Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

IXL Learning
San Mateo, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced DevOps engineers who build scalable infrastructure and streamline complex systems, with a background in public cloud and containerization technologies, and who are based in San Mateo, CA.

Best fit for

  • Experienced DevOps engineers with a passion for simplifying complex systems and modernizing infrastructure
    — “passion for simplifying the complex and building highly scalable infrastructure”
  • Candidates with 7+ years of hands-on DevOps or software engineering experience and a diverse tech stack background
    — “7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience”
  • Engineers who have worked with containerized solutions like Docker and Kubernetes and can manage CI/CD pipelines
    — “Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes”

Things to consider

  • Full-time on-site presence is required in San Mateo, CA, despite the lack of explicit mention in the employment type field
    — “This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our IXL headquarters office in San Mateo, CA.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to work with legacy systems while driving modernization efforts
    — “Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience with public cloud providers and specific mention of GCP if applicable
    — “Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)”
  • Highlight your ability to develop tooling for deployment and release processes
    — “Develop tooling for deployment and release processes”
  • Showcase your fluency in DevOps concerns such as source control, builds, and deployments
    — “Fluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring”
  • Demonstrate your ability to identify and resolve technical problems across the stack
    — “Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions”
  • Position yourself as a collaborative problem-solver with application engineering teams
    — “Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Developed and maintained accurate monitoring dashboards
  • Identified technical problems and developed solutions
Typical background
Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Site Reliability EngineeringCloud Provider ExperienceContainerized Cloud SolutionsMonitoring And AlertingCi/cd PipelinesDeployment And Release Processes

Preferred

Public Cloud Provider ExperienceProgramming Languages

Stack & domain

Site ReliabilityOperationsProduction Technology StacksMonitoring DashboardsAlertingRunbook DocumentationArchitecture ChangesDeploymentRelease ProcessesPublic Cloud ProviderGCPWeb ServersMessage QueuesLoad BalancersDatabasesContainerized Cloud SolutionsDockerKubernetesSource ControlBuildsDeploymentsNetworkingScalingMonitoringTroubleshootingJavaC++CGoPythonBashPerlCommunicationTime ManagementImproving Education Through TechnologyEdtechPersonalized LearningHigh Quality Of ServiceScalable InfrastructureLegacy SystemsStreamline And Modernize

About the role

Original posting from IXL Learning

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. 

Source: IXL Learning careers

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