At Inkling, we believe getting an organization’s most critical knowledge to their people should be simple. We know that learning should happen flawlessly, on the job and in the moment. The Inkling modern learning platform brings this vision to life.

Designed for today’s learners and today’s work, we equip some of the world’s most recognized brands to quickly create beautiful content, build structured learning paths, generate meaningful insights, and drive business impact. 

The Inkling team is committed to delivering a better learning experience for everyone. If this sounds like a mission you’d like to support, please apply below!

The Role:

As a member of the infrastructure team, you’ll work alongside talented, experienced engineers as they build an innovative, scalable, and maintainable platform. We are committed to delivering the highest systems uptime and empowering other teams to build great software. We’re looking for an engineer with experience developing and deploying highly scalable distributed systems to join us. You will work with the latest technologies and collaborate with the team to develop the long term vision for our platform.

Responsibilities:

• Use your experience and knowledge to help innovate our platform, while also learning from the team
• Build new infrastructure to support the platform using modern AWS technologies such as Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, and RDS
• Be responsible for network and systems monitoring, alerting strategies, and providing support for our on-call rotation that responds quickly to issues. 
• Build and maintain efficient tooling for the entire engineering organization to improve developer productivity

Requirements:

• 4+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, including tech leadership roles.
• You have managed production systems in a 24x7 environment.
• You work well under pressure and solve problems using an analytical approach: decisive, fast moving; quick and constructive resolutions of conflicts; and have a can-do mentality.
• Fluent with Python and/or JavaScript, but open to other platforms, languages, and open source components.
• Ample experience with AWS services: compute (EC2, Fargate, Lambda), data storage (S3, RDS PostgreSQL/Aurora, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch), caching (ElastiCache Redis and Memcached), CDN (Cloudfront or Fastly), messaging (SQS/SNS/Kinesis), monitoring (CloudWatch). 
• Proficient with Docker. 
• Networking experience, comfortable working with command-line Linux. 
• Prior experience building and maintaining complex web applications and holding them to a high SLA. 
• Excellent ability to communicate, organize, and give honest feedback. 
• Great coding skills, ability to design complex systems, and can help others produce great technical designs as well. 

Bonus Points: 

• Familiarity with these tools / technologies: Terraform, Vault, Jenkins CI, Github, NGINX, HAProxy, Tableau. 
• Experience with modern monitoring solutions: Splunk, DataDog, New Relic, etc.
• Experience operating in a SOC2 certified environment. 
• Formal Computer Science degree(s). 

What we offer:

• Flexible PTO 
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Catered Lunch and Dinner 
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement 
• Monthly Cell Phone and Data Reimbursement
• 401(k) Program
• Commuter Benefits
• Near Public Transportation

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Inkling does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Inkling does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.