Job Description

How You Can Help:

Schoolzilla’s Engineering team is responsible for empowering school systems across the country to take data-driven action by delivering timely, accurate, and actionable data. As a member of this team, you'll be at the center of product innovation. You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and your teammates to take ideas from concept to reality, utilizing your full range of technical skills and a healthy dose of user empathy.

What You’ll Do:

Craft fault-tolerant data pipelines and distributed systems that can scale by millions of students
Ensure that timely, accurate data is delivered to the variety of tools and systems that depend on it
Partner with your peer engineers and product owners to bring new features and products to market
Design and build connections to proprietary data systems, allowing us to bring new customers onboard easily and cost-effectively
Define and calculate new key performance indicators for a deeper understanding of student performance at a school or district
Develop and improve internal services, scripts, and tools that will be leveraged throughout the company
Establish new patterns and frameworks for quickly aggregating millions of raw data records into actionable metrics
Craft sample data sets for use in demos and testing

Qualifications

For this role you must have:

Experience designing, implementing, and supporting modern enterprise-scale ETL / ELT pipelines that are both efficient and intuitive.
Experience architecting data warehouses and data lakes that are organized, performant, and easy to use
Proven fluency in one or more major programming languages such as Python and experience in SQL
Proficiency with major relational databases, particularly Microsoft SQL Server or Postgres
Experience using cloud-based data warehouses, particularly Snowflake or BigQuery
Knowledge of modern, cloud-based data pipeline best practices
Experience working in an Agile software development organization
Mission-Driven: You feel a deep sense of ownership for your work, and a relentless desire to deliver better results. You are passionate about solving problems for our users.
A Lifelong Learner: You love learning new things. You're curious and ask good questions. You solicit feedback from others, accept it with grace, and act on it.
Flexible: You are comfortable with technical ambiguity and welcome rapid iteration

Bonus Points For:

Understanding of how data is used in K-12 education
Experience with the tools we use, like AWS (including Glue and Lambda), Apache Airflow, and Docker - plus experience with tools we don’t use, but should, and the wisdom to know when to recommend them
Experience with ETL management tools such as Apache Airflow or dbt
Experience working remotely or as part of a geographically distributed team
Experience working in an an organization the utilizes DevOps practices

Valid through: 4/13/2021

About Renaissance Learning

Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a software as a service and learning analytics company that makes cloud-based, pre-K–12 educational software and adaptive assessments. Renaissance employs about 1,000 employees in nine U.S. cities and subsidiaries in Canada, the United Kingdom, Korea, and Australia. Renaissance's solutions are used in one-third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries around the world. Renaissance is known for creating Accelerated Reader, which is used in about 35,000 schools, as well as Star computer-adaptive assessments, used in more than 37,000 schools, making Star Assessments the most widely used computer-adaptive assessment in the U.S. pre-K–12 educational market, according to company figures. Renaissance was founded in 1986 by Judith and Terrance Paul after Judith developed Accelerated Reader, originally named Read Up!, in the basement of her home in Port Edwards, Wisconsin. Judith designed Accelerated Reader to encourage her children to read more books. Read Up! changed its name to Advantage Learning Systems, Inc., in 1991 before adopting Renaissance Learning in 2001. In 2016, Renaissance re-branded and dropped “Learning” from their name. On September 25, 1997, 2.8 million shares of Renaissance were offered for $16 a share on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker ALSI with a market capitalization of $44.8 million. The company was publicly traded until October 2011, when Permira purchased all outstanding shares and maintained ownership of Renaissance until selling the company in 2014 to Hellman & Friedman for $1.1 billion.

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