Help Wanted! We need a Leader of Global Technical Operations
Thursday, February 15th, 2007 at 2:43 PM by: Philip LindenI am looking for a Technical Operations Jedi! Linden Lab is going through enormous growth and rapidly getting into operations challenges
that most companies have never seen. We are managing thousands of Linux-based servers in 2 locations, use over 6Gbps at peak, do 100M MySQL transactions daily, will soon need to have datacenters in multiple locations around the world, and are watching all these numbers grow at 10-20% monthly.
We need someone to lead us who has a passion for Second Life, has been deeply involved in technical and network operations at the largest scale, and loves to hire people. In terms of titles, this is probably someone currently at a VP or Director level. You will also need to have a strong technical background/degree.
You must be able provide high-level strategy and technical leadership, and your most important role will be expanding our elite operations staff with the best possible people. You should be passionate about hiring and hiring strategy, and have great ideas already about how to quickly get great people onboard. At the same time you will have to manage our global server infrastructure, which will require a sophisticated network architecture and a diverse set of facilities, NOC staff, transit providers, peers, and equipment vendors, in a variety of logistic and regulatory environments.
To handle all of this you should have hands-on experience with the very large-scale routing, peering, and partnering strategies we’re going to need to keep up with our tremendous growth. Planning, finding, negotiating for and then operating remote data centers should be something you can do in your sleep.
If you are interested or know someone who might be a fit, please contact me directly: my email is philip_at_lindenlab_dot_com. If you aren’t experienced enough to take on this role but still can help with Technical Operations, please take a look at our website and apply for one of the jobs
there: http://lindenlab.com/employment
February 15th, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Damn - I should have never listened when Darth Vader told me to seek out a liberal arts degree.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:05 PM
With the LAG coming at its daily unplayable point again I come to the Blog to see if I am the only one. (Always hoping its my end of the line causing the trouble). Good to see Linden is doing some management expantion. However I really ask myself if this public call is the way to the best management people for this kind of job? With the avarage monthly turnover of Linden there must ve financial room to get specialized bureaus to headhunt for specialized people. Ofcource again I hope I am wrong and that this add will fast bring in the people capable of taking policy decitions or demanding policy changes before even wanting to start their job. Because however all the technical difficulties I am absolutely sure that the current daily problems are much more a policy issue then a technical issue. Sure the one has to do with the other. Don’t get me wrong. I am very firm with my critics all the time. But thats also because I love SecondLife when it works like nothing ever before. It is the future of internet I am sure. Eventually when the serverside goes open and SL is gonna work like the websites-system with servers all over the world, IE and Firefox will slowly die as all todays websites will turn into “islands” that can be visited. But then the system must work smoothly, also at high visitors numbers.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:20 PM
Sylvia, I think LL are an nontraditional company with nontraditional business and the needed people with the needed experience requires nontraditional combination of deep SL knowledge and high-profile systems management background. This is because the nature of the system functional factor affects enormously the way the system has to be architectured and supported, so the requirements that Philip defines here are definitely argumented. One of the places one might look an experienced SL citizen for is exactly here and that is as important as the requirement for the high-scale management experience. Besides that LL is relatively small to consider HR department at that stage of their development, although one day they will definitely need to think about it. I hope they will do the distribution of the nodes aroud the globe in a smart way to reduce the lag.
Good luck!
February 15th, 2007 at 3:21 PM
I tip my hat SL and RL hat that is to you Linden Labs glad to see you
doing what it takes to make all SL users enjoy there time here and looking for someone to help with this rapidly growing issue shows you truely are concerned about your customers.
Keep up the good work.
Helsing
February 15th, 2007 at 3:34 PM
@ Sylvia Sonoda,
Maybe it’s a hint for some of those people who are whining about “I can do this better than THEY can” to do the old fashioned routine: Put up or shut up. *grins*
There’s a high number of geeks regularly in SL, so it seems like a logical approach to me - geeks tend to know other geeks around the world.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Sylvia Sonada said,
“However I really ask myself if this public call is the way to the best management people for this kind of job?”,
and,
“… there must ve financial room to get specialized bureaus to headhunt for specialized people.”
