We’re looking for devops engineers that have the desire and proven ability to solve complex and interesting problems. 

We’re a startup already reaching scale to millions of users all over the world. We’re developing a next-generation learning platform with a focus on discovering, analyzing, curating, and presenting to our rapidly growing user base the best learning content the web has to offer. 

Executing on our mission will require ideas from just about every area of computer science, including information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design, etc.

We are a small, passionate team of A-players. Engineers at Curiosity.com work on many projects and are expected to own many problems at once. Do you have what it takes to be a part of our team?

Below are some examples of the diverse projects you might work on.

Responsibilities:

• Build our platforms, systems and networking infrastructure using your strong background in distributed systems, network design and large scale storage systems.
• Maintain full-stack development environments in Docker and AWS to support active development and testing across our engineering team.
• Build and maintain a continuous integration environment for building, testing and deploying releases of our entire software stack.
• Design and build out enhanced metric collection and monitoring services to continuously monitor the health of our production systems.
• Help design, plan for and implement scale-out of all our services to handle increased traffic load.
• Participate in security and design reviews of our software to insure high availability, scalability and reliability of all our production code.
• Occasionally contribute to application code as needed to move the business forward.

Minimum qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience, including large systems software design and development experience, with strong knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Salt, Puppet, Chef or an equivalent.
• Experience with Git and demonstrated knowledge of best practices in code maintenance.
• Experience building and supporting continuous integration (CI) systems such as Jenkins, Circle CI or Bamboo.
• Experience in Python and related technologies.
• Strong foundational knowledge of cloud computing and experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong foundational knowledge and experience with databases, both SQL and No-SQL.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

  Preferred qualifications

  • Strong background in networking with experience in building and maintaining office networks and virtual private networks (VPN)s.
  • Experience with Docker.
  • Practical work experience with MongoDB.
  • Practical work experience with PostGres.
  • Practical work experience with ElasticSearch.
  • Experience with Storm, Hadoop and other distributed systems.
  • Experience and/or interest in writing in Clojure.
  • Experience developing full-stack solutions, with the ability to write solid web front-end Javascript code and/or mobile application code (iOS or Java for Android).
  • Background in artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

  Email [email protected] attn: Mike Russell if you’re interested!