Senior Data EngineerWe9re looking for a
Senior Data Engineer to join Kiddom9s Content & AI Systems team, building the data layer that powers next-generation AI-assisted curriculum authoring and content delivery. You9ll own the pipelines, schemas, and validation frameworks that turn messy, domain-specific curriculum content into structured, AI-ready data products, working closely with Instructional Designers, AI engineers, and the Content Agents team. This role suits an engineer who9s comfortable in a non-traditional data engineering space and energized by defining data requirements and infrastructure from the ground up.
You will:- Design and own the schema and data models representing Kiddom9s curriculum content (lessons, activities, standards alignments) for downstream use
- Build ingestion pipelines that process content from varied, inconsistent source formats - XML, JSON, PDF-derived, and API-delivered
- Develop Python-based parsers, transformers, and validation scripts that enforce schema conformance and content quality at scale
- Collaborate directly with Instructional Designers and product teams to translate content authoring workflows into data engineering requirements
- Build and maintain embedding and vector database pipelines that feed Kiddom9s AI-powered content features as they scale
- Work in Git-based workflows - treating data artifacts with the same rigor as software: versioned, reviewed, and documented
What we9re looking for:- 4+ years of data engineering experience with strong Python skills - you9ve written parsers, validators, and transformation scripts for real-world messy data
- Schema design instincts - you think carefully about how data should be structured for downstream use, not just how to move it
- Data quality mindset - you build validation and completeness checks in from the start, not as an afterthought
- Cross-functional collaborator - comfortable working with non-engineers to define requirements and translate domain knowledge into data structures
- Provisioning and monitoring of infrastructure for data systems, familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt
- The data system operates, ECS, EKS clusters, provision lambdas and S3 buckets
- Bachelor9s or Master9s degree in CS or equivalent work experience
Nice to Have: - Background in education, curriculum design, or ed-tech - understanding how instructional content is authored and structured is a genuine differentiator
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) or embedding pipeline tooling
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns or Model Context Protocol (MCP)
What we offer- Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
- Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
- 401k plan
- One Medical membership (in participating locations)
- Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
- 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
- Paid holidays
- Paid bereavement leave
- Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
- Commuter and FSA plans
