NMI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Platform/SRE)

K-12 Educational Technology Partner Seeks Senior Software Engineer (Platform/SRE) About Us: A rapidly expanding technology enterprise collaborating with educational districts nationwide, supporting 15 million students across all states through a secure, research-backed platform focused on AI, student support, and community engagement. Our mission-driven team delivers tangible impact for students daily. Professionals can work fully remote within the Continental United States. Role Overview: In our Platform/SRE Team, you'll leverage deep cloud infrastructure expertise to design, build, and maintain systems powering our platform. Focus areas include scaling and securing AWS-based infrastructure, managing Kubernetes clusters and RDS databases, and evolving Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices. You'll spearhead complex, high-impact infrastructure projects within your squad—driving improvements in scalability, performance, and developer experience—while empowering teammates to succeed. This position blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, collaborating closely with engineers to deliver resilient systems, enhance deployment processes, and ensure robust infrastructure during organizational growth. Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting application and service ecosystems - Execute complex infrastructure projects involving cluster scaling, deployment improvements, and database performance optimization - Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for reproducible, auditable environments - Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in cloud infrastructure - Operate and optimize databases, ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency - Enhance build and deployment pipelines, collaborating on CI/CD best practices - Participate in supportive on-call rotations, emphasizing proactive reliability - Share knowledge and mentor teammates to strengthen collective technical capabilities Ideal Candidate Qualifications: - Experience: 5+ years designing/operating production cloud infrastructure - Deep AWS expertise (EC2, RDS, ECS/EKS, networking, IAM) - Strong Infrastructure as Code proficiency - Containerization and Kubernetes hands-on experience - Database maintenance skills with PostgreSQL/similar systems - Continuous Delivery system familiarity - Observability and monitoring tool knowledge - Cross-functional collaboration abilities - Advanced problem-solving skills Bonus Considerations: - Secure cloud architecture design experience - Cost optimization background - Developer experience interests Success Indicators: - Delivers scalable, secure infrastructure supporting platform expansion - Completes complex infrastructure projects enhancing performance/reliability - Provides squadwide architectural and operational insights - Mentors teammates, elevating collective capabilities - Recognized as infrastructure expertise resource Compensation Range: $171,000 – $190,000 annually Comprehensive rewards strategy includes potential bonuses, equity awards, and region-specific benefits.