Systems Engineer Linden Lab

Overview:
System Engineers help create the stable foundation that Second Life is built upon. Must have experience with system software engineering and system or network administration roles. Will have excellent communication skills and be able to work well with both local and remote staff. Must also have experience working with large-scale systems (terabytes of data, milliseconds of latency, thousands of transactions per second per host).

Responsibilities:

Create, deploy, and maintain systems that connect hundreds of terabytes of changing data with customers world-wide.
Write software to help accelerate the construction of those systems.
Be responsible for infrastructure such as DNS, SMTP, system deployment, LDAP, Kerberos, MySQL, HTTP, caches, and loadbalancers.
Act as a technical resource to the rest of engineering.
Write tools to support the primary on-call team.
Troubleshoot any and all operational issues, including performance analysis.
Actively lead complex technical projects from design through deployment and maintenance.
Participate in a second-tier on-call rotation.
Other duties may be assigned.


Qualifications and Experience:

Expert knowledge of Linux administration and automation.
Experience with Linux development tools including Python, Bourne Shell, and GCC.
Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and web applications.
Proficiencies with a majority of the following: MySQL, Apache, Debian, Nagios, Ganglia, Postfix, Squid, Varnish, Hadoop, Xen, and EC2.


Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree and/or relevant experience.
4 years experience in professional software engineering, system administration, network administration or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Location:	1100 Sansome Street Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94111 United States