Senior SRE: Scale Uptime, Observability & Cloud

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

Job summary

IXL Learning, a leader in personalized learning, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our San Mateo, CA headquarters. You will own performance, uptime, and scalability while developing deploy tooling and runbooks.

Collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable services and modernize our infrastructure. Applicants should have 6+ years in SRE/engineering, experience with Java/C/C++, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud platform (AWS/GCP).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or related field.
• 6+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience.
• Experience with Java, C++, or C.
• Experience with Python, Bash, or Perl.
• Public cloud experience (AWS or GCP).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases.
• Fluency with observability tools and methodologies.
• Willingness to work on-call and flexible hours.
• Strong communication and time management.

Responsibilities

• Master a variety of production technology stacks with your team.
• Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability.
• Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation for each product.
• Identify technical problems and develop scalable solutions.
• Partner with application engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Propose architecture changes to improve reliability and scalability.
• Develop tooling for deployment and release processes.

Skills

6+ years site reliability experience

Java/C/C++

Python/Bash/Perl

Observability tools

On-call readiness

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Web servers

Databases

Message queues

Load balancers

Job description

IXL Learning, a leader in personalized learning, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our San Mateo, CA headquarters. You will own performance, uptime, and scalability while developing deploy tooling and runbooks.

Collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable services and modernize our infrastructure. Applicants should have 6+ years in SRE/engineering, experience with Java/C/C++, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud platform (AWS/GCP).