3 months ago
Base Salary
$173k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Modify, diagnose, and improve Seesaw’s Python HTTP backend running on Tornado and backed by DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code repositories that provision AWS resources.
- Apply distributed-systems reasoning to technical decisions involving reliability and scale.
- Own technical work from inception and implementation through production monitoring and alerting.
- Share engineering best practices for code authoring, tooling, and observability across teams.
- Identify and address platform vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost-effectiveness and resource management.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps, design proposals, engineering culture, and strategic initiatives with stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend development experience.
- Thorough understanding of distributed-systems mechanics, including eventual consistency, fan-in/fan-out patterns, and backpressure.
- Familiarity with AWS core services including EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and ECS/EKS, or similar cloud experience.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
- Ability to execute independently, demonstrate sound judgment, and take ownership of technical direction.
- Proven experience owning and operating infrastructure serving software at high scale, including billions of incoming requests per month.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, orthodontics, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Flexible paid time off and flexible vacation policy.
- Mindfulness First Fridays.
- Monthly technology stipend.
- Home office setup stipend.
- Professional development stipend.
- Paid parental leave.
- Charitable donation matching and volunteer days.
- Work-life-balance-focused culture and sustainable working pace.
About Seesaw
Seesaw builds an elementary-focused learning platform that combines digital student portfolios, assessments, curriculum content, and two-way family communication for classrooms. Schools and districts buy the software as a subscription, with admin tools and integrations for rostering and standards alignment. The company is privately held, headquartered in San Francisco, and serves K–12 customers in the U.S. and internationally, including the UK and Australia.