Site Reliability Engineer, Newsela
$95-105k
+ Stock options
Online platform for education content
Job no longer available
Online platform for education content
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$95-105k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide meaningful classroom learning for every student.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Background in Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals
- Systems experience managing, configuring and troubleshooting operating system issues, storage (block and object), networking (VPCs, proxies and CDNs), and administer high-availability datastores (mySQL, Postgres, Neo4J) and Redis clusters
- Monitoring and instrumentation: implement metrics in Datadog, Sentry, log management and related systems, and Slack/JIRA integrations
- Understanding of engineering practices: availability, reliability and scalability, as well as disaster recovery
- Ability to work in a variety of languages: Shell, IaC, Python, and SQL
- Be able to plan using your familiarity with agile methodologies; use epics, issues to drive projects
- Personal and team workload organization and ability to self-organize and accomplish tasks asynchronously
- Contributing to Newsela architecture diagrams, process diagrams and runbook documentation
- Completing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
- Improving team practices through code reviews, handoffs of work, and incidents
- Self-awareness, handling conflict in the team, providing and receiving feedback, and maintaining good relationships with other engineering teams
- Willingness to proactively step in and do the right thing while providing candid and constructive feedback
What the job involves
- As a member of our Technology team, the Site Reliability Engineer will be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents
- Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services
- Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry and CloudWatch
- Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil
- Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind
- Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers
- As a member of our growing Technology team, you will have the opportunity to make a real and immediate impact by:
- Being involved in the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure
- Influencing improved resiliency and reliability of the Newsela product
- You'll impact Newsela.com's availability, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide
Our take
While textbooks have been standard issue in classrooms for centuries, digital instructional materials are now more prevalent. Newsela offers a learning platform that curates and rewrites news articles, historical speeches, and scientific papers to help accelerate learning.
The platform is available in both English and Spanish and includes quizzes, exercises, and writing prompts to help engage students at any level. Millions of teachers and K-12 students use the platform, which has proved extremely popular so far.
In 2021, the company reached unicorn status. Since then, research has shown that Newsela is 70% more effective at promoting reading skills compared to an average summer reading program. This demonstrates the value it brings to the space, and places it well for continued expansion and innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $172.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare (pets included)
- Continue your learning - on us!
- Discounts and resources to stay healthy
- Commuter savings (trains/bikes)
- Generous time off for your most important job — maternity, paternity, and adoption
- Unlimited time Off
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dan Cogan-Drew
(Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer)A qualified teacher with extensive and varied experience. Recent roles include Director of Programs at EDUCATION CONNECTION and Director of Digital Learning at Achievement First Public Charter Schools.
Matthew Gross
(Co-Founder & Director)Former CEO of the company. Co-founded and was CEO at Grouper Education. Was also a Board Member at New Classrooms, Executive Director at Regents Research Fund and VP at PENCIL.
Pep Carrera
(CEO)Board Member at Follett Higher Education. Was CEO at Nearpod, President at ProQuest, and President and COO at VitalSource Technologies.
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