Sylvia,
Given the size of Linden Labs, I’m sure Philip already has access to the top I.T. Management Recruitment specialists in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and California. He’s just trying to maximize his chances of finding someone to fill the position.
It’s like scattering your seeds to the wind, or casting the largest net possible.
Besides, what better place to find someone that already loves Second Life than here in its blogs? Right-lively-hood comes to mind.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Plus if course, if LL can find a person with these skills who is a resident already then the rest of us might be better off than LL employing some person who is incapable of finding the power on button.
Don’t laugh I’ve seen it.
Nice to see the bandwidth stats BTW and the thought of datacentres the world over is pretty exciting - although I dread to think what a sim handover would be like for an 800 prim dragon avi transferring from CA to Aucklan
j/k
February 15th, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Everyone in the SL community has a vested interest in seeing this position filled, whether we’re qualified for it or not. Why use the thread as an opportunity to kvetch?
Of course they’re using the normal hiring channels to find candidates. Why assume that since the announcement is also made on the blog, that that’s the only place the job posting was made? Maybe people are so upset about the grid issues that they’re ceasing to think rationally.
Growth is good. It means that LL has the continued resources to expand and improve SL. If they weren’t growing, they’d be dying. It’s been a rough few days on the grid, sure, but not so rough that civility should be abandoned. Ok, so we’re approaching the scalability limits of the current system architecture. It sucks. But its well within the realm of solubility, LL just needs the right people to design and implement the solution - otherwise they’ll implement some kludge that ends up being worse than the old system, or something even more disastrous.
Its in everybody’s interest that LL doesn’t do something half-baked, and instead waits for the right person with the right attitude and skills to guide things through. Sure sooner is better than later, but as they say about quick and dirty solutions, “dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.”
February 15th, 2007 at 4:25 PM
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February 15th, 2007 at 4:31 PM
Great Idea to hire someone both experienced with SL and real word network expertise.
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February 15th, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Try posting on nanog.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:54 PM
I wish you the best in finding technically skilled people to help you operate your social networking website with 3d interface. You have an exciting product with a lot of potential.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Philip Linden made SL happen, but, believe it or not, he’s just a man, a plain old male human being.
On the other hand, he is also a man who helped make SL happen. This blog post he makes here shows that individual quality clearly. He knows what is needed, here and now, for SL, and is expressing that quite clearly.
I’ve read some of his thoughts about the directions he’d like SL to be open to. I go along with a lot of it. If there’s anyone reading these blogs that could do what he’s asking about right here… I enjoin you to respond. And I thank you for responding. I’m part of this too. I want it to work.
February 15th, 2007 at 5:12 PM
I can do this, but the question is can you afford me?
Remember Newsweek?
Amy xx
February 15th, 2007 at 5:18 PM
thank God!! I’m thrilled to see this post, it’s probably about 2-3 months overdue, but it seems like LL finally understands that this growth is NOT going to stop anytime soon. Get someone onboard who actually understands how to scale a business on this level.
big WOOT for LL tonight!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Great post Phil. You definately need someone in this position now. SL is going to continue to have hiccups as it goes through this rapid growth stage. Getting someone in at this level should at least help with some of the problems we get in world.
February 15th, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Despite my recent glitch with SL, I still think it’s great. I’ve been online for quite a few years, and SL is an experience like no other. Sometimes, you just have to stop the whining and consider all the opportunities SL offers us ‘computer geeks’… :-). It can be frustrating dealing with a hard drive that won’t stop turning, but this can’t happen all the time, or people would quit coming. We have to remember, we’re used to things working instantly upon point and click.
