Systems Engineer

We provide the global commerce tools people need to build businesses, accept payments, and enable commerce for their users. It’s the simplest way to get paid for your great ideas -- across any device, and through almost any payment method. Merchants in more than 40 countries worldwide can accept, split, and enable payments in more than 130 currencies using Braintree.

Our System Engineers embrace Unix Philosophy and Linux systems - from the production clusters down to the desktop. Single purpose, well designed tools are always preferred over the combination wifi-coffee-maker-ping-pong-table. Our team is a mixture of folks with experiences in systems, software, networking, you name it. Daily responsibility is to ensure the technology accelerates and compliments our business. Stability, scalability, fault tolerance and automation are key properties of our solutions. We strive to provide our merchants and internal teams with 100% system availability, as we don’t make money unless we’re live and our merchants are routing transactions.

* Build new data storage systems that house our massive quantities of transaction data * Design new ways to run our services across multiple data centers and take sites from active-passive to active-active * Enhancing our deployment process to push new code and systems into production with ease * Build systems to achieve 100% availability for our gateways to process global transactions 24/7/365 * Identify areas of need for automation and make changes to our production servers

* 2+ years experience working with a variety of of technologies that can help power high scale, high-availability transaction systems * Passion for working with Linux: managing users, setting up web servers, building packages, security concerns, and more * Experience with automation: manage high volumes of production servers with tools, not tedium. We prefer Puppet, but experience with other configuration tools welcome * Familiarity administering virtual servers using Xen, VMWare, KVM or others * Understanding the value of HA capabilities and being involved in keeping a system online no matter what