CommonLit

A reading program that reaches all students.

Platform Engineer – AWS, Rails

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2014H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$95K - $150K / year

Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishAWSETLPostgre SQLRubyRuby ON Rails

Job Description

• 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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