Senior Data Engineer

Our Mission and Opportunity

Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has lasting social and economic impact.

Brightwheel’s vision is high quality early education for every child. We pursue this by directly supporting teachers in the classroom, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and enabling the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education industry. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education, trusted by tens of thousands of providers and millions of educators and families.

Our Team

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Mark Cuban, Notable Capital, and others.

Who You Are

Brightwheel is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering team.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Brightwheel, you will play a key role in the implementation and evolution of our data platform. You will partner with technical leadership to craft and implement our data strategy. You will build and scale data pipelines that transform billions of records, across numerous systems, into measurable data that enable insights for our Analytics team and our customers.

You are passionate about data engineering and possess deep technical skills. You have contributed to building data platforms from the ground up. You have experience juggling multiple projects with shifting priorities while continuing to deliver value to the business. You are a curious, detail oriented, self-starter who wants to take full ownership of high impact projects with visibility throughout the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Use modern tooling to build robust, extensible, and performant data platform
• Build thoughtful and reliable data acquisition and integration solutions to meet business requirements and reporting needs
• Deliver best in class application reporting solutions for customers
• Troubleshoot, improve and scale existing data pipelines, models and solutions
• Build upon data engineering's CI/CD deployments, and infrastructure-as-code for provisioning AWS services

Required Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities

• 3+ years of work experience as a data engineer/dev ops/software engineering, coding in Python
• 1+ years experience deploying data processing infrastructure as Code into AWS / cloud environment
• 1+ years experience streaming real time data into a data lake / lake house architecture
• Advanced understanding of how at least one big data processing technology works under the hood (e.g. Spark / Hadoop / HDFS / Redshift / BigQuery / Snowflake)
• Demonstrated ability in writing and analyzing highly complex SQL queries to optimize performance
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills to manage complex process and technology issues without much guidance

Preferred Experience

• 2+ years experience building streaming data pipelines in a cloud based data platform
• 1+ years deploying Infrastructure as Code within AWS CDK or similar
• 1+ years deploying microservices and/or APIs within cloud environment
• Experience with building ETL pipelines within Airflow / Python
• Experience with one or more CRMs such as Hubspot or Salesforce
• Experience with one or more clickstream processing tools such as Mixpanel
• Experience with serverless and/or event driven architecture (Databricks / Glue / Lambda)
• Experience with CubeJS, or relevant customer facing embedded analytics backend

$81,000 - $93,500 a year

Equity & Ownership

We believe in empowering our employees as stakeholders in brightwheel’s success. As an equity holder, your financial upside grows alongside the company’s achievements, offering a truly meaningful and compelling long-term opportunity.

Premium Benefits & Wellness Support

We want our team members and their families to thrive, and we’re committed to providing competitive, high-quality benefits to support their health, well-being, and future. While specific offerings may vary by region, we aim to offer strong support in the following areas:

• Healthcare Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits where available; we aim to cover a high portion of costs for employees and their families.
• Paid Parental Leave: Generous leave to support growing families, with timing and structure aligned to local standards.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Encouraging regular rest and recharge through flexible vacation policies.
• Retirement & Savings Support: Where possible, we provide local retirement or savings plan access (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S.).

Note: Exact benefits for this role will be finalized based on local regulations and best practices in your home country. We’re committed to delivering benefits and supports that reflect our values and the importance of this role.

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

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