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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** IXL Learning
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Perl (Programming Language), Web Servers, Python (Programming Language), Queueing Systems, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Scripting, Load Balancing, Grafana, Information Technology, Docker, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-ixl-learning-8761820

## About the Role

IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, and help maintain the reliability and optimal performance of our products. We are seeking engineers with a passion for problem solving and optimization. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions, and we are eager to have you join our team., * 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 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
 * 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

## Description

* 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


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