[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure @Clever

Role Description

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. The Infrastructure team handles platform engineering at Clever, building and evolving the internal developer platform that engineering teams use to build, deploy, operate, and monitor Clever’s products.

As a member of the Infrastructure team, you’ll create self-service “golden paths” and shared tooling that help teams ship and iterate quickly and safely, while meeting reliability, security, and compliance expectations. You will partner with engineering teams to understand friction points, close gaps in automation and workflows, and continuously improve the developer experience and operational effectiveness across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for, and contribute meaningfully to, medium and large projects.
• Build and evolve an internal developer platform with clear self-service workflows ("golden paths").
• Define and maintain standards, templates, and automation for quick and safe shipping.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand friction points and gather requirements.
• Provide observability primitives (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting) and opinionated defaults.
• Implement multi-region capabilities, including repeatable environment provisioning and resiliency patterns.
• Lead resiliency initiatives and implement reliability engineering practices to meet or exceed 99.98% uptime.
• Model and reinforce Clever's engineering culture and practices.
• Current projects include migrating services from AWS ECS to AWS EKS and EC2.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer including backend work.
• Experience with Kubernetes is required.
• Experience with Go is useful but not required.
• Experience with AWS EKS is useful but not required.
• Direct experience using a cloud provider (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with key AWS Technologies (ECS, DynamoDB, VPCs, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis) helpful but not required.
• Ability to empathize with fellow engineers to understand their pain points.
• Desire and ability to learn quickly to support a wide range of technologies.
• Design and product sense for building as an internal infrastructure/platform team.
• Commitment to equity and belonging.

Benefits

• A competitive salary.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Top-notch healthcare, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family.
• Best-in-class mental healthcare service.
• A generous personal development yearly budget.
• A comprehensive Learning & Development program.
• Annual company and team events.

Salary Transparency

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $155,000 - $216,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $170,000 - $237,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.

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