Senior Software Engineer: Systems & Infrastructure
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Millennials are highly-educated, tech-literate, and mission-driven. Yet seven years after the Great Recession ended, nearly half of young university grads are underemployed, meaning they aren’t working jobs that require a degree. And the situation has only recently begun to improve. This year US students will graduate with $37,000 in debt, only to accept unpaid internships and part-time jobs.
Meanwhile, software is eating the world, disrupting first media, publishing, and entertainment, and now food, transportation, and travel, creating millions of new technology jobs that companies are eager to fill. By 2020 there will be a shortage of 1 million more tech jobs than computer science grads.
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Codecademy’s Systems & Infrastructure is responsible for the infrastructure and operations to deliver our service to millions of users learning to code. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with the developers to build, maintain, and lead a stable, scalable and secure infrastructure. This infrastructure is key to ensure the availability of our platform for the production of content and delivery of our educational experience globally and to millions of learners at any given moment.
We are currently transitioning to a Service Oriented Architecture and are looking for someone to collaborate with us to expedite the development of supporting tools and implement best practices.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, implement and support production infrastructure at scale in an AWS environment
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production
- Partner with rest of engineering team to detect and mitigate future failures
- Support security initiatives through internal audit, hardening AWS accounts, user management, secret management, and coordinating external audit
- Audit, augment, and maintain the developer experience, including local developer environment, continuous integration, and deployment workflow.
- Collaborate with software engineers to make architectural decisions to enable a scalable, stable and secure infrastructure
- Automate provisioning and configuration of production systems using Chef, Terraform and Docker
- Deploy and maintain monitoring and alerting resources
What You’ll Need:
- 5+ years of experience implementing and maintaining AWS services including: EC2, Elasticache, Redshift, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, RDS
- Experience with ECS, SQS, SES, Route 53
- 3+ years of experience implementing and maintaining NoSQL and SQL databases
- Experience with Go, Docker, Ruby on Rails, React, NodeJS
- Experience working closely with development teams
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Ruby, etc)
- Previous experience handling technical debt
- Previous experience as a system administrator
- Previous experience at a top 100 web property's DevOps Team
At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of users with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures