Staff Platform Engineer

Promote Project; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic startup as a Staff Platform Engineer, where you will lead initiatives to enhance engineering velocity and system reliability. In this fully remote role, you will collaborate with diverse teams to optimize operational costs and improve customer experiences. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, API development, and database optimization will be crucial in driving innovation and efficiency. This opportunity offers the chance to make a significant impact in early education technology while working alongside passionate and talented individuals dedicated to creating a positive social impact. If you're ready to take ownership and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Premium medical benefits

Dental and vision benefits

Generous paid parental leave

Flexible paid time off

Monthly wellness stipend

Learning & Development stipend

Qualifications

• Expertise in building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS.
• Experience in API and application development using Ruby, Python, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team projects to enhance engineering velocity and system reliability.
• Design and architect new software systems to drive growth.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

API Development

Data Modeling

Ruby on Rails

Database Optimization

GitOps

CI/CD Automation

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child—by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.

Our Team

We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban.

We believe that everyone—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve—should be given the opportunity to learn and thrive, whatever their background may be. We celebrate diversity in all forms because it allows our team and the communities we serve to reach their full potential and do their best work. From decision making, to how we operate, we ground ourselves in our Leadership Principles every day.

Staff Platform Engineer

Location

US Only

Salary

$60,000 - $105,000 a year

Description

Our Mission and Opportunity

Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join the platform team. You will be part of a team responsible for enabling a large number of engineering teams to operate independently and autonomously, move fast in delivering value to customers towards brightwheel’s vision, and limit the blast radius of their changes. You are comfortable taking into consideration both technical and business drivers to most efficiently deliver value. You are an excellent collaborator, and also accustomed to taking ownership and initiative as a technical leader on small teams (or even large teams). Most importantly, you are eager to have the opportunity to do all of this in a dynamic startup environment where scrappiness, flexibility, and creativity will be required every single day.

What You’ll Do

• Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs.
• Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team.
• Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues.
• Provide input to both delivery and discovery - providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team.
• Be a steward of quality, scalability, security, and performance. You’ll work with other engineers cross-team to ensure we have a solid platform that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product.
• Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to drive brightwheel’s growth.
• Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience.
• Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams.
• Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams.
• Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team.
• Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team.

Qualifications, Technical Skills

• Must have experience:
• Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent.
• API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages.
• Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets.
• Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures.

Preferred experience:

• Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems using Ruby on Rails.
• Knowledge of overall security concepts with infrastructure and web.
• Common database, caching, and web technologies e.g. nginx or equivalent, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.
• GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation e.g. Flux, ArgoCD.
• CI/CD pipeline automation e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or equivalent.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi.
• Containerization and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS.

Compensation

$165,000 - $237,000 a year. Brightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend. For cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Multiple factors determine final offer amounts, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.

Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Job type:

Remote job

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