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

Reporter Newspapers is seeking an experienced software engineer to join our team in San Mateo, CA. You'll manage infrastructure for our Rosetta Stone and Wyzant products, ensuring high quality of service and scalability.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years of experience, proficiency in cloud solutions, and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $130,000 to $200,000 plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering or devops experience.
• Experience with cloud provider technologies.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Master various production technology stacks.
• Take responsibility for site performance and uptime.
• Develop monitoring dashboards and documentation.
• Identify technical problems and solutions.
• Collaborate with application engineering teams.

Skills

Production technology stacks

Site performance

Monitoring dashboards

Cloud solutions (GCP)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Programming languages (Java, C++, Python)

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

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. #LI-EM1

This position requires you to be in our San Mateo, CA, headquarters office.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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. 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.