Best of luck finding the right person to stretch the boundaries of SL even farther.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:53 PM
eu baixei o jogo me cadastrei mais naum consigo fazer o login por que sempre diz que a CAPS LOCK está ativada mais na realidade naum está se alguém souber como me ajudar mande um e-mail para coelha_bigtoothe@hotmail.com obrigada
February 15th, 2007 at 8:00 PM
This is very positive in my opinion. Not only for the fact that hiring someone who is well aware of the internal criticisms, but also understands the needs for the future. Hiring a seasoned Second Life user can only be beneficial for the rest of the gang. Besides, how do you think we would feel if we found out they hired elsewhere with-out posting on the SL site? There are extremely intelligent users that traverse the Second Life experience.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:38 PM
WTF?? Servers all over the world??
I was told long ago in General Forums by the hard-core “forum-ites” that SL would be impossible to run this way!!!
Well all I gotta say to them now is: Neener-Neener-Neeeener!!
*Does the I-told-you-so Dance*
Only problems I see with the job requirements:
1) If they’re seasoned SL Veterans, then they’re not working hard enough at their RL job.
2) If they do their RL job, they’re not in SL enough!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 10:16 PM
Outstanding!
I love to see this kind of strategy play itself out.
Nudge, nudge; wink, wink!
February 15th, 2007 at 10:23 PM
“Rooke Ayres Says: Besides, what better place to find someone that already loves Second Life than here in its blogs? Right-lively-hood comes to mind.”
Actually, a lot of people in the blog seem to hate SL
They probabably have feelers out in other channels, but the whingers would also whinge if they didn’t let us know in SL.
Hmm, yes SL run by an inworld corporate dragon, who demands board meetings & performance reviews happen in SL
Yeah, as he dwarfs the boardroom your choice of Chuck Norris AV seems pretty silly in retrospect at the board meeting, but then you’re sitting next to Jones from IT who looks like R2D2, and what’s with Peterson from accounts & his sexy female bunny AV?
February 15th, 2007 at 10:37 PM
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February 15th, 2007 at 11:36 PM
LOL
February 15th, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Whilst I understand the use of the blog as a plea for this high-level position, what happened to the hundreds of us who applied for things like support and customer service months and months back - following your request at the Town Hall - and haven’t even received an acknowledgement of our application?
Broccoli
February 16th, 2007 at 12:10 AM
Maybe it’s time to stop growing for some time?
What happens when you put to much food in your mouth?
You either can’t swallow or choke.
I hope we don’t choke:)
February 16th, 2007 at 12:49 AM
Do I get this right? LL is searching for a mastermind leader to solve their scalability problems?
Things must be even more FUBAR than I expected.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:26 AM
Would love to help, really. And I know lots of people in this space (since it’s where I work). But with Linux and MySql? NO WAY JOSE!
February 16th, 2007 at 3:10 AM
Well seeing it’s that bad give me all your stuff & cya later
February 16th, 2007 at 3:12 AM
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February 16th, 2007 at 3:27 AM
Did you guys do a meet and greet and exchange thoughts with the guys from MySpace? Those got the same growth rates as you and are suffering the same scalablity problems as you although on a different platform (Microsoft)
And maybe you can ask Chris (lead architect at MySpace) to join your team.
Just a thought.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:31 AM
I’d be more than happy to apply for the position, but why do I have to move all the way out to the left coast?
A virtual world, run on servers distributed across the globe, why not let me stay where I’m at and just fly in to SF or where ever I need to be, as necessary.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:53 AM
I have to agree with Starfox (above). I’d be *very* interested in this position - and have the track record with multi-nationals interconnecting systems and networking for [ever such a long time] as well as being a resident on the grid who loves the place.
‘cept I’m in little old England and, whilst I love the Bay area - I have friends there and would probably be ok with moving - if you are moving to multi-continent hosting then the actual ‘home base’ of the person involved will decrease in importance, indeed if it is like a previous similar-intent position I used to hold with a Fortune #500 company I was flying around at least two weeks each month to meet people and take hands-on control of issues.
