About Gnip
Gnip is a software startup building a variety of web infrastructure components that facilitate data portability. We are building our engineering team in Boulder, CO.
Our products are consumed via a variety of "web service" APIs that act as our primary interface to our customers (e.g. developers like you). From the back-end server implementation, to scripting language specific convenience libraries that leverage our APIs, the software we're building runs the gamut.
We are funded by the good folks at Foundry Group, First Round Capital, and SoftTech.
About the Role
Title: System Administrator
Salary: Commensurate with skills and experience.
We are looking for folks ready, willing, and able to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
We are looking for folks who have consciousness around system administration, maintenance, and software development; practical, hands-on, application of academic know-how. We make decisions, as a team, based primarily on real-world situations, and secondarily on academic theory and standards body based specification.
We are looking for folks who can dive in and contribute in short order. If you feel you've got it all, or have expertise in a relevant subset of the areas described here, we'd like to . This position is responsible for internal, "on-call," first-level support.
Desired Experience:
- *nix
- Shell Scripting
- Log Analysis
- Linux
- BSD
- RPM (building + deployment)
- openVPN
- SVN administration
- openLDAP
- ssh
- Firewall rule sets (IP tables, PF)
- Application Monitoring/Alerting (e.g. Nagios)
- Deployment script writing/maintanence
Overall Software Environment Overview
Languages we use:
- Java (our core)
- Python
- Ruby [on Rails]
- PHP
- Perl
- Javascript
Formats/Protocols we use:
- HTTP
- XMPP
- XML
- CSS
- XSLT
- ATOM
Concepts/Frameworks/Components we use:
- Network Attached Memory (TerraCotta)
- Clusters
- Load Balancers (nginx)
- Queuing Frameworks (SQS, ActiveMQ)
- Amazon Web Services (Ec2, S3)
- Polling
- Publish/Subscribe communication models