Senior Data Engineer (100% REMOTE in U.S.)

We are seeking a Sr. Data Engineer who wants to build data systems, but also the sharing-and-learning culture so that every team uses these tools to improve their own lives. 

• Building well-tested and optimized ETL data pipelines for both full and delta extraction
• Collaborating with data scientists to store, aggregate, and calculate captured students’ work
• Contributing to leading industry data standards, such as Caliper Analytics or xAPI
• Improving our deployment and testing automation data pipelines

Skills/Qualifications                                                                                                                                                                                                 

• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent
• Strong CS and data engineering fundamentals, and the wisdom to know when they’re relevant
• Strong knowledge of SQL, of datastores and their tradeoffs (including relational, columnar, and document stores), data modeling, data structures, data manipulation
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT pipeline design, tooling, and support
• Proven ability to architect, implement, and optimize high throughput data pipelines
• Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB), Parquet, Postgres