Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, and help maintain the reliability and optimal performance of our products. We are seeking engineers with a passion for problem solving and optimization. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions, and we are eager to have you join our team. #LI-KO1 This is a full-time position in our San Mateo, CA headquarters office. The work schedule for this role is Monday-Friday in the office with the option to work from home one day per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
- 6+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience
- Experience with at least one object oriented programming language like Java, C++, C
- Experience with at least one scripting language like Python, Bash, Perl
- Public cloud provider experience (AWS or GCP is a plus)
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
- Fluency in observability tools and methodologies
- Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
- Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
- Flexibility about work hours and being on call
- Strong communication and time management skills
Responsibilities
- Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks
- Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability
- Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each product
- Identify technical problems and develop solutions
- Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, and help deliver scalable solutions for our customers
- Build and propose architecture changes that will make our products more scalable and reliable
- Develop tooling for deployment and release processes
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
