We’re hiring web ops engineers at Etsy. Here’s the gist of it….
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining Etsy’s infrastructure, from installed iron to production
- Taking part in a 24×7 on-call rotation
- Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care
Requirements
- Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.)
- Experience in systems programming and general scripting tasks (perl, bash, php, python, etc.)
- Experience with high-volume web applications with social components
- Experience with multi-datacenter architectures, global fault tolerance, and CDNs
- Experience with fault-tolerant replication strategies
- Experience with mission-critical search and realtime database architectures (Solr, Lucene, MySQL, Mongodb, Postgres, etc.)
- Experience working with customizing network management systems and monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Graphite, Cacti, etc.)
- Strong understanding of web application architecture, including TCP/IP and HTTP, and caching strategies at all layers
- Support of software engineers and their development environment and code repository (Subversion), including code deployment to production
- Enterprise experience with internal core systems, such as but not limited to DNS, LDAP, NTP
- Experience with data center management, including strong knowledge of power, space, and cooling issues
- Experience with credit card gateways and PCI compliance issues
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Bonus
- Experience in a “continuous deployment” environment
- Experience in social networking or community-generated content
- Experience with managing the infrastructure for a growing open API
- Database query optimization
- Hands-on network security tasks, including VPNs/firewalls configuration
- Network experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VLAN, PVLAN,Spanning-Tree, MSTI
- Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby
This is a great place to work. We work on real problems, and there’s plenty of juicy technology to sink your teeth into.