About This Role

Yik Yak is looking for engineers with real world experience designing, implementing, and operating large scale web infrastructure. Yik Yak is growing our traffic and our engineering staff and we need engineers who can help evolve our platform to scale for both.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience administering large web infrastructure
  • Comfortable with network architecture
  • Proficient in at least one scripting language (Ruby, Python, Perl, etc)
  • Can tune the Linux kernel for high network traffic
  • Experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud
  • Production experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Familiar with software development lifecycle
  • Container technology such as Docker and/or rkt
  • Able to focus on the why as much as the how

Bonus

  • Development experience in Go
  • Practical knowledge of unit and integration testing tools/frameworks
  • Container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and/or Mesos

Desired Skills and Experience

See application page for details