Senior Software Engineer
Remote, REMOTE, United States
Company Description
When you join RenaissanceĀ®, you join a global leader in pre-Kā12 education technology! Renaissanceās solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what mattersācreating energizing learning experiences in the classroom.
Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and talented Senior Engineer in the Platform Team to help the transition from traditional ops to a platformcentric model. Play a key role in an impact driven culture and apply your expertise and creativity to make our team and company better. You will help shape how we continue to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.
In this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the platform vision
- Design infrastructure tools and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
- Manage CI/CD pipelines, constantly improve reliability, speed, and efficiency
- Explore and forecast infrastructure needs in our fast-growing SaaS environment
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to creatively resolve infrastructure needs
- Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000ās of requests per second
Environment & Team:
The department is currently 14 engineers, organized into tightly knit teams that routinely collaborate. This is a highly creative impact driven environment where you pull your own work. AWS, Postgres, Haskell with Yesod Framework, React, TypeScript in a heavy API environment with Infrastructure-as-Code deployments.
Qualifications
For this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you must have:
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- 2+ years hands-on experience utilizing SQL databases
- 2+ years hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure
- Ideally AWS 2+ years hands-on experience working in an IaC environment (Ex: CloudFormation, TerraForm or Kubernetes)
- Interest or experience in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc. Ā
- Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, shell, etc
- Good experience with logging and reporting systems (Splunk, Datadog, etc)
Bonus Points:
- BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills ā¦
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12 paid holidays 401(k) match Dental Employee Assistance Programs Equal opportunity employer Flexible Spending Accounts Health benefits Life & Disability insurance Medical Paid holidays Paid Vacation Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off Parental leave Prescription Telehealth Tuition reimbursement Vision Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs World Class Health Benefits
Tasks- Collaborate with teams
- Culture
- Maintain web and backend systems
- Manage CI/CD pipelines
API AWS CloudFormation Communication Computer Science Datadog Education Education technology Haskell Infrastructure as Code Kubernetes Postgres PostgreSQL Programs Python React Reporting SaaS SaaS environment Shell Splunk SQL Talent Acquisition Terraform Typescript Verbal communication
Experience5 years
EducationB.S. Computer Science Design Education Engineering Information Systems Related Field
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