Senior DevOps Engineer, Turnitin
Plagiarism detection software
Open for applications
Plagiarism detection software
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Turnitin's mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience building, automating and operating large-scale systems
- 5+ years experience with containerization technology (Docker) and administration of distributed containerization orchestration like Kubernetes (including EKS/AKS/GKE) or Docker Swarm
- 5+ years Comfort in creating and executing configuration management using tools like Ansible and Puppet
- 5+ years well-versed in best practices when writing efficient, understandable & maintainable Infrastructure as Code
- 4+ years Demonstrable experience and curiosity when troubleshooting full-stack production systems (including network, storage, compute layers, and service dependencies such as DNS, DB, etc.)
- 4+ years Experience with continuous integration and delivery platforms such as Jenkins, Github Actions, or Bitbucket Pipelines
- 3+ years microservices, micro front-ends and distributed architecture
- An interest in log management, including AWS OpenSearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (ELK), or Splunk logging
- 4+ years AWS CLoud and Databases, (PostgreSQL, SQL, DB2)
What the job involves
- You will be part of an exceptional team of individuals spread across the globe, working on the most challenging technical problems in EdTech, helping to build systems, tools, and platforms on which Turnitin’s infrastructure and applications are deployed and operated
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Support teams
- Break down large projects and features into independently workable/shippable milestones and stories
- Contribute to the architectural design and implementation of the infrastructure Turnitin runs both on-premise and in AWS
- Contribute readable, testable, maintainable & documented code when making changes to our infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) systems like Terraform, or AWS Cloudformation
- Contribute readable, testable, maintainable & documented code when managing configuration for our infrastructure through Configuration as Code (IaC) systems like Ansible, or Puppet.
- Ensure systems and platforms relied upon by both external and internal customers are fault-tolerant, highly available
Our take
Turnitin has a global reputation for being one of the best plagiarism detection softwares on the market. It’s well-earned, too. Besides simple paraphrasing plagiarism, its software also employs sophisticated techniques like identifying macro replacement and analysing metadata to weed out essay mill papers.
Academic plagiarism has become increasingly complex over the years, exacerbated in part by the COVID period of online schooling, and in part by a skyrocketing rise in computer literacy and plagiarism tricks. Software like Turnitin is therefore playing an increasingly crucial role in maintaining academic integrity. Additionally, it helps understaffed institutions ease the burden placed on a teaching workforce which are, in some regions, perilously close to collapse.
Turnitin is not without its issues, however. Some institutions lean too heavily on the software, and essay mills have begun using Turnitin software to prove product authenticity. Historically, Turnitin has neatly addressed these problems by releasing new or improved capabilities including Chat GPT screening updates in 2023. If it can continue to demonstrate remarkable competence and proactive development in this regard, Turnitin’s glowing reputation seems assured.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
Company values
- Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do
- Passion for Learning: We seek out teammates who are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace that enables them to do so
- Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin—it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors
- Action & Ownership: We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions
- One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes
- Global Mindset: We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally in all that we do to maximize our impact on education
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
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Leadership
Chris Caren
(CEO)Held a number of senior positions at major corporations, including serving as a GM at Microsoft, and a board member at Avetta, Liaison International, Illuminate Education, and The IRONMAN Group. They are additionally a member of YPO and chairman of Procare Solutions.
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