Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team you will play a critical role in designing implementing and maintaining our highly available scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS. You will be a part of the Hand-on-Learning software engineering team based in North America to ensure the reliability performance and scalability of our Coursera Labs applications and services. This position requires a strong sense of ownership technical expertise communication skills ability to work both independently and collaborate with engineers in a different time zone.

Responsibilities:

• Architect solutions to scale up and maintain a system already running thousands of on-demand student Docker containers concurrently from over 1 TB of course Lab images.

• Manage services networks storage deployment security and monitoring in AWS.

• Keep disaster recovery components ready for use and participate in disaster simulations.

• Tune Linux instances to maximize performance and stability while minimizing hosting costs.

• Design processes to automate software updates.

• On-call to analyze failures create technically detailed JIRA tickets and restore production systems.

• Assist with maintaining environments for software development and QA.

• Work with other engineers on the team to improve software performance stability and diagnostics collection.

• Automate deployment testing and configuration management using tools like Jenkins

• Monitor for trends in usage that will require hosting/instance/pricing adjustments.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous improvement of our infrastructure and processes

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in SRE Infrastructure or DevOps roles with a focus on AWS

• Deep understanding of AWS services such as EC2 CloudFormation CodeDeploy etc

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python Go Java etc.).

• Deep knowledge of Docker.

• Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform

• Technical diagnostics at the application Linux system and cloud levels

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team

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