Description
We are Wimdu, an awesome start-up with headquarters in the heart of Berlin! Initially funded with $90 million, Wimdu has grown to host over 300,000 properties in over 100 countries, connecting guests and hosts worldwide. We are on track to become Europe’s leading marketplace for private accommodation, offering an authentic travel experience for those looking for a smart
alternative to hotels. Wimdu has the vision, the passion and the drive to succeed and we are now looking for motivated people to join our multi-talented, international team to make it happen!
Do you fancy a challenge and love working on consumer-based products? Are you passionate about software development and system administration? If so, join our great team and become part of our ongoing success!
Your Tasks:
- Take over responsibility for our infrastructure and be in charge of long term SOA planning and rollout
- Shape the future architecture of Wimdu’s infrastructure based on your experience
- Focus on the performance of our production, always ensuring maximum quality
- Work together with a team of very experienced back-end ruby developers and other DevOps
- Help to build up and lead a team of engineers
- Work in an extremely agile and test driven environment with multiple daily releases
Your Profile:
- You are experienced in infrastructure and you have a great understanding of production architecture requirements
- You are able to deploy and scale on VPS + Cloud (Rackspace / EC2)
- You have a broad background in Ruby on Rails development
Your skill set include comprehensive knowledge of:
- Chef / Puppet / Other
- Ubuntu / Debian
- Nagios / Icinga, MySQL (Percona), Redis
- Nginx / Unicorn / HAProxy
- JVM (Jenkins)
- CDN (Rackspace / S3 & Cloudfront)
- Experience with High Traffic and Spikes
- Load Balancers
- MySQL (Percona)
- TV and spikes
Salary:
negotiable