Back-end Engineer II

Udacity, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking Backend Software Engineers to join their dynamic team. In this remote position, you will design and maintain microservices that support a rapidly growing business. With a focus on scalable systems, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies like GoLang and PostgreSQL, ensuring a seamless user experience for Udacity's global community. This role offers exciting engineering challenges as you help shape the future of online education. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to transforming lives through tech and enjoy a flexible work environment with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Paid time off

Comprehensive medical insurance

Employee wellness resources

Quarterly wellness day off

Personalized career development

Unlimited access to Udacity courses

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with production code.
• Strong background in building scalable, low latency systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain microservices with production quality.
• Manage cloud vendor resources and services.

Skills

Software Engineering

Microservices

Cloud Services Management

GoLang

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

SQL Performance Tuning

Python Programming

CI/CD Pipeline Configuration

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Professional Software Engineering Experience

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka

Job description

Udacity is on a mission of forging futures in tech through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey.

The Udacity Platform and Core Services team is looking for Backend Software Engineers tobuild products to support the rapidly growing business demand of Udacity. The Platform andCore Services team provides our internal customers with the tools they need to make sure theirservices and processes get the most from Udacity’s Platform. Your work will impact internal andexternal customers, including Udacity Students all over the world and provide you with plenty ofengineering challenges as we refine the experiences and infrastructure to handle new levels offlexibility and scale as we tackle this massive market.

Responsibilities:
● Design, build, ship, and maintain new and existing microservices with production quality
● Participate in design and code reviews
● Participate in on-call rotation for production incident response.
● Manage cloud vendor resources and services.
● Maintain core internal APIs in support of application services.

What We Value:
● At least 3+ years of professional software engineering experience working hands-on in aproduct-oriented software engineering role, in live production code.
● Strong background in building scalable and low latency systems
● Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, delivering, and maintaining productionquality reliable and performant microservices
● Experience with languages or frameworks in general, but in particular with GoLang,Postgresql, Graphql, and the latest web protocols and security concerns.
● Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
● Passionate about your users’ experience and you feel, as we do, that online educationcan improve lives worldwide

Nice To Have:
● SQL performance tuning experience is a plus
● AWS , GCP, Cloudflare experience
● Terraform, Ansible experience
● Kubernetes in Production experience
● Python programming experience
● CI/CD pipeline configuration experience
● Distributed event streaming platform experience like Kafka
● Production applications monitoring experience

Consider applying if your experience is close to what we described above. We look for peoplewith exceptional potential, as we know highest performing teams include people of diversebackgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.

Location: Udacity will hire a qualified candidate for this remote based position anywhere in the US with the exception of the following states: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Relocation assistance is not available.

Compensation: The maximum base pay for this position is $120,000, depending on experience and location.

Experience a rewarding work environment with Udacity's perks and benefits!
● Flexibility of working from home, with in-person collaboration spaces in Mountain View, Cairo, Dubai,and Noida.
● Flexible working hours.
● Paid time off.
● Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
● Employee wellness resources and initiatives (access to wellness platforms like Headspace, ModernHealth).
● Quarterly wellness day off.
● Personalized career development.
● Unlimited access to Udacity courses and Nanodegrees.

What We Do

Forging futures in tech is our vision. Udacity is where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, and to build the lives they deserve.

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