About the Company:
Geni enables families to connect, share, and preserve their lives.
Users can build their family tree through our fun simple interface. Relatives who are added to the tree can join Geni and add other relatives. This makes it easy to grow your tree.
Everyone in the tree has a profile which shows more about them and enables other family members to stay in touch with them. Families can work together to build profiles for common ancestors.
Family members can also share photos, videos, events, discussions, and more. A family timeline shows the history of everyone in the family.
Geni is private. Only the people in your family tree can log in to your tree and your profile. Geni will not share your personal information with third parties. We will not sell your email address or spam you. Users control which communications they would like to receive from us.
Geni was founded by former executives and early employees of PayPal, eGroups, eBay, and Tribe, and is backed by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures.
The ideal candidate:
Geni seeks an experienced network operations specialist to build and maintain robust systems.
Requirements:
- Operational professionalism and intellectual curiosity
- Track record of deploying complex software in a production environment
- Experience with high traffic websites (millions of monthly unique visitors)
- Comfortable programming in a dynamic language like Perl, Python, or Ruby
- PostgreSQL or MySQL server administration
- A long history of UNIX administration
- Negotiation skills and experience dealing with hardware vendors
- The ability to thrive in a startup environment
Job Description and responsibilities:
Geni's goal is to solve the problem of genealogy.
Conventional genealogy applications and websites are primarily individual research tools. Users search public records and build their own family trees, separate from the trees of others. Thus, every family tree is potentially a duplicate of past work.
By contrast, Geni is building a single world family tree, through an approach we call Collaborative Genealogy. Equal parts matching algorithms and social network, only Geni creates a single record of human descent via millions of users working together. We do this by wrapping advanced merging and change-management technology within a simple, interactive user interface. We mask deep complexity with a fun website that, quite literally, a grandmother can use.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve Geni's datacenter
- Examine existing systems and add redundancy where necessary
- Evaluate and purchase new hardware (experience with vendor negotiations very desirable)
- Provide 24x7 network and server support
- Upgrade existing configuration and change management systems
What we use:
- Ruby on Rails
- Passenger
- Nginx
- Berkeley DB
- RabbitMQ
- Sphinx
- PostgreSQL
- Git
- Tokyo Cabinet
- Clojure
Launched in 2007, Geni powers a world family tree that already represents over 25 million interconnected individuals. We believe it is the largest single shared document ever created. We face intense and noble challenges. Join us.
To apply:
Interested? Please send your resume to jobs at geni dot com. No recruiters please.