WHO WE ARE
When it comes to fun games, it’s Serious Business. We produce some of Facebook’s top social games, we have one of the world’s largest rails clusters, and we’re just getting started(ish).
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking to hire a rockstar Operations Engineer, like yesterday.
SUMMARY:
The Serious Business Operations Engineer is responsible for the build-out, automation, scalability, and uptime of our operating environment.
The Operations Engineer will work very closely with the developers to perform tasks such as software releases and database migrations.
The Operations Engineer must also provide tools and processes to enable the Engineering team to manage the operational aspects of their
applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
management of datacenter resources
monitoring the health of our applications
troubleshooting of all operational issues
provide support to Engineering for server and database management (new builds, migrations, etc.)
manage capacity cushion of our systems
REQUIREMENTS
3-5 years experience managing multi-server farms of web-based applications
Expertise managing Linux-based systems
Expertise managing MySQL databases
Expertise at task automation and configuration management
Strong CS background
Proficient with script-based languages
Knowledge of programming languages such as Ruby and Python
Adept at managing build-out and maintenance of high-transaction database-backed applications
Don’t live in the Bay Area?
We’ll move you here. We subsidize 5k in relocation expenses.
Got friends?
We pay a 10k referral bonus to anyone who refers a developer that we hire.
CULTURE
We are serious about culture here at Serious Business. More than just great engineers, we want to hire great people. We are going to be spending a LOT of time together, so we want you to know our expectations up front:
* Smart – this is Serious Business after all
* Gets things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk
* Agile, tee dee dee – able to work on a variety of projects
* We’re a team – so everybody does the dishes
* Entrepreneurial – everybody has serious ownership and serious say in Serious Business
* Excited to work on projects with lots of unknowns and designing elegant solutions for problems that have quite literally never been solved before
LOCATION
Downtown San Francisco (2nd and Market)
PLUS LOTS OF BULLET POINTS
* 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)
* Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)
* MacBook Pros (standard)
* Full health, vision, dental
* Commuter passes
Tempted?
Please send cover letters, resumes and code samples to work@seriousbusiness.com
Oh, and when you respond please let us know how you found out about this job opening.
www.seriousbusiness.com