Rapleaf looking for Incredible Systems/Network Ops Administrator

Incredible Systems/Network Administrator (Employee #16)

 

Rapleaf (www.rapleaf.com) is a well-funded

San Francisco

startup (we’re currently at 15 people). We gather publically available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people to enable developers and companies to give their consumers a better user experience. Rapleaf has built the largest portable social graph in the world. We provide rich insight on costumers for clients such as retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead gen firms, telcos, political campaigns, financial services, and more (these companies learn about their consumers in order to give them a better user experience).  The company has processed over 160 million unique searches for businesses and consumers.

 

You will maintain Rapleaf’s entire infrastructure and enhance the system to do great things as we’re on the trajectory to change the world.   Helping grow one of the largest and most complex databases for a small start-up.  

 

Role:

- Manage all Rapleaf servers (Linux – CentOS, Redhat), backups, web servers (Apache clusters)

- Manage relationship with hosting provider and hardware vendors

- Scalability and expansion (Hadoop)

- Systems administration (DNS,LDAP,NFS,TCP/IP,SELinux)

- Some scripting (Shell, Ruby, Python, or Perl)

- Administer MySQL databases (multi-master replication, snapshot backups)

- Learn how to scale with Ruby on Rails

- Manage complex Java systems

- Manage billions of data items of pages being served

- On-call duty

 

Note: this job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect that you kick ass. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.

 

Qualifications:

- Master of all things Internet and Linux.

- Incredibly smart, can learn fast, and takes no prisoners

- Learn new platforms fast. We use Ruby on Rails and Java … you can pick this up quickly.

- Intensely driven and proactive person.

- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours.

- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy.

- Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players.

- Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.

- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty.

- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance.

- Strong desire to build a more ethical society.

- Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future.

- Want to work with extremely large datasets and indirectly build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of.

- Ability to lift and install servers (50 lbs)

- Should want to live in or near

San Francisco

(relocation available if necessary)

 

Location:

- Downtown

San Francisco

,

CA

(

Mission

and 3rd)

 

Perks:

- Good salary/stock compensation.

- Personal MacBook Pro or Linux based machine

- Medical insurance, 401k.

- Kitchen stocked with food

- Work with some of the smartest engineers

- Contribute to the Rapleaf Dev blog (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/)

 

At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.

If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral bonus.