Fast Facts

Udacity is seeking a Software Engineer for their Platform Infrastructure team to design and maintain core services that enhance user experience and support product engineering efforts.

Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain infrastructure services; collaborate with product engineers; own multiple projects and participate in on-call rotations for production incidents.

Skills: Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python or comparable languages; experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB; strong collaboration and communication skills.

Qualifications: Experience supporting production services; strong focus on user experience; passion for teamwork and continuous learning.

Location: Remote within the United States, excluding certain states.

Compensation: $145000 / Annually

The Platform Infrastructure team owns and operates core services that power the Udacity site. The Sign Up / Sign In and User Experiments services and internal API and Kafka usage are among the important services this team owns. Udacity is built on a microservices pattern, so reliable service-service APIs are important for application stability and developer productivity. Udacity follows the DevOps school of thought: always be automating, developers are on-call for their systems, and iterative improvement.

Most of our backend services are written in Go and most of our frontend applications are written in TypeScript using the React framework, but we are a multilingual shop and expect developers to be familiar with other languages and computing environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain new and existing infrastructure services which form the core building blocks for product engineers to use.
• Collaborate with product engineers across the company to identify and build new solutions to common problems.
• Own multiple projects and prioritize effectively to build new features and scale up existing ones.
• Encourage adoption of the team’s solutions throughout the engineering organization via collaboration, tech talks, promotion of best practices and continuous improvement through customer (engineer) feedback.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production incidents.

What We Value:

• Programming fundamentals demonstrable in Go, Ruby, Python or any comparable language.
• Familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or others.
• Experience supporting a production service that others depend on.
• A relentless focus on building the best possible experience for our users and a data driven attitude to achieving it.
• Passion for working as part of a team - you love connecting and collaborating with others.Honest, transparent communication and openness to fresh perspectives.
• Relishes being the go-to engineer for systems on which other products run.
• Enjoys finding simple, actionable improvements to larger systems.
• Continuously learning new tools and techniques.

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 $145000 , depending on 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