Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Kiddom
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 180k-230k / year + Equity
Posted 6+ months ago
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 mission is to enable and empower Kiddom's engineering organization by building a scalable, sustainable, and reliable platform that our teams can depend on to meet company KPIs. As Kiddom scales the infrastructure beneath our product becomes increasingly critical — and this is your opportunity to help shape it from the ground up.
This is an opportunity to join a small, highly skilled team where your scope is defined by your abilities and passion. If you're tired of the feature factory and want real ownership over meaningful technical decisions, this role was built for you. The work you do here directly impacts students, teachers, and schools across the country — so we take it seriously, and we want teammates who do too.
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
- Experience with Go(lang)
Nice to have
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.
180000 - 230000 USD a year