Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.<p>We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 6 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.<p>Underneath the hood, Clever runs on a highly modular architecture composed of hundreds of microservices and libraries. A growing team of engineers builds these services and deploys them multiple times per day. This presents a number of unique problems that you will work with the team to solve:<p>-How do you maintain high velocity (dozens of deployments daily) for services that 20% of schools in the U.S. depend on?<p>-How do you automatically test, release, and deploy these services and libraries?<p>-How do these services automatically find and communicate with each other?<p>-What does the workflow look like for your teammates?<p>-What open source tools can we use to solve these problems?<p>The Clever team is actively building on and contributing to bleeding-edge tools such as Docker, Packer, Deis, Synapse, Heka, kubernetes, and Drone. We build almost all of our infrastructure as open source software and work actively with the community to improve the state of the art in deployment and monitoring. While experience with these tools is a huge plus, it's more important to understand the challenges we face and identify existing tools that help us solve them.<p>If you’re interested, share our passion for improving education, and are in (or willing to move to) San Francisco, we’d love to hear from you.<p>https://clever.com/about/jobs#distributed-systems-engineer<p>At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.