Swiftype (YC W12) is hiring DevOps

Most websites have terrible site search. Founded by the engineers who built Scribd’s search, Swiftype (http://swiftype.com) is fixing that by offering a dead-simple modern search for sites ranging from your sister’s Tumblr to Alexa Top 100 behemoths. We are a hosted service that powers a key feature on thousands of websites, and as such, we place tremendous importance on the reliability and speed of our system. Swiftype’s usage is growing quickly, so we're looking for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to help us scale quickly.

What we have:

A well–thought–out architecture consisting of redundant services communicating via simple APIs

Horizontally scalable infrastructure

An API and dashboard built with Rails 3, Rack, MongoDB, Redis and Lucene

A high performance crawler capable of spidering millions of pages per hour

Search analytics and results re-ordering

An intelligent page-content analysis system for parsing websites automatically

A lot of happy customers who become very sad if we have downtime

What we need to do:

Completely automate provisioning of new servers and search clusters

Scale our backend from thousands of requests/second to millions

Bulletproof failover across multiple datacenters

Improve our crawler performance and concurrency (Will it be JRuby, Go, Scala, Clojure or something else? -- you’ll help decide)

Improve our monitoring and alert systems

Sound interesting? We want to hear from you. We are a small team (all engineers) and are looking for engineers with broad general knowledge but who prefer to focus on Ops and systems infrastructure.

As a small but well-funded company we can offer you a competitive salary and significant equity stake, health and dental benefits, and lunch as a team every day.

To apply, email jobs@swiftype.com. Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.