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Kiddom is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to build and scale infrastructure that supports the company's objectives and engineering teams. The role involves advancing DevOps practices, ensuring high availability, creating scalable APIs, and supporting CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development and feature deployment.

Highlights

Grow DevOps efforts from small-scale to large-scale multi-region infrastructure.
Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture focusing on high availability and resiliency.
Support engineering teams with tools to evaluate code performance, speed CI/CD pipelines, and verify features.
Design and build scalable, generalized frameworks for third-party API integrations and RESTful web services.
Require experience with Java, Python, Go, or Clojure in production environments, including building REST APIs and working with OAuth.
Strong skills in software design patterns, debugging, CI automation, and understanding of DevOps/SRE and SecOps methodologies.
Prefer candidates with prior success scaling infrastructure in a rapid-growth SaaS startup and functional experience with JavaScript, Golang, and Python.
Applicants must hold a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Salary range: $160,000 to $200,000 per year, dependent on experience, geography, and role-related abilities.
Comprehensive benefits include competitive salary, meaningful equity, health insurance, flexible vacation, paid sick leave, family leave, and commuter/FSA plans.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Full Description

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

The InfraOps team’s primary goal is to enable and empower Kiddom’s engineering by building a scalable and sustainable platform that engineering can rely on to meet our company KPIs. This is a rare opportunity to join a small, highly skilled team as we build out critical infrastructure for a company that is starting to scale from series C to D. Take the opportunity to have real agency in your work both large and small. Leave the feature factory and come to a place where your scope is determined by your abilities and passion.

This includes:

Evangelizing and fostering a healthy DevOps culture here at Kiddom, working with teams to establish best practices and help guide new and existing services.

Practicing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) wherever possible, giving us the confidence in repeatable processes that can be automated.

You will:

Grow our DevOps efforts from small scale to large scale multi-region
Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture
Aim for high availability, high resiliency
Support the engineering team with tools to evaluate the performance of their code in production environments, speed up CI/CD pipeline, & feature verification
support the engineering team with tools to speed up CI/CD pipeline, feature verification
Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations
Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services
Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers
Bring an attention to detail - what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that

You have:

BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
5+ years professional software engineering experience
Experience with Java, or Python, Go, Clojure in a production environment
Experience designing and building REST APIs
Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth)
Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes
Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices
Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
Strong acumen or exposure to DevOps or SRE methodologies
Keen sense for SecOps.
Functional experience using internal tools: javascript, golang, and python
Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapid growth saas startup
Strong empathy for educators and students
Passion for improving education equity

Nice to have

Experience with Go(lang)

Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:

* Competitive salary

* Meaningful equity

* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

* One Medical membership (in participating locations)

* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)

* Paid holidays

* Paid bereavement leave

* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

* Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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