Senior Python and Ruby DevOps Engineer Jobs In Midtown Manhattan

We are a New York based tech company that strives to help users share their lives using the magic of video. Our patented cinematic artificial intelligence takes photos, video clips and music, analyzes them and outputs videos with high-end production value that tell a compelling story. We have over 10 million users, both consumers and businesses, a web-based video editor, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and integration’s with various partners including Shutterfly. our Firm has been featured in the Apple store more than once, have contributed significant pieces to the Open Source community, and is a hub for the tech community workshops and meetups.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in automation, Linux, & Technical Operations.  As long as you live in New York, Washington State, or California, Remote Work is an Option! 

Great benefits. Great salary, equity, 15 days of Paid Time Off, paid Holidays, 401k, 100% paid medical, dental and vision (for you and your family), Flexible Spending Account, TransitChek, paid volunteer day, fully stocked kitchen, upgraded Amazon Prime and Pandora accounts, beer for you and your friends, field trips, and full use of the crockpots for the chili cookoff!   Voted Crain’s Best Places to Work.

Role Responsibilities

• Daily communication with a distributed technical operations team and developers
• Programming automation tools to monitor systems and respond to problems
• Troubleshooting a large distributed system
• Performance tuning at all levels of the stack (OS, application, database, network protocols)
• Responding to alerts during on-call rotation times to keep our 24×7 dynamically scaled cloud-based infrastructure running
• Triage unexpected incidents while working on planned projects

Desired Skills and Experience

Required Skills

• Demonstrate strong programming ability in one or more languages such as Ruby, Perl, Python, Java, etc.  We use mostly Ruby.
• Deep knowledge of Linux command line tools, especially ones for diagnostics/troubleshooting
• Good understanding of Linux, including the memory model, signals, multicore
• Good understanding of various network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS
• Experience with a wide variety of Open Source solutions such as web servers, monitoring tools, log analysis, DOS protection, etc.
• Good understanding of computer architecture, scaling, bottlenecks, parallel processing

Pluses Include : 

• Experience/understanding with a variety of Open Source projects
• Experience using automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Understanding of Virtualization

• Experience with AWS, S3 and/or other Iaas/PaaS cloud services is a strong PLUS
• Experience with various database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• System administration experience

$140,000 - $145,000

Job City: Midtown Manhattan