OkCupid.com is a well-financed, rapidly growing free online dating site. We run a high-performance match-making website on an array of FreeBSD servers at our colo facility in Manhattan. We seek a full-time Platform Engineer to be a Jack-of-All-Trades responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining OkCupid's hardware, OS, and development platform. This is not a telecommute or contract position; generous salary, equity, and benefits commensurate with experience. To apply, please send your resume to jobs@okcupid.com Responsibilities Include: # Running regular build and deployment cycles # Managing and administering our build system and process # Lead upcoming hardware and network expansion # Monitoring internal network and external CDN for problems # Installing and upgrading FreeBSD, applications, & libraries on new servers # Assisting software developers to optimize applications and servers # Designing, maintaining, and growing our offsite server cabinets # Supporting and troubleshooting basic desktop hardware for up to 15 employees Qualifications: # System administration: comfort with compiler flags, kernel modules, # GNU make tools (make, autoconf, etc.) # Subversion or CVS # Extensive Unix experience managing multiple servers on complex networks using free, automated, open-source tools # Networking: switches, routers, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, Ethernet bonding, link aggregation, tagged VLANs, spanning trees, SNMP monitoring # Strong Perl, Python, and shell scripting # Hardware: BIOS settings, hardware RAID arrays, etc. # Security: firewalls, intrusion detection, auditing, etc. # Databases: SQL, MySQL, table indexing, and backing up live databases