Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

IXL; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Job summary

IXL Learning is seeking experienced software engineers with a strong site reliability and DevOps background to help manage the infrastructure for Rosetta Stone and Wyzant. You will ensure high uptime, scalability, and performance across production stacks, while optimizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.

The role requires 7+ years of hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience, proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes, and solid experience with cloud platforms (GCP a plus).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline.
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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.
• 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.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud experience

Monitoring

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IXL Learning, a global edtech leader with personalized learning products used by millions of students worldwide, is expanding our software engineering team that manages the infrastructure for our Rosetta Stone and Wyzant products to ensure high quality of service. These products run a diverse mix of services that face heavy demand from learners, teachers, tutors, and admins. We are seeking engineers with experience in site reliability and operations, who have a passion for simplifying the complex and building highly scalable infrastructure. #LI-EM1This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our IXL headquarters office in San Mateo, CA.WHAT YOU'LL BE DOINGWork with your team to master a variety of production technology stacksTake responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalabilityDevelop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each productIdentify technical problems and develop solutionsPartner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelinesBuild and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wideDevelop tooling for deployment and release processesWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORBachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experiencePublic cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databasesExperience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and KubernetesFluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoringFlexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernizeExperience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, PerlSkill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutionsStrong communication and time management skillsPassion for improving education through technologyThe base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $200,000 + equity + benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.ABOUT IXL LEARNINGIXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company. We reach millions of learners through our diverse range of products. For example:1 in 4 students in the United States uses IXL.comRosetta Stone provides an immersive learning experience for 25 languagesWyzant is the nation's largest community of tutors, covering 300+ subjectsTeachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is a comprehensive marketplace for millions of educator-created resourcesOur mission is to create innovative products that will make a real, positive difference for learners and educators and we're looking for passionate, mission-minded people to join us in achieving this goal. We have a unique culture at IXL that fosters collaboration and the open exchange of ideas. We value our team and treat one another with kindness and respect. We approach our work with passion, tenacity, and authenticity. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions and we are eager to have you join our team.At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants and employees based on any legally protected category.