Refinery29 is a rapidly-growing digital media company that delivers non-stop inspiration for living a more stylish and creative life.  From fashion to beauty to products and shopping, Refinery29 takes its users on a constant journey of style discovery.

Since its inception in 2005, Refinery29 has focused on building a massive community through 24/7 original content.  Refinery29’s highly engaged consumer base yields 7mm unique visitors and 1.5mm subscribers generating 100mm page views each month.  In 2013, Refinery29 was rated #1 in Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Media Companies and #11 in Inc.’s top New York companies. In 2013, Mashable recognized R29’s redesign as of the “15 Innovative Redesigns of 2013”.

The company recently raised a $20mm Series C (2013) round of funding.  The company’s investors include Eastern Capital, FLOODGATE, First Round Capital, Hearst Corporation, Lerer Ventures, and Stripes Group.

We have an immediate opening for a Developer Tools and Automation Engineer. You will improve developers' productivity by creating and fining-tuning open-source tools, automating workflows, processes and repetitive tasks and by helping them troubleshoot our codebase and their desktop setups. As we grow our cloud presence, you'll also help us automate and scale our infrastructure to new levels. But you are not alone: we will teach you the tools that automate infrastructure deployment, manage application configuration, and monitor services.

REQUIREMENTS

• You are enthusiastic about learning new skills as quickly as possible
• A passion to learn, improve, and implement services within the cloud
• Commited to delivering solutions on time
• Able to multtask and quickly adapt to new requirements
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills
• Knowledge of Linux OS (Ubuntu or Redhat/CentOS)
• Knowledge of Mac OS X
• Familiar with Vagrant and/or other local virtualization engines
• Familiar with Continuos Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Houston)
• Knowledge in a provisioning or automation framework (i.e., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, etc.)
• Scripting capabilities (e.g. Python, Bash, or Ruby)
• PHP programming skills

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience configuring developer workstations with automation tools such as Boxen, Pivotal Sprout, Kitchenplan
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Node.js, Java
• Familiar with deploying services such as RabbitMQ, Solr, MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
• Knowledge of Web Frameworks
• Knowledge of Networking and Monitoring Services
• Experience operating in a 24x7 service
• Hands on experience with AWS Services
• Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree

Benefits and Perks

• Collaborative, close-knit environment
• Working with a really smart and fun group of people
• Competitive salary
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous hardware budget

Refinery29 will not honor resumes submitted by recruiters for jobs posted on our website.