Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, 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 position requires you to be in our San Mateo, CA, headquarters office.

• 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

• 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

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline

• 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience

• 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

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.