About the position
Udacity is 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
- Experience primarily in Go, nice to have in Python, Ruby languages.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Experience running Microservices using Linux and Docker technologies, ideally in a Kubernetes platform on AWS.
- Interest in systems engineering, networking (ideally with Cloudflare), and security administration.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