I’ll have a think though as it is definitely a challenge I think a number of us would love to see met by someone capable …
February 16th, 2007 at 4:24 AM
Masami Kuramoto Says:
February 16th, 2007 at 12:49 AM PST
Do I get this right? LL is searching for a mastermind leader to solve their scalability problems?
Things must be even more FUBAR than I expected.
Remind me never to hire you for anything involving human resources work.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:34 AM
Linden Labs could probably get a wider range of people if they could use them at a distance. Of course they’d need some kind of cool long distance collaborative environment to make that work, maybe something like Second Life.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:09 AM
@ 27
This is not just a regular job offer, it is a cry for help, because LL is in serious trouble handling their own growth. No matter how much they optimize, there is absolutely no way to handle, for example, 1,000,000 concurrent users in a single grid. Investors need to understand that there is a limit as to how large SL can grow given today’s computing technology, and all the human resources in the world are not going to change this any time soon.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:21 AM
Network bandwitch to large? Its time to optimize packets , do better texture compressions and hashes … or do p2p network around clients …
February 16th, 2007 at 6:00 AM
Well i think its great to post this job in the blog.
Ppl who are really interested in SL check this blog as often as possible.
And yes Sl is growing a lot so it would be right to handle it not alone .
Hopefully you will find the perfect person for this job!
February 16th, 2007 at 6:07 AM
I am very interested in this position. I have over 20 years in IT, and have worked in NOC’s since about 1997. Companies I have been employed with that are directly related to this position are: The Boeing Company, Safeco Corp., Keene Inc., Inflow Inc., and IBM Global Services. I am currently engaged in a NOC position as well. I am also a non-traditional individual, that is not only passionate with technology but also where SL is going with its growth. I believe my qualifications will express that. Being new to SL, about a month now, I’m not sure at this point with this post, where you would like me to send my resume? I looked at your Employment page and do not see this position listed. Please let me know, as soon as its convenient, where or how you would like me to enquire about this position. Thanks in advance for the consideration.
Gary
February 16th, 2007 at 6:37 AM
Gary:
Phillip says to email him directly at the address in his post……..can’t get a more direct contact than the boss’s email address…..
February 16th, 2007 at 6:47 AM
WANTED! Software that doesnt lock up at least once every hour
February 16th, 2007 at 6:58 AM
@Gary: Please do not apply for this position, seeing as you failed to spot that Philip’s email address was contained within this post
Now where did I put that datacentre…..?
February 16th, 2007 at 7:18 AM
This is pretty cool. Good to see you taking steps in the right direction and trying to solve your technical problems.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:51 AM
“Zebadee Says: WANTED! Software that doesnt lock up at least once every hour”
Hmm maybe you are running different software to many of us. locking up hourly? Maybe weekly for me
February 16th, 2007 at 8:03 AM
shoot..where is the edit key!! :)….I was looking for a link. I am having a case of SL eyes.. LOL, is that a good excuse?
February 16th, 2007 at 8:30 AM
@Kath W -
I was in the grid the other night when the logins were disabled. It was interest to watch the decay rate of the population. The half life was 79 minutes based on an attrition rate with no logins of 0.7% per minute. Granted that some people were just logging out at 10 pm PST, but, still, the numbers are supportive of the assertion that the software ‘crashes’ every hour.
Btw, did someone at LL get too passionate and fire the existing tech director, or did he/she resign in a fit of passion? Or had it not occurred to LL until now that little management on the technical operations side was an important passion? Just curious.
Des/demona
February 16th, 2007 at 10:58 AM
I would have to hazard a guess that Linden Labs tries to get rid of their primary service with second life as a data provider. I think it’s a bit like being the one and only host of hole internet. SL seems to grow to a WWW in 3D. That kind of dimension is nearly impossible for one company to accomplish with.
