Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

IXL Learning is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer in San Mateo, CA. This full-time position focuses on managing the infrastructure for their products, ensuring high quality of service. Candidates should have 7+ years in software engineering or DevOps, experience with public cloud providers, and strong troubleshooting skills. The role offers a salary range from $130,000 to $200,000 plus equity and benefits. IXL values diversity in their workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience.
• Fluency in various service technologies and devOps concerns.
• Experience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Manage site performance, uptime, and scalability.
• Develop monitoring dashboards and documentation.
• Build architecture changes to streamline technology.
• Develop tooling for deployment and release processes.

Skills

Software engineering

DevOps experience

Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes

Public cloud experience (GCP)

Troubleshooting across technology stack

Communication skills

Time management skills

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering

Job description

IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, 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. This position requires you to be in our San Mateo, CA headquarters office.

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 solutionsPartner 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

Qualifications

• 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

The base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $200,000 + equity + benefits.

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.