DevOps Engineer II

Job Description

We are seeking a talented Dev Ops Engineer II for the Platform Team to help drive our transition to a platform-centric model. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make meaningful impact in a collaborative environment and apply your technical expertise to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.

In this role as a Dev Ops Engineer II, you will:

• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code initiatives using CloudFormation and Terraform
• Develop and maintain data pipelines
• Design, build, and maintain containerized applications
• Build and improve developer tooling to enhance team productivity
• Work with event-driven systems like Kafka or Kinesis
• Explore and integrate AI tooling into platform workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure and platform needs
• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure prompt resoultion of any customer-facing incidents
• Support CI/CD pipelines which ensure the prompt release of high quality software

For this role as a Dev Ops Engineer II, you must have:

• 4 years of experience in software development
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience building or working with containerized applications
• Familiarity with data pipeline development and maintenance
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform
• Experience with developer tooling and automation
• Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, shell, etc
• Interest in or experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
• Strong self-starter mentality with demonstrated experience tackling open-ended challenges and rapidly ramping up on new systems
• Comfortable with uncertainty; able to independently define approach, identify dependencies, and drive work to completion without detailed specifications

Bonus Points:

• BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both
• Experience with AI tooling and integration
• Interest or experience in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc
• Experience writing deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Experience with logging and reporting systems (Datadog, New Relic, etc)
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Growth mindset with eagerness to learn new technologies, tools, and platforms as needed