Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

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. #LI-EM1This position requires you to be in our San Mateo, CA, headquarters office.WHAT YOU'LL BE DOINGWork with your team to master a variety of production technology stacksTake responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalabilityDevelop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each productIdentify technical problems and develop solutionsPartner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelinesBuild and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wideDevelop tooling for deployment and release processesWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORBachelor's or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experiencePublic cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databasesExperience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and KubernetesFluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoringFlexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernizeExperience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, PerlSkill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutionsStrong communication and time management skillsPassion for improving education through technologyThe base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $200,000 + equity + benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.