Slide is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. We offer millions of people worldwide the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they build on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Our users can create their own masterpieces with virtual jelly beans, care for their online Pets, or send virtual gifts to friends.

Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace, Rock Riot, SuperPocus: Academy of Magic and Top Fish.

Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.

Responsibilities:

• Build a large, scalable service for delivering dynamic content over the web.
  

Requirements:

• Experience developing server software in Python or some other interpreted dynamically typed language.
  
• Detailed understanding of using Unix to implement a large server application: networking, memory, storage and concurrency.
  
• Knowledge of web service technologies and protocols (Linux, MySQL, Apache, REST, XML, Ajax, etc...)
  
• An appreciation of how elegant algorithms and data structures are compatible with pragmatism and getting cool things done.
  
• Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  
• Thrive in a startup environment, working with a small team while creating software used by millions of people every day.
  
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field.
  
  

Please answer the following question in your cover letter when you apply: 

• In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a multiple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file. Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.

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