Sr. Platform Engineer

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At Otus, a fast-growing EdTech company based at 1K Fulton in the West Loop of Chicago, you will work with people passionate about improving the lives of teachers and students. We are a group of talented designers, developers, coaches, and leaders. We love our work and strive to do our best each day.

On our team, you will find musicians, beer enthusiasts, designer toy collectors, table tennis fanatics, and more.

 

Your Role

  • Otus is a building a next generation Platform for EdTech in order to support our transformative vision for K-12 education across the US
  • The team will focus on building a number of cutting edge Platforms and Services to power the business for the next 5-10 years
    • A core HA platform built on public cloud infrastructure for a microservice architecture (Kubernetes)
    • A suite of new microservices and systems written in Node and the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala) 
    • Create and own the core libraries and frameworks used to build microservices at Otus - a mix of OSS and custom libraries that are selected for speed and ease of use
    • A brand new data and event platform based on high throughput streaming tech (Kafka, Snowflake)
    • Operations tooling, metrics and monitoring (Prometheus)
    • CI/CD pipelines with Blue/Green and Canary deploys (Codefresh)
    • Performance and failure testing (Gatling)
  • You should be able to apply skills and knowledge to operational concerns. Be a developer, not a systems administrator
  • Work across the organization to build out systems that can scale to meet 1000s of requests in less than 1 second in smart and cost-effective ways 
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for 1 or more of our internal systems or services
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor and guide our engineering staff in the development of new systems and introduction of new technology

 

Your experience

  • Breadth - Substantial experience as an Engineer across multiple environments on complex distributed polyglot systems using Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Go and/or C++ (5+ years)
  • At least 1 project that demonstrates prowess in designing, implementing, and operating large scale, high throughput, low latency distributed systems
  • At least 1 project that encompasses defining and designing reliable, scalable, distributed systems running on AWS
  • Depth - You can go up and down the stack from deep in the infrastructure up to the data, application, and client layers
  • Speed - Experience with small teams that move fast -- all members are expected to be able to achieve maximum results with minimal direction
  • Ownership and accountability - You own the things that you build  
  • Drive - When you see a need, you fill a need.  You can step in where you see a need and push us all forward

 

Nice to Haves

  • Have built 2 platforms using at least 1 big data technology (Relational and/or Non-relational)
  • Demonstrated experience building solutions around CI, release management, deployment, and monitoring (2 years+)
  • 1 project building Authorization and Authentication backing microservices  
  • Open source contributions to a few major projects

 

Benefits and Perks

  • Competitive salary and stock options 
  • 20 PTO days a year, plus a day off for your birthday (or a loved one), an interest day (to do something you love) and paid holidays  
  • Up to 12 weeks of parental leave, and great work/life balance
  • Flexible hours and work from home policy so you can be at your most productive
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life Insurance and disability benefits
  • 401K with an employer match (up to 4%)
  • Working in arguably the best neighborhood in the city with the excellent food, drinks, coffee and donuts all within walking distance
  • Working in an amazing office building with gym, rooftop deck, frequent social events, shuttle to and from train stations

Otus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity of every kind. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately, the company is unable to support sponsorships at this time. 

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Otus is a remote-first company based out of Chicago, IL.

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