Principal DevOps Engineer

Skool is a fast-growing, mission-driven company focused on education and community. They are seeking an experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to improve the scalability, availability, and efficiency of their build and deployment pipeline.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineering to architect and evolve Skool's infrastructure roadmap by driving short and long term strategies around scalability, reliability and observability
• Build and maintain tools and systems involving software builds, continuous testing, automated deployments, software health monitoring and software releases
• Oversee and improve the day-to-day operations of Skool’s production infrastructure
• Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure challenges ensuring high availability and performance across all systems

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer (or similar role)
• Hands-on experience building distributed systems, APIs, with working knowledge of at least one major Cloud Platform (AWS, GCP, etc) & cloud-based SaaS applications
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience including cluster design, CI/CD integration, observability and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience deploying systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform and zero-downtime deployment strategies (Rolling, Canary, Blue/Green, etc…)
• Experience working with GitOps tooling like ArgoCD and Atlantis
• Proficiency in network fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, Subnetting, OSI (layers), Firewalls, Load Balancers and more
• Working knowledge of Linux system fundamentals
• Deep experience optimizing and writing SQL queries
• Experience writing software using GoLang