Systems Engineer at Formspring in San Francisco, CA

Based in San Francisco, Formspring is a global service that encourages millions of people around the world to interact with one another in an authentic and meaningful way. On Formspring, people can have fun, share insights and stories, and relate to the people they know or find interesting. Since our launch in November of 2009, more than 25 million members have joined Formspring, and they provide more than 10 million responses every day.

Systems Engineer

Our user-to-engineer ratio has been comfortably over a million to one for the past year, and we're looking to keep it that way. That's where you come in. We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team and help support our rapid growth. Your understanding of highly-scalable web technologies will be critical to our long-term success.

Responsibilities

Let's skip that and get down to...

What you need to know:

Location: San Francisco, CA

Compensation: We do you justice.

Full Benefits: Of course.

The 3 principle goals of a formspring systems engineer:

1. Keep the site up and 100% available for the end user.
2. Make the lives of the development team pain-free.
3. Build a robust infrastructure free of single points of failure. 

What we currently use:

Debian (migrating off Centos), PHP, Python, Clojure, MySQL/RDS, Apache, Redis, Cassandra, Riak, Memcached, Kestrel, Nginx, Haproxy, Nagios, Mercurial, Zenoss, Monit, Postfix, and probably some other odds and ends. All hosted high in the sky on AWS.

What we need to know:

Do you GTD or just talk about GTD? Can/will you communicate your thoughts with your co-workers? Can you keep your head in stressful situations? Do people laugh AT you or WITH you? What do you dream of working on? Apply today!