Brisk Teaching

Brisk Teaching

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago
AWSCI/CDRESTCybersecurityIncident ResponseShopifyLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • We're looking for someone who is excited to jump into leading the day-to-day of the current Platform team members my while staying close to the technical work.
  • You'll work closely with our team on driving forward our roadmap, collaborating and coordinating with the rest of our engineering work, and making sure that the Platform team is keeping Brisk reliable as we scale.
  • This is a player-coach role on a small, high-impact team.

Responsibilities

  • You'll also develop the engineers who keep it all running.
  • You'll work closely with product, design, and leadership, and you'll have real ownership from day one.
  • Own the roadmap and partner with our team on technical direction for Brisk's platform - core infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling, and shared services.
  • Stay hands-on: design, build, and maintain the AWS-based infrastructure that powers our products.
  • Drive reliability and scalability so performance stays seamless as our user base expands.
  • Partner with product engineers to keep development workflows smooth and production stable.
  • People management experience, or a track record as a tech lead/mentor with a clear desire to people manage.
  • Lead observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call practices.
  • Experience building or leading a Platform / Infrastructure / DevEx team.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring tools.
  • Strong written and oral communication, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguity.
  • Experience with analytics infrastructure and data pipelines.

Skills

  • Experience designing scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).
  • Experience managing cloud costs.

Company info

  • Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale. Our Classroom Intelligence tools connect teachers, students, and curriculum-making meaningful learning happen in classrooms every day. We believe the best technology is cutting-edge, respects teachers' time, integrates into real classrooms, and helps educators focus on what matters most.
  • Since launching, Brisk has experienced rapid growth. Over 2 million teachers use our platform, and we partner with districts and schools nationwide to transform how educators teach and how students learn.
  • We're backed by leading venture and edtech investors including Bessemer Venture Partners (Shopify, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Perplexity) and Owl Ventures (Newsela, Quizlet, MasterClass), with a team spanning top AI companies and real classroom experience.
  • We're a fast-moving, collaborative team driven by a shared commitment to educator impact and product excellence. Our values-urgency, ownership, and focus-shape how we build and who we are.
  • Mentor, and grow a small team of platform/infrastructure engineers (or grow into managing one, if you join as an IC).
  • Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale.
  • Our Classroom Intelligence tools connect teachers, students, and curriculum-making meaningful learning happen in classrooms every day.
  • We believe the best technology is cutting-edge, respects teachers' time, integrates into real classrooms, and helps educators focus on what matters most.
  • Since launching, Brisk has experienced rapid growth.
  • Over 2 million teachers use our platform, and we partner with districts and schools nationwide to transform how educators teach and how students learn.
  • We're a fast-moving, collaborative team driven by a shared commitment to educator impact and product excellence.
  • Our values-urgency, ownership, and focus-shape how we build and who we are.
  • We're looking for a leader to own and grow Brisk's Platform team - the group responsible for the core infrastructure, shared services, and developer experience that everything else at Brisk is built on.
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