Learners of all ages rely on Kahoot!'s systems every day. With our recent expansion to corporate and language learning, our user base and traffic growth has been accelerating faster than ever before.
If you relish the hard challenges of operating and scaling distributed web systems, we are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform team.
The team
The Platform team at Kahoot! is responsible for keeping our systems running 24x7, helping our users to play and learn. We are a capable but small team with big ambitions and hard challenges ahead.
These are some of the problems we have solved recently:
There are more in-depth articles about some of these problems on our Kahoot! Tech Blog, where members of our Engineering team share their experience.
The position is remote or based from one of our offices in Norway, Spain, Finland or Denmark and is reporting to the Engineering Manager - Platform Team, located in Norway. The company’s HQ is in Oslo, Norway.
What we can offer you:
If you talk to anyone working in the Kahoot! Group, they will tell you that one of the greatest perks is being able to see how the work you do puts a smile on the face of kids, teachers and learners all around the world. On top of this, we offer:
About Kahoot!
Kahoot! is on a mission to make learning awesome! We want to empower everyone, including children, students, and employees to unlock their full learning potential. Our learning platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and play learning games that drive compelling engagement. In addition, our family of apps takes math learning to a new level and empowers children to learn to read through play. Learners of all ages can make language learning natural with immersive visuals and play through our Drops apps. Organizations can connect and engage their work teams with Actimo, our employee engagement platform. Launched in 2013, Kahoot!’s vision is to build the leading learning platform in the world. In the last 12 months, more than 250 million games have been played on the Kahoot! platform with 1.5 billion participating players in 200 countries. The company is headquartered in Norway with offices in the US, the UK, France, Finland, Estonia, Denmark and Spain. Let’s play!
Our K!rew
At Kahoot! we champion a positive culture of collaborative learning and innovation. With a team of more than 200 employees representing 40 different nationalities, we’re a diverse and fun bunch of people! We work hard and celebrate our wins, tackle challenges with original ideas and learn something new every day.
The values guiding us are: we are playful, we are curious and we are inclusive!
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities as an SRE at Kahoot! will include the following:
Requirements
Operating distributed systems at scale requires an unusual set of skills that are difficult to find in a single person. In addition to that, at Kahoot! we have a broad range of technologies and languages. We rarely have the luxury to specialize in a single one.
As SREs, we are expected to deal with anything from programming to networking, Linux internals, system des