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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.
Position Overview
Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Platform Engineer to join its Infrastructure Engineering team. Platform Engineers are responsible for designing and implementing the core infrastructure components of a platform, such as networking, storage, and computer resources. They collaborate with SRE and software development teams to ensure that the platform can support the application workloads effectively. Additionally, they are involved in monitoring and troubleshooting the platform to ensure optimal performance and availability.
Platform Engineers play a crucial role in architecting the platform's infrastructure. They must carefully consider factors such as scalability, fault tolerance, and security when designing the platform's technical architecture. By collaborating with SRE, security, and software developers, they can ensure that the platform can handle the expected workloads and meet performance and governance requirements.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities
- Design and develop core platform infrastructure, including services for distributed computing, storage, networking, security, telemetry, and more
- Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the entire platform and services
- Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the platform infrastructure
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 platform support
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand platform requirements and provide technical guidance
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry best practices
- Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings
Qualifications
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, build automation, and release management experience in a SaaS production environment
- Experienced owning and scaling a container orchestration platform, especially Kubernetes (EKS)
- Expert-level experience with AWS and hybrid cloud systems/designs
- Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Expert-level experience with Linux administration and internals
- Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Ansible and Salt
- Production experience in operating an always-up, always-available mission-critical service
- Strong knowledge of ephemeral infrastructure, horizontal scaling, self-healing architectures, service discovery, logging, monitoring and alerting
- Expert understanding and ability to troubleshoot systems using TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, and DNS
- Proficient with multiple scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Go
- Knowledge of best-practice security, performance, and networking techniques for high-traffic customer-facing systems
- Experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic and CloudWatch
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Microsoft SQL, Postgres, DynamoDB and MongoDB
- Excellent troubleshooting and testing skills
- A passion for learning new technologies
- Experience with Agile methodology and passion for software development best practices
- Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability
- A passion for an excellent Developer Experience (DX)
- Experience working for a SaaS company is highly desired
Why Teaching Strategies
At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!
Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. 
