Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

<p>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.&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-EM1</span></p> <p>This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our IXL headquarters office in San Mateo, CA.&nbsp;</p> <div class="jv-job-detail-description"> <h4>WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING</h4> <ul> <li>Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks</li> <li>Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability&nbsp;</li> <li>Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each product</li> <li>Identify technical problems and develop solutions</li> <li>Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines</li> <li>Build and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide</li> <li>Develop tooling for deployment and release processes</li> </ul> <h4>WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR</h4> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline</li> <li>7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience</li> <li>Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)</li> <li>Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases</li> <li>Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes</li> <li>Fluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring</li> <li>Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize</li> <li>Experience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, Perl</li> <li>Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions</li> <li>Strong communication and time management skills</li> <li>Passion for improving education through technology</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>The base salary range