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Linux Server Engineer at Slide in San Francisco, CA

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

* Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
* Our 170 million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
* Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

* Build a large, scalable service for delivering dynamic content over the web.

About You:

* Experience developing server software in Python or some other interpreted dynamically typed language.
* Detailed understanding of using Unix to implement a large server application: networking, memory, storage and concurrency.
* Knowledge of web service technologies and protocols (Linux, MySQL, Apache, REST, XML, Ajax, etc...)
* An appreciation of how elegant algorithms and data structures are compatible with pragmatism and getting cool things done.
* Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
* Thrive in a startup environment, working with a small team while creating software used by millions of people every day.
* B.S. in Computer Science or related field.

Please answer the following question in your cover letter when you apply:

* In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a multiple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file. Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.