SendGrid is looking for someone to help take our mission-critical cloud email management system to the next level. This system will manage our email infrastructure cluster – it will orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, dynamic configuration/re-configuration, monitoring and spend optimization of servers across providers.

What You’ll Do

• Take personal responsibility for the availability and reliability of our service
• Author tools that reliably manage infrastructure. We're looking for someone to write clean, re-usable code.
• Write maintainable code with extensive test coverage 
• Support our existing production cluster management system while you improve it
• Work on our server image configurations, collaborating with core server engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, failover and scale

• You have the passion to "do server management infrastructure right" 
• Solid linux system administration
• Experience with at least two of the following: Ruby, Perl, Python (a lot of our current code is Ruby but we use whatever tool is best for the job at hand)
• Strong familiarity with the SMTP protocol
• Socket programming experience
• Computer Science / Engineering degree
• A distributed systems foundation and a service-oriented mindset
• You've "carried the pager" before (ideally at both a startup and a large infrastructure provider) & have first-hand experience with what happens when infrastructure / tools fail
• A minimum of 5 years of coding experience
• You are a prolific coder who works well independently
• You have great communication skills
• You have formal training in computer science 

• You’ve written software tools to manage 1000+ servers
• You are conversant in the pros and cons of different clouds: Softlayer, Rackspace, etc
• You’ve made a substantial contribution to a widely used open source project
• You read up on and experiment with new technologies because it’s in your nature, not because it’s a job requirement
• You don’t just learn how things work, you learn why