About Us

At Showbie, we’re building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps, Showbie and Socrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a rapidly growing global team located across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Nordics.

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of leading with care, seek perspectives, and being driven by purpose, guide our attitudes and actions each day.

The Role

As a Sr. Cloud Engineer at Showbie, you will play a key role in driving our cloud-native transformation. You’ll work closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams to design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable systems in our AWS-based environment. Your work will directly support our mission of delivering a fast, secure, and dependable platform for teachers and students globally.

You’ll apply DevOps and SRE best practices to optimize infrastructure, enhance developer productivity, and improve service reliability. You’ll also help automate and streamline operations, enabling our teams to ship high-quality code quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions) to support rapid, reliable deployments.

• Collaborate with developers to create tools and processes that improve performance, observability, and reliability.

• Champion operational excellence through system monitoring, performance tuning, and incident management.

• Proactively identify bottlenecks and advocate for improvements in scalability and resiliency.

• Participate in occasional after-hours on-call rotations to ensure uptime and respond to critical incidents.

Tech Stack & Tools

We work with a range of technologies — you don’t need experience with all of them, but you should be comfortable with the key concepts and tools:

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EB, EC2, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, etc.)

• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

• IaC & Automation: CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform (nice to have)

• CI/CD: Jenkins, Github Actions

• Languages & Scripting: Python, Bash/Shell

• OS: Linux systems administration (e.g. Amazon Linux)

• Datastores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB

• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools

You

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles

• Strong understanding of system architecture, networking, and cloud infrastructure (especially AWS)

• Experience automating workflows and building tools to support engineering teams

• Familiarity with high-availability, auto-scaling systems, and performance tuning

• Passion for modern DevOps practices and interest in emerging cloud-native technologies

• Comfortable working collaboratively across teams in an Agile environment

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you!

• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.

• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. We’re growing, but we’re a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.

• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.

• We offer a flexible work environment. Work from the office, or from home, or any combination of the two. Because sometimes you do your best work in your slippers.

• We value work-life balance. When we're at work we're excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going “home” (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Christmas makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.

• While we take government holidays off, if they aren't ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.

• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.

• Generous flex time and time off during December Holidays.

Check out our Work at Showbie page to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

The proposed salary range for this role is: $90,000-$120,000

This role is based in: Edmonton, AB, Canada with the option to work 100% remotely (in Canada).

Don't meet all the expectations, or experience requirements listed here? Please apply anyways! We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.