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• Linux Systems Administrator to help support staff and critical infrastructure.

• We’re a small, tight-knit team, so you’ll work closely with the front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers. This is a unique opportunity to be deeply involved in the growth and evolution of an amazing and dynamic product, built on cool technology, by exceptionally talented people.

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• Provisioning and deployment of new systems in a rapidly growing environment

• Working closely with developers to tune both the application stack and databases for optimal performance

• Help to refine internal processes and documentation

• General systems maintenance tasks such as daily review of logs and alerts, managing resource usage, troubleshooting routine automated maintenance and backup processes, applying patches, etc.

• Diagnose and resolve internal system issues

• Write and maintain system scripts/utilities in Bash or Python as needed

• Respond to production issues immediately to ensure continued service

• Execution of system-related operations, including off-hour maintenance as required

• You enjoy solving problems, taking on difficult challenges, and finding creative solutions

• You don't get flustered easily (if you don't know the answer, you'll dig until you find it)

• You pay attention to details

• You communicate clearly

• You're motivated, driven and volunteer for new challenges without waiting to be asked

• 4+ years experience with systems administration

• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language

• Sound understanding of networking concepts

• Solid understanding of load balancing and HA environments

• Bonus points:

• Experience with noSQL solutions (e.g., MongoDB, Hadoop, Redis)

• Familiarity with Openstack

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with monitoring solutions

• You hold an exceptional waldo-spotting score

• Some perks: Competitive salary and full benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401k

• Workstation and tools of your choice

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• Analyze site activity and user behavior to figure out what makes people click

• Work with product and engineering teams to figure out the best ways to help our users find love

• Design, implement, and deploy features and improvements based on these findings

• Some examples of projects that backend engineers are currently or were recently working on:

• Discovery: building a new site experience to help users find other users based on shared interests, question answers, etc.

• Matching algorithm: optimizing the algorithms that decide whom users see in different places across the site

• ML infrastructure: building out infrastructure to allow our engineers and data scientists to quickly and easily deploy newly trained machine learning models into production

• Core infrastructure: designing the future foundation of backend infrastructure, from deployments to testing environments to monitoring and alerting

• 4+ years’ experience designing and building software

• Expertise with C++, Go, Java, or similar

• Experience designing and building scalable and reliable distributed systems – preferred

• Experience working on consumer-facing products – preferred

• What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary and full benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401k

• Workstation and tools of your choice

• Paid attendance to conferences

• Regularly catered lunch and a bomb shelter stockpile of snacks and drinks

• Company funded happy hours/events

• A sunny office full of incredibly curious and friendly people

 

 

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