Remote Data Engineer

Description:

• CodePath, a national non-profit, is seeking a Data Engineer to lead the charge on their small, skilled, and growing team.
• The Data Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to build and maintain the next generation data infrastructure, focusing on data warehousing, ETL/ELT workflows, and data pipelines.
• The role involves developing self-serve, accurate, and secure data infrastructure to support data science projects, ML modeling, and BI analysis across various areas like course delivery, student marketing, sales, and fundraising.
• Key activities include architecting and developing data platforms, designing data models, developing ETL/ELT processes, maintaining data ingestion connectors, and developing reporting dashboards.
• The ideal candidate should be inspired by CodePath's vision to transform education, have 2-5 years of relevant experience, strong SQL skills, experience with cloud data warehouses, and familiarity with tools like Postgres, Airbyte, dbt, and Tableau.

Requirements:

• 2 to 5 years of relevant professional experience in data engineering.
• Good understanding of data modeling principles, including dimensional modeling and data normalization.
• Substantial experience with SQL, building efficient data pipelines, and tuning query performance.
• Experience managing cloud data warehouses like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or Amazon Redshift.
• Familiarity with tools such as Postgres, Airbyte, dbt, and Tableau.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to make technical concepts understandable for stakeholders.
• Proven ability to drive projects from conception to completion, problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment, proactive, independent, responsible attitude, and quick learner.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision premiums paid at 90% for full-time positions and their dependents.
• Flexible vacation and sick time policy with 12 company-paid holidays and a week-long "winter break" office closure.
• Flexible workplace and work schedule, provided laptop, monitor, and ergonomic office setup.
• Annual professional development stipend, ability to contribute to the 401k plan, and employer-provided short-term disability.
• 10 weeks paid leave to support employees in growing their family, commitment to developing leaders from within the organization.
• Frequent opportunities to connect with students, universities, and communities served, engage with top technology companies, venture capitalists, and engineering leaders.