Full Stack Engineer - SF - Change.org - United States

Change.org is the world’s largest technology platform for social change. Our goal is to empower people everywhere to start campaigns around the issues they care about, mobilize others, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.

We’re also an innovative business – a “social enterprise” and a certified B Corporation, with a business model designed to support positive social impact (more about B Corps: www.bcorporation.net).

Over 30 million users have signed winning petitions, including strengthening hate crime legislation in South Africa; fighting corruption in Indonesia, Italy, and Brazil; ending the ban on gay Boy Scouts in the United States, and big wins for women’s rights in India. And we’re just getting started. Here’s a small snapshot of what was changed last year: www.change.org/2014

We love serving our incredible users, and we love our staff too. We show it with very competitive salaries, five weeks of vacation, robust maternity and parental leave, an amazing culture, free language training (if you want it), and a high impact, low-ego team that can’t wait to learn from you and teach you what they know. Here’s what you’ll do as part of our team:

be part of a small, close-knit team

work for a profitable company that is making the world better

build and scale our core services used by people all over the world

work in all layers of the web stack, from javascript to linux configuration

create tools that turn abstract ideas into something visual

teach, learn, and document And here are the skills & experience we hope you have:

properly size-up a situation to understand the potential risk versus gain

put in place tools to ensure the reliability, availability and serviceability of a service

identify and analyze issues across the entire stack

be able to learn new skills quickly as the need arises

built that cool service or tool your peers used and then wonder how they ever worked without

sound understanding of Linux, process management, networking and network protocols

familiarity working with data (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)

working knowledge of graphite, collected, logster, and StatsD

knowledge of Chef or similar configuration management tools

automated testing

continuous deployment

The position is located in San Francisco.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

We are working for a world where no one is powerless, and where creating change is a part of everyday life. We’re just getting started, and we hope you’ll join us.