Technical Operations at a profitable startup

The Company:

We are a profitable startup of a large product brand well known for its product engineering. We build a customer acquisition and retention platform that creates viral referrals for businesses, using the social connections of its customers. Our cloud-based platform is a pioneer in the social referral marketing space and is used by some of the biggest brands in the US including P&G, Intel, Barnes and Noble, ING Direct, Disney, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Conagra Foods, USAA, Intuit, Monster, Gap, etc. We are also partners with Amazon, Facebook and other platforms and agencies.

Position summary:

We are looking for a Technical Operations Engineer who will work with our cloud-based systems to make it scale to ever growing demands, solve problems on processing huge amounts of data, contribute to designing distributed systems and work on monitoring, measuring and scaling our infrastructure. This could just be the place for you if you love a fast-paced challenging work environment which keeps you perpetually pushed out of your comfort zone.

Responsibilities:

There are no “typical” days, but for most parts you could be doing any of the following:

• Building systems dashboards to visualize, monitor and analyze system metrics, data etc

• Help in adopting config management based automation for staging and production systems

• Brainstorm and implement disaster prevention and recovery solutions

• Automate big data extraction, crunching and analysis

• Build automation frameworks for infrastructure management

You’d fit in if:

• You are a stickler for automation and you hate doing repeatable stuff twice

• You enjoy keeping abreast of the latest and greatest in Technical Operations

• You love bootstrapping large distributed infrastructure deployments

• You’d want to make Amazon or other cloud computing platforms a second address for yourself

• You know Python/Java. Great if you know Javascript as well. Any other scripting languages (Ruby/Perl), even better.

• You are a master of regular expressions

• You are innately curious about anything that intersects systems, automation tools and programming

Drop us an email at [email protected], explaining why you want to work with us and include anything (link/code/blog/anything else) that you would like us to see.