Job Summary:
IXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company, developing personalized learning products used by millions globally. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on DevOps to manage infrastructure for their Rosetta Stone and Wyzant products, ensuring high quality of service and scalability.
Responsibilities:
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
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.