Newsela
Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2013
đź’° $100M Series D on 2021-02
Senior Data Platform Engineer
November 12
Newsela
Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2013
đź’° $100M Series D on 2021-02
đź“‹ Description
• As a Contractor you will work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquiries • You will contribute to initiatives and assist in problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints. • Utilize your domain knowledge to develop documentation, participate in technical presentations, discussions, and incident reviews. • You will build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling • You will establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata
🎯 Requirements
• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field. • Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases) • Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc) • Experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling. • Experience in managing data migrations in relational datastores. • Experience in optimizing SQL query performance. • Experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores align with expected business logic • Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices • Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelines • Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata • Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure • Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plus • Experience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plus
🏖️ Benefits
• Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.
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