Senior Software Engineer- Infrastructure (Remote)

Fiveable's Mission

Our mission is to make learning easy and fun. We know that educational inequities have left students overwhelmed and fending for themselves. In order to close the opportunity gap, we need to create space for students to be creative and curious. To do this, we've created a social network for online learning communities through interactive content and courses. Because of COVID, we're in a lightning strike moment for education and we're fired up to change the way things are for high school students.

We need folks on our team who are excited about the opportunity both from a business and social impact position. Last school year, we reached 1.4M students mostly coming from Google and we're excited to support even more students this year.

The Fiveable Team

We're a creative group of former teachers, community builders, game designers, and generally curious people who are driven by social impact. We're focused on building a diverse team and are inclusive of all backgrounds. And we're big on growth mindsets - we're all learning!

Learn more about us:

👉 Check out our site - http://app.fiveable.me

✨ Fiveable Offers Free AP Test Prep and Tips For Optimizing Remote Learning (Forbes)

👩🏽‍🏫 A Former Oakland Unified Teacher Now Helps Even More Students Pass AP Tests (Edsurge)

🥳 Read about our founder's journey from pre-seed to seed

Who we're looking for

You are:

• Creative - You always find a way to get something done.
• Passionate - You care deeply and pour yourself into what you do.
• Efficient - You work smarter, not harder.
• Candid - You communicate consistently and authentically
• Flexible - You go with the flow and find new paths to your goals.
• Empathetic - You understand how others feel and know why they act the way they do
• A Problem-Solver - You take initiative to present solutions to problems that you encounter or notice
• A Teacher - You love sharing your knowledge (especially to those who are less familiar with tech) and leveling up teammates

You have:

• Broad experience managing cloud infrastructure, ideally with AWS.
• Practical experience creating scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud architectures that support millions of users.
• Hands-on experience with modern techniques like Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, Containerization, etc.
• A deep understanding of complex systems and a desire to plan for their evolution, with respect to product roadmaps.
• Experience using monitoring & alerting tools like DataDog or Splunk.
• A passion for automation. You'd rather write 10 lines of code than click around a cloud console.
• 4-7 years of experience in relevant disciplines.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience or interest working with products that leverage real-time communication protocols (sockets, voice, video, streaming, WebRTC, etc.).
• Experience with any of the following:
  • Relational databases (Postgres in particular)
  • MongoDB
  • GraphQL
  • ElasticSearch

Responsibilities

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll develop the backbone of our products to support millions of students learning together!

Near Term:

• Ensure our infrastructure is ready to handle massive user growth by recommending and creating exceptional architecture and then stress testing it.
• Advise engineers on frontend/backend application practices that will ensure security, minimized strain on infrastructure, and seamlessly scalable applications.

Mid Term:

• Be involved with sprint planning & product roadmapping to ensure infrastructure needs are top-of-mind in our timelines, estimates, and roadmaps.
• Lead the engineering organization towards a robust integration of our products from the perspective of software design & architecture.
• Increase efficiency amongst engineering teams through automation and light dev-ops work.
• Ensure teams are developing with best-practices in mind with respect to scalability, software architecture, and security.

Long Term:

• Build & lead a team of incredible infrastructure engineers, solutions architects, and staff engineers to support the foundation you've built!

Benefits of Working at Fiveable

Fiveable is a small, but growing edtech startup that is fiercely committed to its employees. Here is what you can expect from your Fiveable experience:

• A front row seat to education innovation at an early stage startup
• A company that prioritizes inclusion and diversity
• The opportunity to be a leader, move quickly, and have end-to-end ownership
• A team culture centered around appreciation, feedback, and growth-mindedness

• The opportunity to solve cutting-edge technical challenges. We avoid complacency and are always learning.

• The ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world and build your home office with a generous stipend

• Comprehensive benefits (Health, Dental, and Vision)

• Unlimited paid time off and health & wellness stipend each month

• Competitive compensation with stock options

• A brand new computer of your choice

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Please apply for this position here!