Remote Staff Platform Engineer, Backend

Description:

• Brightwheel is seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join their platform team, which is responsible for enabling engineering teams to operate independently and deliver value to customers.
• The role involves leading complex cross-team projects that enhance engineering velocity, system reliability, security, and optimize operational costs.
• Responsibilities include improving coding efficiency and quality, diagnosing reliability and performance issues, and rapidly deploying code to address these issues.
• The engineer will provide input to both delivery and discovery processes, ensuring a solid platform that serves customers and supports product development.
• The position requires designing and architecting new software systems, driving data-driven decision-making, and promoting excellence in engineering processes and culture.
• Collaboration with both technical and non-technical functions across the company is essential, as well as mentoring and growing engineering teams.
• The engineer will also be involved in interviewing and evaluating engineering candidates.

Requirements:

• Must have experience in API and application development, ideally in languages like Ruby, Python, or similar.
• Experience in data modeling and optimizing relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL for large datasets is required.
• Proficiency in integrating services with various architectures, including synchronous and asynchronous.
• Expertise in building cloud infrastructure and services in AWS or equivalent is necessary.
• Preferred experience includes proficiency in Ruby on Rails, knowledge of security concepts, and familiarity with common database and web technologies.
• Experience with GitOps tooling for infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline automation is preferred.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and containerization/orchestration tools is also desired.
• Essential people skills include making pragmatic technology choices, caring about work quality, striving for team improvement, and focusing on clear communication.

Benefits:

• Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary ranging from $179,000 to $237,000, equity, and benefits.
• The benefits package includes premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous paid parental leave, and a flexible paid time off policy.
• Employees receive a monthly wellness and productivity stipend, as well as a Learning & Development stipend.
• Brightwheel is committed to internal pay equity and benchmarks compensation against similar-stage growth companies.