SFO PYTHON job, FT SCALABILITY ENGINEER, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

We're looking for a seasoned performance engineer. You have learned your lessons with high transactions servers and unexpected traffic storms. You can think on your feet, adapt, make genius patches to your servers, architect new scalable solutions that works. You want to work with other smart people and take on even greater challenges. You prefer the pace of consumer internet / gaming start-ups over enterprise solutions. You have some leadership skills but you prefer architecting & coding over meetings, policies and writing performance reviews. :-)


You'll get to:

* Work in a 50 people company, strategically positioned an innovative space that is expanding into a billion dollar industry.
* Work with 3 really smart software engineers and own the infrastructure of very high transactions servers (about 20,000 requests a second now and growing)
* Design and implement large chunks of scalability features that will take Lolapps' games to the next level. (have you heard that we already have the fastest flash game?)
* Help make key infrastructure decisions (databases, replication layouts, caching solutions, etc.)
* Experiment with the newest emerging open-source technologies.
* Test your ideas and strategies out on millions of users and enormous data sets.
* Have fun. Play ping pong, foosball, video games
* Eat. We buy your lunches.
* Be healthy. We offer pilates classes onsite.

Ideally, you:

* Love python and can code it in your sleep.
* Superior knowledge of Linux, scripting, and SQL.
* Understand when MySQL is great and experiment with NoSQL solutions (Memcached/MongoDB/Redis/Cassandra)
* Know how to put together a web-application stack. (We use Pylons/Paste.)
* Enjoy bouncing ideas off of your teammates to build up solutions no one person could of thought up by himself.
* Care about your implementations and find yourself compulsively checking that your latest experimental deploy is working the way you thought it would.

To Apply to this position please complete the following challenge here: http://codeeval.com/public_sc/5/