
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Learning Commons
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Redwood City • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,000 - $261,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build Across the Stack – Design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure that power our Learning Commons platform and AI-enabled tools.
- Strengthen Cloud & DevOps Foundations – Improve cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and deployment automation to increase reliability and developer velocity.
- Own Reliability & Performance – Enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response practices; debug and resolve production issues across application and infrastructure layers.
- Improve Scalability & Developer Experience – Identify bottlenecks and drive pragmatic improvements that make systems faster, safer, and easier to build on.
- Collaborate & Raise the Bar – Partner with product, data, security, and platform teams; contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and shared engineering standards.
Requirements
- Strong Engineering Fundamentals – Proven experience building and operating production systems in cloud-native environments.
- Infrastructure & DevOps Depth – Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, containerized systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud architecture.
- Modern Tooling Fluency – Experience with tools such as Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Databricks (or comparable technologies).
- Operational Excellence Mindset – Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response; comfortable debugging complex distributed systems.
- Systems Thinking – Solid understanding of scalability, networking, and secure system design, with pragmatic decision-making in fast-moving environments.
- Collaborative Communication – Ability to contribute to technical design discussions, align cross-functionally, and elevate engineering standards within a team.
Benefits
- Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
- Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
- Funding for select family-forming benefits.
- Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
backend servicesAPIscloud infrastructuredata pipelinesCI/CD workflowsdeployment automationobservabilitymonitoringincident responsescalability
Soft Skills
collaborative communicationsystems thinkingpragmatic decision-making