Remote Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Brightwheel's platform team as a Staff Platform Engineer and lead complex cross-team projects to increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs.

Requirements

• Must have experience: API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages
• Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets
• Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures
• Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent
• You make pragmatic technology choices at work and make time to learn in your slack time whenever appropriate
• You care deeply about the quality of your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you; it’s obvious you’re having fun with your work and peers
• You strive to improve your velocity and the teams around you, with new frameworks & technologies
• You experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; you drive engineering process, best practices, and culture improvements
• You focus on clear and concise communication because you understand it’s the biggest responsibility of your job as an engineer
• You love to teach and learn from your peers

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs
• Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team
• Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues
• Provide input to both delivery and discovery - providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team
• Be a steward of quality, scalability, security, and performance. You’ll work with other engineers cross-team to ensure we have a solid platform that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product
• Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to drive brightwheel’s growth
• Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience
• Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams
• Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams
• Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team
• Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems using Ruby on Rails
• Knowledge of overall security concepts with infrastructure and web
• Common database, caching, and web technologies e.g. nginx or equivalent, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc
• GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation e.g. Flux, ArgoCD
• CI/CD pipeline automation e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or equivalent
• Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
• Containerization and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid parental leave
• A flexible paid time off policy
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
• A Learning & Development stipend