About the Role

Our Stack

About You

What You Would Do

Commensurate with experience.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • You thrive in start up environments - the faster moving and the more stuff to figure out as you go the better
  • The people who have worked with you describe you as more of a “we” person than an “I” person– there’s no such thing as “somebody else’s problem” for you
  • You bring a sense of humor to your work and rarely take yourself too seriously
  • You’re super smart and humble at the same time - no task is too small or great
  • Lots of things interest you - you have plenty of creative side projects and diverse hobbies
  • You’d rather be working to solve challenges that will make life better for everyone rather than making more money for a large corporation
  • Build and lead a team of DevOps Engineers. The first hire will need to be based at our NYC headquarters but the rest might be remote.
  • Own all uptime and reliability SLAs. We aren’t a five nines operation yet but our partner schools span time zones from Pacific through Eastern, and certain types of work will need to happen outside of school hours.
  • Drive the ongoing effort to bring enterprise-level reliability and maintainability to existing services and systems while contributing to the architecture of new ones.
  • Establish and maintain standards and processes for all work done by the DevOps team, including everything from coding standards to on-call incident handling to documentation.
  • Partner with the Director of Software Development, Director of Quality Assurance, and other technical leadership to ensure as much uniformity of standards and processes as possible across teams.
  • Provide expert technical guidance.
  • 8+ years of full-time hands-on software development, devops, or site reliability engineering (SRE) experience.
  • 2+ years of people management experience with a demonstrated track record of strong team building and effective mentoring.
  • Deep understanding of Internet concepts, protocols, and technologies.
  • Full stack proficiency. We use a mix of .NET, Python, Node.js, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AngularJS but are open to candidates proficient in other stacks.
  • Familiarity with IaaS and PaaS offerings such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
  • Most importantly, a strong sense of ownership. Success is the only option.