Outschool
Director of Infrastructure Engineering
Remote (U.S · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$220k-$275kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- You will succeed with both strong organizational and people leadership skills, as well as exceptional hands-on development skills.
- You might be a great fit for this role if:
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a multi-site team of 5-10 engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, technical direction, as well as day-to-day development
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Marketing and Operations to deliver an exceptional systems and experiences
- Partner with senior leadership to align on strategy, metrics and priorities
- Champion technical excellence and a culture of high ownership, providing mentorship, feedback, and support for the professional growth of engineers on your team
- Drive adoption of AI-development principles and agentic engineering workflows across the team
- You'll own hard problems, from deep-diving into a full infrastructure stack, to up-leveling DevX, to establishing automations, to hardening security, to evolving systems to be AI-native, to developing platform components.
- Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org's nonprofit programs
Requirements
- You are a deep infrastructure expert familiar with all common modern infra technologies, and you thrive in diving into details
- You have experience as an engineering manager in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage company, and enjoy supporting teams through change and scale, including managing engineers across multiple sites
- You bring strong technical judgment and a track record of leading engineering teams that ship impactful systems quickly and iteratively
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading medium-sized teams, with demonstrated proficiency in performance management, career development, and people logistics
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiar with full-stack development using a combination of TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Familiar with AI-native development paradigms and understands how to take teams through AI transformations
- Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple parallel projects from planning to execution and on time delivery
- Ability to align team goals with business objectives and contribute to strategic planning
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding software engineers
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal
- Experience with infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and consolidations
- Background in marketplace technologies
- Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company
- Other Considerations:
Compensation
- Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living.
- In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits.
- For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $220,000 - $275,000 CAD annually.
- This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
- US Tier 1: $260,000 - $357,500
- US Tier 2: $221,000 - $303,875
Benefits
- Competitive salaries, stock options, and retirement plans
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Annual wellness stipend, access to coaching & therapy, and pet wellness plans
- Generous PTO and family leave policies
- Bay Area-based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits.
- Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes
- Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup and internet to stay connected no matter where you are.
Company info
- Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning.
- In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners.
- Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education.
- By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
- We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017.
- Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019.
- Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community.
- We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
- Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard.
- Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers.
- We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission.
- We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.
- Outschool is hiring a Director of Infrastructure Engineering to lead our Infrastructure and Platform team, whose mission is to accelerate innovation and deliver operation stability through a combination of robust infrastructure, principled platformization, and empowering DevX.
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