DevOps Engineer II

We are NYC based, but remote friendly unless specified. (US & Canada based candidates only)

Hello, World! Codecademy is on a mission to build inspiring careers in technology through engaging, accessible, and interactive online coding education.

Our learners have gone on to start new jobs, launch new companies, and lead new lives thanks to their work with Codecademy, and our platform has transformed the way businesses develop and retain their teams.

Since 2011, our team has grown to over 200 employees serving 50+ million learners from 190+ countries. Weve raised over $82M in venture capital funding from top investors including Prosus, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and morewhich gives us the capital to get stuff done in an impactful way.

Join us to help build a business that empowers tens of millions of people to lead better lives!

Codecademys Infrastructure & Platform team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the team. This team is responsible for the infrastructure and operations that deliver our services to millions of users learning to code. As a DevOps 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 YOULL DO

• Design, implement and support production infrastructure at scale in an AWS environment
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production
• Partner with other engineering teams to detect and mitigate problems
• Support security initiatives through internal audit, hardening AWS accounts, user management, secret management, and coordinating external audit
• Maintain, evaluate, and improve 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 Terraform, Kubernetes, Packer, and Docker
• Deploy and maintain monitoring and alerting resources
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines to quickly and safely deploy code to production environments

WHAT YOULL NEED

• 3+ years of experience implementing and maintaining AWS services such as EC2, Elasticache, RDS, ECR, IAM, S3
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications
• Experience supporting web applications
• Experience working closely with development teams
• Familiarity with Linux OS

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Experience with EKS and Cloudflare
• Experience implementing and maintaining NoSQL and SQL databases
• Experience with Go, Ruby on Rails, React, NodeJS
• Application monitoring and logging experience with Datadog
• Previous experience as a system administrator

Tagged as: Developer, DevOps Engineer, Linux, nodejs, Python, React, Ruby On Rails, Software Engineer, SQL