System Engineer

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com or email us at [email protected].

We’re looking for a System Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team. As a System Engineer, you will help automate and grow our infrastructure, a global mixture of cloud systems from multiple cloud providers.  The ideal candidate possesses an advanced knowledge of Linux systems and a firm grasp of all the layers involved in a complex, high throughput, and low latency environment.  The candidate will put that knowledge to use in troubleshooting, optimizing, and automating as much as possible.

What you’ll get to do:

•     Support global production systems by participating in shared on-call rotations

•     Capacity planning and growing the infrastructure to handle increasing traffic at a global scale

•     Develop custom monitoring and automation scripts and modules

•     Work with developers to optimize applications and infrastructure

•     Documenting architecture and solutions

You should apply if you have most of this:

•   2+ years of Linux server administration experience (software, hardware, network troubleshooting)

•   Demonstrable coding ability with Bash and Perl, Python, Ruby or similar

•   Automating administration tasks, configuration management (Puppet or similar), and monitoring

•   Knowledge of microservice architecture and Kubernetes

•   Experience utilizing AWS - Amazon Web Services

•   Network and systems security and optimization

•   BS in Computer Science/related degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have:

•     Relational (MySQL/RDS) and columnar (Snowflake) database administration

•     Familiarity with administration and use of Elastic.co, Graphite, Zabbix, Kafka, Big Data tools

•     Familiarity with Google Cloud

•     Ability to debug Java/Tomcat applications