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My name is Jeff and I’m one of the Systems Engineers at Grubhub. We’re looking
for a few more talented systems engineers to join our team and help us improve
our infrastructure, tools and metrics. Rather than the normal HR style of job
description, we thought it be best if you heard it from someone performing the
role on a daily basis.
Grubhub is changing the way we get work done. We’re assembled into small,
entrepreneurial type of teams that are designed to be self-sufficient. As a System
Engineer on one of these teams, it’s our job to provide the supporting
infrastructure, infrastructure automation as well as systems design knowledge to
the team. You’ll be supporting your team’s development, pre-production and
production environments.
The teams practice AGILE/Scrum, so the Systems Engineer will participate in the
team’s stand-up and sprint planning meetings. In addition to this, you’ll spend
20% of your time per week working with the other SEs to finish common systems
related projects.
One of my driving factors when I look at a new opportunity are the tools in the
ecosystem. Below is a list of some of the tools we’re either currently using or
have made the decision to use and will begin implementing shortly, hopefully
with your help.
Amazon Web Services (Mandatory)
Redshift
Celery
RabbitMQ
MySQL
How We Work
Tools We Work With
Puppet Enterprise (Mandatory)
We have a few favorite sayings or slogans that help us guide the way we work
not just for new projects, but also as we begin to retrofit some legacy
applications. Here are some sayings you’ll hear around the team. (None of these
were invented at Grubhub)
YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It)
DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
“If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph of something that
isn’t moving yet, just in case it decides to make a run for it.”
Make it work, make it right, make it fast, make it small. In that order.
An imperfect tool in production is more useful than a perfect tool still in
development.
Try something different. If it sucks, throw it out and try again.
Even though the SEs are embedded in their own teams, we still work together
quite a bit and have a lot of fun doing it. We have a standing happy hour meeting
every week just to catch up, decompress and hang out. We share book, movie,
anime and beer recommendations all the time. It really is a good group to work
with.
Who We’re Looking For
Someone with a passion for learning
Someone gutsy who isn’t afraid to try new things
Someone who is comfortable failing, learning and trying again
Someone who is data obsessed.
Someone with an automation mindset.
How We Think About Work
What We Think About Each Other
Soft Skills
Someone who hates black boxes
Linux experience
Proficient in a high level scripting language
Experience with RDBMs and NoSQL implementations
Knowledge of distributed systems design and constraints
Experience in with AWS Environment
Experience managing infrastructure with Puppet in a masterless
environment
Knowledge of queue systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, SQS/SNS
Experience with a distributed task/processing system
Experience with ETL Tools and best practices
Experience setting up alerting/monitoring in a public cloud environment
We’ve got a lot of challenges ahead of us and a lot of really awesome things we
intend to get done. If you’re looking for a new challenge and want to join an
awesome team, we’d love to hear from you. Thanks!
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