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Question: Do you think you have what it takes to take a service from a few hundred thousand users to tens of millions of users in 1 year flat? If you do read on and perhaps become the next beloved scalability rockstar of our age.

We are looking for a data charmer. A mysql magician. A code hack. A funny man. A mad man. A passionate man. Or perhaps a woman who does all these things and more.

Here’s what you gotta do:

• Pro-active and reactive performance analysis, monitoring and general database plumbing of all leaky issues.
• Work with others on the team to help maintain/improve and support the infrastructure for a high traffic, high growth site
• Optimize and tune the database day to day
• Algorithmic bent. Develop algos to quicken search times, response times, find shortest paths between various connections on site.
• Have solid low level networking/protocol/computer security skills
• Log everything. Usage stats, search stats, user behaviour stats. Draw conclusions. Constantly refine and tinker.
• Help with periodic large storage migrations
• Work intimately with operations, development, and strategy team to ensure smooth deployments of new iterations, high availability of database services.
• Understand capacity planning. Always thinking 10 steps ahead. (Whether it means looking at distributed systems services, cloud computing options, evaluating HA models used in other industries etc)
• Have a pulse on the state of the web, social media, social networking, different scalability architectures, benefits/negatives of each.
• Interest in high concurrency, distributed systems architectures.
• General low level hacking/scripting/optimizations in perl/python.
• Evaluate changing conditions in the archi
• Think creatively. No dogmatists.

Ideal skillset:

• BS in Comp Sci or equivalent
• 5+ years experiene with Linux/Unix systems
• 3+ years with MySQL in production environment
• Knowledge and experience with partitioned architectures and a database sharding techniques
• Capacity planning/high growth planning/emergency planning experience
• Passion, bordering on paranoia, for hunting bottlenecks, and optimizing IO operations
• Experience with MySQL replication
• Deep experience with MySQL internals
• Experience with performance analysis tools, storage engines, backup methodologies for MySQL
• Great perl/shell scripting experience
• Team player, self motivated, able to handle high stress situations while maintaining a calm disposition
• Great communication skills, attention for detail, and an interest in the business side of the equation of systems/scale planning
• Eat/sleep/breathe the web, startups, and the landscape of the social web
• Insomniac

We’re ready to offer an aggressive salary with tremendous upside by way of stock options, commensurate with your experience, your drive and your results.

Apply directly to:

net ‘dot’ startup ‘at’ googles mail service dot com

by sending us a CV/resume, and optionally, a link to your blog or Linkedin profile.