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Senior Operations Engineer - Cloud Platform Twilio Inc.
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About Us:Twilio is a simple, pay-as-you-go web service that empowers developers to build voice and SMS applications.
Over 100,000 developers use Twilio - including start ups, Fortune 500 companies, and both major political parties.
We are funded by top tier investors, have a great team, and revenues are growing FAST.
Twilio is disrupting the $1.3 trillion telecom market. Come help us ruffle the suits - we're just getting started.
About the Job:
Twilio is growing exponentially and we are looking for someone to build and standardize our cloud based infrastructure across multi-regions/datacenters.
We are looking for a systems engineer who is interested in building the next generation of cloud platform systems to support global distribution, High Availability (HA) and scalability.
You will receive exposure to the unique set of challenges that come from scaling a global service that has to run at 100% availability.
Automation is key to almost everything we do at Twilio. We are looking for a leading "automation" mind.
Responsibilities:
Own and manage Twilio's global cloud infrastructure.
Help design, develop and deploy secure cloud infrastructure for High Availability (HA), Low Latency and Scalability across global data centers.
Write automation tools to be consumed by the Product Development teams.
Participate in on-call rotations and work with product development teams to identify, resolve and triage production issues.
Take personal responsibility for the quality, reliability and availability of our infrastructure.
Requirements:
You are proficient in Linux systems administration and understand all layers of Linux.
You currently manage production systems with 100s of servers/instances.
You have in-depth experience deploying and managing Nagios.
You are experienced in configuring network routing (NAT, TCP/IP), firewalls, VPN and DNS.
You know what is involved in deploying and managing databases (MySQL) and taking backups.
You are a shell scripting guru and know at least one more scripting language such as python or ruby.
You are familiar with Chef and/or Puppet.
You understand the details of network protocols and network architectures best suited for a SaaS platform.
You understand OS-level virtualization well. You have setup and managed virtualized production environments.
You have some familiarity with AWS and/or other cloud environments.
You understand the basic network principles of the internet, DNS, HTTP, SSL, etc.
You don't just learn how things work, you learn why. Understanding how computers work at a fundamental level is a passion of yours.
You know agile software development processes and can thrive in an agile environment.
You focus on continuous improvement and can describe the approaches you have taken.
Hands on. Passionate. Persistent. Creative. You get things done -- you are a DOer.
Bonus Points:
AWS experience.
Bachelors (preferably Masters) degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Open source. You do it. You dig it.
Perks:
Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance
An Amazon Kindle, $30/month to spend on books and a Twilio track jacket after demoing your first Twilio app in front of the company!
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Catered lunches and a weekly team dinner featuring invited technology and entrepreneurial speakers
Excellent gear (?We ? Apple computers and big monitors ? two if you need ?em?).
A strong belief in life/work balance
How to apply:
Want to stand out? Sign up and build an app using the Twilio API. Include a link to it in your cover letter. Bonus points for pointing out bugs or things that annoyed you/could be better about the platform.
You must be authorized to work in the United States .
| Location: | 548 Market St #14510 San Francisco, CA 94104 United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
Twilio Inc.
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| Web Site: | www.twilio.com |
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| Headquarters: | 548 Market St #14510 San Francisco, CA 94104 United States |
| Industry: | Telecommunications |
