DevOps Engineer at Scribd: Help run one of the largest Rails sites, SF or Remote

Scribd is building the world’s online library of books and documents. We’re one of the top 100 sites on the web by traffic, but our ops team is still just three people. As one of the first rails sites to reach scale, we’ve already built a lot of specialized infrastructure to make our business possible, but we have a lot more to do.

Scribd has an agile, startup culture and an unusually close working relationship between engineering and ops. You’ll regularly find cross-over work at Scribd, with ops people writing application-layer code. We think we’re able to make that work because of the uniquely talented people we have on the team.

To allow us to keep scaling, we’re looking to add an experienced DevOps engineer to our small team. As a member of Scribd operations, you’ll have tremendous ownership and responsibility for the site and its infrastructure.

This role is open to remote employees working from anywhere in the world. Let us know when you apply if you want to work remotely or would be interested in relocating to San Francisco. We are happy to support either.

What you’ll do

- Expand/improve/fix a 150+ growing server farm and infrastructure which is running on top of it - Build new back-end infrastructure using ruby and chef - Support the engineering team by building awesome internal tools for developers - Keep Scribd.com up and fast - Be a part of 24x7 on-call schedule with other members of the DevOps team

Some things we’ve built

There is a lot of technology operating behind the scenes at Scribd. We’ve built the first HTML5 document reader, a multi-terabyte data warehouse, a resizing image CDN, and a remote-controlled go-kart (really!)

For more, see our jobs page (scribd.com/jobs) and tech blog (coding.scribd.com)

You should have

- Strong general programming skills - Related experience with website operations; this includes experience with high volume/high traffic web sites - Strong oral and written communication skills - Strong knowledge of most widely-used networking protocols and unix/linux command line tools - Solid scripting skills

Even better would be ...

- 3+ Years of solid Linux/UNIX systems engineer/administrator experience - Hands-on experience with building and maintaining reliable large-scale distributed systems environments - Experience with ruby, rails, and chef - Excellent database knowledge, particularly with MySQL - HBase/Hadoop deployment/scaling/maintaining experience - Experience with any of the following technologies/tools: Nginx, HAProxy, Memcached, Squid, git, Solr, Sphinx, Hive, ActiveMQ, Postfix, Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, Redis

To apply We're easy to reach. Just send your resume and cover letter with the subject “[Your name] – DevOps Engineer [SF or remote] – via Hacker News” to jobs@scribd.com.

Your application will be reviewed by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours.