Engineering Leader – Platform Engineering

🕒 June 29

🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $240k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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ClassDojo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

💰 $125M Series D on 2022-07

Consulting • Marketing • Education

ClassDojo is a communication platform that connects teachers, families, and students, facilitating better engagement and collaboration in educational settings. It offers a suite of tools that allow teachers to communicate with parents, share classroom updates, and support students' social-emotional learning. The platform also features a portfolio function that allows students to share their learning progress with their families. It's widely popular, used by millions of students and parents, and supports multilingual communication. ClassDojo is focused on building communities within classrooms, providing resources for teachers, and ensuring privacy and security for all its users.

📋 Description

• Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them • Translate company priorities and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down • Be responsible for build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers • Represent Platform and collaborate with cross-functional leadership partners and in engineering-wide leadership conversations • Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support • Drive AI-native development in line with ClassDojo’s engineering practices • Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface • Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready • Partner with Security, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers • 10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on • Have owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety) • Have built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one, and earned adoption • Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers • Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste • Embrace Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement • Use LLM-based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them • Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status • Accommodation for disabilities or special needs.