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Clever is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure. The Infrastructure team is responsible for building systems that enable Clever's engineering teams to build, deploy, and monitor applications efficiently. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams to enhance automation and tooling, ensuring the reliability of services, building monitoring and logging services, and leading technical projects.

Highlights

Develop and maintain internal platforms for building, deploying, and monitoring applications.
Work with AWS services including ECS, DynamoDB, and Postgres.
Base salary ranges from $177,000 to $209,000, and $195,000 to $229,000 depending on location.
4+ years of Software Engineering experience, with backend proficiency.
Experience with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Familiarity with programming in Go is advantageous.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Full Description

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 www.clever.com.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

The Infrastructure team at Clever is responsible for the internal platform used by all engineering teams to build, deploy, and monitor Clever’s products. As a member of the Infrastructure team, you’ll build systems that enable all engineering teams at Clever to build, deploy, and iterate on their services, without compromising reliability. You will collaborate across engineering teams to identify gaps in our automation and tooling, helping the entire engineering organization become more effective.

Build a platform that makes it easy for Clever engineers to build and deploy scalable, well-architected applications without worrying about the details.
Learn and apply best practices across all of the AWS services used by Clever.
Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify and support their needs.
Build monitoring and logging services so that teams can ensure the smooth operation of their products.
Implement tooling for multi-region support and fast failover
Sponsor resiliency efforts to achieve 99.98%+ uptime for critical services.
Current and upcoming projects include building a new, more user friendly and cost effective logging pipeline, and implementing best practices for AWS account management.
Act as technical lead for some medium and large projects
Understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture - see our blog post on Defining Clever’s Engineering Culture.

Infrastructure's codebase is primarily Go, but we support teams writing code in using Typescript for Node.js and frontend as well. We build tooling and encode best practices across a variety of cloud solutions including MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, and many AWS services (ECS, Step Functions, etc).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

4+ 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: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone.

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 $177,000 - $209,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $195,000 - $229,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.

Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

Original Job Description

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

Build a platform that makes it easy for Clever engineers to build and deploy scalable, well-architected applications without worrying about the details.
Learn and apply best practices across all of the AWS services used by Clever.
Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify and support their needs.
Build monitoring and logging services so that teams can ensure the smooth operation of their products.
Implement tooling for multi-region support and fast failover
Sponsor resiliency efforts to achieve 99.98%+ uptime for critical services.
Current and upcoming projects include building a new, more user friendly and cost effective logging pipeline, and implementing best practices for AWS account management.
Act as technical lead for some medium and large projects
Understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture - see our blog post on Defining Clever’s Engineering Culture.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

4+ 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: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone.

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:

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

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