The “SL-Browser” is already open source, why not to “outsource” the big problems…
LL really should decentralize the second life data hosting to a multiple hosting company network.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:10 AM
yes, we are a little over 25.000 again and rezzing starts to slow or fail. really guys, I can set my clock to it. Every day when the trouble starts and I look at the resident number, we are over 25.000. Below, no trouble except in halfdieing sims like “Bruin” and some other mainland sims.There it is even Laggy, once in a while, when there are 12.000 residents and 4 in the sim.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:14 AM
So I suggest: set maximum residents to 25.000 till you have solved this with the new technical Jedi. How you select residents and if that will mean I get kicked out at 25.000 is ok with me. I rather have a smooth SL and not be able to get in all the time (cause I get my random kick-number today) then this.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
As I’ve said elsewhere, less with the pleading, more with the poaching. Amazon, Google, Flickr and yeah, MySpace was a good suggestion too.
Dangle the big carrot and lets scale the network already.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:56 AM
“I was in the grid the other night when the logins were disabled. It was interest to watch the decay rate of the population. The half life was 79 minutes based on an attrition rate with no logins of 0.7% per minute. Granted that some people were just logging out at 10 pm PST, but, still, the numbers are supportive of the assertion that the software ‘crashes’ every hour.”
I was on the grid nearly 8 hours straight at the time of complaint and saw no sign of “hourly crashing”.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Nice try. But to be honest, I don’t think that one jedi is able to solve the problems SL has right now and will get in the next months. Now it is time to go into you and to find the right way about the future of SL and your company. Shall SL get bigger and bigger and remain to be the best virtual adventure - a true second life - for the next years or not. If you are not able to solve (by technic or money) the really big issues you are focusing on your own, it may be worth to think about other and much bigger companies that has the expertise and the money to make SL to what is has deserved. Sorry guys, you did a absolutely great job until now. But what comes up now is much more difficult and I hope that you and SL will survive.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Well Kath, you must be lucky. If I don’t relog once every two hours, the client or the system does it for me… Although it’s not reproducible, occassionally I can go 12 hours straight if I get busy and forget and I’m very lucky.
Sounds more like good PR though. The type of senior person they’re looking for is unlikely to spend a lot of time here, unless they are logged in at work instead of working - not really the type of person you want
February 16th, 2007 at 1:02 PM
And with that the system might let me back in again after the last crash…
February 16th, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Why hire a jedi? All LL needs are more hamsters in the server room.
Seriously though, I don’t know if alot of you saw the story, but I read an article about how all these Silicon Valley hotshot types were drinking the SL Koolaid. A little blurb titled “Second Life’s Cheerleaders Are Web’s Intelligentsia”, reporting on the Fortune article. LL has some serious connections, and they’re putting their money down.
My impression is that LL has the financing to hire whoever they want, they just don’t know who exactly it is they want yet. They want THE best - not someone pretty good, they want some jedi master/guru/merlin/bruce lee/insert extreme superlative here running their infrastructure. Awesome.
Now if only they could convince some of the gurus to come out of retirement because I know for a fact that many of them have long since cashed out of the game and are sitting pretty on a RL island somewhere living off of interest. Also, some of the tech guru types that haven’t made e-Billions yet are more interested in joining an outfit with MySpace or Google like financial potential - I don’t think LL is going to float a stock offering any time soon, if ever.
If someone joins LL full time, it’s going to be because they love the idea of working SL, and not because it pays the best. I’m sure the salary will be fat, but it doesn’t have the same type of stock option bling bling that some other tech companies can offer.
Hence, Phil’s wise decision to float the hiring offer directly on the blog, where all the SL fans and junkies can see it, rather than hiring a headhunting team to go schmooze up some genius at a San Francisco bar. If any one knows the mentality of the type of candidate he’s looking for, it’s Phil himself - I mean, look at the guys CV.
Apologies that this comment was so long - I’ve had a lot of coffee today.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:51 PM
lol, why did i assume LL didn’t also hire headhunters? who knows.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:53 PM
@JT
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting of few Lindens and have discussed the hiring process….one thing I can tell you, they know who they want to hire….the absolutle F@*!king best people period, and passion for SL is absolutely a requirement.
