Backend Engineer, Udacity
$102-120k
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Talent transformation platform for upskilling in tech
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Talent transformation platform for upskilling in tech
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$102-120k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To equip professionals and organizations to excel in some of the world’s most exciting disciplines by creating the next level of job-ready digital talent.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3+ years of professional software engineering experience working hands-on in a product-oriented software engineering role, in live production code
- Strong background in building scalable and low latency systems
- Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, delivering, and maintaining production quality reliable and performant microservices
- Experience with languages or frameworks in general, but in particular with GoLang, Postgresql, Graphql, and the latest web protocols and security concerns
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
- Passionate about your users’ experience and you feel, as we do, that online education can improve lives worldwide
Desirable
- SQL performance tuning experience is a plus
- AWS , GCP, Cloudflare experience
- Terraform, Ansible experience
- Kubernetes in Production experience
- Python programming experience
- CI/CD pipeline configuration experience
- Distributed event streaming platform experience like Kafka
- Production applications monitoring experience
What the job involves
- The Udacity Platform and Core Services team is looking for Backend Software Engineers to build products to support the rapidly growing business demand of Udacity
- The Platform and Core Services team provides our internal customers with the tools they need to make sure their services and processes get the most from Udacity’s Platform
- Your work will impact internal and external customers, including Udacity Students all over the world and provide you with plenty of engineering challenges as we refine the experiences and infrastructure to handle new levels of flexibility and scale as we tackle this massive market
- Design, build, ship, and maintain new and existing microservices with production quality
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Participate in on-call rotation for production incident response
- Manage cloud vendor resources and services
- Maintain core internal APIs in support of application services
Our take
Udacity is connecting education to jobs by providing students with skills to advance careers. Its revenue-driving 'Nanodegree' programs provide credentials to individuals earned through a series of online courses and projects from self-driving cars to digital marketing.
By partnering with leading technology companies to learn how technology is transforming industries, Udacity can teach the critical tech skills that companies are looking for in their workforce. With their powerful and flexible digital education platform, even the busiest learners can prepare themselves to take on the most in-demand tech roles.
The company sets itself apart from other online open course providers like Udemy, Goodwill or edX by focusing on industry-specific skills identified by tech companies themselves. In 2023, it launched the Udacity Management Platform for organizations, with capabilities including highlighting urgent learning tasks and displaying usage data, to further enhance its utility.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
30% female employees
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2015
$105m
SERIES D
Sep 2014
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, and vision benefits (no-premium)
- 401K
- FSA
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym memberships, work-out gear, etc.)
- Reimbursements for conferences, classes, and seminars
- Flexible work hours
- Unlimited vacation
- Paid parental leave
Company values
- Students First - The student and their needs are at the center of everything we do in order to upskill as efficiently as possible
- Better Together - We are highly collaborative as a team and are committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace free of judgment, bias or discrimination
- Entrepreneurial - We act with a high sense of urgency and eliminate unnecessary rules, process and bureaucracy to promote innovation
- Data Driven - We are intellectually curious. We dig deep. We always ask why. We make hard decisions in the face of ambiguity, are unafraid to fail fast, and move forward
- Candid & Direct - We share direct and constructive feedback and consider all important perspectives before committing to a decision
- Talent Obsessed - We strive to increase talent density continuously and reward exceptional performance. So, we promote based on what we do, not how long we’re in a role
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Sebastian Thrun
(Chairman)Previously a professor of computer science at Stanford University. This experience encouraged him to found Udacity before he founded flying-car company Kitty Hawk of which he is currently CEO.
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