System Engineer @ Rumble

About Rumble:
Rumble is a high-growth neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble’s mission is to restore the Internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.

What you will do:

Rumble is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer – CDN Operations who will be responsible for deploying and maintaining Content Delivery systems and platforms.

Job Description:

Implementing and maintaining multi-tier content delivery and content distribution platforms.
Planning, coordinating, automating, managing, and scaling content systems.
Testing and tuning hardware and open source software performance.
Troubleshooting during outage events and being on-call during rotations.
Documenting designs and mentoring other staff members.
Regularly proposing ideas and designs for expansion and resilience.
Testing new features to ensure that they work as intended.
Support CDN, Video, DNS, Security, and Cloud-based Operations
Evaluate, test, develop, implement, and support solutions to address a variety of business requirements.
Handle a daily queue of tickets.
Participate in and drive changes in accordance with change management practices.
Participate with implementation teams to integrate new designs into production with minimal impact on operations.
Directly interface and coordinate with other internal business groups and external partners.
Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements:

Intermediate to expert level experience managing open source operating systems at scale.
Intermediate to expert level experience tuning kernels and drivers for performance.
Intermediate to expert level experience managing open source packages and libraries.
Intermediate level experience managing and maintaining containers and container images.
Intermediate level experience configuring open source reverse proxy and caching tools.
Intermediate level experience maintaining open source file systems and storage systems.
Intermediate level experience with orchestration and automation tools.
Experience with large scale internet infrastructure
Linux System Administration
Proficiency in scripting (Shell Scripting, Perl, Python)
Practical experience with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
Knowledge of Networking and Security

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience testing and compiling custom kernels.
Experience with open source automation tools.
Experience automating configuration lifecycles and rapid configuration updates.
Experience troubleshooting and configuring open source networking and network stacks.
Experience with CDN Operations
Experience with OTT or Video Delivery Operations
Knowledge of IPv6, DNS (servers and protocol), BGP, Anycast, Multicast
Experience Managing and Maintaining Container Clusters (Kubernetes, Docker)
Hardware Optimization & Kernel Tuning

Desired Qualifications:

3+ years experience working in systems engineering roles on open source systems.
2+ years experience working in a service provider or cloud provider environment.
1+ years experience working with automation.

Why Our Team Loves Working Here:

We are making a significant financial impact for our video creator community; we’re proud of their success stories
We enjoy challenging the status quo and going head-to-head against Big Tech
We aren’t afraid to try new things; we act fast and want to win
We pay competitive salaries and provide great benefits

Remote: Eastern Time Zone only, also willing and able to travel 10-25% of the time (mostly domestic)

EEO Statement:
Rumble is an equal opportunity employer.  We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Physical demands of the position:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for prolonged periods of time while using a computer and/or keyboard. The employee is required to communicate verbally and hear. The employee may be required to walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, and stoop or kneel. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including the use of computers.

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth