At YapStone, we approach payments with the same startup mentality that we had when we launched our first payment solution in 1999. We are now focused on combining our entrepreneurial spirit with our immense payment expertise to take our company and our partners to the forefront of innovation. As one of the leading payment companies, YapStone is continually searching for passionate thinkers to join us in changing how the world pays.

Make YapStone fast, reliable and available for all of our visitors and payment transactions. As a site reliability engineer you are a system administrator and a software developer with a love of highly performant, fault-tolerant, distributed international systems.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage the availability, scalability and performance of YapStone platforms
  • Create the tools and infrastructure leveraged by the rest of the YapStone engineering teams
  • Diagnose and repair network, application, and hardware bottlenecks
  • Test and tune network, hardware, and software configurations to maximize performance
  • Deploy and manage monitoring and diagnostic tools

  • Guide our product and platform teams to keep new features fast and stable REQUIREMENTS:

  • Experience scaling high-traffic web sites
  • Experience with Linux and Unix-like systems administration including solid scripting skills in Ruby, PHP or Python
  • Expertise in data structures and algorithms
  • Expertise in troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Smarts, humility, and equal willingness to learn and teach
  • A sense of ownership, initiative, and drive
  • Java / C++ / C / C#
  • MS SQL Server / MySQL
  • Cloud Framworks i.e. AWS
  • git and GitHub
  • Tomcat
  • Asynchronous services and queues
  • Hadoop, Pig, ZooKeeper, and other Java/JVM projects
  • Nagios/Icinga, OpenTSDB Changing how the world pays is a mission that inspires us daily. It gets us up in the morning and keeps us up at night. And just in case we need an extra dose of inspiration during the day, our team can take in the stellar view from our Santa Monica office or visit the Yap Café in our Walnut Creek office to choose from a notably large selection of snacks. From comprehensive health insurance to gym memberships, you’ll find plenty of benefits and perks that reflect our appreciation for all of the thinking and doing that goes on at YapStone.

About YapStone

YapStone is a global provider of full-stack payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets. YapStone powers online and mobile payments for HomeAway®, VRBO®, and thousands of apartment and vacation rental companies, homeowners’ associations, self-storage companies, hospitality establishments and non-profits. YapStone processes over $17B in payment volume annually and has been recognized for its growth, ranking on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for eight consecutive years and named to the Forbes’ List of America’s Most Promising Companies in 2015. YapStone has raised over $110 million from investors including Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Bregal Sagemount. YapStone is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and Ireland. To learn more, visit www.YapStone.com .

Desired Skills and Experience

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