[SVLUG-Jobs] Systems Engineer position with startup in San Francisco downtown

[Ravi Pindiproli]

Hello folks

 

One of my clients, a profitable startup in San Francisco downtown is seeking
a Systems Engineer.  This company has secured solid A series funding and is
not seeking anymore as they are already self sufficient due to the revenues
being generated.  This gives good option value to current and future
employees.

 

Here are some details on the position.  We can discuss more details if you
are interested and a good match.

 

Senior Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer who wants to own major components
of our platform designed for billions of impressions per month. You will be
dedicated to addressing performance analysis & monitoring, systems
architecture, capacity, security, and stability issues through our high
performance data pipelines. You will function at a high level within a
fast-paced, cross-functional environment including development, networking,
hosting systems, database and application servers. An analytical approach
with deep knowledge and understanding of each layer is a critical factor for
success.

 

Responsibilities:

Administer application-level knowledge of back-end systems architecture, as
well as contributing to their overall design to monitor and sustain our high
standards of availability and performance 

Maintain, improve, and manage our Hadoop cluster 

Expert in MySQL: replication, optimization and setup 

Develop tools (PHP and Perl) to automate the deployment, administration and
performance monitoring within a Linux environment, typically at the
operating system, network, and server levels; e.g. CPU utilization, memory
utilization, disk I/O, etc. 

 

Requirements:

3+ years Technical Operations or Production Engineering experience in a
highly-scalable, distributed, very large multi-node environment (1000+
nodes) 

4+ years of Unix environment experience (Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD) including
Shell scripting 

Software development experience in PHP and Perl 

Custom network and application monitoring/instrumentation experience (Perl,
PHP) as well as familiarity with Open Nagios 

Significant troubleshooting and performance tuning skills/experience
(TCP/IP, DNS, and Load balancing) 

Outstanding interpersonal and written communication skills including the
ability to handle stress, self starting ability, and multi-tasking 

Depth of understanding of Grid computing, Hadoop, advanced server clustering
and distributed programming 

Must be an expert in MySQL 

 

 

Ravi Pindiproli

408-839-1536