Senior Software Engineer, DevOps
IXL Learning
About the role
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-EM1
This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our IXL headquarters office in San Mateo, CA.
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.
ABOUT IXL LEARNING
IXL 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.com
Rosetta Stone provides an immersive learning experience for 25 languages
Wyzant is the nation's largest community of tutors, covering 300+ subjects
Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is a comprehensive marketplace for millions of educator-created resources
Our 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable DevOps infrastructure and cloud systems
- Manage deployments, monitoring, networking, and system scaling
- Troubleshoot issues across the technology stack and implement long-term solutions
- Modernize and streamline infrastructure while supporting legacy systems
Qualifications
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, message queues, load balancers, and databases
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions using Docker and Kubernetes
- Fluency in source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, or Perl
- Ability to troubleshoot across the stack and deliver both immediate fixes and long-term solutions
- Strong communication and time management skills
- Flexibility to work with varied technologies and legacy systems
- Passion for improving education through technology
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
Skills mentioned
About IXL Learning
At IXL Learning, we are passionate about improving learning for all. We apply technology in thoughtful and innovative ways to unlock students' innate curiosity, creativity, and desire for knowledge. IXL’s award-winning personalized learning platform is used by more than 17 million students worldwide. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. And as the gold standard in educational technology, IXL is helping 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts successfully use technology to improve teaching and learning. Studies have shown that IXL leads to higher test scores, predicts success, and benefits all students. Learn more about how IXL accelerates learning at www.ixl.com/research IXL Learning’s family of brands includes Rosetta Stone, the world’s leading language learning program; TeachersPayTeachers, the leading marketplace of educator-created resources; Education.com, the most comprehensive library of learning activities for K-8 students; Wyzant, the nation’s largest tutoring network; Vocabulary.com, the educational destination for improving literacy skills; SpanishDictionary.com, the world’s most popular Spanish-English dictionary and translation website; and ABCya, the creator of over 300 educational computer games and apps for kids. Hear what our employees love about working at IXL: "At IXL, I take pride in knowing that the code we deliver helps educators and parents better understand how their children are learning. And, it's motivating to work on a team with supportive and highly capable coworkers who genuinely care about each other, the product, and our customers." - Adam Singer, Engineering Project Lead "Solving engineering challenges to continually improve our product really keeps me engaged in my work." - Jestin Ma, Software Engineer
H-1B sponsorship history
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