Spinn3r is hiring for an experienced Senior Operations and Infrastructure
Engineer with solid Linux and MySQL skills and a passion for building scalable
and high performance infrastructure.
This role is about 80% engineering in future infrastructure work (so that we can
scale into the future) and 20% routine operational tasks.
About Spinn3r:
Spinn3r is a licensed weblog crawler used by search engines, weblog analytic
companies, and generally anyone who needs access to high quality weblog data.
We crawl the entire blogosphere in realtime, remove spam, rank, and classify
blogs, and provide this information to our customers.
Spinn3r is rare in the startup world in that we're actually profitable. We've
proven our business model which gives us a significant advantage in future
product design and expanding our current customer base and feature set.
We've also been smart and haven't raised a dime of external VC funding which
gives us a lot more flexibility in terms how how we want to grow the company
moving forward.
Overview:
In this role you'll be responsible for maintaining performance and availability
of our cluster as well as future architecture design. You're going to need to
have a high level overview of our architecture but shouldn't be shy about diving
into MySQL and/or Linux internals.
This is a great opportunity for the right candidate. You're going to be working
in a very challenging environment with a lot of fun toys.
You're also going to be a core member of the team and will be given a great deal
of responsibility.
We have a number of unique scalability challenges including high write
throughput and massive backend database requirements.
We're also testing some cutting edge technology including SSD storage,
distributed database technology and distributed crawler design.
Responsibilities:
Designing and extending our current cluster to scale to 10x our current capacity
Working with engineering on future data architecture and storage.
Maintaining 24 x 7 x 365 operation of our cluster
Tuning our MySQL/InnoDB database environment
Maintaining our current crawler operations
Monitoring application availability and historical performance tracking
Maintaining our hardware and linux environment
Maintaining backups, testing failure scenarios, suggesting database changes
Requirements:
Experience in managing servers in large scale environments
Advanced understandling of Linux (preferably Debian). You need to grok
the kernel, filesystem layout, memory model, swap, tuning, etc.
Advanced understanding of MySQL including replication and the InnoDB
storage engine
Knowledge of scripting languages (Bash and PHP are desirable)
Maintaining software configuration within a large cluster of servers.
Network protocols including HTTP, SSH, and DNS
BS in Computer Science (or comparable experience)
Further Reading:
Spinn3r
Kevin Burton's Feedblog (CEO of Spinn3r)
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