Salary dependent on location and experience level – can be provided up front with some information
System Administrator
Discourse is a global company with a product that is 100% open source. Our team is 100 people and growing. We’re transforming the online community space. Our product powers a substantial segment of successful online communities, with >30,000 Discourse instances globally. We have thousands of paying customers, with a growing number of Fortune 500 companies on our list, alongside many leading players in the fast-growth technology, gaming and AI spaces.
We are looking for candidates within the Americas. Timezones encompassing UTC -5 > UTC -8.
Applicants in other timezones will not be considered (even if they are willing to adjust their working hours, we don’t think it’s healthy)
About the job
System Administrators at Discourse are computing system generalists. This role will see you debugging across all layers of our tech stack, with a particular focus on the foundational network, storage, and systems management layers that support production Discourse deployments. Our System Administrators are responsible for ongoing capacity planning, platform reliability and security improvements, and compliance. Advances are often achieved through the design and implementation of new software tools and services.
Discourse is primarily a hosting company. Robust infrastructure is a core competency for us. Most deployments are served from our own bare metal, with AWS and other cloud services used as necessary.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Applying fundamental computing theory to solve problems in sustainable space and time.
- When reasoning about infrastructure improvements, you draw upon these combined skills to choose or build the right tool for the job.
- Engaging vendors and datacenter personnel to purchase, deploy, and manage hardware.
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