Description
Fog Creek Software is looking for an experienced, unstoppable System Administrator. On our team, you'll work with top-notch developers and support engineers on the infrastructure behind our SaaS applications. You'll build tools and automation that will run the environment while you sip lattes. You'll help tune the infrastructure and help plan for future growth.Skills & Requirements
- At least five years of computing experience. You know the terrain, you know you love it, and you can't stop bragging about it.
- You have a solid grasp of the programing tools at your disposal and know when to use each one.
- Working experience with configuration management (Puppet/Chef/CFEngine) and monitoring (Ganglia/Nagios) systems.
- Comfortable owning the infrastructure and pragmatically solving problems dealing with complex systems, even when the only error messages are in hex and you're at the far end of a 1200 baud telnet link.
- At ease wearing lots of hats in a heterogeneous environment. Working with web servers & databases, Windows and Unix, hardware and software.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
About Fog Creek Software
Fog Creek Software is a small, entrepreneurial software company founded in 2000 by Joel Spolsky & Michael Pryor in New York City.
At Fog Creek we believe the best products come from putting the smartest people in a room and letting them play. We’re bootstrapped, and we don’t have outside investors, so we’re free to constantly innovate. We pay our bills and fund new development with the revenue from our products. Profits that aren’t reinvested are distributed to employees. A few products that have come from Fog Creek are:
- FogBugz - The world’s best bug tracker
- Kiln - a system for distributed version control with Mercurial & Git, or both at once
- Stack Overflow - the largest Q&A site for programmers and a top 50 website in the US.
- Trello - the fastest growing team productivity tool, now a venture backed company with over 8 million users
We built Fog Creek to be an insanely great place to work. We treat employees like royalty. That means…
- Competitive salary & commission
- Free catered lunch everyday
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Crazy good health insurance plan with no copays
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Free monthly MetroCard
- Generous parental leave policy
- Flextime & the ability to work from home when necessary
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Aeron chairs & height adjustable desks
- Free soft drinks, snacks & beer
- Free DIY lattes
To apply, please email us and attach a current resume in HTML or PDF format. In the body of the email, describe how you fit the position requirements, and why you want to work for Fog Creek.