About Renaissance
When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology! Renaissance's solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters-creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.
Job Description
We are seeking a talented Dev Ops Engineer II for the Platform Team to help drive our transition to a platform-centric model. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make meaningful impact in a collaborative environment and apply your technical expertise to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.
In this role as a Dev Ops Engineer II, you will:
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code initiatives using CloudFormation and Terraform
- Develop and maintain data pipelines
- Design, build, and maintain containerized applications
- Build and improve developer tooling to enhance team productivity
- Work with event-driven systems like Kafka or Kinesis
- Explore and integrate AI tooling into platform workflows
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure and platform needs
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure prompt resoultion of any customer-facing incidents
- Support CI/CD pipelines which ensure the prompt release of high quality software
For this role as a Dev Ops Engineer II, you must have:
- 4 years of experience in software development
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Experience building or working with containerized applications
- Familiarity with data pipeline development and maintenance
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform
- Experience with developer tooling and automation
- Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, shell, etc
- Interest in or experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Strong self-starter mentality with demonstrated experience tackling open-ended challenges and rapidly ramping up on new systems
- Comfortable with uncertainty; able to independently define approach, identify dependencies, and drive work to completion without detailed specifications
Bonus Points:
- BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both
- Experience with AI tooling and integration
- Interest or experience in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc
- Experience writing deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Experience with logging and reporting systems (Datadog, New Relic, etc)
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Growth mindset with eagerness to learn new technologies, tools, and platforms as needed
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #LI-Remote
The below compensation range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location. Salary Range
$82,200 - $102,000 USD
Benefits for eligible US employees include:
- World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs
Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissance's benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other non‑employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits. Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Reasonable Accommodations
Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition .
Employment Authorization
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
For more information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com
