Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 23, 2026. IXL Learning scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join IXL Learning, a leading developer of personalized learning products used by millions globally. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the reliability and optimal performance of our products. You will work with a variety of production technology stacks, take responsibility for site performance, uptime, and scalability, and partner with application engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions for our customers. This position requires a minimum of 6 years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience and a bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline.
Missions
- Collaborate with the team to master various production technology stacks and take responsibility for site performance, uptime, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting, and runbook documentation suited to each product, and identify technical problems and develop solutions.
- Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, and help deliver scalable solutions for customers, including proposing architecture changes.
Profil recherché
- Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases- 6+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or site reliability experience
- Flexibility about work hours and being on call
- Strong communication and time management skills
- Experience with at least one object oriented programming language like Java, C++, C
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline
- 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
- Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
- Fluency in observability tools and methodologies
- Public cloud provider experience (AWS or GCP is a plus)
- Experience with at least one scripting language like Python, Bash, Perl