From grace at lolapps.com Sat Sep 18 03:01:58 2010 From: grace at lolapps.com (Grace Law) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:01:58 -0700 Subject: [DCPIGgies] Can you help with Server/Scalability challenges at huge social gaming site? Message-ID: Hi there, Want to move to San Francisco and work with a group of smart, fun people and LOL at the office? My HR manager said we can relocate you :) We are a 2 year old, cash flow positive social gaming / Facebook App company. About 40 people now and plan to get to 60-70 in the next 6 to 12 months. Big Python/Pylons shop building high quality Flash games. You can find out how we scaled from 0 to 50 million users from this video at the last PyCon. http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/135/ :) We're looking for a seasoned server/performance engineer to do more of that. More details here: *Python Server/Scalability Engineer * http://lolapps.com is looking for a seasoned performance engineer. You know the thrill and the terror of an unexpected traffic storm that's railed your application. You think on your feet, adapt and make a genius patch that let's your servers hold to see out the storm, then hit the whiteboard to start architecting a solution that will handle the next storm with ease. Ideally, you: * Love python and can code it in your sleep. * Working knowledge of Linux, scripting, and SQL. * Understand when MySQL is great and experiment with NoSQL solutions (Memcached/Mongo/Redis/Cassandra) * Know how to put together a web-application stack. (We use Pylons/Paste.) * Enjoy bouncing ideas of your teammates to build up solutions no one person could of thought up by themselves. * Care about your implementations and find yourself compulsively checking that your latest experimental deploy is working the way you thought it would. You'll get to: * Work in an innovative space that is expanding into a billion dollar industry. * Design and implement large chunks of scalability features. * 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. * Head up a small team of experienced engineers (if you are willing and able). * Have fun. Play ping pong, foosball, video games. * Eat. We buy your lunches. Want to find out more? Send me an email or Click here to apply Cheers, Grace http://lolapps.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: