Job Summary:
IXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company, expanding their software engineering team to manage infrastructure for their products. The role involves ensuring site performance, uptime, and scalability while developing monitoring dashboards and partnering with application engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
โข Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks
โข Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability
โข Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each product
โข Identify technical problems and develop solutions
โข Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines
โข Build and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide
โข Develop tooling for deployment and release processes
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline
โข 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience
โข Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)
โข Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
โข Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
โข Fluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring
โข Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
โข Experience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, Perl
โข Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
โข Strong communication and time management skills
โข Passion for improving education through technology
Company:
At IXL Learning, we are passionate about improving learning for all. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.