Skool · 5 hours ago
Principal DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$300K/yr - $450K/yr
8+ years expSkool is a fast-growing, mission-driven company focused on education and community, seeking an experienced Principal DevOps Engineer. The role involves architecting and evolving Skool's infrastructure, building and maintaining tools for software delivery, and ensuring high availability and performance across systems.
Education
Hiring Manager
Spenser Levien
Responsibilities
Partner with engineering to architect and evolve Skool's infrastructure roadmap by driving short and long term strategies around scalability, reliability and observability
Build and maintain tools and systems involving software builds, continuous testing, automated deployments, software health monitoring and software releases
Oversee and improve the day-to-day operations of Skool’s production infrastructure
Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure challenges ensuring high availability and performance across all systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer (or similar role)
Hands-on experience building distributed systems, APIs, with working knowledge of at least one major Cloud Platform (AWS, GCP, etc) & cloud-based SaaS applications
Expert-level Kubernetes experience including cluster design, CI/CD integration, observability and troubleshooting
Hands-on experience deploying systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform and zero-downtime deployment strategies (Rolling, Canary, Blue/Green, etc…)
Experience working with GitOps tooling like ArgoCD and Atlantis
Proficiency in network fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, Subnetting, OSI (layers), Firewalls, Load Balancers and more
Working knowledge of Linux system fundamentals
Preferred
Deep experience optimizing and writing SQL queries
Experience writing software using GoLang
Benefits
Fully covered medical, dental & vision insurance (including dependents)
401(k) matching
And more!
Company
Skool
Skool is a platform where course creators host their student communities and courses in one place.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Sam Ovens
Co-Founder & CEO
Recent News
2025-09-12
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