TrialPay (www.trialpay.com) is changing the world of e-commerce. We're building a payments and promotions platform that uses efficiencies of the Web and a patent-pending optimization engine to increase revenue for e-commerce sites. The company's revenue has grown faster in its first two years than Google or Amazon. Founded in 2006, the company has served more than 40 million users and is continuing its trend of triple-digit revenue growth year-over-year.

TrialPay is backed by leading venture capitalists including: Index Ventures (Skype, MySQL, last.fm), Battery Ventures (Akamai, InfoSpace, MetroPCS), Atomico (Skype, last.fm, Kazaa), Bob Pittman (former AOL president and founder of MTV), Ron Conway (Google, PayPal, Twitter), and executives from several top Internet companies.

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Linux Systems Administrator to manage our Web production environment, as well as maintain our development and corporate environments. We have a rapidly growing infrastructure, so we need to add someone to our small team that is familiar with building and managing high availability, fault tolerant, highly scalable systems. While systems administration is the focus of this role, there are also some basic MySQL and networking tasks involved, as well.

Responsibilities:

• The focus of this role is to deploy and maintain servers- as well as switches and routers- to expand TrialPay's infrastructure in a highly available manner.
• Design and implement the security architecture
• Tune and optimize our web services for performance
• Administrate our internal and external monitoring system
• Configure and manage the open-source tools that we utilize
• Assist in the release/push process
• Help architect and implement new data centers

Requirements:

• Extensive Linux systems administration & Linux infrastructure experience
• Extensive experience automating tasks with shell scripts
• Extensive experience compiling and configuring Apache and PHP
• Experience installing and maintaining MySQL databases
• Experience with LAN/WAN technologies and solid working knowledge of IP networking
• Experience installing and configuring Cisco and/or Foundry LAN/WAN equipment
• Experience with Linux networking tools
• Experience setting up and administrating wireless networks
• Understanding of network security concepts and experience with security technologies
• Experience setting up, configuring, and troubleshooting VPN
• Experience administrating DNS, DHCP, NFS, SMTP (SendMail), and SNMP
• Experience with high availability technologies like drbd and heartbeat
• Experience with a revision control system such as subversion
• Experience installing and administrating monitoring tools such as Nagios and Cacti

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Experience tuning and optimizing MySQL for redundancy and data availability/backups
  
• In-depth networking experience
• Systems architecture experience
• Experience with multiple scripting and/or programming languages
• Experience building out new data centers from the ground up
• Experience working in a small, fast-growing Internet company
• Experience selecting new data centers and/or ISP's

TO APPLY:
Please include a cover letter and responses to the following quiz questions in the "Cover Letter" section . Thank you.

Quiz:

1) On a Linux system, how do you make the system mount a remote NFS volume automatically at boot time?

2) On a Linux system, how can you increase the maximum number of files the Apache user may have open at a time?

3) On a Linux system which uses the grub boot loader, how do you boot the system into single user mode?

4) Write a shell script which takes two numerical arguments. The script should output a random number between the two arguments.

5) In IPtables, what's the command to accept all ICMP packets from 200.200.200.1?

6) On a Linux system, supposing it has multiple ethernet interfaces on different networks, how can you set it to forward packets between its interfaces?

Top 10 Reasons to Work at TrialPay

1. Strong Financials – TrialPay has a strong business model that has generated more revenue in its first two years than Amazon and Google during the same period. And we’re funded by two of the best venture capital firms in the business (Index and Battery Ventures).

2. Perfect Timing – Join us now and you’ll get the excitement of a high growth start-up without the risk. Thousands of companies and millions of consumers have used our services—and we’re just getting started.

3. Flexible – Work the way you want. From our flexible work environment to our work hours, we want to make it easy for you to succeed. Find the mode that fits you best.

4. Career Growth – We’re growing fast and your role can evolve just as fast. Work with different departments, get exposure to every facet of our business and embrace as much responsibility as you desire. This is a great environment to launch or re-ignite your career.

5. Exceptional People – TrialPay has attracted Silicon Valley’s “cream of the crop.” Our team hails from companies like Google, Facebook, PayPal and Oracle and from schools like Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley and Stanford.

6. Experienced Executive Team – These guys have a ton of experience successfully scaling companies. And the leadership team is totally accessible – no hierarchies here.

7. Fast-Paced & Challenging – TrialPay continues to undergo explosive growth. The pace is fast and the culture promotes agility, openness to ideas and innovation. Learning never stops as you solve some of our industry’s most challenging problems. There is never a dull moment!

8. Fun – We’ve created a fun and inspiring workspace that benefits our collegial atmosphere. From trash-talking over ping pong and foosball in our game room to our daily “fruit-o’clock” snack time, there’s something for everyone at TrialPay. We even have weekly breakfasts, lunches, dinners, in-house Pilates classes, evening basketball games and bi-weekly happy hours we call “Balcony Fridays.”

9. Big Impact – At TrialPay, anyone can have a major impact on our products and success. Your ideas will be heard, whether you are an engineer or product manager building our products or a sales and marketing professional taking our products to market. No hierarchies. No silos. We offer an open, communicative environment where the best ideas win.

10. Location. Location. Location. – Located in downtown Mountain View, TrialPay is a short walk from CalTrain and just steps away from some of the best restaurants in Silicon Valley.