Staff Data Engineer, Quizlet

Analytics

$150-200k

+ Stock options

SQL
Python
Go
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Denver
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

Job no longer available

Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Job no longer available

$150-200k

+ Stock options

SQL
Python
Go
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Denver
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

Quizlet's mission is to give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of data engineering experience especially in supporting data analytics platforms and teams
  • Strong communication skills with people at all levels of data/technical proficiency
  • Demonstrated expertise with data pipelines to address complex scalability and performance concerns
  • Ability to create robust data standards for internal and cross-functional teams
  • Extensive experience in SQL and data warehouse design and implementation
  • Good software development skills, preferably in Python or Go

Desirable

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform and dbt

What the job involves

  • The Data Trust and Quality group is a Data Engineering team that focuses on maintaining our analytics tools and developing solutions to our data pipeline integrity and efficiency
  • The team is working towards a data infrastructure that will help everyone at Quizlet understand and trust the data they use every day
  • We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to help us maintain the foundation of our data warehouse and create an opinionated structure to our data model that can set the standard for our embedded analysts to expand
  • On a typical day, you will work with analysts to understand how key metrics are derived, help upgrade our behavioral data collection infrastructure, or research tooling that will help us reach our goals of getting the right data in the right place at the right time
  • Provide leadership on data pipelines and data infrastructure best practices
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Product Management, Data Analytics, and Finance to design systems that fit a broad range of data use-cases
  • Design and build tools for our data warehouse that increase data quality and development efficiency
  • Identify and solve performance challenges with our jobs and systems
  • Stand up data infrastructure to support large data volumes
  • Help bring the software development lifecycle to our data by adding automation and working with dbt

Our take

Quizlet has built a large-scale business around simple-to-share and simple-to-use products. Its free flashcard maker helps students prepare for exams. Those insights fuel Quizlet Plus, the startup’s subscription product that charges an annual fee for access to more features, including tutoring services.

After a long period of runaway growth, during which the company achieved a $1 billion valuation, Quizlet has been somewhat buffered by the general market downturn affecting the tech sector in 2022, which hit EdTech particularly heavily. It has responded by a shakeup of its leadership team, appointing AirBnB and Starship Technologies veteran Lex Bayer.

With an entrepreneurial management team and a strong user base of over 60 million students and teachers, Quizlet seems likely to weather the current economic situation and resume its growth in the near future.

Freddie headshot

Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

75% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2020

$30m

SERIES C

Feb 2018

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $62m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
  • 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days
  • Generous family leave plan
  • $1,000 stipend each year for professional development
  • $100/month reimbursement towards wellness, plus memberships to physical & mental health resources
  • Stock options
  • 401k match
  • Free lunch and dinner, healthy snacks & drinks daily
  • Commuter Benefits - we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA.

Company values

  • Help students learn
  • Be curious
  • Move with purpose
  • Be an owner
  • Be tough on ideas

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dave Margulius

(Board Member)

Currently Advisor at Law Students for Climate Accountability. Previously on the Board of Directors at Churchill Club and Founder at Enterprise Insight.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 18 more jobs at Quizlet