Clever Inc. · 20 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$155K/yr - $216K/yr
4+ years expClever is on a mission to connect every student, worldwide, to a world of learning. The Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure will lead and contribute to the development of an internal developer platform, enhancing the developer experience and operational effectiveness by implementing automation, reliability engineering practices, and self-service workflows.
Big DataData IntegrationEdTechEducation
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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
Company
Clever Inc.
We believe technology is a powerful lever to make education equitable for all and the fastest way to improve educational outcomes now.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$43.32MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2021-05-06Acquired
2014-12-16Series B· $30M
2014-03-25Series A· $10.3M
Leadership Team
Trish Sparks
Vice President, Customer Success and Sales
Dan Carroll
Strategic Advisor
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