About BrightBytes

BrightBytes improves learning for millions of students globally through the use of learning analytics and industry research. The company's flagship product, called Clarity, is an online platform that gives educational leaders everything they need to make faster, better decisions in schools. More than 10% of U.S. schools use Clarity, and hundreds more purchase the platform every week.

The organization is seeking a DevOps Engineer to work in the San Francisco office, a fast-paced, fun, entrepreneurial environment.

About the Founders

Rob Mancabelli, co-founder and CEO, is a recognized education thought leader. He’s the co-author with Will Richardson of the award-winning book, Personal Learning Networks. Hisham Anwar, co-founder and CTO, is an experienced Silicon Valley enterprise technologist who most recently was the head of global technology infrastructure at Zynga Games. Other members of the team include published authors, Ivy-League data scientists, TED-talk speakers, world-class researchers and inspirational education leaders.

The DevOps Engineer will work closely with technology, product, development, and data science team members. Position responsibilities will include the following:

• Design, develop and deliver the company’s big data infrastructure

• Build out data cleansing, analysis, search and reporting pipeline and engine

• Define and refine tools to leverage data more effectively for internal as well as client data analysis

• Establish and maintain infrastructure specs and run books

• Manage resource allocation across all components of the data processing pipeline and infrastructure, including optimizing for spot pricing, Auto Scaling, and more

• Create MapReduce jobs and manage scheduling, monitoring and automation

• Configure, maintain and deploy relational, NoSQL, column based, document and key-value stores

• Test new technologies and recommend improvements to the pipeline and infrastructure

• 3+ years experience

• Superior coding ability in at least one Java/C++/C#-like language and one Python/Ruby-like language

• 2+ years experience with commercial cloud services such as Elastic Cloud Compute and Elastic MapReduce

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Expertise with relational, NoSQL, column based, document and key-value stores

• Strong expertise with SQL scripting, data warehousing, business intelligence, and ETL development

• Experience with security and Infrastructure as Code solutions

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

• English language proficiency

Other Desired Skills

• Knowledge in MapReduce, Machine Learning, NLP, Complex Event Processing, Text Mining, Semantic Web, Time Series Analysis, Predictive Analytics, and similar

• Experience with data mining tools like R and Mahout

• Knowledge of search technologies, such as Lucene and Solr

• Practical experience with distributed data analysis systems using parallel processes such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive and Pig

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.