- We want to build systems that solve the problems of tomorrow, not just the fires sprouting today
- Architect, develop, and maintain data pipelines using Fivetran, dbt, S3, Glue, orchestrators, and custom Python jobs
- Manage and optimize data models in dbt, ensuring they are scalable, accurate, and aligned to business use cases
- Collaborate with analytics and commercial teams to design models and marts in our visualization tools that empower decision-making
- Integrate and transform data from a variety of sources, including AuroraDB, Snowflake Postgres, MySQL, and DynamoDB
- Uphold data quality through testing, validation, and observability best practices
- In the future, mentor junior team members and contribute to evolving our data engineering standards and processes
- Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business domains and ensure data design meets real-world needs
- Mentor and upskill team members
- Provide enterprise-wide guidance and prototyping on key data initiatives, especially as the data platforms team expands its scope to support production engineering from the warehouse
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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