Staff Software Engineer 1

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Hosting team manages and supports the infrastructure of all our platforms, from hardware to software, to operating systems to PowerSchool products. This collaborative team helps meet the needs of an evolving technology and business model with a specialized focus on protecting customer data and keeping information secure. We work closely with product engineering teams to deliver products into production environments across Azure and AWS. 

Description

The Hosting Team is repsonsible for our production deployments across Azure, AWS, and GCP. This role is specific to our Analytics and Insights platform, which is built and deployed using AWS, Snowflake, and Kubernettes. This role is responsible for the ongoing design, development, and support of the automation platform for delivering the Analytics & Insights product into production. This role performs the following responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate Infrastructure-as-code automation for Terraform, K8s, Snowflake, and while also executing customer tenant migrations in Analytics and Insights.
• Manage and optimize K8s clusters and workloads using Argo CD, Flux and Helm.
• Configure and support dynamic connector configurations.
• Work with the Product Engineering teams in building out the specifications and provide scalable, reliable platforms for the automation/delivery platform
• UI Development for internal dashboards and management applications
• CI/CD pipeline engineering and support
• Environment support including production support
• Participate in on-call schedules

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Kubernettes, Flux, Terraform or equivalent technologies
• Advance knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EFS, RDS, ECS, etc
• Working knowledge of monitoring, logging and alerting tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Strong Java, Python, and Git experience 

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid understanding of software engineering principals
• Azure experience a plus

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.