Senior Software Engineer, Education

Learning Commons

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling API infrastructure for educational datasets at Learning Commons. Focusing on performance, reliability, and developer experience in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 4/11/2026full-timeRedwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $261,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGraphQLKubernetesNeo4j

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain the GraphQL and REST APIs that expose Knowledge Graph data to external developers, with a focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience at scale.
Own and evolve access-layer systems end-to-end: API business logic, rate limiting, pagination, role-based data permissioning, versioning, and observability/logging.
Build and improve secure, scalable developer onboarding infrastructure — including API key management, tiered access controls, and self-service workflows that reduce manual onboarding overhead.
Collaborate across pods — with Knowledge Graph Construction, platform engineers, and the Developer Experience team — to align on shared infrastructure, release dependencies, and GA readiness milestones.
Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and operational maturity through thoughtful code review, technical documentation, and on-call participation as the team establishes production-grade operations for the first time.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade APIs and backend services, with strong command of REST and GraphQL.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and developer access systems, including AWS (API Gateway preferred), Docker, and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with graph databases (Neo4j a plus) and experience designing systems that involve authentication, rate limiting, tiered permissioning, and observability.
Strong engineering fundamentals: you write maintainable, well-tested code, reason carefully about system design, and communicate clearly about tradeoffs.
A collaborative, growth-oriented approach — you thrive in cross-functional environments, adapt as requirements evolve, and care deeply about building infrastructure that serves the public good.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GraphQLRESTAPI designcloud infrastructureauthenticationrate limitingtiered permissioningobservabilitysystem designmaintainable code

Soft Skills

collaborationgrowth-orientedadaptabilityclear communicationengineering excellenceoperational maturitycode reviewtechnical documentationcross-functional teamworkproblem-solving