Data Engineer (Contractor)

Key Skills

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS, AWS Kinesis, Azure, Cloud computing, Data Biuld Tool - dbt, Data Lake, Data Manipulation, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, DataDog, ETL/ELT technologies, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Hubspot, Lambda, Looker, Python Programming, REST API, SaaS, Salesforce, Snowflake, SQL, Star schema

Job Description

About Amplify

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As an engineer at Amplify, you will join a talented team solving the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines. You’ll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience.

Amplify’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.

What You’ll Do

Our data team builds, augments, and maintains the infrastructure that empowers teams across Amplify and our customers to make sense of and tell stories with their data. We believe strongly in teaching our teammates to serve themselves, within a safe, reliable, and agile environment. 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.

• Impress the toughest customers around – students – by:
• helping teams create fun, compelling apps by usingmillions of data points
• Make life better for passionate teachers by:
• helping teachers understand their students by building reusable data pipelines
• Make life better for passionate, Marketing and Sales teams by:
• using REST APIs for sourcing/sending data to SaaS like Salesforce and HubSpot
• Help school administrators build great schools by:
• respecting privacy and ensuring security while offering useful insights by making experienced choices in tech stack, database design, and encryption
• helping school principals understand how teachers are teaching and how students are learning by architecting data warehouse schemas and SQL transforms with just the right CTEs, window functions, and pivots
• analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, SQL, Python, Looker, and Datadog
• Learn every day by:
• immersing oneself in agile rituals and usingour infrastructure
• leading collaboration, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a multi-functional team
• participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, 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

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Building well-tested and optimized ETL data pipelines for both full and delta extraction
• Collaborating with data analysts and learning 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

Basic Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent
• 2+ years of professional software development 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)
• Strong communication skills in writing and conversation