Senior Software Engineer, DevOps
IXL Learning•San Mateo, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
IXL Learning is expanding its software engineering team that manages the infrastructure for its Rosetta Stone and Wyzant products. The team ensures high quality of service for these products, which run a diverse mix of services facing heavy demand from learners, teachers, tutors, and admins. The company is seeking engineers with experience in site reliability and operations, who are passionate about simplifying the complex and building highly scalable infrastructure. This position requires the employee to be in the San Mateo, CA, headquarters office.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline
- 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience
- Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)
- Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
- Fluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring
- Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
- Experience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, Perl
- Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
- Strong communication and time management skills
- Passion for improving education through technology
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, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines
- Build and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide
- 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
