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Senior Software Engineer: System and Infrastructure

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Codecademy teaches millions of people across the world how to code on our online platform. Our mission is to equip our users with technical skills they need to find success in a rapidly evolving digital world. We offer a free product to make discovery of and learning to code accessible to everyone, and paid products that provide a more intensive learning experience. Codecademy was founded in 2011 and received Series C funding in 2016.
As a senior systems software engineer, you will work on unique problems such as allocation and securing of our interactive learning environment resources to users on the fly as well as more familiar problems such as scaling high traffic services, improving the server provisioning process, and refining service deployment infrastructure. As the responsibilities grow, you will help hire infrastructure/systems engineers to complement your fields of expertise.

Software engineers at Codecademy build products in small, cross-functional teams. As a company, we establish clear goals and each team determines how to contribute to these goals. We use agile processes to maintain communication and ship quickly and iteratively. Team members collaborate on the entire development process from ideation to delivery.
What you'll do
  • Provide millions of users with a private web server, development environment, and code evaluation service.
  • Manage and improve our cluster that spawns over 10,000 Docker containers a day.
  • Move our suite of services from Chef to Docker.
  • As we release new courses, write backend services for supporting new technologies.
  • Improve our engineering team’s operations, including how we launch local services and build / deploy code.
  • Ensure our entire system is stable, performant, and well-instrumented.
Who you are
  • Expert with at least 2 programming languages, preferably a dynamic and a compiled language
  • Three or more years of software engineering experience
  • Experience working with Linux/Unix, preferably with system libraries, networking, and file systems
  • Experience with containerization technology (Docker, openVZ, lxc, etc.)
  • Experience with configuration management systems like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or Salt
  • Experience building software used by thousands of concurrent users
  • Experience with setup and management of a cloud-based platform
Tech we use
  • React, Redux, Jest, Webpack, ES6+, SCSS
  • Ruby on Rails, Go
  • MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch
  • AWS, Docker, Chef

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Megan O’Neill
UX Writer
COURSE CORRECTION
Encouragement for learning new skills
Megan O’Neill’s UX career started back when she was in marketing at Codecademy. An engineer put out a call on Slack for help writing an error message, and she jumped at the chance to pitch in. “It might sound silly, but it was just so much fun,” she said. After 15 years in marketing, she’d been contemplating a career move, but wasn’t sure if it was the right time to share her interest in switching roles. “If it didn’t work out, I wasn’t sure what would happen. But in the end, my interest was met with a lot of support — and even excitement,” she said. Now, she’s the team’s first UX writer.
Megan O’Neill’s UX career started back when she was in marketing at Codecademy. An engineer put out a call on Slack for help writing an error message, and she jumped at the chance to pitch in. “It might sound silly, but it was just so much fun,” she said. After 15 years in marketing, she’d been contemplating a career move, but wasn’t sure if it was the right time to share her interest in switching roles. “If it didn’t work out, I wasn’t sure what would happen. But in the end, my interest was met with a lot of support — and even excitement,” she said. Now, she’s the team’s first UX writer.
We support learners on their journeys — and we are a team of lifelong learners ourselves.
Ankit Rakha
Director of Data
UPPING THE ANTE
AI tools enable new possibilities in education
Artificial intelligence has become a critical component of decision-making at Codecademy. Ankit Rakha’s team has made great strides in using data and AI to set up a diversity, equity and inclusion analytics dashboard; create a data guild; open an experimentation forum; and incorporate enterprise tooling and machine learning platforms. He likes to think of the data science and engineering teams as a sort of “think tank” for Codecademy, providing insights, helping business partners find solutions and articulating needs: “We believe that data is our users’ voice.”
Artificial intelligence has become a critical component of decision-making at Codecademy. Ankit Rakha’s team has made great strides in using data and AI to set up a diversity, equity and inclusion analytics dashboard; create a data guild; open an experimentation forum; and incorporate enterprise tooling and machine learning platforms. He likes to think of the data science and engineering teams as a sort of “think tank” for Codecademy, providing insights, helping business partners find solutions and articulating needs: “We believe that data is our users’ voice.”
My goal is to inspire and support our efforts in becoming more data-driven in our approach to serving our learners.
Koma Gandy
VP of Curriculum
Feeling heard
Where everyone’s opinions are considered
As the leader of the team that develops new curriculum features, Gandy said she strives to create an environment where her team feels empowered to speak up. "It’s important for people to feel heard, valued and included in order to achieve the best experiences for our learners," she said, adding that numerous opportunities for employees to run with their ideas and impact the platform have come from this open environment.
As the leader of the team that develops new curriculum features, Gandy said she strives to create an environment where her team feels empowered to speak up. "It’s important for people to feel heard, valued and included in order to achieve the best experiences for our learners," she said, adding that numerous opportunities for employees to run with their ideas and impact the platform have come from this open environment.
We work tirelessly to create opportunities through education, for both our learners and ourselves as employees.

What are Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Perks + Benefits

Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Benefits Overview

In addition to base pay, paid holidays, equity packages, and generous health benefits:

We offer a $50 monthly stipend for use towards gym memberships, fitness classes, meditation, massages.
We offer a subsidy on Citi Bike memberships--don't just work in the city, see the city! Pre-tax commuter benefits.
We offer $1,000 a year towards education and growth to be used towards conferences, certifications, or any other opportunities to learn!
Catered lunch (Tuesday through Thursday in office) and a fully-stocked kitchen
Up to $75/month internet stipend when remote.
GrubHub+ Membership
401k account through Human Interest
OneMedical account for primary care
Codecademy Pro account
Unlimited vacation policy: We encourage (and sometimes demand!) that employees take vacation time to rest and reboot.

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available
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