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 skeptical, 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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Health benefits: Preventative care, mental health services, fertility benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, and robust dental and vision coverage are just some of the benefits accessible to all eligible employees.
- Time off: Unlimited paid time off to all permanent (salaried) employees. Hourly employees receive a generous PTO bank. This can be used for vacation, sick days, or personal time—whether you need to take your pet to the vet, or care for a sick friend or family member. Paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability benefits, and paid holidays are also common employee benefits offered at Amplify
- Voluntary benefits: Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and critical illness are just some of the voluntary benefits our employees can take advantage of at any time during their employment with Amplify.
- Financial benefits: Traditional (pre-tax) and Roth-based retirement account options with an employer-match benefit, giving you the flexibility and freedom to set and save for your retirement goals. Full-time staff have the opportunity to take advantage of an equity incentive plan.
- Remote work: More than half of staff are based in cities outside the Amplify NYC headquarters. Employees can be productive and make valuable contributions regardless of where they’re located. Fun is also part of the remote work experience at Amplify—from happy hours to talent shows, yoga, and meditation sessions, Amplifiers can enjoy the many virtual employee engagement events that take place all year round.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
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Leadership
Larry Berger
(CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President 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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