ClassDojo is hiring a
Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at ClassDojo, a global education communication app company. The role involves improving the platform, collaborating with teams, and contributing to better practices, processes, and teamwork. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of professional software experience, with at least 2 years in infrastructure/platform, strong communication skills, and a passion for education.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of professional software experience
• More than 2 of those years were in a role that focused primarily on infrastructure/platform
• You have made an impact in the organizations that you've joined
• You have driven technical excellence through improvements to process, practices, and tools (e.g. experience with test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices)
• You have strong communication
• You're excited to get things done in a fast-paced environment
• You have an ownership mindset: you are comfortable with both responsibility and accountability
• You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture
• You enjoy working in a pair programming environment
• You are passionate about education and care about having impact on tens of millions of kids' lives with your work
• You live and work in the Americas timezones

Responsibilities

• Improve our platform
• Write, debug, and optimize code for our platform
• Collaborate with your team and other teams through pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, and design sessions
• Seek out opportunities to provide shared value through improvements of our common systems, tooling, and practices
• Support and improve our build and delivery pipelines
• Contribute to technical design and architecture conversations with your expertise and perspective
• Help to unblock teammates as well as other teams through hands-on work and guidance
• Break work down so we can make improvements incrementally
• Help grow other engineers into more senior engineers
• Systematically improve the quality of our product and process
• Encourage collaboration and psychological safety

Benefits

• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
• We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones
• Salary ranges (United States): CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $244,000 (USD), All other states in the US: $146,000 - $207,500 (USD)