Monitor and operate CommonLit’s AWS infrastructure
Work with the CTO to maintain and optimize CommonLit's infrastructure and application environment
Develop and improve CommonLit's developer tooling to enable engineers to do their best work
Collaborate with engineers to find pain points and remove them. Unblock engineers when tooling issues arise
Assist the Data Science team with data pipelines and ETL processes to improve reliability and efficiency
Lead efforts to improve security at the infrastructure level
Monitor compliance-related items associated with infrastructure
Assist the CTO with cost-optimization to maximize CommonLit's non-personnel tech spend

Requirements

Candidates must have 3+ years experience operating production applications at some meaningful level of scale in AWS infrastructure
Experience in software development, including some time on a Ruby on Rails application. You will need to be able to understand behavior at the interface point of our applications and our infrastructure
Strong knowledge of core AWS services: VPC, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudFormation
Experience operating and troubleshooting Postgres databases
A desire to make things organized and understandable by others. Part of this role is making infrastructure and tooling more accessible to other engineers
Excellent problem-solving skills
Attention to detail and organizational inclination
Excellent time-management skills
Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance
HSA and FSA Plans, including Medical FSA, Limited FSA, and Dependent Care FSA options
Company-sponsored basic life insurance, with additional options for supplemental life insurance
Legal insurance
401(k) retirement plan with a 4% safe harbor employer match
Access to exclusive discounts, including pet insurance, hotel booking discounts, and more
Remote work support, including a home office set-up stipend
Generous time off, including:
16 paid holidays annually
Paid time off accruals and sick leave
Paid family leave, including caregiver leave, medical leave, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave
2 floating holidays
Volunteer and school visitation leave
Jury duty leave
Bereavement and compassionate leave
Blood, bone marrow, and organ donation leave
Flexible work options
Low-stress weeks around Thanksgiving and in late December

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSRuby on RailsPostgresETLdata pipelinesinfrastructure optimizationsecurity improvementcost optimizationtroubleshootingapplication monitoring

Soft Skills

problem-solvingattention to detailorganizational skillstime managementinterpersonal skillscommunication skillscollaboration skills