Senior Systems Engineer Marketo Inc.

This member of Marketos Operations team will be responsible for maintaining the Test and Hosted Production systems for a fast growing SaaS company in the Marketing Automation space. As the primary technical bridge between Engineering and the production environment this position is a key player in ensuring a secure, robust and available solution. This person should be energetic, bright, and focused on team dynamics and results.

The candidate will work with Redhat Enterprise services primarily utilizing the LAMP and XAMP stack in a high availability distributed environment.

General Responsibilities

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for hands-on management of the production systems, fault resolution, capacity planning and root cause analysis. He/She will also build tools to automate processes and make recommendations for product and infrastructure changes to make the application more robust.

Job Responsibilities:

Monitor and respond to production application issues
Create tools to automate system recovery
Work with Engineering and Production Operations to recommend changes to ensure application robustness
Establish operations policies and procedures for production (with the Operations, DBA and Engineering teams)
Participate in capacity planning
Root cause determination for faults
Script and procedure development

Skills:

MySQL 5.0 scripting and maintenance
Server scripting (PHP, Perl, awk etc)
Implementing and supporting our Management tools and scripts
LAMP Servers in a HA production environment (8-10 years)
Experience in large Web/DB projects
Systems and infrastructure security
High availability system design/support ideally in a SaaS or commodity website environment (Google, Yahoo, MSN, SalesForce,etc)
Ultra high volume messaging
Management infrastructure tools (Nagios, Cacti,Tivoli, OpenView, Splunk etc)

Bonus:

Deployment and distribution automation tools (YUM, Puppet, RPM, etc)
Consumer software/website database design
Strongmail Mail systems
Salesforces Force.com Appexchange platform
Virtual systems build and management utilizing VMWare, Xen or an equivalent

Personal attributes

Marketo is a startup environment. The Systems Engineer will be part of the team designing and specifying Marketos product. Flexibility and ability to work as part of a multi skilled team, sometimes during non-core business hours are essential.

Educational requirements

MS/BS degree in Computing Sciences or equivalent is preferred. Credit will be given for candidates who do not have relevant degrees but can demonstrate equivalent work experience.

About Marketo

Marketo provides sophisticated yet easy on-demand marketing software that helps mid-market and enterprise B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and improve marketing accountability. Our demand generation solutions automate lead generation campaigns and lead management activities including email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to help marketers generate and qualify sales leads, shorten sales cycles, and improve conversion rates. At the same time, our marketing analytics give marketers the tools they need to measure results and demonstrate marketing accountability, helping turn marketing from a cost center into a revenue-generating part of the company.

We offer a highly competitive salary, equity, and benefits package, and the excitement of a startup on a mission to build a great company. If you're an experienced developer looking for a new challenge with an opportunity to grow and learn among other seasoned professionals, we would like to talk to you today

Location:	901 Mariners Island Blvd. Suite 200 San Mateo, CA 94404 United States