IXL Learning is seeking Senior Software Engineers to join their Site Reliability team to maintain the reliability and optimal performance of their personalized learning products used by millions of people globally.
Requirements
- Experience with at least one object oriented programming language like Java, C++, C
- Experience with at least one scripting language like Python, Bash, Perl
- Public cloud provider experience (AWS or GCP is a plus)
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
- Fluency in observability tools and methodologies
- Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
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, and help deliver scalable solutions for our customers
- Build and propose architecture changes that will make our products more scalable and reliable
- Develop tooling for deployment and release processes
Other
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
- 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience
- Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
- Flexibility about work hours and being on call
- Strong communication and time management skills
