Posted by ezmobius
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:51:00 GMT
We’ve got a few job openings I wanted to float out there for your consideration. Here are the listings:
Ruby Developer
Systems Engineer in Sacremento
Systems Engineer
We need another team member for the Vertebra project. You know ruby like the back of your hand and are interested in distributed systems as well as learning erlang.
Systems engineers work on our cluster systems and will help with our custom Gentoo linux build as well as be involved with the Load Balancers, Switching Fabric, Linux, Xen, Coraid and helping design the latest and greatest platform for running Ruby applications in the cloud.
If you think you have the chops for any of these jobs then we want to hear from you. Please send a resume and a short email describing who you are and why you kick ass to jarnold@engineyard.com and cc ezra@engineyard.com
Tags engineyard, jobs | 3 comments
Posted by ezmobius
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:17:00 GMT
Man it seems like yesterday that Engine Yard was a small 3 person startup with big ideas and little cash. People seemed to like what we were offering and the business grew into a thriving startup.
In the beginning we only had plans to be the best fully managed rails/ruby hosting company. And I think we met this goal early on. But it became apparent that we had a strong brand and we started kicking around ideas of becoming an open source software company as well.
We believe in Ruby as a platform, and we’ve put our money where our mouth is when we sponsored Rubinius and Merb, hiring many developers to work on both projects.
Engine Yard has become much more then just a managed rails hosting company, we want to strengthen the Ruby ecosystem for everyone by providing the infrastructure and open source software for the next wave of Ruby deployments in the cloud.
We’ve also been delving into the cloud computing arena as I think the next 5 years are going to see huge transition from standard hosting models into the cloud. Our upcoming Vertebra project is a new application programming platform for building distributed cloud applications with XMPP. You can expect to see the first open source release of Vertebra this summer, I think this is a truly unique and very fun project to work on. I think a lot of folks out there will have tons of different use cases for it.
So fast forward to right now, Engine Yard now has more then 80 employees worldwide. Half of these people are Application Support and SysAdmins working to support all the awesome applications we host. Providing 24/7 support. But we also have a growing Engineering team working on all kinds of exciting stuff. I consider myself lucky to work with such a talented team.
So with all that being said, I’m excited to annouce that we have just closed our Series B round of VC funding totalling $15million dollars(insert austin powers joke here)! This round includes investment from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark.
We’re going to use this money towards making Ruby the platform of choice for cloud computing and web development in startups and the enterprise alike.
Watch this space, we have lots of exciting announcements in the coming months. I’d like to thank all of our customers and users of our open source software and the Ruby community in general. It has been a wild ride these last 2 years and I expect many more exciting things to come!
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Posted by ezmobius
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:06:00 GMT
Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interviewed me for the Rubyology Podcast a few days ago and they have posted the interview here. I talk about my early days of computing, merb, vertebra, rubinius and the story behind how Engine Yard got started and has grown. I’ll warn you though it’s a long interview, 120 minutes! Have a listen if you want to hear the story.
Tags engineyard, merb, rubinius, vertebra | 2 comments
Posted by ezmobius
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:44:00 GMT
Just a quick note here so say that we’ve finally let the cat out of the bag. We’ve been working with Benchmark Venture Capital on this investment for the past 4 months and it has finally closed!
Our hosting business has already been profitable for some time now and this investment will allow us to pursue the goal of our own Engine Yard open source technology stack. The stack includes Rubinius, Rails, Merb and our custom Xen clustering management technologies.
I’m really excited about the future of Engine Yard and what we plan to do for the Ruby community. Hard to believe we started with 4 people and 6 servers in October of 2006 and now we have many clusters and 32 employees across the globe!
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Posted by ezmobius
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:56:00 GMT
Engine Yard is looking to hire one or two more team members in the European timezones.
These positions are for Ruby/Rails application support technicians. You would be working with customers to deploy and maintain their applications. You would also have a hand in building our set of ruby based automation tools.
