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Senior Software Engineer

Posted 18 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-150K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
150K-150K Annually
Senior level
Develop and manage cloud services and tools, support production environments, mentor teams, and participate in incident response for Udacity's platform infrastructure.
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About Us

Udacity is now an Accenture company, and exciting things are happening! 🚀 We are on a mission of forging futures in tech through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey.

The Platform and Core Services team owns and operates the cloud services and developer tools that power Udacity. We believe strongly in infrastructure-as-code and "automate everything." As an engineer on Platform Infrastructure, you'll do a little bit of everything - configuring our cloud infrastructure, developing new tools and services, teaching best practices to other teams, helping resolve production service outages, and more.

The Platform and Core Services team works primarily in Go, but you're also likely to find yourself reading, debugging, and sometimes writing code in all of the languages in use at Udacity, particularly Typescript but also Python and Ruby on occasion. We're in the process of migrating the organization to a multi-region Kubernetes deployment with a multi-master database, so experience with the theory and practice of distributed systems is a plus. You should either have significant experience with tools like Terraform and Docker, or be prepared to learn a lot.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop tools to improve developer productivity to bring new Udacity products to market.
  • Provide support and advice to developers building new student-facing applications.
  • Develop tools to manage our fleet of cloud services in AWS.
  • Use configuration management tools to deploy and maintain Udacity products.
  • Participate in on-call rotation for production incident response.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of professional experience supporting Production environments.
  • Experience in Go, Python, Ruby languages, at least 3+ Years.
  • Experience running Microservices using Linux and Docker technologies, ideally in a Kubernetes platform on AWS,.
  • Cloudflare experience is a big plus.
  • Experience in Postgres, RDS Aurora or Cockroach Labs.
  • Interest in Database performance tuning.
  • Mentors others and supports their growth.
  • Encourages positive attributes and attitudes in others.
  • Sees through complex problems to simple, actionable improvements.
  • Works urgently and carefully under pressure.
  • Continuously learning new tools and techniques.
  • Resourcefulness to work through thorny production issues.
  • Patience to sort out unclear operations requests.

Udacity is a learning company and you will have time to learn our particular systems on the job. Not every candidate will have prior experience with the specific tools and systems that we use.

Consider applying if your experience is close to what we described above. We look for people with exceptional potential, as we know highest performing teams include people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.


Udacity will hire a qualified candidate for this remote based position anywhere in the US with the exception of the following states:  Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,  Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Location: While this is a remote role, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States of America on a full-time basis

Compensation: The maximum base pay for this position is $150,000 depending on level, experience and location.

Benefits:

Experience a rewarding work environment with Udacity's perks and benefits!

  • At Udacity, we offer you the flexibility of working from home. We also have in-person collaboration spaces in Mountain View, Cairo, Dubai and Noida and continue to build opportunities for team members to connect in person
  • Flexible working hours
  • Paid time off
  • Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for you and your dependents
  • Employee wellness resources and initiatives (access to wellness platforms like Headspace)
  • Quarterly wellness day off
  • Personalized career development
  • Unlimited access to Udacity Nanodegrees

Compensation at Udacity, an Accenture company, varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Udacity, an Accenture company, will provide a reasonable range of compensation. 

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

 Accenture Equal Opportunity Statement

Udacity, an Accenture company, is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities, and is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration. Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Further, at Accenture a criminal conviction history is not an absolute bar to employment. 


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AWS
Cloudflare
Cockroach Labs
Docker
Go
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Rds Aurora
Ruby
Terraform
Typescript

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