OpenSesame

OpenSesame is an e-learning company that provides online training courses for businesses and employees.

251-500 employees
Founded 2011
$50M series d
Education
Private Company

Open Positions14

CanadaFull-TimeELearning platformPosted
  • Design and manage scalable, secure systems primarily on AWS
  • Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure high performance and resilience
  • Identify problems early and drive end-to-end solutions
  • Lead infrastructure initiatives and improve developer experience
  • Serve as a key technical resource across teams
  • Elevate developer productivity through automation, tooling, and security enablement
  • Mentor engineers on DevOps principles including security by design, observability, and infrastructure automation
  • Engage fully in the team's agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and discussions
  • Help evolve infrastructure and platform team practices such as automated testing for infrastructure, pipeline as code, and progressive delivery
  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual toil and improve developer workflows using automation and AI-assisted tooling
  • Fully own and improve key infrastructure components, such as IaC libraries, CI/CD pipelines, bootstrapping modules and monitoring tools
  • Introduce and refine internal tooling, templates, and scripts to eliminate friction in local development, and deployment
  • Document and advocate for DevOps best practices across the engineering organization
  • Help the team break down complex work into vertical slices, ensuring incremental value delivery and fast feedback loops
  • Partner with engineering teams to document golden paths for infrastructure and deployment
  • Evaluate and adopt modern technologies, including AI-assisted tools and automation
  • Foster a culture where each team member feels empowered to take initiative and contribute
  • Work with engineering leadership to define and implement long-term technical strategies
  • Provide thoughtful input to engineering leadership on team needs, challenges, and opportunities
  • Drive modernization efforts to retire legacy technologies and simplify architecture
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About OpenSesame

OpenSesame empowers the world's most productive workforces through its comprehensive e-learning platform. We offer over 40,000 online training courses from leading publishers, providing businesses with a one-stop shop for employee skill development. Our unique value proposition extends beyond course delivery; we help companies map courses to core competencies, integrate them with Learning Management Systems (LMS), and optimize training programs for maximum impact. We're a significant player in the EdTech and virtual workforce spaces, recognized for our high customer satisfaction ratings and substantial growth. Our engineering team is at the forefront of this growth, employing a modern tech stack including TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Terraform, while strategically modernizing our legacy systems (Drupal 7 and Angular). We're committed to Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies, fostering a collaborative and supportive engineering culture through pair and mob programming. This translates to a dynamic and challenging work environment where engineers are constantly learning and growing. Our remote-first culture allows for flexibility and global reach, with occasional in-person all-company meetings. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, OpenSesame has experienced significant success, securing over $97 million in funding. Our continued expansion fuels our mission to help organizations invest in their employees' success, driving individual and organizational growth simultaneously. We are a rapidly scaling company with a diverse and inclusive work environment. We prioritize a results-oriented approach, recognizing and rewarding high-achievers. We provide competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package including ISOs and 401k matching, and abundant opportunities for professional development. Our commitment to transparency and fairness in compensation, along with our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives make OpenSesame an ideal workplace for ambitious professionals seeking growth and impact.

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