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That’s why we built ThoughtExchange, a platform powered by cutting-edge AI that helps leaders meaningfully connect with their communities and uncover immediate, actionable insights that drive real change.\nWe empower K12 leaders with the high-quality data they need to make informed decisions and create lasting impact. Our mission fuels everything we do, and we’re proud to work alongside a team of brilliant, curious, and collaborative individuals. \nAt ThoughtExchange, we’re reshaping how organizations engage their people for good. If you’re passionate about making a difference, we’d love to have you on the journey.\nSenior Platform Engineer\n Join a team where innovation and cutting-edge technology are at the forefront. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in scaling cloud operations and enhancing the security of our platform, while driving forward-thinking projects in collaboration with a passionate Software Engineering team. This is your chance to work on high-impact cloud systems, ensuring availability, reliability, and scalability while championing a culture of automation and innovation.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nDesign, automate and improve our software delivery platform, keeping our engineers effective as the way we build software changes.\nBuild and own the tooling and guardrails for AI agent workflows.\nScale resilient backend cloud infrastructure as our product grows.\nLead initiatives that set best practices in infrastructure, automation, security and observability.\nOwn the end-to-end delivery of complex features and projects, from planning and design through deployment and operational health.\nWork with engineers and leaders to shape a technical roadmap.\nMentor other engineers and raise the team’s technical bar through code reviews and shared best practices.\nHelp build a respectful, productive remote-first team, through stand-ups, design talks and day-to-day collaboration.\nWhat You Bring:\n5+ years of experience in software development, cloud infrastructure or DevOps, ideally in a SaaS company.\nProficiency in Linux system administration (Ubuntu). \nExperience running Docker and Kubernetes in production.\nYou’ve built and maintained AI agents and the tooling around them with effective guardrails, permissions, sandboxes and validation gates.\nHands-on experience with CI/CD tools and practices.\nStrong Python and Bash skills.\nWorking knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Packer and Terraform.\nA deep understanding of cloud concepts and providers (especially AWS).\nExperience using system monitoring tools (e.g. Sentry, Scalyr, Datadog).\nStrong debugging skills: you find root causes and work with others to fix them.\nYou work well on your own and as part of a team.\nNice to have:\nExperience with distributed systems programming.\nExperience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Testim, Playwright).\nSalary range:\nThe hiring range for this role is $128,625 - $151,324. Your specific compensation within this range is determined based on your job-related skills, knowledge, experience, and our internal equity assessment.\nThis job posting is for an actual vacancy.\nWe do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen resumes or evaluate candidate fit against job criteria. All interview and hiring decisions are made by people.\nIf you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out, apply, and tell us more about yourself in your application. Research has shown that some individuals only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to removing obstacles to ensure we have the best talent. \nThoughtExchange prioritizes accessibility. Support is available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the selection process. Finally, we know from time to time, emergencies happen, and you may need to reschedule an interview - we understand and encourage you to be in communication without worrying about losing the opportunity or your credibility.\nWhat we offer: \nThoughtExchange wants to ensure our people are heard, supported, and cared for, so we invest in our employees. We continuously ask our employees what they need to ensure we're supporting their successes in the workplace and in life.\nWe are proud to offer our employees the following:\nBenefits & Well-Being: From day one, you’ll receive a benefits package focused on health & wellness that includes a generous time off policy, flexible extended benefits plan options, and company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year. 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