Senior Site Reliability Engineer

IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, and help maintain the reliability and optimal performance of our products. We are seeking engineers with a passion for problem solving and optimization. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions, and we are eager to have you join our team.

This position requires you to be in our Raleigh, NC, area 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, and help deliver scalable solutions for our customers

• Build and propose architecture changes that will make our products more scalable and reliable

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

• 6+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience

• Experience with at least one object oriented programming language like Java, C++, C

• Experience with at least one scripting language like Python, Bash, Perl

• Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases

• Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize

• Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions