Brightwheel is hiring a
Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join their team and lead cross-team projects, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs. The role requires expertise in building cloud infrastructure, API and application development, data modeling, and integrating services with various integration styles.

Requirements

Must have experience: Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent, API and application development, data modeling, integrating services with various integration styles

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering
• Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks
• Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance
• 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
• Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies
• 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