Thursday 31 July 2014

Site Reliability Engineer | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA


Site Reliability Engineer | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA


Site Reliability Engineer

LinkedIn - Mountain View, Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago
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About this job

Job description

What does it take to run one of the most well-known social networks with high performance, and multi-nines availability?

Do you…
…desire an operations job that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product?
…think that automation is a key component to operating a large-scale system?
…enjoy problem solving from the network all the way through the application stack?
…want to work on a product that impacts millions of users and handles thousands of transactions per second?

Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at LinkedIn fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You'll use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues.

Responsibilities
  • Serve as a primary point responsible the overall health, performance, and capacity of our internet-facing systems
  • Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications
  • Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth
  • Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment
  • Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind
  • Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations
Minimum Qualifications
  • Deep UNIX/Linux systems knowledge and/or systems administration background
  • Strong trouble-shooting skills that span systems, network, and code
  • Demonstrated programming skills in one or more of: Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, C
  • Prior experience in an internet-facing technical operations role
Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years in a UNIX-based web operations role
  • Experience with web-based Java/J2EE architectures
  • Python experience, specifically for systems automation
  • BS Computer Science
This role is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

About this company

LinkedIn takes your professional network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, more than 238 million professionals are on LinkedIn, including executives from all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from user subscriptions, advertising sales and hiring solutions.
 
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.   If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@linkedin.com.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18039011?trk=jserp_job_details_text


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