Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Clever is on a mission to connect every student worldwide to a world of learning. With our identity platform for education we serve 77% of U.S. schools and over 1 million K12 students internationally. As a trusted partner for schools and educators we provide secure seamless access to digital learning tools that empower students everywhere. Clever a Kahoot! Company is headquartered in San Francisco CA but our impact extends far beyond. Learn more about us at.

The Infrastructure team handles platform engineering at Clever. For example it builds and evolves the internal developer platform that engineering teams use to build deploy operate and monitor Clevers products. As a member of the Infrastructure team youll create self-service golden paths and shared tooling that help teams ship and iterate quickly and safely while meeting reliability security and compliance expectations. You will partner with engineering teams to understand friction points close gaps in automation and workflows and continuously improve the developer experience and operational effectiveness across the organization.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

Build and evolve an internal developer platform with clear self-service workflows (golden paths) that makes it easy for Clever engineers to build deploy and scale well-architected applications.
Define and maintain standards templates and automation that help teams ship quickly and safely without sacrificing reliability security or compliance.
Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand friction points gather requirements and iterate on platform capabilities as an internal product.
Provide observability primitives (logging metrics tracing alerting) and opinionated defaults so teams can operate services effectively with minimal toil.
Implement multi-region capabilities including repeatable environment provisioning resiliency patterns and fast region failover.
Lead resiliency initiatives and implement reliability engineering practices to meet or exceed 99.98% uptime for critical services.
Model and reinforce Clevers engineering culture and practices including collaboration operational excellence and continuous improvement. See our blog post on Defining Clevers Engineering Culture.
Current and upcoming projects include: migrating services and compute from AWS ECS to AWS EKS and EC2 evolving our internal developer platform to support that shift and expanding Clever globally by deploying regionally replicated infrastructure to meet customer data-sovereignty requirements.

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR:

2 years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work

Experience with Go is useful but not required
Direct experience using a cloud provider (e.g. AWS GCP Azure)
Experience with our key AWS Technologies (ECS DynamoDB VPCs Lambda RDS Kinesis) helpful but not required

Ability to empathize with fellow engineers to understand their pain points and improve their developer experience
The desire and ability to learn quickly in order to support the wide range (and ever-changing list) of technologies in use at Clever
Design and product sense for building as an internal infrastructure/platform team
Commitment to equity and belonging. At Clever we believe the classrooms we serve and our companys halls should be spaces that are diverse equitable and inclusive. That is why we are committed to building diverse teams inviting every voice and creating a safe space for everyone to be their authentic self. By fostering equity and belonging within our circles of influence we unlock learning for ALL students.

CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:

A competitive salary
Flexible Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Top-notch healthcare vision and dental coverage for you and your family
Best-in-class mental healthcare service that supports employees mental and emotional wellness
A generous personal development yearly budget which can be used for courses conferences trainings books and more
A comprehensive Learning & Development program that enables employees to enhance their skills knowledge and functional expertise
Annual company and team events to connect with fun bright coworkers

SALARY TRANSPARENCY:

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States besides NYC and San Francisco CA is between$126000 - $148000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco CA is between $139000 - $163000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.

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