Site Reliability Engineer, Studocu
+ Equity scheme
2 days a week in office
Educational materials platform for students
Be an early applicant
Educational materials platform for students
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity scheme
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to excel at their studies by providing the best tools to study more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure
- Strong experience running production systems at scale
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with observability tools i.e. Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, or Loki
- Experience with AWS is a must - experience with other cloud providers is a bonus
- Experience managing systems with high throughput or heavy workloads
- Experience working with workflow orchestration systems is ideal
- Prior experience with Kestra is a big plus
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical topics into clear explanations
What the job involves
- As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems that power StuDocu’s internal operations and workflows
- You will work within our Technical Excellence team to build and maintain the infrastructure running Kestra, our workflow orchestration platform used across multiple teams
- Your focus will be on improving infrastructure reliability, scaling workflow systems, and helping transform Kestra into a platform used by teams across the company
- Design, build, and maintain reliable production infrastructure supporting Kestra workflows
- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Manage and optimize PostgreSQL databases in production environments
- Scale our workflow orchestration system handling thousands of tasks per minute
- Improve monitoring, observability, and system performance
- Help expand the Kestra platform for use by teams across different cloud environments
- Work with stakeholders across the company to support internal systems and workflows
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear communication for non-technical stakeholders
- Participate in an optional on-call rotation
Our take
High quality notes and resources are necessary at every level of education, but at times personal notes can be incomplete or missing details. The founders of Studocu have created a platform that allows students to share notes, resources and study materials, that now holds materials from universities across the world.
With millions of users every month accessing the platform, there is undeniable demand for Studocu's services. Much of the company's popularity may be ascribed to its freemium model, which keeps 85% of its content free to access. The other 15% can be accessed by students who either upload their own study materials or pay a fee.
Studocu has seen impressive investment which has enabled it to expand substantially. It also acquired Studybees, its German counterpart, to support this expansion. In 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam filed a lawsuit against the company which will be interesting to follow, as it surrounds whether Studocu should have to proactively screen materials for copyright breaches, rather than its current report/takedown approach.
Steph
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Aug 2019
$4.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.8m
Company benefits
- Equity scheme in the form of SAR
- Gifts
- Pension scheme
- Referral rewards
- 24 days of paid leave per year
- Option to buy unpaid leave
- Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)
- Annual hackathons
- In-house dutch lessons
- In-house L&D workshops
- Personal L&D budget of €2,500 per year
- Annual company trip
- Sports subscription with OneFit
- Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road
- Hybrid work set up between home and office
- Lots of company events and team-building activities
- Lunch in our office prepared by our Chef Valentijn
- One floor with a garden and the other with a canal view!
- Open bar = Friday Drinks!
- Option to work up to 4 weeks per calendar year from abroad
- Pet-friendly office (with a no-pets zone)
- Snacks are on us
- Work From Home setup budget of €800 via Workwize
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Reynald Fasciaux
(CEO)Has been with the company for five years, first as COO then CEO. Before that, they were Head of Product Operations (EMEA) at ofo and Head of Customer Insights (EMEA) at Uber.
Marnix Broer
(Co-Founder & Chair of the Board)Advisory Board Member at Brandsolo. Previously co-founded TentamenTrainingen.
Sander Kuijk
(Co-Founder & DevOps)Was a Full-stack Developer at GraphicsGurus. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
Lucas van den Houten
(Co-Founder & CPO)Was previously CTO at the company. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
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