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Senior Software Engineer, PlatformLocation: USA --- Remote, with preference for New York, NY or Boston, MACompany Stage of Funding: Series AOffice Type: Fully Remote --- USASalary: $150,000 -- $200,000 + Competitive EquityEquity: Competitive EquityVisa: No visa sponsorship or transfers --- U.S. Citizens / Green Card holders onlyTravel: No significant travel requiredCompany DescriptionOur client is an education technology company building an AI-powered platform designed to transform how schools create schedules for teachers and students. For decades, school master scheduling has been a largely manual process that consumes significant amounts of educators' time while often producing sub-optimal outcomes for students.

The company combines AI-powered schedule optimization technology with expert support from experienced school schedulers to make the process more efficient, transparent, and effective. The platform enables school and district leaders to create optimized master schedules based on student, academic, educator, and resource priorities. It also helps schools better support special-needs students and English language learners, unlock staff capacity, and create more innovative curriculum pathways. Founded in 2023, the company has grown from working with just two pilot districts to serving approximately half a million students across 20+ states. The company has demonstrated strong product-market fit, customer growth, and renewal rates, with customers now entering their third and fourth years.

The company completed its Series A funding round in August 2025 and is now entering an important stage of growth as it scales its technology, customer base, and engineering organization. The company has approximately 60 employees, with a distributed engineering organization operating across multiple time zones. The culture is deeply influenced by education, with approximately 80% of employees coming from educator backgrounds. The engineering organization is lean, collaborative, curious, and highly focused on learning, mentorship, and building reliable technology that creates meaningful impact. This is an opportunity to join the platform engineering function at an exciting stage of growth and have significant influence over cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, reliability, security, CI/CD, testing infrastructure, and engineering practices.

The role is ideal for a platform-focused engineer who enjoys solving problems for other engineers, improving development velocity, building reliable infrastructure, and taking ownership of technically complex projects.

What You Will DoIdentify, prioritize, design, and deliver technical platform solutions across cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication, and CI/CD toolingBuild and maintain reliable cloud infrastructure supporting production applicationsDesign and improve AWS infrastructure and cloud architectureDevelop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using TerraformImprove engineering productivity by identifying and eliminating technical and infrastructure bottlenecksBuild tooling and platform capabilities that allow engineers to ship software faster and more reliablyTake ownership of production availability and system reliabilityImplement observability, monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices across production systemsParticipate in periodic on-call responsibilities and production incident responseImprove deployment processes and

CI/CD pipelinesBuild and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and other developer toolingDevelop and maintain test infrastructure and automated testing systemsImprove engineering quality through testing, automation, and development best practicesWork with engineering stakeholders to understand technical pain points and identify opportunities for platform improvementsDrive investigation and decision-making around technology choices that impact how the engineering organization builds and maintains softwareLead critical platform projects from initial scoping through production deploymentDefine project scope, break work into actionable tickets, and manage technical delivery timelinesBuild shared libraries and reusable engineering infrastructure where appropriateImprove authentication and security practices across engineering systemsHelp establish scalable engineering patterns as the company

growsMonitor and improve system performance, reliability, and availabilityTroubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issuesWork closely with application engineers to improve the developer experienceUplevel the engineering team on platform technologies and best practicesCreate technical documentation and internal guidesLead technical presentations, design reviews, and code reviewsMentor junior and less experienced engineersHelp establish engineering standards around infrastructure, testing, security, and deploymentDesign and develop full-stack solutions when necessary to solve engineering or business problemsContribute frontend code when required to deliver complete platform solutionsWork across backend, infrastructure, testing, and application layers when necessaryBalance speed of delivery with reliability, security, and long-term maintainabilityOperate with significant autonomy

in a fast-moving startup environmentHelp shape the company's technical architecture and engineering practices as the organization scalesExperience Requirements3+ years of professional software engineering experience3+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or a closely related engineering functionStrong experience building and maintaining production infrastructureExperience working with cloud environments, particularly AWSExperience working in a startup or high-growth engineering environment strongly preferredTrack record of improving engineering productivity and development velocityExperience owning production systems and reliabilityExperience working across engineering teams to identify and solve technical pain pointsExperience taking technical projects from concept through productionComfortable operating with significant autonomyExperience working with

distributed engineering teams is a plusExperience mentoring or supporting other engineers is preferredExperience in EdTech, cybersecurity, or security-focused environments is a plusMust be based in the United StatesMust be a U.S.

