Pension fund administration and educator retirement system management
CalSTRS administers retirement benefits for over 1 million California educators through a hybrid system of defined benefit, cash balance, and voluntary contribution plans. The tech stack reveals a traditional data-warehouse architecture—SQL Server, Snowflake, Redshift, Python, and ETL tools (Informatica, AWS Glue, SSIS)—built to handle complex pension calculations and investment portfolio reporting. Active hiring is concentrated in finance and legal roles at senior levels, with a single data position, suggesting the organization is scaling compliance and investment operations rather than building new data capabilities.
CalSTRS is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world, chartered in 1913 to serve California's public school educators and their families. The organization administers three plan types—traditional defined benefit, cash balance, and voluntary defined contribution—alongside disability and survivor benefits. CalSTRS operates from West Sacramento with 1,001–5,000 employees and serves more than 1 million educators across the state's school districts, county offices of education, and community college districts. The organization manages a complex investment portfolio and navigates evolving regulatory requirements around accounting standards and portfolio reporting.
CalSTRS runs Snowflake and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, paired with Python, NumPy, and Pandas for analysis. ETL is handled through AWS Glue, Informatica, and SQL Server Integration Services. Power BI serves as the analytics front-end.
CalSTRS is headquartered in West Sacramento, California. All current hiring is restricted to the United States.
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