We're a quickly growing startup that believes engineers should spend their time resolving the right problems and building great products, not responding to alert spam. We've got ambitious plans to grow and are seeking passionate people to join our crusade against downtime.<p>As an entrepreneurial backend / systems engineer, you’re caught between two worlds. You probably work at (or have thought about working at) one of the many big software engineering companies out there. You know they have more than enough interesting problems to keep you engaged, but you have a nagging feeling that you’ll be just another cog in a multi-thousand engineer machine. You want to work at a startup, but the thought of building yet another social-this or game-mechanics-that doesn’t really appeal to you.<p>We don't expect you to be an expert, but familiarity with the following is a plus:<p><pre><code> * Scala
* Finagle
* Ruby / Rails
* MySQL
* Cassandra
* Zookeeper
* Percona Xtradb Cluster
* Linux (Ubuntu)
* Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, S3)
* HAProxy, NGinx
* Postfix
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Benefits:<p>* Competitive salaries and company equity<p>* Generous paid vacation (3 weeks your first year, 4 weeks afterwards), unlimited sick days, regular holidays<p>* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options for you and your spouse/family<p>* Pre-tax commuter benefits, and flex spending accounts<p>* Daily catered lunches and free snacks, drinks and beer on tap<p>* Weekly game nights, monthly hack days and impromptu ping-pong battles<p>* Convenient office location in SoMA, blocks from BART, Muni and Caltrain public transit<p>Interested? Apply here: http://jobsco.re/17qWaRk