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Scalability Engineer at TrialPay in Mountain View, CA
About TrialPay:
TrialPay is offering the chance to work on the ground floor of a fast-growing, financially strong company. We hire great people and encourage them to achieve their potential. Our company culture is defined by high energy, sharp intellect, creativity and collaboration. We believe in hard work, a fun, open atmosphere, and the autonomy to push one’s limits. If you are exceptional at what you do, you're a passionate team player and you want to have an impact on millions of people, then we'd love to hear from you!
TrialPay is seeking a Senior Scalability Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be experienced with tuning and scaling the LAMP stack and ensuring that applications are lightning fast and massively scalable.
Responsibilities:
Design, architect and code changes to improve site performance
Monitor, analyze, and collect data about system performance
Identify bottlenecks in various jobs/tasks and optimize/parallelize them
Improve database write throughput by sharding centralized tables
Add various levels of caching to applications to increase responsiveness
Profile and optimize end-user latency
Identify slow queries and optimize them
Research and integrate new open-source technologies into our stack
Requirements/Experience:
Comprehensive knowledge of Unix/Linux environments
Expert ability to identify & resolve system bottlenecks
Expert ability to analyze & interpret technical data
Expert understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
Expert understanding of database performance characteristics and high volume data handling processes and techniques
Expert understanding of MySQL with the ability to analyze, debug, and tune queries
Significant PHP development experience
Working knowledge of TCP/IP, networking topology, routers, and switches
Pluses:
High volume Web traffic/transactional experience
Experience configuring and tuning Apache
E-commerce industry experience
Any technically relevant personal projects
Strong background in math, statistics, and/or computer science
Computer Science bachelors degree
Advanced technical degree
Job Type: Full-time employee
Location: Mountain View, CA
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Read more about us at http://www.trialpay.com/about/overview/
Check out our other openings at: http://www.trialpay.com/about/jobs/
To Apply: Please send your resume to jobs-eng [at] trialpay [dot] com with "Software Engineer" in the title of the email. Thank you!
Top ten reasons to work at TrialPay: http://www.trialpay.com/about/jobs/reasons/
