Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Clever Inc. is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning through its leading identity platform for education. The Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure will be responsible for building and evolving the internal developer platform that enables engineering teams to deploy and operate Clever’s products efficiently while ensuring reliability and security.

Responsibilities:

• Act as technical lead for, and contribute meaningfully to, medium and large projects
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work
• Experience with Kubernetes is required
• Direct experience using a cloud provider (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 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
• Experience with Go is useful but not required
• Experience with AWS EKS is useful but not required
• Experience with our key AWS Technologies (ECS, DynamoDB, VPCs, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis) helpful but not required