SendHub (YC W12) is looking for Software Engineers to work on the performance and reliability of our cloud infrastructure. We’re hiring talented and determined individuals with a passion for building, performant, geographically distributed, fault tolerant services with 100% availability requirements.<p>About SendHub:
We're building tools to make it fast and easy for businesses to communicate with their customers and employees.<p>Founded to help educators in under resourced communities, we’re taking on the Telecom giants. Hate your phone carrier? Us too. Telecommunications is a duopoly dominated industry, which has systematically suppressed competition over its 150 year history, in order to keep prices unfairly high. We’re going to change this, starting with business phone service. We have a ~$1M annual run rate, we raised our series A in Sept 2013 and have raised ~$7M total.<p>Our Philosophy:
We believe in taking care of our customers and each other, so together we can build wonderful products. We work hard delivering the best to our customers and we wouldn't want it any other way. We're hungry and you need to be too.<p>We're based in Menlo Park, CA, and while we're flexible on working remotely, you'll need to be around the office and eligible to work in the United States. If you're interested, please drop us a line:<p>===========================<p>jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com<p>===========================<p>Benefits:
Health, Dental, Free meals and untracked vacation<p>The Role:
You’ll champion all things that improve the performance and reliability of our cloud based infrastructure. This includes driving initiatives to automate and optimize infrastructure setup, remove single points of failure, and improve system utilization as we scale our services to support millions of users.<p>Requirements:
You must have a B.S. in Computer Science, equivalent 4 year degree, or commensurate work experience.
Proficient in Python, Ruby or some other high level language.
Proficient at the CLI and feel at home diagnosing issues in a *nix environment.
Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, New Relic, Cacti etc.) and log aggregation services (a la Splunk, Loggly etc).
Experience developing geographically distributed services with low latency requirements.
Experience working with relational databases (emphasis on Postgres).
Experience working with Configuration Management Frameworks like Puppet or Chef.
Proficient communication skills and are comfortable interfacing with third party vendors.
You strive for mastery and value feedback from others.
You’re hands on, yet understand the importance of enabling others.<p>Nice to have: Experience with AWS, Rackspace, RabbitMQ(AMQP), Redis, Riak, BigCouch(CouchDB), Erlang