Sr. Operations Engineer at Inadco in Palo Alto, CA

Company Overview

Inadco is an online advertising start-up based in Palo Alto, CA.  Inadco is offering engineers an early-stage opportunity to define and build the global platform for Cost-Per-Lead advertising.

Inadco's innovative approach is transforming how media is bought and sold on the Internet.  Inadco enables advertisers of all kinds to buy media on a Cost-Per-Lead basis and empowers publishers to sell inventory on a Cost-Per-Lead basis to earn more revenue than they can with impression or click-based advertising.

Inadco is led by experienced executives who helped start some of the most successful online advertising companies in the market today.  Inadco is backed by Redpoint Ventures and Angel investors Mike Walrath (Right Media), Matt Coffin (LowerMyBills.com) and Ron Conway (SV Angel).

Job Responsibilities

• Build out and maintain Inadco's dedicated, cloud, and hybrid server infrastructures (includes LAMP administration)
• Set up, maintain, and update Hadoop clusters, DNS, network, and load-balancing configurations as the operational foundation of Inadco’s Cost-Per-Lead advertising platform
• Manage, monitor, and scale Inadco’s server infrastructure hosted in multiple datacenters worldwide
• Ensure fault tolerance, availability, and enterprise-grade operational performance

Job Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience administering highly scalable Linux server environment for online service businesses
• Expertise in monitoring, management, and deployments of Hadoop clusters (20+ nodes); recent hands-on Nagios, Puppet, Zookeeper experience in high-volume production environment
• Strong LAMP optimization skills; DNS and load-balancing expertise; recent CDN experience (EdgeCast, Akamai)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills