Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$172k - $250k USD
ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.
We started by building a powerful network for communication. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-12 teachers, children, and families globally. Teachers use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos, videos, and messages that make parents feel like they’re there. It’s actively used in over 95% of US schools, reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries, with a team of just around 200 people [1]. We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world, far beyond those a standard school can provide.
We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative teammates from around the world, with experience in education and large scale consumer internet companies, including Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Y Combinator, and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.
What you’ll do:
Improve our platform
Write, debug, and optimize code for our platform—the infrastructure that all of the rest of our teams depend on (languages like Python, Javascript, Typescript or Go are a plus).
Collaborating with software engineers through pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, and design sessions.
Seek out opportunities to provide shared value through improvements of our common systems, tooling, and practices
Support and improve our build and delivery pipelines
Contribute to technical design and architecture conversations with your expertise and perspective
Stay curious and proactive about new tools, products, and approaches (including AI-adjacent infrastructure), evaluating where we can responsibly improve developer velocity, reliability, or safety.
Contribute to better practice, processes and teamwork
Help to unblock teammates as well as other teams through hands-on work and guidance.
Break work down so we can make improvements incrementally
Help grow other engineers into more senior engineers.
Systematically improve the quality of our product and process.
Encourage collaboration and psychological safety.
You will be a match if:
You have 8-12+ years of professional software experience.
You have 5+ years of experience in positions that focused primarily on infrastructure/platform work (Cloud Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, etc).
You have made an impact in the organizations that you've joined.
You have driven technical excellence through improvements to process, practices, and tools (e.g. experience with test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices)
You’re open to evolving with the role over time, including adapting infrastructure and practices as AI-powered products and workflows become a larger part of the platform.
You have strong communication.
You're excited to get things done in a fast-paced environment
You have an ownership mindset: you are comfortable with both responsibility and accountability
You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture
You enjoy working in a pair programming environment
You are passionate about education and care about having impact on tens of millions of kids' lives with your work
You live and work in the Americas timezones
[1] Some more context:
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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):
CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $250,000 (USD)
All other states in the US: $146,000 - $215,000 (USD)
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