Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure Dev Ops & SysAdmin

The Company

 

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

 

Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We’ve more than tripled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 80 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M.

 

We’re an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

 

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise have become central to many more families, teachers and organizations than ever before. We’re committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

 

The Role

 

We are a small but effective team, working with a DevOps mindset, and getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We’re iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience.

 

While Outschool’s product engineers are building features for end-users, your focus will be to help our team and systems scale effectively. Upcoming initiatives include: observability and monitoring, build/deploy pipeline optimization, shifting workloads into separate services, and deploying some of them to AWS.

 

Our website is written in modern JavaScript: TypeScript, React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL, deployed to Heroku. Our Python data pipelines run on AWS (CDK, CloudFormation, Batch). We use CircleCI and Github for development.

 

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with others in an engineering team that encourages pairing, iteration, and impact
• Develop tools and technologies to enable Outschool’s product teams to work more quickly and efficiently
• Ensure website performance and stability
• Migrate systems to AWS from other platforms
• Implement and improve system monitoring tools

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 5 years of experience working professionally in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering
• 3 years of experience developing web applications
• Professional experience with AWS, tuning and maintaining PostgreSQL, monitoring and observability, and building/deploying systems (Node, React, webpack, CIrcleCI)
• Writes clean code in JavaScript / TypeScript and Python

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Practical experience with AWS migrations
• Experience building data pipelines

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier. 
• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions through our partner, ModernHealth. 
• PTO and Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends. 
• Remote First: With over 50% of our team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance. 
• Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool! 
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

 

 

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

 

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.