TL;DR

We’re looking for a Ruby Systems Engineer capable of building, managing, backing up and improving Ruby on Rails and other Rack-based application stacks in the cloud and on physical hardware.



About Us

OwnLocal is a sassy, hip, Austin-area startup with a crazy scheme to help small businesses find their place on the web.  If we were a condiment, it would be barbecue sauce (extra spicy).



Our Culture

OwnLocal has an engineering culture of ownership, learning and mastery.  Our team is small enough that you can see how your work affects the bottom line.

We have a partially centralized approach — we appreciate that some people do their best work at 2 AM and we do our best to accommodate our engineers’ working style.

We like to experiment. We’re proud to make mistakes (but more proud of our successes).

We’re always trying to get better. Developers that work for us have the authority (and the audacity) to question the way we do things.



What We’re Looking For


You should apply if you are good at the following –

  • Managing and scaling a full Ruby stack including nginx, haproxy, passenger and varnish
  • Basic Linux system administration
  • Building applications in Ruby, Rails and other Rack based tools (i.e. Sinatra)
  • Managing deployment with tools like capistrano
  • Managing continuous integration with tools like Hudson or Integrity
  • Top to bottom automated backup and recovery, including MySQL database and object store




You should really seriously apply if you are also good at any of the following –

  • Advanced Linux system administration
  • MySQL Database administration
  • Hardware and network systems scaling, administration and management
  • Xen (or another virtualization hypervisor)
  • Application Security auditing

Are you still here?

If you’ve made it this far and you’re still interested, send us a friendly letter at jobs@ownlocal.com. Tell us about yourself, your experience and cool projects that you’ve worked on. If you have any public examples of your work (for example, a GitHub profile) include those too! No resume required, but if you send one along, it might help get some boring questions out of the way.




No recruiters, please. Seriously, please.