The problem is that there aren’t many of those people around….alot of good people for sure, and a lot of passion for SL…but Phil is looking for absolutley the best….
Why, ’cause as much people critize the Lindens in these blogs, they really, really care about making SL the absolute best for us…….they are a seriously committed bunch of folks.
When Phil finds his guy/gal, you can be assured they will have the stuff to make SL even better for us………
Good Luck Phil!
February 17th, 2007 at 7:24 AM
I feel sorry for the sucker that accepts this job. It appears to me that Linden Labs is in the market for a scapegoat, and what better way than to hire some unsuspecting “fresh-meat” from the real world. No one in their right mind who is familiar with SL and it’s history would take this position. It’s going to end up being some outsider with a track record in an unrelated field, but no idea of what it takes to run a virtual world, or the scalability problems inherent in the SL platform for that matter.
If nothing else, the train wreck will be fun to watch. The only real question is how quickly will it derail.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Philip
My own datacenter experience is a bit less grand than what you need and involved a primarily outsourced capability. Drop me a note sometime anyway.
Bill
February 18th, 2007 at 11:37 AM
If you don’t have dependable methods to measure, monitor, and limit resource usage, building a scalable system is a pipe dream.
For example there appears to be no limit on items in inventory. How can you possibly design a scalable database implementation when you have no limits on what is in each users inventory? Casinos and clubs are another example, since no limits appear to be imposed on the amount of server or bandwidth resources they consume, how can you realistically scale usage? If you allow clients to connect to the grid that are not controlled by you and are not able to put limits on their resource usage, you can only guess what the grid can handle at any given load. Garbage in, garbage out.
I think your best solution will be to team up with someone who can figure these problems out - google, akamai, oracle, or IBM for examples.
I wonder how may sims a mainframe could handle?
February 19th, 2007 at 6:30 PM
“Broccoli Curry Says:
February 15th, 2007 at 11:40 PM PST
Whilst I understand the use of the blog as a plea for this high-level position, what happened to the hundreds of us who applied for things like support and customer service months and months back - following your request at the Town Hall - and haven’t even received an acknowledgement of our application?
Broccoli”
Broc, that should should give a clear idea of how things are at LL.
If I were you, I’d look elsewhere for employment
And Boss Melnitz: yep thats zackly what I was thinkin LOL! GMTA
February 21st, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Im here and ready to do this! But, I want to stay here in my location…not the left enders place
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 AM
I don’t see the listing on the “Current open positions” page of Linden Lab… did the position get filled already?
March 13th, 2007 at 3:04 AM
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May 28th, 2007 at 6:50 AM
Hello Philip,
I am actually applying for the VP Customer Relations position, just finishing up my eCV will send the URL passwords in by Wednesday. Why I am writing to you is due to some potentially valid, but currently unsubstantiated, negative Second Life Blogs. If you don’t get on top of this ASAP this could get very big, very fast, and yes, considering todays first world concerns, this could get bad.
I know I am not working for Linden Lab, but if I ever do , this is probably one less task for me to deal with when I start, cause I’d bet it would affect me somehow!
Please e-mail me bacvk, I’ll pass along my number upon receipt.
I’ll go gather the URLS right now.
See - aimless wandering can lead to something useful!
John Cavanagh
July 29th, 2007 at 11:55 AM
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:17 AM
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June 13th, 2008 at 8:56 AM
Strange! It’s quite a long time since this blog entry has been posted. The job for a “VP of Technical Operations” has been listed at Linden Lab’s Position Listings until recently. Now it’s gone. What happened?
When I take a look at the current Position Listing and relate this to the actual management structure, I get the impression that Philip has dumped the idea of putting operations under the umbrella of a VP of Technical Operations. Instead, much like in the past, Technical Operations have been placed under the hat of Development.
Even the two have a lot in common I think there is still a strong need for a leader of the Technical Operations.