Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
About The Position
Clever is a leading identity platform for education, used by over 111,000 schools worldwide to power secure digital learning experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for platform engineering at Clever. This includes building and evolving the internal developer platform that engineering teams use to build, deploy, operate, and monitor Clever’s products. You will create self-service “golden paths” and shared tooling to enable teams to ship and iterate quickly and safely, while meeting reliability, security, and compliance expectations. You will collaborate with engineering teams to identify and address friction points, enhance automation and workflows, and continuously improve the developer experience and operational effectiveness across the organization. Current and upcoming projects include migrating services from AWS ECS to AWS EKS and EC2, evolving the internal developer platform to support this shift, and expanding Clever globally by deploying regionally replicated infrastructure to meet customer data-sovereignty requirements. The Infrastructure team's codebase is primarily Go, but they also support Typescript for Node.js and frontend development. They work with various cloud solutions including MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, and many AWS services.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work
- Experience with Kubernetes is required
- Direct experience using a cloud provider (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Go is useful but not required
- Experience with AWS EKS is useful but not required
- Experience with our key AWS Technologies (ECS, DynamoDB, VPCs, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis) helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead for, and contribute meaningfully to, medium and large projects
- 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 Clever's engineering culture and practices, including collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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