[Remote] Cloud Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stride, Inc. is a company focused on online K-12 learning and school management, and they are seeking a Cloud Data Engineer to develop and maintain data integrations and pipelines. The role involves collaboration with engineers and stakeholders to create scalable solutions that automate core business needs in the education sector.

Responsibilities

• Develop modular data integrations following an event-based architecture, partnering with data analysts and architects to understand and meet development requirements for each use-case
• Partner with other engineers and technical leads for collaboration, support, and alignment throughout design/development and to solve development blockers if they arise
• Develop robust unit testing on developed code and drive integration, end-to-end, and performance testing to ensure each data integration is reliable, scalable, and meets business needs before deployment
• Drive developed integrations through a CI/CD process to validate, test, and deploy reliable solutions for production use
• Communicate and demo developed data integration solutions and progress with stakeholders in bi-weekly sprint reviews to drive transparency and collaboration between teams
• Maintain deployed data integrations, monitoring for any issues and resolving as they arise

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent training
• Three (3) years of relevant professional experience working with, building, and/or managing AWS cloud services including AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DMS, Kinesis, S3, RDS, Glue, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudFormation or equivalent Azure/GCP services
• Proficiency in Python development
• Proficiency in using SQL and APIs to automate interactions with various data stores and systems
• Familiarity with pub/sub event-based architecture and ETL data pipeline patterns with an ability to determine which is appropriate for what use-cases
• Demonstrated experience with software development best practices including developing robust unit, integration, functional, and performance tests
• Demonstrated experience following enterprise-grade DevOps practices including version control branching and release management, CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated success in working with a highly collaborative and agile remote development team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint)
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check
• Experience in education and/or educational technology industries
• Experience developing pub/sub event-based architectures, data streaming, data integration, and batch data pipelines
• Experience working with various data storage types including relational databases, object storage, graph databases, data warehouses
• Experience with Snowflake or equivalent data warehousing and services
• AWS or Azure cloud certifications

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus.
• Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

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