Data Engineer

Lightspeed Systems partners with schools to make learning safe, mobile and easily managed. We are growing and currently serve 15 million students and 28,000 schools in 35 countries.

We are looking to add passionate, driven people to our team to help us fulfill our mission.

As a result, we are looking to add a Data Engineer to drive and continually evolve the data architecture. If you are passionate about data, understand how the attributes of data such as the velocity, volume and variety drive the underlying choices of data pipelines and datastores to be used, we want to talk to you.

As our ideal person for this role, you will understand how data should be securely stored, consumed, and managed. You'll will use your expertise to develop and innovate technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You are passionate about data, problem solving, and driven to achieve great results for customers.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Contribute and drive high quality engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to define highly scalable and reliable architectures for global data stores and data lakes.
• Provide technical leadership, oversight, and guidance for the data/schema.
• Design data models for optimal storage and retrieval and optimize the data architecture to meet critical product and business requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to understand data challenges and provide scalable and flexible solutions.
• Understand logging, event processing and how it impacts rest of our data flow, architect logging best practices where needed.
• Establish architectural approaches and patterns that incorporate modernizing data governance, metadata management and data quality.
• Architect and implement data governance and security for the data platforms.

ABOUT YOU:

• Over 3 years of experience or sufficient experience with a range of database/data warehouse/data engineering technologies and data architecture with demonstrated results implementing for business intelligence and analytics use.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience preferably with AWS (or another cloud platform).
• Experience designing, building and operating distributed systems, real-time data pipelines
• 3+ years hands-on experience writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large data sets.
• Structuring data to be consumed easily, perform well, and be highly utilized in increasingly visual and analytic tools and use cases.
• A track record of leading, designing and building cost-effective data solutions in AWS using products such as EC2, EMR, S3, Athena, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CodeBuild, ECS
• Strategic thinker, self-motivated and team-oriented, should be able to work autonomously and effectively as part of geographically dispersed teams.
• Successful in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy

Nice to Have

• Building AI/ML pipelines is an asset
• Big Data visualization frameworks e.g

ABOUT US

Education is undergoing a technology revolution with new devices and tools being added to the classroom every day and IT departments are responsible for keeping all this technology managed, safe and working. That is where we come in! Lightspeed Systems, ed-tech provider and leader in K-12 device filtering for 20 years, partners with schools to make learning safe, managed and mobile. Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.

We love our employees, and we show it. A sneak peek into our BENEFITS & PERKS include:

• Health - Medical, dental and vision insurance with healthy company contribution toward premiums.
• Wellness - Lightspeed kicks cash into your HSA if you participate our HDHP. Employees are provided an adjustable desk and onsite gyms at some offices. Healthy Holiday and PTO policy.
• Retirement - 401(k) matching up to 6%
• Perks - Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages. Some lunches provided as well!