About Varsity Tutors

We are revolutionizing the way the world learns.

Our mission is simple: to help people learn! Varsity Tutors is a fast-growing education technology company that is improving how people learn. Our award-winning online and mobile learning platforms connect students and professionals from all around the world with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. 

In early 2020 Varsity Tutors launched hundreds of free online group courses to help students (and parents) deal with the chaos of school closures. Conceived, coded and staffed in under a month this has grown to include small paid courses, Star Courses featuring celebrity experts and recently - just before the back-to-school season - we launched a Self Study program featuring a dynamic AI assisted learning assessment with focused recommendations to help students cover the gaps in their knowledge. 

With more than a decade of operating experience we are North America's largest tutoring network and help hundreds of thousands of people learn each year through tutoring, classes and self study. 

We succeed thanks to a diverse mix of talented people who want to come, to stay, and do their best work. If you love learning, technology, and making a true impact, you’re going to love working here!

About the Job

Note: Please feel comfortable applying, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position. We’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. Everyone can grow at Varsity Tutors.  We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups and people of diverse backgrounds to apply. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day! 

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer that knows how to operate a modern data pipeline built on modern cloud technologies. This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing team and drive the data platform supporting our applications and analytics systems. 

This position is a full-time remote opportunity! (We've been remote friendly for years and that isn't going away).

In this position, you will…

• Create and maintain processes feeding data into and from Redshift
• Build out data lake, data pipeline and customer data platform capabilities
• Work with application and services engineering teams publish data and help scale and fine tune data storage systems

Qualifications: 

Required Skills

• Relational DBMS such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Logical and physical database modeling
• SQL query design, optimization
• Programming languages: Python/Go/Ruby/Java
• AWS Services: RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, Firehose, Redshift
• Source code management: git/scm/mercurial/subversion

Nice to have

• Big Data: Redshift/BigQuery/Hadoop/Spark
• Containerization: Docker or Vagrant
• Configuration: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack
• NoSql: DynamoDb, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, HBase, or Cosmos

Benefits/Culture:

• Once in a lifetime opportunity to help revolutionize how the world learns!
• Fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback rich culture
• Remote friendly
• Hackfest!
• Work-life balance 
• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401k Company Matching Plan
• Flexible PTO plus a floating holiday (for your birthday!)
• Paid VTO ("Volunteer Time Off" to do community service/charity work)
• 52 hours of Free Learning Sessions per year for you or immediate families members and free access to our Virtual School Day classes and School@Home program
• Collaborative, and team-oriented work environment
• Try a free trial of our Live Learning Platform here: https://www.varsitytutors.com/freetrial

Varsity Tutors is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.