Udacity's mission is to train the world’s workforce in the careers of the future. We partner with leading companies to learn how technology is transforming industries, then teach the critical tech skills that individuals need for new and better jobs, and companies are looking for in their workforce.  With Nanodegree programs ranging from AI and Azure to Data Science, Robotic Process Automation, and Cybersecurity, our online training platform helps even the busiest learners prepare themselves for the most in-demand tech roles.  Udacity's unique learning model of real-world projects and experts and mentors available 24/7 enables an unprecedented degree of engagement with our students, and we are with them through every step of their learning journey—from the first moment a marketing team member might answer a question on Facebook, to the penultimate moment when a career team member receives word that a graduate has gotten a new job. Always putting Students First guides us as we continue our mission to bring the highest quality learning possible, to as many learners as we can possibly reach.

Udacity is an online learning platform offering groundbreaking education in fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, virtual reality, and more. Focused on self-empowerment through learning, Udacity is making innovative technologies such as self-driving cars available to a global community of aspiring technologists, while also enabling learners at all levels to skill up with essentials like programming, web and app development. If you love a challenge, and truly want to make a difference in the world, read on! 

The Product 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.

Consider applying if your experience is close to what we described above. We look for people with exceptional potential, as we know highest performing teams include people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.

Udacity is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe that the unique contributions of all Udacians is the driver of our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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Udacity is committed to creating economic empowerment and a more diverse and equitable world.  We have partnered with AT&T, Google, Lyft, Microsoft, Accenture and more to provide over 22,000 scholarships this year to those from communities under-represented in tech.

 
Learn more about our expanded partnership with AT&T and our newest nanodegree program in Azure Machine Learning.

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