Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
  
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

We're seeking a Unix systems administrator with experience building and scaling large, multi-datacenter architectures for very high traffic websites. You must have a mastery of Unix, especially Linux. Slide is growing fast, and we need admins who can work onsite full-time at our San Francisco office and take ownership and build out a major web site the right way.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of production Unix systems administration in a production datacenter environment for large, growing web properties.
• Emphasis on Linux in previous experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent understanding of TCP/IP, networking, firewall, and security concepts.
• Architectural experience in an Apache/MySQL environment.
• Familiarity with monitoring and configuration distribution tools (esp. nagios/puppet)
• Excellent working knowledge of DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, LDAP, NFS, PXE/DHCP/TFTP.
• Familiarity with system and software performance tuning, including tools such as strace, oprofile, gdb.
• Extensive sh/csh/perl knowledge (Python a big plus).
• Must be detail oriented, an organized thinker, and able to act decisively under stressful conditions.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and prioritize, and a proactive mindset.
• Team player and self-motivated.