Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure / Devops
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IXL Learning

501-1,000 employees

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