We’re hiring web ops engineers at Etsy.  Here’s the gist of it….

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining Etsy’s infrastructure, from installed iron to production
• Taking part in a 24×7 on-call rotation
• Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care

Requirements

• Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.)
• Experience in systems programming and general scripting tasks (perl, bash, php, python, etc.)
• Experience with high-volume web applications with social components
• Experience with multi-datacenter architectures, global fault tolerance, and CDNs
• Experience with fault-tolerant replication strategies
• Experience with mission-critical search and realtime database architectures (Solr, Lucene, MySQL, Mongodb, Postgres, etc.)
• Experience working with customizing network management systems and monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Graphite, Cacti, etc.)
• Strong understanding of web application architecture, including TCP/IP and HTTP, and caching strategies at all layers
• Support of software engineers and their development environment and code repository (Subversion), including code deployment to production
• Enterprise experience with internal core systems, such as but not limited to DNS, LDAP, NTP
• Experience with data center management, including strong knowledge of power, space, and cooling issues
• Experience with credit card gateways and PCI compliance issues
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bonus

• Experience in a “continuous deployment” environment
• Experience in social networking or community-generated content
• Experience with managing the infrastructure for a growing open API
• Database query optimization
• Hands-on network security tasks, including VPNs/firewalls configuration
• Network experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VLAN, PVLAN,Spanning-Tree, MSTI
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby

This is a great place to work. We work on real problems, and there’s plenty of juicy technology to sink your teeth into.