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title: 'Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Brisk Teaching'
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# Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Brisk Teaching

- **Company:** Brisk Teaching
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $220k–$245k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brisk-teaching/19fb1a79-acf0-49b4-8bf2-c5136a7bdd9c/application

**Skills:** AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CI/CD, Deployment automation, Monitoring tools, Security best practices, AI-powered systems, Analytics infrastructure, Data pipelines, Cloud cost management

> Lead the Platform team responsible for core infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer experience. This player-coach role involves owning the roadmap, mentoring engineers, and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure while driving reliability and scalability.

## Job description

## ABOUT US:

Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale. Our Classroom Intelligence tools connect teachers, students, and curriculum—making meaningful learning happen in classrooms every day. We believe the best technology is cutting-edge, respects teachers’ time, integrates into real classrooms, and helps educators focus on what matters most. Since launching, Brisk has experienced rapid growth. Over 2 million teachers use our platform, and we partner with districts and schools nationwide to transform how educators teach and how students learn. We're backed by leading venture and edtech investors including Bessemer Venture Partners (Shopify, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Perplexity) and Owl Ventures (Newsela, Quizlet, MasterClass), with a team spanning top AI companies and real classroom experience. We're a fast-moving, collaborative team driven by a shared commitment to educator impact and product excellence. Our values—urgency, ownership, and focus—shape how we build and who we are.

## THE OPPORTUNITY:

We're looking for a leader to own and grow Brisk's Platform team — the group responsible for the core infrastructure, shared services, and developer experience that everything else at Brisk is built on. We’re looking for someone who is excited to jump into leading the day-to-day of the current Platform team members my while staying close to the technical work. You'll work closely with our team on driving forward our roadmap, collaborating and coordinating with the rest of our engineering work, and making sure that the Platform team is keeping Brisk reliable as we scale. You'll also develop the engineers who keep it all running. This is a player-coach role on a small, high-impact team. You'll work closely with product, design, and leadership, and you'll have real ownership from day one.

## YOU WILL:

- Own the roadmap and partner with our team on technical direction for Brisk's platform — core infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling, and shared services.
- Mentor, and grow a small team of platform/infrastructure engineers (or grow into managing one, if you join as an IC).
- Stay hands-on: design, build, and maintain the AWS-based infrastructure that powers our products.
- Drive reliability and scalability so performance stays seamless as our user base expands.
- Lead observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call practices.
- Partner with product engineers to keep development workflows smooth and production stable.
- Make the architectural calls that balance rapid product development with long-term reliability and security.

## YOU HAVE:

- 7+ years in software engineering with a strong focus on infrastructure.
- People management experience, or a track record as a tech lead/mentor with a clear desire to people manage.
- Experience designing scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring tools.
- A problem-solving mentality — comfortable moving between infra, backend, and occasional product work.
- Strong written and oral communication, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguity.

## BONUS POINTS:

- Experience building or leading a Platform / Infrastructure / DevEx team.
- Background in security best practices for infrastructure and data.
- Previous experience in a startup environment or small, fast-moving team.
- Experience working with AI-powered systems or integrating AI into infrastructure.
- Experience with analytics infrastructure and data pipelines.
- Experience managing cloud costs.

## Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity

At Brisk, we believe that diverse perspectives make better teams and stronger products. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

## About Brisk Teaching

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered Chrome extension that integrates with Google and Microsoft tools to help educators automate lesson creation, student feedback, and instructional planning.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Arman Jaffer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Education Technology (EdTech)
- **Target customers**: K-12 teachers, students, and school districts (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission**: To streamline teacher workflows and engage all students, connecting teachers, students, and curriculum to make meaningful, personalized instruction happen every day.

## Products & Services
- **[Brisk Teaching Chrome Extension]**: A free AI tool that works inside Google Docs, Slides, and Microsoft tools to create lesson plans, quizzes, presentations, and give batch feedback on student writing. Type: SaaS / Browser Extension
- **[Brisk Next]**: An AI-powered student-facing tool that provides personalized learning support, writing inspection, and feedback at scale. Type: SaaS
- **[School & District Platform]**: Enterprise-grade AI adoption tools for school districts, including privacy compliance (93% Common Sense Privacy Rating), IT approval packets, and usage analytics. Type: Enterprise SaaS

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $21.9M total funding (Seed: $6.9M led by Owl Ventures in August 2024; Series A: $15M led by Bessemer Venture Partners in March 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Over 2 million teachers and 20,000 school districts have adopted Brisk since launch in 2023
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owl Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 71.4% YoY to 76 employees; operates in 5 countries (US, UK, Canada, Portugal, UAE); active job postings up 333% year-over-year; partners with large districts including Ottawa Catholic School Board (53,000 students), Barbers Hill ISD (8,000 students), and Hauppauge Public Schools (3,200 students)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integration Deepness**: Works inside the Google and Microsoft tools educators already use, reducing friction and training time
- **Privacy Leadership**: Earned a 93% Common Sense Privacy Rating — the highest among AI tools for educators — making it easier for school districts to approve
- **Teacher-Led Design**: Leadership team includes former educators and veterans from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NoRedInk, Seesaw Learning, and GoGuardian, giving deep domain expertise
- **Rapid Adoption**: Grew from 0 to 2M+ teachers in under two years, indicating strong product-market fit

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling K-12 District Partnerships**: Expanding enterprise sales to larger school districts and entire school systems
- **Student-Facing AI**: Growing Brisk Next to provide personalized, equitable learning support directly to students
- **International Expansion**: Already operating in 5 countries with plans to grow globally
- **Building the AI Platform for Education**: Moving from a single tool to a comprehensive AI platform that connects teachers, students, and curriculum

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Team of technologists, educators, and parents united by a passion to improve educator lives; values include operating with purpose, building for impact, and collaborating as a team [briskteaching.com](https://www.briskteaching.com/careers)
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid schedule — 2 days per week in-office at San Francisco or New York City offices; some go-to-market roles are fully remote [briskteaching.com](https://www.briskteaching.com/careers)
- **Benefits**: 100% employee medical/dental/vision premiums covered (75% for dependents), HSA contributions, stock options (4-year vest), 401(k) matching, annual professional development budget, home office stipend, 16 paid holidays including winter closure, flexible PTO, 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents (6–8 additional weeks for birthing parents), 6 weeks paid medical leave [briskteaching.com](https://www.briskteaching.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Headcount is growing rapidly (71.4% YoY); technical roles make up 12% of the team; founders and leadership come from top tech and education companies (Google, Facebook, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative); strong emphasis on data-driven decision making with a dedicated Head of Data
- **Hiring Process**: Application Review → Recruiter Screen (30 min) → Hiring Manager Interview → Take-Home Assignment (some roles) → Virtual "Onsite" Interviews → References → Offer [briskteaching.com](https://www.briskteaching.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [briskteaching.com](https://www.briskteaching.com/) - Company homepage and product overview
2. [briskteaching.com/about](https://www.briskteaching.com/about) - Leadership team and company background
3. [briskteaching.com/careers](https://www.briskteaching.com/careers) - Careers page with benefits, culture, and hiring process
4. [linkedin.com/company/brisk-teaching](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brisk-teaching) - Employee count, growth, funding details, and team breakdown
5. [cbinsights.com/company/brisk-teaching](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/brisk-teaching) - Financial data and competitive landscape

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