Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Ops

Job Description

About Us:

We believe teachers have one of the most vital jobs in the world, and we’re here to support them. What began as a word-of-mouth marketplace where teachers could buy and sell educational resources is now a teacher-powered digital learning platform. Our community of 7M+ educators relies on us for engaging, accessible, classroom-ready materials—and we rely on our team members to continue developing solutions that improve the lives of teachers, students, and, ultimately, the state of education itself.

About the Team:

The Cloud Operations (CloudOps) team is a key pillar of TPT’s platform engineering team that works collaboratively across the company to enable reliable and secure services, and reduce the time to market for innovation through infrastructure and security automation. CloudOps is responsible for the infrastructure that powers TPT’s marketplace and digital services that are used by millions of educators and students around the world. WIth this responsibility, the team works closely with developers across all of TPT’s products to ensure the underlying platform is fault-tolerant, scalable and secure. As experts in databases and operations, the team also provides expertise during troubleshooting and incidents. The ideal candidate for the CloudOps team is continuously on the hunt for improvements to infrastructure and security, opportunities to reduce toil for the team, and new tools and practices to meet the challenges of a dynamic Ed-Tech company.

Role:

TPT is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for the Cloud Operations team that owns the infrastructure that powers TPT and all of its development efforts. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to define a strategy for how to use cloud services to build reliable, performant, cost-effective, and efficient applications.

The Cloud Operations team is at the core of TPT Engineering. We build the infrastructure tooling and capabilities that support the rapidly growing TPT marketplace and digital experiences. As a Staff Engineer, you will cultivate innovation by driving cross-team collaboration and executing projects that impact multiple teams. You will lead the design of major components of our distributed systems and platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of amazing engineers to build our world-class cloud platform that supports the development efforts of 70+ engineers
• Architect and maintain the infrastructure that supports scalable and dynamic cloud environments
• Lead the roadmap and vision for cloud infrastructure and services
• Own the full lifecycle of software development for services that the team owns
• Mentor engineers on your team and collaborate with other Staff Engineers across the org to learn and grow together

Qualifications:

• Experience in building scalable and extensible distributed systems that have heterogeneous workloads and use cases
• Significant technical depth in at least one public cloud provider and operational or development experience with Kubernetes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through presentations, documents, meetings, and other tools to drive alignment or resolve ambiguity.
• Demonstrate the successful delivery of large, complex projects that impact multiple teams
• You enjoy teaching others and have mentored engineers.

Compensation & Benefits:

TPT offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of life, inside and outside of work:

Base salary range: 216,000- 272,000 USD annually.

• In addition to cash compensation, all TPTers are eligible to participate in TPT’s equity plan to receive management incentive units (MIUs).
• The final job level and compensation will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, years of relevant experience, skills, qualifications, certifications, geographic location, and other business considerations.

At TPT, benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Two of our core company values are “We Learn and Grow Together” and “We Enjoy the Journey.” We’ve committed to these values and to our employees through investing in added benefits and perks:

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
• 401k plan with company matching
• Free Telemedicine Membership - 24/7 access to trusted medical advisors
• Generous PTO and Wellness Days
• 5 Week “Recharge Leave” after 5 Years, to refresh and celebrate the impact you’ve had at TPT
• Generous Parental Leave (for new parents) for time to adjust to parenthood, plus additional six weeks for the birth parent
• ‘Employee Resource Groups’ (ERGs) to promote employee inclusivity and belonging
• Engineering Learning Fridays (ELF), to provide a space each week for Engineering teams to collaborate and learn from each other
• ‘Professional Development’ Stipend, to support the professional growth of employees (including - but not limited to - subscriptions, books, lectures, etc.)
• Annual Company Events (Camp TPT, Field Day, Hackathons, Holiday Party, Summer Picnic, Classroom Visits, etc.)
• Subscriptions: We cover employee subscriptions to services like Headspace and GrubHub+

Here at TPT we value Diversity & Inclusion and encourage people to bring their most authentic selves to work. We cultivate an environment where people are recognized and celebrated for their individuality.

Any TPT applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the interview process should contact the TPT People Ops Team ([email protected]) to make the need for an accommodation known.

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