\nOur Mission and Opportunity\nEarly education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.\n\n\nOur Team\nWe are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban. \n\n\nWe believe that everyone—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve— should be given the opportunity to learn and thrive, whatever their background may be. We celebrate diversity in all forms because it allows our team and the communities we serve to reach their full potential and do their best work. From decision making, to how we operate, we ground ourselves in our Leadership Principles every day. \n\n\nWho You Are\nBrightwheel is seeking an experienced  Staff Platform Engineer to join the platform team. You will be part of a team responsible for enabling a large number of engineering teams to operate independently and autonomously, move fast in delivering value to customers towards brightwheel’s vision, and limit the blast radius of their changes. You are comfortable taking into consideration both technical and business drivers to most efficiently deliver value. You are an excellent collaborator, and also accustomed to taking ownership and initiative as a technical leader on small teams (or even large teams). Most importantly, you are eager to have the opportunity to do all of this in a dynamic startup environment where scrappiness, flexibility, and creativity will be required every single day.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n* Lead complex cross-team projects, working alongside product engineering, that increase engineering velocity, improve system reliability and security, and optimize operational costs\n* Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team\n* Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues\n* Provide input to both delivery and discovery - providing new ideas, proposals, and constructive criticism to the team\n* Be a steward of quality, scalability, security, and performance. You’ll work with other engineers cross-team to ensure we have a solid platform that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product\n* Design and architect new software systems or introduce new technologies, as appropriate to drive brightwheel’s growth\n* Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience\n* Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams\n* Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams\n* Mentor and help grow engineering teams. Build trust and respect in the team\n* Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team\n\n\n\n\nQualifications, Technical Skills\n* Must have experience:\n* Expert at building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent\n* API and application development, ideally in a variety of languages like Ruby, Python or similar languages\n* Data modeling, and success optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL or equivalent) for large datasets\n* Integrating services with various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous architectures\n\nPreferred experience:\n* Proficiency in both contributing to and designing backend systems using Ruby on Rails\n* Knowledge of overall security concepts with infrastructure and web\n* Common database, caching, and web technologies e.g. nginx or equivalent, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.\n* GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation e.g. Flux, ArgoCD\n* CI/CD pipeline automation e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or equivalent\n* Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi\n* Containerization and orchestration tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS\n\n\n\n\n\n$165,000 - $237,000 a yearBrightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Our benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, a flexible paid time off policy, a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, and a Learning & Development stipend.\nFor cash compensation, brightwheel sets standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Multiple factors determine final offer amounts, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise. If you have questions about the compensation band for your region, please ask your recruiter.\n\n\nBrightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Cloud, Ruby, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
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\nCrunch.i, part of the YouGov PLC is a market-defining company in the analytics SaaS marketplace. We’re a company on the rise. We’ve built a revolutionary platform that transforms our customers’ ability to drive insight from market research and survey data. We offer a complete survey data analysis platform that allows market researchers, analysts, and marketers to collaborate in a secure, cloud-based environment, using a simple, intuitive drag-and-drop interface to prepare, analyze, visualize and deliver survey data and analysis. Quite simply, Crunch provides the quickest and easiest way for anyone, from CMO to PhD, with zero training, to analyze survey data. Users create tables, charts, graphs and maps. They filter, and slice-and-dice survey data directly in their browser.\n\nOur start-up culture is casual, respectful of each other’s varied backgrounds and lives, and high-energy because of our shared dedication to our product and our mission. We are loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, and fantastic customer service! Crunch has no offices and fully embraces a 100% remote culture. We have 40 employees spread across 5 continents. Remote work at Crunch is flexible and largely independent, yet highly cooperative.