[LUNI] Job: Linux Geek to Save the World

[Brian]

Since everyone else is doing one, I thought I'd float one of these for
Linden Lab. We make www.secondlife.com --

Working for the Lab is great... it's nice having an office with a wine
refrigerator and a fireplace. And by that I mean, you can work from
home. We're based out of San Francisco, but other than a couple weeks
spent visiting to absorb the culture and get up to speed, you'll only
see your coworkers in virtual space. We hold all our meetings inside
Second Life, on irc, or with Skype and vnc or screen. Sometimes I go
down Belmont a little ways and hold my meetings at Starbucks.

Most of the engineers are Google-smart and passionate about Second
Life. Yes, we've got a Linux client, it's open source - except the
voice component (so far!) - and we're working hard to create open
standards and peering mechanisms for the server bits. We want to
create a platform where we're merely a leading service provider since
we're not dumb enough to think we can lock up virtual worlds all on
our own. So even if you're 100% floss, we're still a good-conscience
place to work.

Anyway, the boilerplate stuff they posted to the blog:



Linden Lab Production Operations has open positions for Production
Operations developers and systems engineers in Australia, Singapore,
the United States, and United Kingdom. The Production Operations team
is responsible for ensuring that the Second Life grid, the world's
largest collaborative real-time development environment, is up and
running.

Linden Lab Operations is a Debian Linux shop. We rely extensively on
OSS, and our in-house systems are usually written in Python or PHP.
Our team is made up of folks who have been involved in large-scale
grid management and site operations for years.

We're looking for people who can rapidly pinpoint and diagnose network
failures, deployment issues, and performance bottlenecks, who can also
create tools which will improve grid stability. Production Operations
works extensively with the Concierge, System Engineering, Governance,
I-world, and Development teams to triage and respond to grid problems;
therefore, the ability to communicate effectively with techies and
non-techies is critical. The successful candidate will have
substantial *nix experience and script-fu, familiarity in managing
large system installations, and no fear of complex, dynamic systems.

If this sounds like you, please click here* and submit your resume for
one of the "Production Operation" postings (Developer or Systems
Engineer).

*Click here my ass. I won't do html mail! Use http://lindenlab.com/employment



If you think you're way qualified but haven't gotten your feet dirty
in Second Life, I could be talked into spending a little time showing
you around. I'm a dev, not an ops guy, but I've got a pretty good
handle on what kind of issues they're tackling, and getting around
in-world is something any Linden should know how to do.