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CommonLit is a nonprofit organization that specializes in educational technology, or EdTech. The startup was established to help students in the United States close the literacy ga
Platform Engineer – AWS, Rails
Location
United States
Posted
95 days ago
Salary
$95K - $150K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Platform Engineer – AWS, Rails
CommonLit
• Monitor and operate CommonLit’s AWS infrastructure • Work with the CTO to maintain and optimize CommonLit's infrastructure and application environment • Develop and improve CommonLit's developer tooling to enable engineers to do their best work • Collaborate with engineers to find pain points and remove them. Unblock engineers when tooling issues arise • Assist the Data Science team with data pipelines and ETL processes to improve reliability and efficiency • Lead efforts to improve security at the infrastructure level • Monitor compliance-related items associated with infrastructure • Assist the CTO with cost-optimization to maximize CommonLit's non-personnel tech spend
Job Requirements
- Candidates must have 3+ years experience operating production applications at some meaningful level of scale in AWS infrastructure
- Experience in software development, including some time on a Ruby on Rails application. You will need to be able to understand behavior at the interface point of our applications and our infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of core AWS services: VPC, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudFormation
- Experience operating and troubleshooting Postgres databases
- A desire to make things organized and understandable by others. Part of this role is making infrastructure and tooling more accessible to other engineers
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail and organizational inclination
- Excellent time-management skills
- Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA and FSA Plans, including Medical FSA, Limited FSA, and Dependent Care FSA options
- Company-sponsored basic life insurance, with additional options for supplemental life insurance
- Legal insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% safe harbor employer match
- Access to exclusive discounts, including pet insurance, hotel booking discounts, and more
- Remote work support, including a home office set-up stipend
- Generous time off, including:
- 16 paid holidays annually
- Paid time off accruals and sick leave
- Paid family leave, including caregiver leave, medical leave, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 2 floating holidays
- Volunteer and school visitation leave
- Jury duty leave
- Bereavement and compassionate leave
- Blood, bone marrow, and organ donation leave
- Flexible work options
- Low-stress weeks around Thanksgiving and in late December
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