Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
About the job
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years managing engineers, ideally on platform, infrastructure, or developer experience teams.
- Experience managing and growing senior and staff-level individual contributors.
- Hands-on AWS experience and technical credibility with senior and staff engineers.
- Experience partnering with a product counterpart to deliver a shared roadmap and align engineering, security, and operations.
- Ability to ship reliably, define completion criteria, and control scope in technically driven environments.
- Experience improving developer productivity through continuous integration and continuous delivery, internal tooling, and self-service infrastructure, and connecting those improvements to shipping velocity, incident reduction, and retention.
- Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and FERPA, plus strong data protection and privacy practices.
- Experience with monitoring and observability at scale.
- Familiarity with the infrastructure demands of AI workloads and judgment about how AI changes platform support and monitoring needs.
- Experience helping engineering teams adopt AI-assisted tools and workflows in practice.
- Build and grow a team of senior and staff-level platform engineers.
- Set expectations, provide direct feedback, and hold team members accountable while maintaining execution speed.
- Partner with staff engineers on architecture and tradeoffs across infrastructure, shared services, and system design, including infrastructure supporting AI-powered capabilities.
- Prioritize high-leverage work and unblock complex execution.
- Ship platform initiatives reliably from planning through production.
- Define platform health and drive improvements in performance, resiliency, cost efficiency, and operational maturity.
- Build strong on-call and incident practices with site reliability engineering and triage reactive work without losing strategic focus.
- Partner with AI platform and security teams so AI-powered capabilities run on observable, cost-aware, and secure infrastructure.
- Help the team adopt AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
- Shape the roadmap with the Lead Product Manager and turn strategy into buildable plans.
- Bring engineer-identified pain points, system health signals, and technical risk into prioritization and convert them into resourced, well-scoped work.
- Represent platform engineering across teams and drive alignment on multi-team initiatives.
- Provide leadership with updates on progress, risk, and the reasoning behind technical investment.
- Partner with security and legal to support security, privacy, and compliance obligations involving student data.
- Terraform experience.
- Kubernetes experience.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the company
Panorama Education provides a data analytics platform for schools that focuses on improving student outcomes through social-emotional learning (SEL) and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). The platform collects and analyzes data on student performance (attendance, behavior, grades) and measures SEL indicators such as how students feel in terms of being loved, challenged, and prepared. It then provides analytics and tools that help educators develop tailored interventions and support strategies. The product is designed for B2B sales to districts and schools and emphasizes professionalism and responsiveness in its service. Panorama’s goal is to help schools make data-informed decisions to better meet students’ social, emotional, and academic needs.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$97.7M
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
2012
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What believers are saying
- Panorama launched Ditto and CTE Pathfinder in February 2026, expanding seats and workflows.
- Mesquite ISD cut IEP drafting from hours to 45 minutes, strengthening renewal economics.
- April 2025 Class Companion acquisition deepens AI feedback and raises switching costs for districts.
What critics are saying
- PowerSchool and Infinite Campus bundle analytics, shrinking Panorama into a replaceable add-on by 2027.
- K-12 districts buy through slow procurement cycles; contract losses hit revenue every budget season.
- Student-data scrutiny from FERPA, COPPA, and state AI rules can block deployments and renewals.
What makes Panorama Education unique
- Panorama spans surveys, early-warning systems, and AI tutoring across 2,000 districts and 15 million students.
- Utah selected Panorama in March 2026 as statewide early-warning vendor, validating enterprise trust.
- Solara won EdTech Awards 2026 Trendsetter, signaling differentiated AI plus privacy controls.
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2 weeks a year of office closure
Parental leave
Wellness reimbursements
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↓ -3%Panorama Education is helping US school districts improve special education planning whilst reducing administrative time. La Joya ISD increased its adherence to Texas IEP quality standards from 30% to over 70% in one school year using Panorama Solara, the company's AI-powered solution. The district is tracking ahead of the state's 85% quality target for 2028-29. Mesquite ISD cut IEP drafting time from two to three hours to 45 minutes per student, potentially freeing over 10,000 hours of staff capacity. The district also reduced data analysis time from two to three weeks to one to two days. Panorama's platform serves more than 15 million students nationwide, providing connected access to student information, state requirements, and district standards for special education teams.
