CONGRATS! Seriously that's awesome news :) On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Will Jessop <[email protected]> wrote: > The time has come for me to move on from Engine Yard, so Engine Yard > need someone to replace me. It's an excellent company to work for, the > best job I've had so far. If I wasn't going to 37signals I'd not be > leaving. > > The Company > ------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.engineyard.com/ > > Engine Yard is a well known Ruby on Rails hosting company based in San > Francisco. They've sponsored a number of conferences and supported a > bunch of open source software, paying developers to work on them full > time, including Rails, jRuby, Rubinius and Fog. There are about 100 > people in the company. It has had about $38 million of VC funding, if > you care about that sort of thing. > > The Job > ------------------------------------------------- > > An Application Support Engineer is someone who has a lot of experience > with both Ruby and Rails applications *and* servers and hosting. We > provide the link between the application developers (who often aren't > great on the server side) and the servers themselves. A lot of the job > is answering support tickets from customers (mostly the application > developers, never end users) about things like performance issues, > adding in new services such as sphinx or memcached, or just providing > advice on the best way to do something. The job is more sysadmin than > developer, though most of us still write code, and often code internal > support tools. > > Though the role is classed as Support the job can be very involved > technically. For instance I have just been involved in a 3+ month > project to move all our customers to new infrastructure including > working with our largest customer (they're huge) to fix emergent > performance issues. There is a lot of scope for someone who is > intelligent and likes to take initiatives to progress in the > department and company by finding and fulfilling needs, or making > improvements. > > For this job you would be a contractor, that's the way it has to be > unless you can be employed by a US company directly because of your > particular circumstances. The wage is whatever you negotiate, it > depends on your skills and experience, probably a good bet is high 20 > to low 40 k£, ymmv :) There is no holiday pay, the wage you negotiate > needs to cover not being paid during your days off. This actually > works out well. > > You would be working from home UK hours, primarily with the other > people in the EU team, at this point that's Tim L. from > Macclesfield[1] (he's on this list, comes to the meetups), Mutwin from > Germany and Shai from Israel. The US team start to come online during > the early afternoon so you'd be working with them too. We need to > cover weekends, but Shai covers all Sundays at the moment so Saturdays > are shared between the remaining people, currently that means you'd be > working every third Saturday. You can take a day off in lieu, or not > if you just want to get paid for another day. > > The Support Department > ------------------------------------------------- > > A large part of Engine Yard is Support, it makes up probably about > half of the company and has a nearly flat organisational structure. A > lot of members are generalists, but people often specialise in certain > areas, so for instance we have a guy who is really good with chef, and > someone else who is working closely with the jRuby team to improve our > jRuby support. We have (so far) twice-yearly meetups at Engine Yard HQ > (This was the 1st meetup of 2010: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/will_j/sets/72157623774987082/). Engine > Yard will also pay for you to go to a conference every year[2] > including flights, transfers hotel and conf entry), I usually go to > RubyConf (http://www.flickr.com/photos/will_j/sets/72157622720249915/). > > More information > ------------------------------------------------- > > Email: [email protected] > will_jessop on skype if you want to voice or IM > Jabber: [email protected] > > I'll be at the Manchester Digital Christmas party next month if you > want to talk in person, but EY are looking to hire ASAP so that's > cutting it close, I can probably meet up earlier in Manchester centre > if needed. > > Applying > ------------------------------------------------- > > Covering letter + CV to Shawn Hermann [email protected] (He's > the support manager). Include a github profile if you've got one. > > If it goes further then at some point I might need to meet you in > person. Probably in the centre of Manchester for a coffee or beer. > > > Will. > > > [1] We meet up to work in the centre of Manchester sometimes. > [2] If you apply then talk this through when you negotiate, I have no > idea what the deal is with new hires, I've been there for nearly 3 > years, I think it's pretty much the same. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > >
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