Desired Skills and Experience

  • Maintain a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud, virtual, and physical servers running Linux, BSD and others, all supporting billions of requests daily.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure through reusable code and tooling.
  • Use metrics and monitoring systems to ensure performance, scalability, and stability.
  • Maintain high transaction volume Percona MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Amazon RDS, ElasticSearch, and other database technologies.
  • Support production systems in a global 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities.
  • Evaluate, develop, and implement internal tools and systems to help our team succeed.
  • A proven track record of building infrastructure automation.
  • A deep and detailed understanding of the Linux operating system, at both a high- and low-level.
  • Strong understanding of the OSI model.
  • Understanding of security best practices.
  • Experience with AWS or another Cloud infrastructure platform.
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Chef/Ansible/Salt etc.) and/or container based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes/Mesos/PAASTA/Marathon etc.).
  • Experience with at least one high level programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang or Javascript.
  • Strong time management skills and a self driven work ethic.
  • You’ve built highly available systems at scale.
  • Capacity planning for large, multi-tier web systems.
  • SQL - ability to write queries and analyze their bottlenecks.
  • You’ve made contributions to Open Source projects.

Apply