Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

The Infra Ops team’s primary goal is to enable and empower Kiddom’s engineering by building a scalable and sustainable platform that engineering can rely on to meet our company KPIs. This is a rare opportunity to join a small, highly skilled team as we build out critical infrastructure for a company that is starting to scale from series C to

D. Take the opportunity to have real agency in your work both large and small. Leave the feature factory and come to a place where your scope is determined by your abilities and passion.

• Evangelizing and fostering a healthy Dev Ops culture here at Kiddom, working with teams to establish best practices and help guide new and existing services.
• Practicing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) wherever possible, giving us the confidence in repeatable processes that can be automated.

• Grow our Dev Ops efforts from small scale to large scale multi-region.
• Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture.
• Aim for high availability, high resiliency.
• Support the engineering team with tools to evaluate the performance of their code in production environments, speed up CI/CD pipeline, and feature verification.
• Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations.
• Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services.
• Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers.
• Bring an attention to detail – what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Java, or Python, Go, Clojure in a production environment.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs.
• Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth).
• Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Strong acumen or exposure to Dev Ops or SRE methodologies.
• Keen sense for Sec Ops.
• Functional experience using internal tools:
  JavaScript, Go, and Python.
• Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapid growth SaaS startup.
• Strong empathy for educators and students.
• Passion for improving education equity.

• Experience with Go(lang).

$160,000 - $200,000 a year.

Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

• Competitive salary.
• Meaningful equity.
• Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
• One Medical membership (in participating locations).
• Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year (pro-rated depending on start date).
• Paid holidays.
• Paid bereavement leave.
• Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
• Commuter and FSA plans.

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.