http://www.smartleaf.com is a profitable, privately held 30-person financial SAAS company. We are looking for a person to fill a position that is trendily referred to as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps, but we think of as a senior systems administrator. You can write your own title within reason. This is a senior individual contributor position.

You must be clever, competent, and kind.

Serious Experience Requirements

  • Linux systems administration
  • two or more languages (many of our tools are written in Perl; the application is in C++ (back end) and Ruby on Rails (front end))
  • basic network engineering
  • security
  • You should know your way around Puppet or another systems automation tool. We wrote our own: https://github.com/rst/Tuttle
  • You must have the ability and desire to track down complex problems and solve them, learning as you go.
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential.

Nice-to-haves Include

  • Oracle or PostgreSQL DBA
  • large data management
  • VOIP
  • JunOS. Full-time, on-site position with occasional telecommuting and shared on-call responsibility. Compensation includes salary, equity, 3-4 weeks of vacation, NYSE holidays, all insurance premiums, food, excellent coffee, and a collegial working environment.

An ex-employee described us as the most interesting group of people he had found outside of MIT. It probably helps if you’re an SF fan.

Cover letters and resumes to [[redacted]]; we prefer plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please describe an interesting problem you have solved.

Desired Skills and Experience

See application page for details