Los Angeles Systems Engineer
You may have already read over on Jason's blog that Mahalo is looking for a great system engineer in los angeles. As our traffic keeps growing its more and more important we have the right people behind it, manning the systems and keeping everything running smoothly.
Here is the job description:
Please send your deets to jason at mahalo.com and cc mark at mahalo.com with the subject line "I kick ass"
Systems Engineer, Los AngelesMahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world's #1 venture firm), Newscorp, CBS, Elon Musk (Paypal founder), and others. This kind of opportunity is extremely rare in LA: these high-profile rewards are usually found only in Silicon Valley.We're looking for a seasoned Systems Engineer. You should be expert in massively scalable architectures, how MySQL and Linux interact, how MySQL and memcache interact, sharding, replication (including multiplemaster replication) and how to tune MySQL based on various schemas for maximum performance and availability. You are a HANDS ON implementor, a get-it-done kind of developer. The right person is a self starter with the "general get it factor". You work well with a team of like-minded engineers, and have a genuine desire for excellence.You should be expert with:Applications: PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x, memcache 1.2.xProtocols: HTTP, HTTPS, Unicast and Multicast socket programmingScripting languages: Unix shell scriptingOther languages: Applicants with C, Java, and Objective-C experience preferredBonus: Hadoop / HBase, Lucene, Nutch, Spread
As a bonus, if you can help find the right person we are offering a $1000 bonus and tickets to the upcoming TechCrunch50 event (a $2000 value). We have a great team at Mahalo is there someone out there up for the task?
