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. See our blog post on Defining Clever's Engineering Culture.
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.

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work
Experience with Kubernetes is required
Experience with Go is useful but not required
Experience with AWS EKS 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. At Clever, we believe the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive. That is why we are committed to building diverse teams, inviting every voice, and creating a safe space for everyone to be their authentic self. By fostering equity and belonging within our circles of influence, we unlock learning for ALL students.

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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills

backend developmentKubernetesGoAWS EKSAWS ECSDynamoDBVPCsLambdaRDSKinesis

Soft skills

empathycollaborationoperational excellencecontinuous improvementdesign senseproduct sensecommitment to equitycommitment to belongingcommunicationproblem-solving