\n\nWe are hiring a DevOps Lead to help expand our platform and operations excellence. We are inviting you to join our small, fully remote team of developers and operators helping make our platform faster, more secure, and more reliable. You will be self-motivated and disciplined in order to work with our fully distributed team.\n\nWe are looking for someone who is a quick study, who is eager to learn and grow with us, and who has experience in DevOps and Agile cultures. At Crunch, we believe in learning together: we recognize that we don’t have all the answers, and we try to ask each other the right questions. As Crunch employees are completely distributed, it’s crucial that you can work well independently, and keep yourself motivated and focused.\n\nOur Stack:\n\nWe currently run our in-house production Python code against Redis, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch services. We proxy API requests through NGINX, load balance with ELBs, and deploy our React web application to AWS CloudFront CDN. Our current CI/CD process is built around GitHub, Jenkins, BlueOcean including unit, integration, and end to end tests and automated system deployments. We deploy to auto-scaling Groups using Ansible and Cloud-Init.\n\nIn the future, all or part of our platform may be deployed via DroneCI, Kubernetes, nginx ingress, Helm, and Spinnaker.\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nAs a Leader:\n\n\n* Manage and lead a team of Cloud Operations Engineers who are tasked with ensuring our uptime guarantees to our customer base.\n\n* Scale the worldwide Cloud Operations Engineering team with the strategic implementation of new processes and tools.\n\n* Hire and ramp exceptional Cloud Operations Engineers.\n\n* Assist in scoping, designing and deploying systems that reduce Mean Time to Resolve for customer incidents.\n\n* Inform executive leadership and escalation management personnel of major outages\n\n* Compile and report KPIs across the full company.\n\n* Work with Sales Engineers to complete pre-sales questionnaires, and to gather customer use metrics.\n\n* Prioritize projects competing for human and computational resources to achieve organizational goals.\n\n\n\n\nAs an Engineer:\n\n\n* Monitor and detect emerging customer-facing incidents on the Crunch platform; assist in their proactive resolution, and work to prevent them from occurring.\n\n* Coordinate and participate in a weekly on-call rotation, where you will handle short term customer incidents (from direct surveillance or through alerts via our Technical Services Engineers).\n\n* Diagnose live incidents, differentiate between platform issues versus usage issues across the entire stack; hardware, software, application and network within physical datacenter and cloud-based environments, and take the first steps towards resolution.\n\n* Automate routine monitoring and troubleshooting tasks.\n\n* Cooperate with our product management and engineering organizations by identifying areas for improvement in the management of applications powering the Crunch infrastructure.\n\n* Provide consistent, high-quality feedback and recommendations to our product managers and development teams regarding product defects or recurring performance issues.\n\n* Be the owner of our platform. This includes everything from our cloud provider implementation to how we build, deploy and instrument our systems.\n\n* Drive improvements and advancements to the platform in areas such as container orchestration, service mesh, request/retry strategies.\n\n* Build frameworks and tools to empower safe, developer-led changes, automate the manual steps and provide insight into our complex system.\n\n* Work directly with software engineering and infrastructure leadership to enhance the performance, scalability and observability of resources of multiple applications and ensure that production hand off requirements are met and escalate issues.\n\n* Embed into SRE projects to stay close to the operational workflows and issues.\n\n* Evangelize the adoption of best practices in relation to performance and reliability across the organization.\n\n* Provide a solid operational foundation for building and maintaining successful SRE teams and processes.\n\n* Maintain project and operational workload statistics.\n\n* Promote a healthy and functional work environment.\n\n* Work with Security experts to do periodic penetration testing, and drive resolution for any issues discovered.\n\n* Liaise with IT and Security Team Leads to successfully complete cross-team projects, filling in for these Leads when necessary.\n\n* Administer a large portfolio of SaaS tools used throughout the company.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* Team Lead experience of an on-call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations team (at least 2 years).\n\n* Experience recruiting, mentoring, and promoting high performing team members.\n\n* Experience being an on-call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations engineer (at least 2 years).\n\n* Proven track record of designing, building, sizing, optimizing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure.\n\n* Proven experience developing software, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and managing production infrastructure in AWS.\n\n* Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining full CI/CD pipelines in a cloud environment (Jenkins experience preferred).\n\n* Experience with containers and container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, traefik, Nginx ingress and Spinnaker experience preferred).\n\n* Expertise with Linux system administration (5 yrs) and networking technologies including IPv6.\n\n* Knowledgeable about a wide range of web and internet technologies.\n\n* Knowledge of NoSQL database operations and concepts.\n\n* Experience in monitoring, system performance data collection and analysis, and reporting.\n\n* Capability to write small programs/scripts to solve both short-term systems problems and to automate repetitive workflows (Python and Bash preferred).\n\n* Exceptional English communication and troubleshooting skills.\n\n* A keen interest in learning new things.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Executive, React, English, Elasticsearch, Cloud, NoSQL, Python, API, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Nginx and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

