Senior Platform Engineer, Top Hat
Interactive software for higher education
Posted today
Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- You are an advocate for DevOps practices and principles. We have the buy-in, now it’s about execution on the vision
- Hands-on experience with configuration automation (Terraform), CI / deployment automation (Github Actions), Docker, observability tooling (Honeycomb) and cloud providers (we’re all-in on AWS ECS)
- You have exposure to software development practices, whether as a developer or in operational roles that involve coding, e.g., Python, Golang
- You understand mature operational practices and have experience in building, managing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an engineer experienced with DevOps/SRE practices to join our Platform team
- The primary objective of this team is to improve our software delivery performance and availability by driving DevOps culture, tools, infrastructure and practices across Engineering within the Product Development department
- Besides the multiplicate impact of your own contributions, this role is a good mentorship opportunity for teams learning to build and operate their own services
- Scale continuous deployment practices across the department. Equip our teams to ship software reliably, frequently, with minimal trouble. Teams use reusable patterns and guidance from you to be able to practice DevOps (end-to-end production ownership within each cross-functional team). This means you’ll work with tools and infrastructure in addition to managing processes and practices
- Extend our reusable service template and its associated CI/CD tooling
- Build and extend our production observability. Help teams manage and achieve SLOs
- Participate in on-call activities
- Coach teams on operational ownership. Lead and teach blame-free root cause analysis for incidents that impact the customer or our delivery performance
- Continue to build and optimize platform capabilities driven via infrastructure-as-code
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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