Senior Site Reliability Engineer
IXL Learning3 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for site performance, uptime, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerting, and product-specific runbook documentation.
- Identify technical problems and develop solutions.
- Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs and deliver scalable customer solutions.
- Build and propose architecture changes that improve product scalability and reliability.
- Develop tooling for deployment and release processes.
- Work with the team across a variety of production technology stacks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline.
- 6+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience.
- Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, or C.
- Experience with at least one scripting language, such as Python, Bash, or Perl.
- Experience with a public cloud provider; AWS or GCP experience is a plus.
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with common service technologies including web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases.
- Fluency in observability tools and methodologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot across the stack and provide immediate and long-term solutions.
- Flexibility to work with varied technologies and legacy systems, with an interest in streamlining and modernization.
- Flexibility about work hours and being on call.
- Strong communication and time management skills.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are offered.
- The position is full-time and requires working from the San Mateo, California headquarters office.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About IXL Learning
IXL Learning builds K–12 educational software and services, including the IXL personalized learning platform, Rosetta Stone, Teachers Pay Teachers, Wyzant, and other learning brands. It sells subscriptions to schools, districts, and families, and operates marketplaces and tutoring networks used by millions of learners. Privately held and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, its platform is used by 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts and by 17 million students worldwide.