Principal Data Engineer

The Role

We are seeking a remote Principal Data Engineer reporting to our Engineering Manager. 

Why You’ll Love This Role

As the Principal Data Engineer, you will:

• Work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquires.
• Lead initiatives and problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints. 
• Develop documentation, technical presentation, discussion, and incident reviews with your deep domain knowledge
• Build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling.
• Establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata.

Why We’ll Love You

• Mastered proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)
• Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)
• Advanced experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling
• Advanced experience in managing large-scale data migrations in relational datastores
• Advanced experience in optimizing SQL query performance
• Advanced experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic
• Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices
• Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelines
• Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata
• Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure
• Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plus
• Experience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plus

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Access to the world’s leading medical experts for healthcare (pets included!). Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
• Work From Home: Almost all of our roles are fully remote - tech stipend included!
• Supporting ALL Families: Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO to recharge, including Sabbatical Leave
• Inclusive Experiences: Robust DEIB curriculum, Identity & Experience Groups (Affinity Groups + Employee Resource Group), Authentic & Transparent conversations with Executive Leadership Teams, and integration of DEIB lens across Talent lifecycle processes.
• Professional Development: Holistic Learning & Development Programs that enable meaningful & inclusive experiences, programs that build future-focused competencies, cohort & community learning sessions that foster a sense of belonging, and individual development plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations to turn goals into reality.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that’s personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.