Infrastructure & Tooling Engineer

Teaching kids to think critically and communicate effectively has never been more important, and NoRedInk helps students become better writers in more than 60% of U.S. school districts. We're looking for an Infrastructure and Tooling Engineer to further our quest to help every student harness the power of the written word.

In this role, you will:

• Support an engineering department committed to improving the lives of educators and students
• Build tooling that helps engineers focus on the problem they are trying to solve
• Contribute to scaling our platform to reach the next 10 million students
• Work asynchronously with a team and department spread across many time zones and locales
• Establish trusting relationships with folk all across the company
• Have fun using cool technology to solve interesting problems with awesome people

About You:

• 3+ years of experience working in operations, infrastructure and/or developer experience
• You are excited to search out and debug problems in unfamiliar systems
• You value your autonomy, and prefer building goals with your team rather than receiving them from a manager
• You have at least 1 year of professional experience developing applications
• You value code quality and well tested code
• You are comfortable working remotely
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Interest in working with functional languages (e.g., Haskell, Nix, Elm)
• Comfortable managing large systems (e.g., Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Honeycomb, Newrelic, Datadog)
• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Github Actions, Argo)

What NoRedInk Offers:

• A competitive salary and equity package in a well-funded startup with a strong product-market fit
• Excellent health, vision, and dental benefits (U.S. Only)
• 100% remote work environment - we are open to international candidates in Canada and South America 
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
• 401(k) (U.S. Only)
• LinkedIn Learning subscription with unlimited access to thousands of expert-led online courses
• Team retreats and events to connect with fun, talented coworkers
• The ability to help millions of students and teachers and address a critical societal need

About NoRedInk:

NoRedInk helps students in over 60% of US school districts become better writers. Our deeply engaging, adaptive curriculum personalizes exercises to kids' interests, guides them through the writing process with instructional support, and boosts their skills through targeted practice. Students have completed over 10 billion exercises on our site, and our mission is to help all students harness the power of the written word.

Check out our press page, including our 2-minute pitch on NBC and articles in The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.

NoRedInk believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. At NoRedInk, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

Compensation at NoRedInk is robust and includes a full range of benefits, unlimited PTO, monthly co-working stipends, an initial home-office set-up stipend, and generous equity. Our salary ranges are based on factors such as expectations in the job description, location-specific market data, internal parity, and the experience and skills of individual candidates. Therefore, the compensation range is $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 USD, accounting for various locations and skills/expertise.  Please know that if you are invited to speak with a recruiter at NoRedInk, they will discuss compensation openly during your first call to ensure alignment. 

*Note: Agencies or other third-party recruiters may not submit unsolicited candidate resumes or their information to any NoRedInk employee, including a NoRedInk Recruiter, unless a contract is signed and the Talent Acquisition team gives you permission to work on a job opening.