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Knewton is on a mission to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products.
Knewton has delivered more than 15 billion personalized recommendations to over 10 million students on every continent except Antarctica. Knewton was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York City with offices in London and Tokyo. We have also been recognized as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, one of the top 100 Best Places to work by Crain’s New York Business and one of the Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data. Investments top $150M from well-known angel investors plus Accel, Bessemer, First Round Capital, Firstmark, Founders Fund, GSV and Atomico.
Knewton is seeking an engineer to join the DevOps team. We are a newly formed internal service-oriented team, focused on managing our core AWS infrastructure, creating and maintaining developer tools and services that empower the rest of the Tech organization to build and deploy quickly and with confidence.
This is a great opportunity to:- Design, build and manage the underlying infrastructure on AWS at Knewton
- Build and maintain continuous deployment solutions
- Partner with engineers on teams with technical support tasks
- Create the tools that automate our infrastructure
- Solid experience with Python
- Solid Linux skills. You need to be able to discuss performance and interactions of complex large scale deployments
- Experience with configuration management tools like chef, puppet, or ansible
- Understanding of AWS technologies and how to leverage and support them within a complex infrastructure
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
- Track record of practical problem solving and excellent written and verbal communication
- Competitive salary, great benefits, and equity
- Flexible hours, no vacation policy, and paid maternity/paternity leave
- High-quality equipment (Mac or PC)
- Frequent guest speakers and tech/EdTech Meetups hosted at Knewton HQ
- Social groups and sports teams
- Catered lunch everyday in the office, all-day snacks, and a full bar
- Free monthly MetroCards/PATH cards
- Pet Friendly
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