Software Engineering Manager, DevOps

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by 14 million students worldwide, is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to manage a team of talented DevOps engineers and provide hands-on technical and project leadership.

This is a full time position with a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in the office/2 days WFH at our San Mateo, CA office. 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Manage a high-performing team of DevOps engineers and help with recruitment for the team.
• Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks, ensuring appropriate knowledge coverage 
• Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability 
• Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation
• Manage on-call rotations
• Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines
• Propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide
• Guide and mentor engineers to ensure a high level of work satisfaction, technical advancement, and progress towards individual career goals
• Make company initiatives, mission, goals, and values clear to each team member

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
• 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience
• 2+ years of experience leading a software engineering or DevOps team
• 2+ years of experience managing and troubleshooting online multi-user SaaS systems
• 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
• Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
• Experience running services in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Flexibility about work hours and being on call
• Strong communication, leadership, and time management skills

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The base salary range for this full-time position is $170,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits. 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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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.