Panorama Student Success earns Research-Based Learning Analytics Certification from Digital Promise. Panorama staff. August 4, 2026 - Panorama Education, the leading platform for student support and learning in K-12 education, has earned the Research-Based Learning Analytics: Product Certification from Digital Promise for Panorama Student Success, its leading MTSS and student support solution. Developed by the national nonprofit Digital Promise, this certification recognizes edtech products that ground how they collect, analyze, and report data in rigorous research. For school and district leaders, it offers an independent, research-based benchmark when evaluating potential platforms. More than a badge, the Research-Based Learning Analytics Certification signals that research is foundational to how a product is designed and built. Panorama Student Success brings academic, attendance, behavior, engagement, and other student data together in one shared system. With that complete picture, educators can spot needs earlier, coordinate interventions, track progress, and gauge whether supports are actually working. District leaders, in turn, gain visibility across schools - identifying trends, strengthening MTSS implementation, and directing resources where they'll have the greatest impact. Research shapes Student Success at every stage of development. Panorama's Data Science and Applied Research team continuously reviews external studies, runs original analyses on Panorama's extensive datasets, and partners with researchers and education organizations to explore emerging challenges and validate product decisions. You can see that research in action in features like Chronic Absenteeism Insights. Panorama's studies uncovered meaningful links between chronic absenteeism and student experiences, like school safety and student-teacher relationships. Student Success connects attendance data with student voice data, so educators can move beyond simply flagging absenteeism to understanding the factors that may be driving it. Through Student Success's intervention workflows, educators can build support plans using more than 1,000 research-backed strategies, document referrals, monitor progress, and collaborate with colleagues and families, all in one connected platform. AI-powered insights help surface patterns and suggest possible next steps faster, while educators remain responsible for reviewing the information and deciding the right action for each student. The Digital Promise certification reinforces Panorama's commitment to helping districts move from simply seeing student challenges to solving them. By bringing together rigorous research, complete student context, and coordinated workflows, Student Success gives educators and leaders a stronger foundation for taking timely, informed action in every school. On-Demand demo. Panorama Student Success. Panorama Student Success helps educators and leaders uncover hidden insights and take action to drive better outcomes at every level - from the student to the district.
Panorama Solara named 2026 EdTech AI Platform of the Year by EdTech Breakthrough. Panorama staff. July 7, 2026 - Panorama Education, the leading platform for student support and learning in K-12 education, has been named EdTech AI Platform of the Year in the 2026 EdTech Breakthrough Awards, which recognize organizations advancing innovation across the global education technology market. This recognition follows Panorama Solara's Trendsetter Award win from EdTech Digest earlier this year, marking another milestone in the company's continued innovation in AI-powered educator support. Now in its eighth year, the EdTech Breakthrough Awards recognize organizations driving innovation across the global education technology market. This year's program attracted more than 3,000 nominations from organizations spanning more than 20 countries, marking its largest and most competitive field to date. Panorama Solara, the solution at the heart of this recognition, is built specifically for K-12 education. Rather than a standalone AI tool, Solara securely connects AI with the systems and data districts already rely on, including student information systems, district curriculum and protocols, and the broader Panorama platform, delivering outputs that are aligned to district practices and grounded in real student context. Districts using Solara are seeing benefits that extend well beyond efficiency. Eighty-three percent of teachers report faster lesson planning, saving an average of five hours each month. More importantly, educators report reinvesting that time into supporting students. Panorama's instructional AI has also been associated with measurable academic gains, with partner districts reporting 15-17% improvements in ELA scores. Built with district governance in mind, Solara keeps district data within the Panorama ecosystem and does not use customer data to train AI models. Panorama meets FERPA, COPPA, and SOC 2 Type II standards and maintains a 1EdTech certification for data privacy, giving district leaders confidence to adopt AI responsibly while maintaining full control of their data. On-Demand demo. Panorama Solara. Watch an on-demand demo of Panorama Solara: a customizable, district-managed AI platform built on a foundation of rigorous security and privacy protections.
John Danielson, Accomplished Education Leader, Joins Panorama Education's Board of Directors Panorama Staff
Panorama Education has expanded its K-12 platform with two AI-powered tools: an assignment tutor called Ditto that provides real-time, rubric-aligned academic support, and CTE Pathfinder for career exploration and graduation tracking. Both feature enterprise-grade privacy controls. The company cites research showing over a third of 11th graders report minimal career conversations at school, with less than half confident their coursework prepares them for future goals. Ditto offers skill-building feedback whilst allowing teachers to review student-AI interactions. CTE Pathfinder helps students discover career pathways aligned to their coursework and interests, whilst providing educators with aggregated insights for advising. Panorama serves 15 million students across 2,000 districts. The platform complies with FERPA, PPRA and COPPA standards, and recently earned Common Sense Media's Privacy Seal with a 93% rating.