If you think you have what it takes and would be interested in working here then please send a resume and short description of why you would kick ass to :
jvandyke@engineyard.com
We are also looking for people in Australia, so if you are interested send am email to :
degan@engineyard.com
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Posted by ezmobius
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:46:00 GMT
Hey folks-
Due to overwhelming influx of new customers we need to find some more help ASAP.
Are you a hacker at heart? Do you know rails, capistrano, linux and sysadmin stuff? Can you learn fast things you don’t know? Can you solve problems on your own and work with many diverse technologies?
We are very much still a startup company so we work long hours, doing cool stuff. Everyone wears multiple hats.
We need some people that aren’t afraid of anything on this list:
linux
mongrel
rails
nginx
swiftiply
capistrano
ruby
mysql
postgres
subversion
python
lvs
xen
some advanced network knowledge
coraid experience
vlad
god
You don’t have to be an expert in all of these things, but you need to be willing to learn from us and on your own.
Work would consist of doing new customer deployments, customer support(tickets, phone), writing automation tools for anything you do more then twice and pitching in on some of our open source projects like rubinius or merb.
If this sounds good to you and you aren;’t afraid of hard work then you may be the person we are looking for. Please send a quick note about why you would kick ass at this job and include a resume and any ruby code or tales of sysadmin heroics you want to show us.
We need some folks to start ASAP like today even. It’s a bonus if you are in the east coast usa timezone or even australia would be good.
So drop me a line at info@engineyard.com and tell me why we should hire you and why you want to work for us.
Thanks!
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Posted by ezmobius
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:45:00 GMT
I’m really happy to report that my startup company EngineYard.com has been growing at a very rapid pace. We started with 3 people: Lance, Tom and I and now we are up to 9 people total. But this still is not enough! We opened our doors for customers in October of 2006 and we’re a profitable company as of January 2007.
I know a lot of smart folks read my blog here so this is a call to arms. Engine Yard is looking for 2 more employees that know rails and capistrano well. Sysadmin knowledge is also a big plus and knowledge of Linux is a must. You would be working in a very fun company helping us develop our custom internal software and capistrano automation code base. You would also help with customer support and customer code reviews/recommendations. Never a dull day here so you should be comfortable wearing multiple hats and work well under pressure.
This is a full time salaried position with benefits. The cool part is that you can work remotely so you do not have to move to take this job. Our data center and headquarters is in Sacremento but most of our Rails tech people are scattered across the states. In fact it’s a bonus if you live on the east coast or in Europe since the internet never sleeps and we are getting more and more customers from overseas.
You would be working closely with me and my team. You’d get to play with kick ass hardware and work with Rails developers from all over the world to get their apps and deployments all ironed out.
Interested? Shoot me an email with some info on who you are, what your skills are and why you think you would kick ass if we hired you.
ez@engineyard.com
Tags capistrano, deployment, engineyard, scale | 4 comments
Posted by ezmobius
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:16:00 GMT
We have been extremely busy working on Engine Yard. I couldn’t be happier with our progress. We are already running more then 130 slices and growing rapidly.
But I think our website didn’t do a very good job of explaining what kind of service we realy offer. Also it wasn’t clear what an EngineYard slice really gets you.
Well Damien Tanner from new-bamboo.co.uk and Lance form EY have been working very hard on revamping our site to better showcase our offerings. So here is our new updated website:
www.engineyard.com
And the what you get page is much better now.
what’s a slice really mean?
Tags engineyard, hosting, server | 3 comments
Posted by ezmobius
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:09:00 GMT
I’m happy to release a preview screencast of the control panel I have been slaving away on for EngineYard.com. It is not complete yet but you can begin to get a feel for how nice it will be once its finished. I’ll post more as I finish parts of it.
EY Control Panel Screencast
Tags controlpanel, deployment, engineyard, scale | no comments
Posted by ezmobius
Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:06:00 GMT
People have been asking me for a little technology overview of how Engine Yard is structured. I’ll give a small run down here.
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Tags cluster, deploy, engineyard, hardware | 14 comments
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