System Administrator - remote

ProxyRack

Posted 3 years ago

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Highlights

🕘 Flexible Hours
💥 Work for a DCer
🏖️ 15 Days Paid Vacation
🔑 Work with the Founder
💸 $350 Receive a Referral Bonus
🗺 Anywhere in the World (Europe ideal)

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Who We Are

ProxyRack is a leading residential and data center proxy provider that helps power other SaaS companies to unblock the internet.

We are a successful SaaS that has been around for over 8 years and is currently experiencing a new period of rapid growth. We have huge plans for the next 5 years and we want to get the right people on board to come on the journey.
We are a fun, relaxed, and fully remote company, that will offer amazing training, support, and flexibility.

What do we do?

We are a leading residential and data center proxy provider that helps power other SaaS companies to unblock the internet.

We provide an API to developers who can then access millions of IPs through a single point of connection.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a Senior Sysadmin who can help us manage, maintain and scale our growing number of servers.

Qualities we’re looking for

High level knowledge in TCP/IP networking
Deep knowledge on how to optimize kernel through sysctl
Doesn’t mind working by themselves – since we are in different timezones
Can assign work to themselves once adjusted to the position
Will make their own suggestions on how we can improve our systems
Excellent problem solver and doesn’t need hand-holding
Comfortable learning new tools such as Kubernetes, nomad, or whatever we end up using
Comfortable taking ideas and briefs then implementing them in their own time
Would prefer long term work
Takes ownership and wants to build something they’re proud of

Benefits

We believe in promoting work/life balance and offer our employees 15 days of paid vacation.

Flexible work hours. You can essentially set and work your own hours as long as the work gets completed.

Why work for ProxyRack?

Fully remote teamwork from your bedroom or from a beach, whatever works for you
Flexible working hours
No unnecessary meetings &emails
Chance to be a part of a fast-growing company
No corporate BS, you can always reach out to our CEO to ask a question
Friendly work environment

What kind of work can you expect?

Taking one of our micro-services and containerizing it and then ensuring high availability
You should be comfortable being on-call some of the time in case of server alerts
Setting up and deploying our own Nomad or Kubernetes service on bare metal servers
Creating backup systems for data
Ensuring the stability and reliability of our servers
Serving as a point of contact for support staff seeking higher-level technical assistance

You will

Own the core services used by multiple engineering teams
Ensure our infrastructure is highly available
Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack
Improve the instrumentation and monitoring of our platform
Continue to evolve and challenge our core infrastructure
Work closely with our engineers to ensure they have the best tooling
Improve the reliability of our distributed systems
Design and implement impactful architectural changes
Work in small, nimble teams.

Who would you be working with?

You would primarily be working with the founder, code engineers, and on occasion the product managers

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