Systems Engineer
At Shutterstock, we help companies and professionals catch the eyes of millions of users by providing high-quality stock photography, music and videos to create beautiful things. Our team of skilled engineers builds new features, products and services on a daily basis pushing code to production over a hundred times a day. Shutterstock’s Systems Engineering Team is on a mission to empower engineers to be able to architect and deploy applications. We aim to leverage a wide range of technologies to build a self-service system to enable product teams and developers to build and scale services rapidly.
As a part of the Systems Engineering team, your time will be spent helping with the architecture, provisioning, deployment and support of Infrastructure services, helping developers interface with those services, as well as championing best practices. The Systems Engineering team are subject matter experts for common components that are part of the stack such as hardware, OS and core system services such as Configuration Management.
Responsibilities:
- Work effectively in a team environment to monitor, log, resolve, and escalate infrastructure issues.
- Continually look for opportunities to develop solutions through automation; participates in teams dedicated to continuous improvement
- Automate operation, installation, and monitoring of: NGINX, Ubuntu, CoreOS, CentOS RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and others
- Performance analysis and capacity planning
- Troubleshoot and debug internal/external cloud ecosystem run-time issues
- Provide developer and operations documentation
- OS and hardware level optimizations
Requirements:
- Significant experience working with web and networking technologies and protocols
- Proven experience building and scaling out and managing large distributed services
- 2+ years of AWS/Cloud experience
- 2+ years of Puppet experience
- 4+ years of experience with running a large infrastructure Service
- 3+ years of SRE or System Administration/Engineering experience
- Monitoring: New Relic, Check_MK (OMD) or Nagios
- VMWare or related experience
- Github
Bonus Skills:
- The ability to move up and down the stack (can debug web applications, the backend systems behind them, and have an understanding of the network and protocol concepts in between).
- Message queuing experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis etc.)
- Key/Value store experience (Memcache, Riak, etc.)
About Shutterstock
Shutterstock, a global technology company, has created the largest and most vibrant two-sided marketplace for creative professionals to license content - including images, videos, and music - as well as innovative tools that power the creative process.
The company has expanded its portfolio to include Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; and Webdam, a cloud-based digital asset management platform for businesses, as well as Offset, a high-end image collection.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com, follow Shutterstock on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V