Stacktical is a Predictive Scalability Testing platform.\nIt ensures our customers design and ship softwares that always scale to the maximum of their ability and with minimum footprint.\nThe Stacktical Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for helping our customers engineer CI/CD pipeline around system testing practices that involve Stacktical.\nLike the rest of the team, they also actively participate in building the Stacktical platform itself.\nWe are looking for a skilled DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer, expert in Scalability, that is excited about the vision of using Predictive Analytics and AI to reinvent the field.\nWith a long-standing passion for automating your work and the work of others, you also understand how Software as a Service is increasingly empowering companies to do just that.\nYou can justify previous experiences in startups and you’re capable of working remotely, with great efficiency, in fast-paced, demanding environments. Ideally, you’d have a proven track record of working remotely for 2+ years.\nNeedless to say, you fully embrace the working philosophy of digital nomadism we’re developing at Stacktical and both the benefits and responsibilities that come with it.\nYour role and responsibilities includes the following :\n- Architecture, implementation and maintenance of server clusters, API and microservices, including critical production environments, in Cloud and other hosting configurations (dedicated, vps and shared).\n- Ensure the availability, performance and scalability of applications in respect of proven design and architecture best practices.\n- Design and execute Scalability strategies that ensure the scalability and the elasticity of the infrastructure.\n- Manage a portfolio of Softwares, their Development Life Cycle and optimize their Continuous Integration and Delivery workflows (CI/CD).\n- Automate the Quality & Reliability Testing of applications (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, E2E Tests, Performance and Scalability Tests).\n## Skills we are looking for\n- A 50-50 mix between Software Development and System Administration experience\n- Proficiency in Node.js, Python, R, Erlang (Elixir) and / or Go\n- Hands on experience in NoSQL / SQL database optimization (slow queries indexing, sharding, clustering)\n- Hands on experience in administering high availability and high performance environments, as well as managing large-scale deployments of traffic-heavy applications.\n- Extensive knowledge of Cloud Computing concepts, technologies and providers (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure…).\n- A strong ability to design and execute cutting edge System Testing strategies (smoke tests, performance/load tests, regression tests, capacity tests).\n- Excellent understanding of Scalability processes and techniques.\n- Good grasp of Scalability, Elasticity concepts and creative Auto Scaling strategies (Auto Scaling Groups management, API-based scheduling).\n- Hands on experience with Docker and Docker orchestration tools like Kubernetes and their corresponding provider management services (Amazon ECS, Google Container Engine, Azure Container Service...).\n- Hands on experience with leading Infrastructure as Code SCM tools like Terraform and Ansible\n- Proven ability to work remotely with teams of various sizes in same/different timezones, from anywhere and still remain highly motivated, productive, and organized.\n- Excellent English communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation. Great email and Instant Messaging (Slack) proficiency.\nWe’re looking for a self learner always willing to step out her/his comfort zone to become better. An upright individual, ready to write the first and many chapters of the Stacktical story with us.\n## Life at our virtual office\nOur headquarters are in Paris but our offices and our clients are everywhere in the World.\nWe’re a fully distributed company with a 100% remote workforce. So pretty much everything happens on Slack and various other collaborative tools.\n## Remote work at Stacktical\nRemote work at Stacktical requires you to forge a contract with the Stacktical company, using your own billing structure.\nThat means you would either need to own a company or leverage a compatible legal status.\nLabour laws can be largely different from a country to another and we are not (yet) in a position to comply with the local requirements of all our employees.\nJust because you will be a contractor doesn’t make you less of a fully-fledged employee of Stacktical. In fact, even our founders are contractors too.\n## Compensation Package\n#### Fixed-price contract\nYour contract fixed-price is engineered around your expectations, our possibilities and the overall implications of remote work.\nLet’s have a transparent chat about it.\n#### Stock Options\nYes, joining Stacktical means you are entrusted to own part of the company. \n\nPlease mention the words **VEHICLE ORBIT AUNT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, Erlang, Python, Node, API, Admin, Engineer, Apache, Nginx, Sys Admin, Docker, English, NoSQL, Microsoft and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n