Why is so hard to believe that some people would be excited to continue what they love doing, but potentially supercharged at Facebook? Clearly it's not for you, but it doesn't seem far-fetched. And like everything else in life, I'm sure there were multiple dimensions to this -- including a good dollar offer.
Oh right, they should be tacky and talk about money instead.
We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to play an integral role on our DevOps team at Disqus. The ideal person is obsessed with uptime and site speed and has years of experience with server hardware and Linux systems. At the same time, you are passionate about working with development engineers to get more done faster with less trouble. You'll be working at our office in San Francisco. Disqus reaches over 1 billion unique visitors a month. You'll be working on large scale challenges immediately as well as make a huge, lasting impact on all technical decisions.
What You'll Do
- Work with our server-side infrastructure, including configuring Linux systems (e.g. packaging) and dealing with hardware
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong)
Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
- Work with engineers on product decisions and troubleshooting, but primarily work independently
- Help improve the development organization’s ability to rapidly and safely deploy code
- Architect and build our systems for maximum productivity and scalability
What We're Looking For
- Proven ability to build large, reliable, scalable infrastructure (you've directly contributed to scaling a highly-trafficked website or web application)
- Extensive knowledge of Linux (we use Ubuntu and Debian) and 5+ years of system administrator experience
PostgreSQL, Slony, pgbouncer; also non-relational such as Cassandra
- Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, Memcached
- Knowledge of shell scripting and Python (familiarity with Django is a plus)
- Able to join the team onsite at San Francisco HQ or NY office
Nice-to-Haves
- A relevant university degree is great, but we care more about industry experience and knowledge
- Programming experience (Python, Django, JavaScript). You'll work directly with engineers and assist in debugging/optimizing on the application-side
- Previous work experience in a startup environment
- Previous experience with a development focused operations team
Work Perks
- Competitive salaries and stock options
- Daily catered lunch and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and beer
- Weekly in-office yoga and massage
- Apple computers and a bountiful equipment policy
- Flexible hours, so you can be at your most productive
- Generous out-of-office time for holidays, vacation, sick leave, and personal or family needs
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, babies - you name it, we celebrate it!
- 401(k) plan, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee assistance program and flex spending accounts
- Convenient office location in SOMA near public transit (blocks from BART, Muni, Caltrain) and parking
- Friendly, casual office environment with plenty of toys (foosball, ping pong, video games, and more)
What is Disqus?
Disqus is a free service that enables great online communities. As the web’s most popular discussion system, Disqus is used by 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff worth talking about.
Who are we? Disqus is a fast-growing team making a big impact. We’re a group of hackers and tech geeks who love the web and believe that better communities will make an even better web. We believe in amazing user experiences, well-designed code, and fast, iterative development.
We go above and beyond when it comes to thinking outside of the box to solve problems creatively. We're driven to learn and implement new technologies, and figure how to scale them to accommodate our massive scale. Are you up for the challenge of building an application that supports 50,000+ requests per second, and 4MM active concurrent connections to our realtime stream? Then join us.
We're a small team that gets a lot done and has a lot of fun along the way. All full-time employees of Disqus receive the same great benefits:
* Competitive salaries and stock options
* Daily catered lunch and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and beer
* Weekly in-office yoga and massage
* Apple computers and a bountiful equipment policy
* Flexible hours, so you can be at your most productive
* Generous out-of-office time for holidays, vacation, sick leave, and personal or family needs
* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options
* Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, babies - you name it, we celebrate it!
* 401(k) plan, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee assistance program and flex spending accounts
* Convenient office location in SOMA near public transit (blocks from BART, Muni, Caltrain) and parking
* Friendly, casual office environment with plenty of toys (foosball, ping pong, video games, and more)
Disqus is a free service that enables great online communities. As the web’s most popular discussion system, Disqus is used by 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff worth talking about.
WHO WE ARE
Disqus is a fast-growing team making a big impact. We’re a group of hackers and tech geeks who love the web and believe that better communities will make an even better web. We believe in amazing user experiences, well-designed code, and fast, iterative development.
We go above and beyond when it comes to thinking outside of the box to solve problems creatively. We're driven to learn and implement new technologies, and figure out how to build them to accommodate our massive scale.
Are you up for the challenge of building an application that supports over 1 billion unique visits per month, 50,000+ requests per second, and 4MM active concurrent connections to our realtime stream? Then join us.
They'd be raising $250mm in the IPO. That wouldn't be the valuation of the company. Presumably, it'd be >$2B which was the value of their last private round.
Your point stands in that 4% of that isn't too bad either.
Replace "female" with "European founders." Would it still make sense? Is it ok to hold a conference for a demographic with common challenges and opportunities -- rooted in the fact they're from Europe?
Totally. I get it. All I'm saying is that it's not out of the question that there are people out there that would be absolutely happy to treat their work just like family.
And that there's an organization/group out there that treats it just like that.
It's sort of like jaded lovers. Certainly there are people that poo-poo the notion of "soul mates" or "love at first sight." Fair enough. But it's always a little bit sad when that dampens the mood for people who are caught up within potential romance, no?
Your outlook on the world makes me sad. There's such a defensive attitude in this community — for some good reasons, I can understand — but it paints the world in black and white.
How do you know that's how it is? For most companies, "work is family" may be hyperbole, but how do you know it's that way at PA? I don't profess to know, but I don't find it unreasonable that there are companies out there that are different than the ones that I'm accustomed to. Just like I accept that there are people out there that have lives very different than how I've lived mine.
Sorry about that. We made some mistakes when rolling out from scratch and did some things that I'd be more careful about now. There was no malice intended and hope that you'll take another look in the future.
I didn't have much interaction with Malcolm when he helping us at Disqus, but I just remembered that he was incredibly smart and very kind. I'm very saddened by this news.
Got it. If the question is about how clear it is to users, then yes that's important and something that we've adjusted along the way. We're going to continue making changes as we learn from feedback.