Job Description

Qualifications

• Configuring, maintaining and securing UNIX/Linux systems
• AWS or similar IaaS cloud services
• Scripting (shell, python, ruby) skills for monitoring and automation
• Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Juju, etc) and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant, VMWare, etc)
• Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, etc
• Monitoring and alerting tools such as Munin, New Relic, Monitis, Ganglia, etc
• Scaling distributed data systems
• Optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance

• Maintaining an infrastructure while adding new features to it
• Clear articulation to your team of your design choices

• You want to work in a startup environment
• You have a strong interest in scaling distributed data systems such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra or others

• You roll up your sleeves and dive head first into new challenges and technologies
• You know how to leverage many languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, JavaScript or Python and frameworks such as Akka or Node.js
• You leverage OSS software but also contribute back to it
• You like using technology to empower people