About The Opportunity

GrubHub Holdings Inc. is the nation’s leading online and mobile food-ordering company dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local takeout restaurants. The GrubHub Holdings Inc. portfolio of brands includes GrubHub, Seamless, MenuPages and Allmenus. The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow diners to order directly from thousands of takeout restaurants across the country and London, and every order is supported by the company’s 24/7 customer service. GrubHub Holdings Inc. has offices in Chicago, New York City and London.

Some Challenges You’ll Tackle

With a career at GrubHub Holdings Inc., you can order your cake and eat it, too!

My name is Jeff and I’m one of the Systems Engineers at Grubhub. We’re looking for a few more talented systems engineers to join our team and help us improve our infrastructure, tools and metrics. Rather than the normal HR style of job description, we thought it be best if you heard it from someone performing the role on a daily basis.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Puppet for configuration management
  • Ansible for task orchestration
  • Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu), Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Flask
  • Bash, Python, Ruby, Java
  • CollectD, ELK Stack, Splunk, DataDog
  • vSphere, AWS
  • MySQL, Cassandra, Couchbase
  • Stash/Git, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins
  • Mac, Linux or Windows. (We won’t judge you if you run Windows….much)
  • YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It)
  • DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
  • “If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph of something that isn’t moving yet, just in case it decides to make a run for it.”
  • Make it work, make it right, make it fast, make it small. In that order. An imperfect tool in production is more useful than a perfect tool still in development.
  • Try something different. If it sucks, throw it out and try again.
  • Someone with a passion for learning
  • Someone gutsy who isn’t afraid to try new things
  • Someone who is comfortable failing, learning and trying again
  • Someone who is data obsessed.
  • Someone with an automation mindset.
  • Someone who hates black boxes
  • Linux experience
  • Proficient in a high level scripting language
  • Continuous Integration Knowledge
  • Experience with RDBMs and NoSQL implementations
  • Knowledge of distributed systems design and constraints
  • Unlimited paid vacation days. Choose how your time is spent.
  • Never go hungry! We provide weekly GrubHub/Seamless credit.
  • Regular in-office social events, including happy hours, wine tastings, karaoke, bingo with prizes and more.
  • Company-Wide Initiatives encouraging innovation, continuous learning and cross-department connections.