Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure team as part of the wider Engineering Platform team. This role will be responsible for building world-class, secure, and reliable cloud-native infrastructure solutions for Grammarly engineers that will scale with our user base. 

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will build a foundational framework that will allow our engineering teams to run delightful applications in the cloud with no need for in-depth infrastructure knowledge. This means you will need to create an abstraction over the infrastructure that is holistic and flexible but also easy to use. There is no easy way to create standard solutions, so you must always balance simplicity and flexibility with security and speed and make many other complex decisions.

In this role, you will:

• Use modern infrastructure management tools and services, such as AWS, to build a massively scalable platform for Grammarly’s services.
• Manage cloud-native infrastructure solutions, such as cross-service infrastructure and domains, container orchestration and deployments, auto-scaling tool sets, and service discovery.
• Build, set up, and continually improve cloud networking—and remain compliant with modern security standards.
• Build solutions and frameworks to spin up, test, deploy, and observe Grammarly’s services without much effort.
• Manage third-party systems used by Grammarly’s engineers.
• Participate in on-call incident response and escalation procedures.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Loves system administration, learns constantly, and can’t wait to let us know about the latest cool tool they’ve tried.
• Has at least 3 years of experience managing a live production environment, preferably a high-load system.
• Is knowledgeable of AWS —or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS quickly.
• Has strong knowledge of Linux inside and out—or learns it quickly.
• Can deliver maintainable and high-quality code in Go or other languages.
• Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team.
• Can understand a problem, see the holistic picture, and break it down into single and manageable components.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 

Compensation and benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days 
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

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