Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
IXL Learning, a global edtech leader with personalized learning products used by millions of students worldwide, 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.
This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our Raleigh, NC, area office.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- 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
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 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
ABOUT IXL LEARNING
IXL Learning's standard text
IXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company. We reach millions of learners through our diverse range of products. For example:
- 1 in 4 students in the United States uses IXL.com
- Rosetta Stone provides an immersive learning experience for 25 languages
- Wyzant is the nation's largest community of tutors, covering 300+ subjects
- Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is a comprehensive marketplace for millions of educator-created resources
IXL Learning's standard text
Our mission is to create innovative products that will make a real, positive difference for learners and educators and we're looking for passionate, mission-minded people to join us in achieving this goal. We have a unique culture at IXL that fosters collaboration and the open exchange of ideas. We value our team and treat one another with kindness and respect. We approach our work with passion, tenacity, and authenticity. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions and we are eager to have you join our team.
At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants and employees based on any legally protected category.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Bash · C · C++ · Perl
Rare in IXL Learning's other 49 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · Docker · GCP · Kubernetes · Python
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
67% of this description is written for the role. The rest is IXL Learning's standard text, folded away below.
Read against IXL Learning's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 25 open in Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (20 of 25), AWS (12 of 25), JavaScript (11 of 25), Python (8 of 25), React (8 of 25), CSS (7 of 25), MongoDB (7 of 25)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Software Engineer, Intern posted Oct 7
- Software Engineer, New Grad posted Oct 7
- Software Engineer, New Grad posted Oct 7
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Jul 16
- Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD Platform posted Jun 15
- Software Engineer posted Jun 12
- Software Engineer posted May 18
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering posted May 9
- Front-End Software Engineer, IXL Product posted May 9
- Software Engineering Manager posted May 9
- Senior Software Engineer posted May 9
- Senior Software Engineer, Rosetta Stone posted May 9
- Software Engineer, Dictionary.com posted May 9
- Software Engineer, Education.com posted May 9
- Software Engineer, Rosetta Stone posted May 9
- Technical Lead, Software Engineering posted May 9
- Software Engineer, Core Technology posted May 9
- Senior Software Engineer, Education.com posted May 9
- Senior Software Engineer, DevOps posted May 9
- Senior Software Engineer, Core Technology posted May 9
- Software Developer - Team Lead posted Dec 12
- Senior Software Engineer, Teachers Pay Teachers posted Aug 13
- Senior Software Engineer posted Jul 1
- Software Engineer, Teachers Pay Teachers posted Jun 7
From the team and dates on IXL Learning's own job board.
Salary context
41 other open postings titled Senior Site Reliability Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 219,000 a year.
See Site Reliability Engineer salaries in the United States →
Similar jobs
- ASKUSR0147035 Site Reliability Engineer - NERSC Operations at Essnova Solutions, Inc.
Shares 6 skills: Perl, C, C++… · same country - Platform Ops Lead at Black Canyon Consulting
Shares 9 skills: Perl, Bash, C++… · same country - Senior Software Engineer 773 at Freedom Technology Solutions Group
Shares 8 skills: Perl, C, C++… · Senior level · same country - Software Engineer III at Prosync
Shares 8 skills: Perl, Bash, C… · Senior level - Associate Technical Services Engineer II at MongoDB
Shares 7 skills: Perl, C, C++… · same country - Associate Digital Designer at IXL Learning
Also at this company
Is this your posting and you want it taken down? Email info@careerholo.com.