Staff Platform Engineer
Cambly
About Cambly: Our mission is to bring high quality English education to every English learner in the world at the touch of a button. Think of us as the Airbnb that matches English students with English tutors and come help us build the world’s largest English learning marketplace and school.
We're currently looking for a talented Staff Platform Engineer who:
- has strong conviction about how to build a world class platform for engineers to ship quickly and with confidence
- has expertise in scaling production systems to millions of users with a fast growing engineering team
- enjoys helping others be great
- shares our passion for having an impact in the personal and professional lives of others.
If this sounds like you, here’s what you’ll do:
As the first platform engineer at Cambly, you’ll be defining the discipline and influencing the entire engineering organization. You’ll determine when we should be building for scale and when we should keep things simple. You should be excited to dig in on the pain points and opportunities facing our engineering team to build a roadmap for improving Cambly’s platform. As our team and codebase scales, you’ll be responsible for making sure we’re making the right investments to keep shipping features that keep our students learning and our pagers quiet.
You have 8 years or more experience working on backend infrastructure
You've been responsible for the uptime, scaling, and security of high availability production infrastructure
You have a track record of accelerating engineering productivity organization-wide through platform improvements and influencing best practices.
You've driven strategies around monitoring and logging and are able to make pragmatic decisions to ensure investment translates to impact.
Experience managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform (or similar) and an appetite for learning other cloud services like Google Cloud and Alicloud.
Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines.
Experience working with MongoDB (or other databases) in production.
A passion for learning. You fearlessly dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.
Life @Cambly includes...
Cash Flow Positive for the greater part of the last 6 years - check us out in Forbes
60M VC backed but haven't touched any of it - check out why Bessemer invested in us
Hybrid First Company (M, T, Th)
Catered Lunches
100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision paid along with matching 401k
Maternity and Paternity Paid Leave
20 days of true, unbothered PTO
End-of-year shutdown
Family-friendly environment with amazing WLB and Culture
Helping others around the world unlock economic opportunities by learning English
This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Compensation Package $160,000-$220,000 USD Base Salary + Pre-IPO Stock Options
Also: We are proud to be a highly inclusive company and an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe in order to thrive, businesses need a diverse team and leadership. We welcome every background, identity, abilities, and mindset to join us on our mission to make high-quality English education for all. Everyone is welcome here. To request reasonable accommodation, contact peopleteam@cambly.com or leave a message at (415)549-0188.