Staff Software Engineer

CodePath is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with strong DevOps expertise who will design, develop, and maintain our infrastructure and web-based applications that are the centerpiece of our mission to enhance and revolutionize the educational experience for emerging engineers.

We operate a moderately sized deployment (12-15 VPS instances plus supporting services) and seek someone with DevOps principles rather than enterprise-scale experience. You won't have sole responsibility—we've maintained this infrastructure ourselves for years. Your role is to help our team level up while also contributing to product features as part of our full-stack engineering team.

The ideal candidate will thrive in ambiguity, relish autonomy, and be excited about leveraging and building the technology that is at the center of CodePath's ambitious vision to transform college computer science education, empower the tech leaders of tomorrow and generate over $1.5T in wealth for low-income communities within the next 20 years.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will join a small team of engineers who collaborate directly with stakeholders to comprehend the needs of our students and staff, actively participate in the decision-making process about which features and functionalities to tackle and then independently execute. On CodePath's Product Engineering team, you'll make high-impact decisions about how we solve our problems.

What You'll Work On

• Leading the charge to modernize our production infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible. You'll help transition our stable but aging setup to a more maintainable, scalable infrastructure-as-code approach

• Maintaining and modernizing our internal libraries and codebases to ensure long-term scalability and stability

• Using Rails 7.1 with Turbo in greenfield projects that will help us reduce cost per student and enable us to concurrently reach a greater number of students than we ever have before

• Refining our Markdown-based course materials system to support mastery-driven learning

• Scaling a system that has helped tens of thousands of students to help hundreds of thousands more

• We partner closely with AI leaders from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and other specialists on the cutting edge of generative AI R&D. You'll have the opportunity to work hands-on with the most advanced AI systems in the world

Key Activities

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and other modern DevOps tools

• Design, develop, and maintain web-based applications using Ruby on Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, and Django

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to define requirements, implement new features, and fix bugs

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code

• Participate in code reviews and maintain code quality standards

• Write automated tests and ensure that applications are tested thoroughly before deployment

• Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies, frameworks, and best practices in software development

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and other technical issues

• Debug and troubleshoot issues as they arise

• Provide technical guidance and support to other members of the team

Qualifications

• Comfortable with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices for managing small to medium-scale deployments

• Passion for DevOps and infrastructure automation

• Strong experience with one or more of our frameworks: Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, or Django

• Familiarity with Docker and containerization

• Experience maintaining software packages, whether internal or open source

• Experience with PostgreSQL and database design

• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team environment

• Passion for education and desire to make a positive impact in the world

Nice to haves

• Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management tools

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes

• Experience working with LLMs and Generative AI

• Experience deploying applications on GCP