Jobs
Plum helps make the web more social by enabling any web property to integrate social media sharing applications. The company has significant partnership in place that already guarantees it exposure to over twenty million unique users per month. We are venture funded and based in Cambridge and San Francisco and are looking for a few exceptional developers to join our team. If are passionate about technology and want to revolutionize the way people save, share and discuss the things they care about on the web, we are looking for you!
We offer an exciting, fast-paced startup environment with a competitive salary and stock options, as well as a great working environment where creativity and new ideas are valued and encouraged. We are flexible about work-from-home arrangements realizing that the best and brightest don't necessarily live where we do.
Check us out at http://www.plum.com, or try out our Facebook applications Shoebox and DropBox. If you like what you see come talk to us about how your skills will help take Plum to the next level.
Operations Engineer
Plum is seeking a systems administrator to help scale our service and keep it running super smoothly.
To apply, please email jobs@plum.com.
Responsibilities:- Design and implementation of our server architecture for our high-traffic web sites and associated systems.
- Build and deploy applications to our production environment.
- Manage our source code repository.
- Perform systems installations, systems upgrades.
- Network, firewall, and security management.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software related problems on web, database and file servers.
- Monitor system stability and performance.
- Ensure 24x7 operation.
- Rapidly scale systems to meet demand.
- Help develop tools to streamline and eliminate friction from our operations processes.
- Experience with Linux (Fedora) and MacOS system administration.
- Proven ability to manage production systems for large-scale consumer web applications.
- Experience running applications in colocated, hosting provider and cloud computing environments
- Experience with: shell scripting; Ant; system monitoring applications; MySQL; Apache http; tomcat; jetty; NFS; Subversion; sendmail (and other mail systems); software and hardware load balancers; firewall configuration; DNS.
- Extra points for working knowledge of Amazon S3, EC2, CDNs, and Akamai Site Accelerator.
- Must be detail oriented, an organized thinker, and able to act decisively under stressful conditions.