Overview:

Linden Lab seeks system engineers to help create the stable foundation that Second Life is built upon. Qualified individuals will have experience with system software engineering and system or network administration roles. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and be able to work well with both local and remote staff. They will also have experience with working with large scale systems (terabytes of data, milliseconds of latency, thousands of transactions per second per host) and believe that connecting virtual worlds with nearly everything else is a fun problem to obsess over.

Responsibilities:

• Create, deploy, and maintain systems that connect hundreds of terabytes of changing data with customers world-wide.
• Write software to help accelerate the construction of those systems.
• Be responsible for infrastructure such as DNS, SMTP, system deployment, LDAP, Kerberos, MySQL, HTTP caches, and loadbalancers.
• Act as a technical resource to the rest of engineering.
• Write tools to support the primary on call team.
• Troubleshoot any and all operational issues, including performance analysis.
• Actively lead complex technical projects from design through deployment and maintenance.
• Participate in a second-tier on-call rotation.

Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of Linux administration and automation.
• Experience with Linux development tools including Python, Bourne Shell, and GCC.
• Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and web applications is desirable.
• Proficiencies with MySQL, Apache, Debian, Nagios, Ganglia, Postfix, and Squid are desirable.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree strongly preferred.
• 4 years experience in professional software engineering, system administration, network administration or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Please email your resume in PDF, RTF, HTML, or ASCII text format to the address below. If you wish to enclose a cover letter, please include it in the body of your email message.

41310-CJB-0@lindenlab.hrmdirect.com