Desired Skills and Experience
- be responsible for the infrastructure of our award-winning apps used by millions of active users every day
- ensure reliability, scalability, and performance
- tackle problems relating to critical services and prevent problem recurrence
- maintain services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
- scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- work agile with a motivated and innovative small team (including us, the two founders)
- you solve challenges involving scaling, high availability, reliability, data pipelines, micro-services, and more in your day-to-day work.
- you are comfortable building and scaling applications on one or more technologies that make up our stack: PHP, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Ceph, Redis, Memcache, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Gitlab, Gearman, MQTT, Puppet and more.
- you can cross systems, DevOps, and application software boundaries.
- you have experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware).
- you are fascinated by the complex issues that arise as a result of operating large-scale systems and you understand that automation plays a critical role.
- you are skilled working directly on the command line and you take pride in building internal tools to help your team be more efficient.
- you love learning, enjoy playing with new tech and exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet.
- you love getting things done and you never give up, when it’s getting difficult. It’s a challenge to master every situation.
- you speak and write business-fluent English
- remote and flexible (work from anywhere within a timezone you choose)
- 30 paid personal vacation days per year
- only the best hardware and software (use what works best for you)
- personal home office budget (2,000 € to buy what you need every 2 years)
- make a difference (we’re laser-focused and lean)
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