Desired Skills and Experience
- A passion for automation: You want to take manual processes and replace them with automated ones wherever you find them. You understand what makes a service scalable, resilient, performant, and efficient. And you understand both how to define an SLA, and how to gather metrics to ensure that the services you build meet theirs.
- 3+ years of coding experience: We do a lot in Perl and Python, but we dabble in many technologies. Gcc, Clang, Javascript, Shell, Make, Chef, dpkg, git, OpenStack and Docker are all part of our portfolio. Whatever your expertise, you know how to craft well-written, testable software and services.
- Willingness to get hands-on: We have a large environment and many technologies supporting many tools and services. You’re willing to deal with developer escalations, diagnose problems, and triage issues whenever they occur, and you’re able to switch context when the situation demands it.
- Healthy exposure to UNIX fundamentals and network administration: You understand how to troubleshoot system software and performance problems, and can dive into the details to figure out how something works.
- Tech diversity: Experience with a range of interesting technologies you can talk passionately about, and an urge to tinker.
- An instinct for design: You don’t just want to build cool tools and stand up neat services, you want to build them right and you know how to make them scale. And you can explain your designs, too.
- Clarity of thought: You have the ability to communicate clearly and in technical depth, both verbally and in writing, and an enthusiasm for improving and simplifying documentation.
- OS diversity: You have familiarity with not just Linux but the wider world of UNIX variants, particularly AIX and Solaris. You know your BSD from your SysV and you have an opinion on systemd.