Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer at BookRenter.com in San Mateo, CA

About Us:

Since launching the first textbook rental site in 2006, BookRenter has never wavered from our mission to make education more affordable for all students. Every day, we focus on delivering students the best prices, the most flexible options, and the best service on earth. Offering more than 5.5 million titles and serving millions of students on over 5,000 campuses, BookRenter has saved students more than $180 million dollars on their textbooks.  Also, for every order on BookRenter, we'll make a donation to First Book to put new books in the hands of children in need. On March 13, 2012 BookRenter.com, Inc. formally changed its name to Rafter, Inc. We are still the same company with the same great people, only our corporate name has changed.  With offices in San Mateo, California, Rafter, Inc. is a private company that is funded by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms.  Check us out at http://www.rafter.com/.

Position Summary:

In order to meet our explosive growth, BookRenter.com is seeking a DevOps Software Engineer to join our team.  We've already invested in automating many parts of our infrastructure and deployment systems but we're looking for you to help us make them even better.  The DevOps group at BookRenter strives to improve our processes so our engineering and operations teams can work smarter and faster.  Above all, we are looking for a candidate that is passionate about DevOps and a strong believer in the concept "infrastructure as code".

Primary Responsibilities:

• Building and improving our automated infrastructure through Chef
• Improving site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of our platform
• Supporting our engineering and operations teams to meet infrastructure needs
• Improving our deployment and release processes
• Troubleshooting site issues

Minimum Requirements:

• Strong Ruby and Ruby on Rails knowledge
• Strong Linux skills (preferably Ubuntu)
• Sound programming fundamentals with a passion for elegant code
• Experience scaling web applications
• Experience managing web servers

Pluses

• Hands on experience with configuration managements tools and concepts (Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• MySQL experience from both a developer and administrator perspective
• Experience with advanced networking and high availability systems
• Experience with cloud computing and/or AWS
• Experience with disaster recovery and resilience

Perks:

This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to improve the lives of millions of students.