<style type="text/css">font.f1 { font: 12px 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }</style><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Hi there,</font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Want to move to San Francisco and work with a group of smart, fun people and LOL at the office?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My HR manager said we can relocate you :)</font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">We are a 2 year old, cash flow positive social gaming / Facebook App company. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>About 40 people now and plan to get to 60-70 in the next 6 to 12 months. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Big Python/Pylons shop building high quality Flash games.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You can find out how we scaled from 0 to 50 million users from this video at the last PyCon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"><a href="http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/135/">http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/135/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>:)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">We're looking for a seasoned server/performance engineer to do more of that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">More details here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"><b>Python Server/Scalability Engineer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"><a href="http://lolapps.com">http://lolapps.com</a> is looking for a seasoned performance engineer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You know the thrill and the terror of an unexpected traffic storm that's railed your application.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You think on your feet, adapt and make a genius patch that let's your servers hold to see out the storm, then hit the whiteboard to start architecting a solution that will handle the next storm with ease.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Ideally, you:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Love python and can code it in your sleep.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Working knowledge of Linux, scripting, and SQL.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Understand when MySQL is great and experiment with NoSQL solutions (Memcached/Mongo/Redis/Cassandra)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Know how to put together a web-application stack. (We use Pylons/Paste.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Enjoy bouncing ideas of your teammates to build up solutions no one person could of thought up by themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Care about your implementations and find yourself compulsively checking that your latest experimental deploy is working the way you thought it would.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">You'll get to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Work in an innovative space that is expanding into a billion dollar industry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Design and implement large chunks of scalability features.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Help make key infrastructure decisions (databases, replication layouts, caching solutions, etc.).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Experiment with the newest emerging open-source technologies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Test your ideas and strategies out on millions of users and enormous data sets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Head up a small team of experienced engineers (if you are willing and able).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Have fun.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Play ping pong, foosball, video games.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">* Eat. We buy your lunches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Want to find out more?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Send me an email or <a href="http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oQ3mVfwU&s=PythonUserGroup">Click here to apply</a></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Cheers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"></font><br><font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3">Grace<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
<font class="f1" color="#000000" size="3"><a href="http://lolapps.com">http://lolapps.com</a></font>