Data Engineer I

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Join us in our mission to provide students with a safe and stimulating learning experience. At GoGuardian, you’ll get to work with friendly and motivated people to solve challenging problems in a great environment. At GoGuardian, we pride ourselves on bringing the very best talent to empower millions of student lives in the most impactful way. You’ll be joining a talented science and analytics team at a company making extensive use of modern data techniques to benefit educators and students.


GoGuardian is looking for a motivated data engineer to help plan, maintain, and constantly improve our data warehouse and ETL pipeline. Data Engineer I focuses on integrating, consolidating, and cleansing data from multiple source systems. This position works closely with the data science and business intelligence teams to prioritize tasks that are important to supporting our product and business units.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop new ETL processes to fulfill data needs of data science and other departments
  • Utilize expertise in data modeling, ETL architecture, and report design for department initiatives
  • Produce detailed documentation including data flow diagrams, logical diagrams, and physical diagrams as needed
  • Ensure the data collection pipeline and data analysis infrastructure meet the needs of the business
  • Acquire strong knowledge of data structures, analysis, replication and distributed/ relational data & database mapping
  • Assist with code review process for purposes of learning, asking new questions and finding errors
  • Assist with development of new scripts, KPIs and dashboardsAll other duties as assigned

Who You Are and Must Haves:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 1 yr (preferably 2-3 years) experience building/operating systems for data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
  • Experience with modern data warehousing tools such as Redshift, Big Query, Snowflake, Azure Synapse
  • Hands on experience with SQL query language along with data warehouse design and maintenance
  • Proficiency in a modern data-centric coding language such as Python, Go, or Scala
  • Experience working with data orchestration tools such as Airflow, Luigi, AWS Step Functions
  • Strong attention to detail, analytical mindset, and highly organized
  • Ability to work independently within the policies, processes, and procedures defined for the team
  • Desire to work in a fast paced startup atmosphere requiring constant learning
  • Strong technical aptitude and demonstrated ability to quickly evaluate and learn new technologies
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and within a team environment

Bonus Points if you also bring the following:

  • Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Cloud Formation
  • Experience with containerization tools such as Docker
  • Experience with a broad set of AWS tools (S3, EC2s, AWS Glue, Lambda, Cloudwatch, AWS data pipeline)
  • Industry experience as a Data Engineer or related specialty (e.g., Software Engineer, Business Intelligence Engineer, Data Scientist, Business Analyst)

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to impact and revolutionize safe digital learning experiences for K-12 students
  • Partner with enthusiastic and talented colleagues who are compelled to do good in the world
  • Weekly yoga classes and guided aromatherapy meditation
  • Annual personal growth stipend for continued learning
  • Grow and scale with one of the fastest growing EdTech companies

GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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2030 E. Maple Avenue, El Segundo, CA 90245

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