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.
This is a full-time position in our San Mateo, CA headquarters office.
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 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
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $200,000 + equity + benefits. 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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.
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