Senior Software Engineer, Udacity
$150k
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Talent transformation platform for upskilling in tech
Job no longer available
Talent transformation platform for upskilling in tech
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make lifelong learning more equitable and inclusive.
Role
Who you are
- You should either have significant experience with tools like Terraform and Docker, or be prepared to learn a lot
- 5+ years of professional experience supporting Production environments
- Experience in Go, Python, Ruby languages, at least 3+ Years
- Experience running Microservices using Linux and Docker technologies, ideally in a Kubernetes platform on AWS,
- Cloudflare experience is a big plus
- Experience in Postgres, RDS Aurora or Cockroach Labs
- Interest in Database performance tuning
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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 2025, it expanded its education portfolio by launching a fully accredited Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence degree in partnership with Woolf, allowing learners to ear a formal graduate credential built on its project-based curriculum and its recognized across many countries.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2015
$105m
SERIES D
Sep 2014
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Kai Roemmelt
(CEO)Previously, Kai spent 14 years at Bertelsmann SE & Co. While there, he held a number of roles, including COO/CFO of Hotchalk and Executive VP of Bertelsmann Education Group.
James Richards
(CTO)James joined Udacity in 2016 as a Director of Engineering. He then moved into the role of VP of Engineering in 2018 and CTO in 2019. Prior to Udacity, he held Software Engineering roles at Google and LinkedIn.
Victoria Papalian
(COO)Victoria joined Udacity in 2022 as a GM of Consumer and Operations, moving into the role of COO in 2024. Prior to Udacity, she was part of the Product Innovation Team at Ritual, part of the Investment Team at 500 Global, and Head of Business Operations at Workera.
Matt Franks
(CRO)Matt joined Udacity in 2024 as an SVP of Global Enterprise Sales and Customer Success before moving into the role of CRO in 2025. Prior to Udacity, he worked in AVP Enterprise Sales, West and Canada at Skillsoft and as a Regional Director of Enterprise Acquisition Central & West at Pluralsight.
Ed Stevenson
(CGO)Ed joined Udacity in 2024 as an SVP of Growth, moving into the role of CGO in 2025. Prior to Udacity, he was an VP of Sales at Fiducia, CEO at SonderPods, and VP of Strategic Alliances at Sojern.
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