Fast Facts

Join Amplify as a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable data platforms and enhance educational experiences through data-driven insights. This role involves collaborating with various teams to design, optimize, and maintain data infrastructure.

Responsibilities: Designing and maintaining scalable data platforms, implementing data storage solutions, optimizing data workflows, and collaborating with teams to facilitate data access and usage.

Skills: Expertise in SQL, Python, and modern data stack tools including Airflow, Snowflake, and dbt, along with a solid understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehousing.

Qualifications: BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent; 4+ years of professional data engineering experience; strong fundamentals in data engineering principles.

Location: Remote - United States, United States of America

Compensation: $165000 - $185000 / Annually

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

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.

What You’ll Do

Our data team designs, 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 using millions 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 Data Science, Governance and Analyst teams by:
• Designing, 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, Fivetran, dbt, SQL, Python, Looker, Terraform, and Datadog
• Learn every day by:
• 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, architecture 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 gather, design, and implement ETL and Data Warehousing requirements
• Contributing to leading industry data standards within our organization, communities or open source projects (e.g. dbt, terraform)
• Improving deployment and testing automation data platform services and infrastructure

Basic Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent
• 4+ years of professional software development, site reliability, or data engineering experience
• Strong CS and data engineering fundamentals with advanced knowledge in core data areas
• Proven expertise in SQL and a development language such as Python
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support
• Solid experience working with a modern data stack (Airflow, Snowflake, cube.dev and dbt)
• Able to mentor different data formatting (JSON, CSV, XML) and data storage techniques (3NF, EAV Model, Star Schema, Data Lake)
• Solid experience working with infrastructure or configuration as-code (IAC) frameworks (Terraform)
• Strong communication skills in writing, conversation, and design documents

Preferred Requirements 

• Experience with tools we use every day:
• 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 we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $165,000 - $185,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email [email protected].

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If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

Amplify is an E-Verify participant.