Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure / Devops
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Online lessons for K-12 subjects
Company Overview
IXL is passionate about improving learning for all. They apply technology in thoughtful and innovative ways to unlock students' innate curiosity, creativity, and desire for knowledge.
Data & Analytics
Education
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$510M
Founded
1998
Headquarters
San Mateo, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -85%1 year growth
↓ -85%2 year growth
↓ -85%Locations
San Mateo, CA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Development Operations (DevOps)
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
- 5+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience
- Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
- 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
- Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
- Flexibility about work hours and being on call
- Strong communication and time management skills
- 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
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
Desired Qualifications
- Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus