SFO UNIX Linux Systems Administrator job, Flexible hours, OK to work from home 2 days a week

Company: PeopleBrowsr
Industry: Internet/Online/New Media
Position: UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator with Python
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: DOE / Competitive

About us:

PeopleBrowsr is a 3-year start-up, cash-positive, with a small team (15) of best-in-class engineers and marketers.
Fantastic new office in SoMa.

Summary:

We are looking for an experienced UNIX system administrator with Python skills to remotely oversee our real-time platform and applications running over 15+ servers in our Seattle colo data centre.

Job Description:

You will have a free hand to create the frameworks and processes need to manage and monitor our real-time platform. Our server environment is Red Hat Linux, Python, MySQL, Cassandra, Xapian and ActiveMQ. We're processing 100s of millions of transactions per day and storing over 100TB of database in various forms. Experience with low-latency, high-volume, high-availablity applications is therefore extremely valuable, as is a broad grounding in network troubleshooting.

Flexible hours - OK to work from home 2 days a week.

Qualifications & Skills:
• Proven ability to tune and troubleshot high throughput data-based applications on UNIX platforms
• Experience creating a highly available, secure, and safely managed production environment, but without processes "getting in the way".
• Solid database and SQL skills - MySQL a plus
• An understanding of and an interest in programming in general and Python in particular.
• Interest in social media

About our Company:

PeopleBrowsr is a rapidly expanding, leading global provider of social media data, analytics and brand engagement to enterprise brand managers, agencies, and software developers. We have developed a deep social media archive and sophisticated analysis services to identify key influencers and engaged audiences and activate communities through social media channels.

Our rich data mine can be filtered by keywords, location, time, bios of all Twitter users and which can be used to find a target audiences on both demographic, psychographic, geo-targeted, time-targeted criteria. This provides the basis for us to offer superior sentiment analysis to 95% accuracy, provide media buy opportunities on Twitter, and encourage authentic conversation. We also support monitoring and analytics on MySpace, Facebook Fanpages, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, and more.

Contact michelle@peoplebrowsr.com or brandon@peoplebrowsr.com