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:

• We're seeking a network/systems administrator with experience building and scaling large, multi-datacenter architectures for high traffic websites. You must have a mastery of Linux and network design.
• Slide is growing fast, and we need admins who can work onsite full-time at our San Francisco office to take ownership and build out and continue to scale.
  

Requirements:

• 4+ years of production network/systems administration in production environments for large, growing web properties.
• Emphasis on Linux and Cisco equipment in previous experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent understanding of TCP/IP, firewall, networking protocols and security concepts.
• Excellent understanding of layer 2 and layer 3 networking topologies. (VLANS, STP, NAT, ACLs, PBR, OSPF, BGP)
• Architectural experience in an Apache/MySQL environment.
• Familiarity with load balancing technologies and systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring and configuration distribution tools (nagios, puppet, rancid, cacti, ganglia)
• Excellent working knowledge of DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, LDAP, NFS, PXE/DHCP/TFTP.
• 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.
• Willing to work on-call and respond to production issues 24x7.
  

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