Linux Server Engineer Job Posting

Job Title:	Linux Server Engineer
Company:	Slide
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	-
Skills:	Linux Server Engineer
Date Posted:	Oct-22-09

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
Our 170 million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

Build a large, scalable service for delivering dynamic content over the web.

About You:

Experience developing server software in Python or some other interpreted dynamically typed language.
Detailed understanding of using Unix to implement a large server application: networking, memory, storage and concurrency.
Knowledge of web service technologies and protocols (Linux, MySQL, Apache, REST, XML, Ajax, etc...)
An appreciation of how elegant algorithms and data structures are compatible with pragmatism and getting cool things done.
Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
Thrive in a startup environment, working with a small team while creating software used by millions of people every day.
B.S. in Computer Science or related field.

Please answer the following question in your cover letter when you apply:

In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a multiple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file. Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.

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Location:	US-CA-San Francisco
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
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