Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Infrastructure team handles platform engineering at Clever. For example, it builds and evolves the internal developer platform that engineering teams use to build, deploy, operate, and monitor Clever’s products. As a member of the Infrastructure team, you’ll create self-service “golden paths” and shared tooling that help teams ship and iterate quickly and safely, while meeting reliability, security, and compliance expectations. You will partner with engineering teams to understand friction points, close gaps in automation and workflows, and continuously improve the developer experience and operational effectiveness across the organization.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• 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.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work
• Experience with Go 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.

CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible Paid Time Off
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