Summary
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Kiddom will lead the buildout of critical infrastructure and DevOps practices as the company scales from Series C to D. This role offers significant agency in establishing scalable, sustainable platform architecture that empowers engineering teams and supports educational equity.
Key Responsibilities: Evangelize DevOps culture, establish best practices, and scale infrastructure from small to large multi-region deployments while practicing Infrastructure as Code. Support engineering teams with CI/CD pipeline optimization, API design and testing frameworks, and production performance evaluation tools.
Skills & Tools: Strong proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or Clojure with production experience; expertise in REST API design, continuous integration, DevOps/SRE methodologies, and software design patterns. Demonstrated problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, familiarity with authorization technologies (OAuth), and passion for improving education equity.
Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapidly growing SaaS startup with strong understanding of DevOps and SecOps practices.
Location: New York City, New York
Job Description
About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
The InfraOps team’s primary goal is to enable and empower Kiddom’s engineering by building a scalable and sustainable platform that engineering can rely on to meet our company KPIs. This is a rare opportunity to join a small, highly skilled team as we build out critical infrastructure for a company that is starting to scale from series C to D. Take the opportunity to have real agency in your work both large and small. Leave the feature factory and come to a place where your scope is determined by your abilities and passion.
This includes:
Evangelizing and fostering a healthy DevOps culture here at Kiddom, working with teams to establish best practices and help guide new and existing services.
Practicing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) wherever possible, giving us the confidence in repeatable processes that can be automated.
You will:: Grow our DevOps efforts from small scale to large scale multi-region Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture Aim for high availability, high resiliency Support the engineering team with tools to evaluate the performance of their code in production environments, speed up CI/CD pipeline, & feature verification support the engineering team with tools to speed up CI/CD pipeline, feature verification Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers Bring an attention to detail - what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that
You have:: BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field 5+ years professional software engineering experience Experience with Java, or Python, Go, Clojure in a production environment Experience designing and building REST APIs Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth) Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices Excellent problem solving and debugging skills Strong acumen or exposure to DevOps or SRE methodologies Keen sense for SecOps. Functional experience using internal tools: javascript, golang, and python Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapid growth saas startup Strong empathy for educators and students Passion for improving education equity
Experience with Go(lang)
Nice to have
Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
* Competitive salary
* Meaningful equity
* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
* One Medical membership (in participating locations)
* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
* Paid holidays
* Paid bereavement leave
* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
* Commuter and FSA plans
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.