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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Outschool
23 hours ago
On-site
Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea

The Company:

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
 
Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our Infrastructure and Platform team. Our core infrastructure team's mission is to empower developers through reliable, secure, and frictionless systems that accelerate innovation and ensure operational stability. You'll own hard problems, including developer experience, automation, security hardening, and evolving our systems to be AI-native.

We are an effective team of engineers distributed across the US, Canada, and South Korea. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience.

This role requires working in our Haeundae, Busan, South Korea office, Tuesday-Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Our Stack:

  • Infrastructure & Platform: 
    • AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM) · Terraform · GitLab · Prometheus/Grafana · OpenTelemetry
  • Product Layer
    • TypeScript · Node · React · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · OpenSearch
    • You won't own this code but you'll own the systems that let engineers ship it with confidence.
  • AI-Native
    • The team uses AI throughout the development workflow. 
    • We're actively building infrastructure for AI/ML workloads in production — experimentation pipelines, model serving, and observability. 

Core Responsibilities:

  • Developer experience: Define and drive the Developer Experience strategy for a 10-20 person engineering org. Improve tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer platforms so engineers ship faster and with more confidence.
  • Automation: Design and implement automation for provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and operational workflows. Reduce toil. Build systems that run themselves.
  • Security: Harden infrastructure across the stack. Implement security best practices at the platform level. Partner with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle.
  • AI-forward infrastructure: Help evolve our platform to natively support AI/ML workloads. Think infrastructure that enables experimentation, scales AI features to production, and supports a team that uses AI as a first-class tool.
  • Reliability: Own production systems. Build observability into everything. Set the reliability bar and on-call culture for the engineering org. Participate in on-call and lead incident response with a systems-thinking mindset.

Desired Experience and Skills:

  • 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
  • Deep experience with AWS: EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, and related services
  • Strong Kubernetes fundamentals: deployment, scaling, networking, workload management, and debugging containerized services
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
  • Familiarity with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry (or similar)
  • Strong grasp of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and delivery semantics
  • AI-forward approach: you actively use AI tools in your workflow. You can prompt well, validate output critically, and know when to override
  • Intermediate or higher English Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking skills (our interview process and daily work is conducted entirely in English).

Other Considerations:

  • Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families
  • Familiarity with search and discovery systems
  • Familiarity with payment APIs (e.g. Stripe)
  • Background in marketplace technologies
  • Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company

Compensation:

Outschool recruits across the US, Canada, and South Korea and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living.

This role is available in South Korea:

The salary range for this position is 63,125,700 - $78,907,125 KRW annually.

Benefits in South Korea:

  • Coworking Office located directly at exit 11, Jangsan Station in beautiful Haeundae, Busan.
  • Necessary equipment (MacBook, monitor, etc.) and software for work provided
  • Finish work early in the day - working hours from 7AM - 3PM.
  • Flexible vacation, use whenever you like. Korean national holidays plus 15 extra days per year.
  • Invitation to join the annual company retreat once per year (flight to United States, hotel, meals paid for by company).

Benefits & Culture:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:
  • Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, retirement plans.
  • Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance — plus fertility/family planning coverage and access to ModernHealth coaching & therapy.
  • PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies.
  • Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and a new office in San Francisco. Bay Area–based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup, internet, and weekly meals to stay connected no matter where you are.
  • Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes.
  • Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@outschool.com.
 
Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.
 
Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise. 
 
Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all).  If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.