About the Job
This role is with a pioneering educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by combining high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. The platform empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum, creating learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. The curriculum is enhanced with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
About the Team
The InfraOps team’s primary goal is to enable and empower engineering by building a scalable and sustainable platform that the engineering team can rely on to meet company KPIs. This includes:
- Evangelizing and fostering a healthy DevOps culture, working with teams to establish best practices and guide new and existing services.
- Practicing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) wherever possible, ensuring confidence in repeatable processes that can be automated.
Responsibilities
- Grow DevOps efforts from small scale to large scale multi-region
- Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture
- Aim for high availability and high resiliency
- Support the engineering team with tools to evaluate the performance of their code in production environments, speed up CI/CD pipeline, and feature verification
- Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations
- Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services
- Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers
- Bring attention to detail, considering the impact on educational opportunities
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience designing and building REST APIs
- Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth)
- Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes
- Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong acumen or exposure to DevOps or SRE methodologies
- Keen sense for SecOps
- Functional experience using internal tools: JavaScript, Golang, and Python
- Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapid growth SaaS startup
- Strong empathy for educators and students
- Passion for improving education equity
Nice to Have
- Experience with React/Redux
- Experience with Go(lang)