Citizen or Green Card holderNo visa sponsorship or visa transfersTechnical RequirementsStrong AWS experienceHands-on Terraform experienceStrong Python development experienceExperience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databasesStrong understanding of CI/CD systems and deployment pipelinesExperience with GitHub ActionsExperience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructureExperience with Jest and/or PytestStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure and distributed systemsExperience with infrastructure-as-codeExperience with production observability and monitoringExperience with incident response and system recoveryUnderstanding of authentication and security practicesExperience designing reliable and scalable engineering systemsStrong understanding of software development lifecycle and deployment practicesExperience building developer tooling and internal engineering

platformsStrong debugging and troubleshooting skillsAbility to work across infrastructure and application codeExperience designing APIs and backend services is a plusExperience contributing to frontend applications when necessary is a plusStrong software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, debugging, and architecturePlatform & Developer Productivity RequirementsStrong understanding of platform engineering principlesExperience building tools and systems used by other engineersAbility to identify engineering bottlenecks and create scalable solutionsExperience improving developer workflows and deployment velocityExperience automating repetitive engineering processesStrong understanding of CI/CD architectureExperience improving testing processes and infrastructureExperience establishing engineering standards and best practicesAbility to balance developer experience

with security and reliabilityExperience supporting multiple engineering teams or stakeholdersAbility to build reusable infrastructure rather than one-off solutionsStrong interest in making engineering organizations more productiveReliability & Security RequirementsExperience owning production availabilityExperience implementing monitoring and observabilityUnderstanding of incident management and recovery practicesExperience troubleshooting production incidentsComfortable participating in an on-call rotationExperience implementing automated recovery or operational safeguardsUnderstanding of cloud security best practicesExperience with authentication and authorization systemsStrong awareness of production security and reliability considerationsAbility to identify and mitigate infrastructure risksSoft SkillsExtremely high ownership and accountabilityStrong problem-solving abilityHighly

proactive and self-directedComfortable operating without extensive structureStrong first-principles thinkingExcellent written and verbal communicationStrong documentation skillsComfortable explaining technical concepts to engineers with different levels of experienceCollaborative and low-ego working styleCurious and motivated to continuously learnStrong attention to detailComfortable with ambiguityAble to prioritize competing technical needsComfortable working in a fast-moving startup environmentStrong mentoring mindsetWilling to take ownership of difficult production problemsMotivated by improving the effectiveness of an entire engineering organizationComfortable working across multiple technical domainsCompensation & BenefitsBase salary: $150,000 -- $200,000Competitive equityFlexible cash vs. equity compensation structureFully remote work within the United StatesPreference for

candidates based in New York or BostonHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceLife insuranceUnlimited PTOProfessional development opportunitiesFree access to online learning programsOpportunity to work on technology serving approximately half a million studentsSignificant ownership over platform architecture and engineering infrastructureOpportunity to improve engineering productivity across the organizationOpportunity to work directly with engineering leadershipExposure to AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, security, testing, and developer toolingOpportunity to mentor and uplevel other engineersHigh-impact role at a growing Series A companyWhy JoinThis is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing education technology company at a pivotal stage of its development.

The company has grown from just two pilot districts to serving approximately half a million students across 20+ states, demonstrating strong product-market fit and significant customer value.As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll have an opportunity to work on the systems that enable the entire engineering organization to build, test, deploy, and operate software more effectively. You'll have significant ownership across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, testing infrastructure, developer tooling, and shared engineering systems. The role is broader than traditional infrastructure engineering. You'll work closely with application engineers, understand their pain points, and build platform solutions that directly improve engineering velocity and product quality.

You'll also have the opportunity to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, establish engineering best practices, and help shape the platform architecture as the company scales. The company offers a highly collaborative and caring culture rooted in education, with approximately 80% of employees coming from educator backgrounds. The engineering team is distributed, curious, and focused on finding the right technical solutions rather than simply following convention.If you enjoy platform engineering, developer productivity, cloud infrastructure, reliability, automation, and solving technical problems that have an impact across an entire engineering organization, this role offers significant ownership and scope.