About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company partnering with K-12 school districts to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond. Today, 2,000 districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states rely on our secure, research-backed platform for AI, student support, and community voice and engagement. We also provide professional development and hands-on support to help schools to achieve their strategic goals and improve student outcomes. When you join Panorama, you become part of a mission-driven team making a real impact for students every day.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States.
About the Role:
In Panorama’s Platform/SRE Team, you will bring deep expertise in cloud infrastructure to design, build, and maintain the systems that power our platform. You’ll focus on scaling and securing our AWS-based infrastructure, managing Kubernetes clusters and RDS databases, and evolving our Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.
You’ll take ownership of complex, high-impact infrastructure projects within your squad—driving improvements in scalability, performance, and developer experience—while sharing your knowledge to help teammates succeed.
This role blends hands-on engineering with squad-level technical leadership. You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers to deliver resilient systems, improve deployment processes, and ensure our infrastructure remains robust as Panorama grows.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting Panorama’s applications and services
- Own and deliver complex infrastructure projects—such as scaling clusters, improving deployments, and optimizing database performance
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for reproducible, auditable environments
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in AWS
- Operate and tune RDS databases, ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Improve build and deployment pipelines, collaborating with engineering teams on CI/CD best practices
- Participate in a healthy, well-supported on-call rotation, focusing on proactive reliability and incident prevention
- Share knowledge and mentor teammates to strengthen collective understanding and technical excellence
Our Ideal Candidate Has
- Experience: 5+ years designing and operating cloud infrastructure in production environments
- Deep experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, RDS, ECS/EKS, networking, IAM)
- Infrastructure as Code: Strong proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Databases: Experience maintaining and tuning PostgreSQL or similar systems in AWS RDS
- Continuous Delivery: Familiarity with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions) and deployment automation
- Observability & Monitoring: Strong knowledge of tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, sharing expertise and influencing decisions within the squad
- Problem-Solving: Proven ability to deliver high-complexity infrastructure work requiring deep domain knowledge and analytical skill
Bonus Points For:
- Experience designing secure, compliant cloud architectures
- Background in cost optimization and capacity planning
- Interest in developer experience and internal tooling improvements
What Success Looks Like
- You deliver scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support Panorama’s growing platform
- You complete complex infrastructure projects that improve performance, reliability, or efficiency
- You help your squad make informed architecture and operations decisions through deep technical knowledge
- You mentor teammates and improve the team’s collective capability
- You’re recognized by your squad as a trusted, go-to engineer for infrastructure expertise
Salary range: $171,000 – $190,000 annually
Our salary is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonuses or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits
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Panorama Education Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
While many of us work remotely, across the country, Panorama's office is found on School Street, the birthplace of public education in the US.
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