Careers in Software Engineering – Distributed Systems/Big Data

I am working with a very well-funded stealth-mode start-up in Santa Clara creating a very disruptive and elastic means of delivering L4-7 services (initially load balancing, IPSec/VPN and firewalls) to support their customer’s vast Cloud-based infrastructures. This is a distributed system shared across multiple appliances to allow for greater scalability, performance and usability.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to design and develope their provisioning application suite, using Java/J2EE technologies to interface with virtualization platforms from VMware, KVM, Microsoft and Xen for resource creation and use. It’s an exiciting opportunity to work on cutting edge software development.

The right person has 2+ years of experience developing applications or management software; experience developing applications with Java/J2EE; familiar with API design and implementation techniques and a BS/MS in computer science or equivalent. Any experience with the use of virtualization APIs (such as libvirt, VI SDK, etc.) to interface with hypervisors and/or experience developing on public cloud APIs, is desired.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience developing applications or management software
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
• Experience developing applications with Java/J2EE
• Familiar with API design and implementation techniques
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team

Desirables

• Use of virtualization APIs (such as libvirt, VI SDK, etc.) to interface with hypervisors
• Experience developing on public cloud APIs
• Knowledge of networking technologies (L2, L3, L4-7, management protocols)
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL
• Experience building RESTful APIs supporting both JSON and XML

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I am working with a very well-funded start-up based in Burlingame founded by two former high-profile Googlers.  They have created a very disruptive cloud-based analytics service to deliver a number of services to the online retail industry.

The platform, and subsequent applications, will run in their “cloud” which will consist of a Java-based distributed environment utilizing Hadoop.

We are looking for a software engineer with the right background in designing, building and delivering cutting-edge high availability and high-performance platforms, query engines, web service back-ends and middle tiers.  Experience with Java, while their core language, is not a must. A very strong C++/Python  programmer would be also be of interest.  With that said, experience in areas such as caching, distributed systems, NoSQL, Hadoop is desired.  Also desired are elite engineers with a backgrounds in algorithms and math but this is not a must-have.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire system implementation process: product concept and direction, system infrastructure and engineering, production setup and monitoring, and release management.
• Architect and implement scalable, reliable back-end systems.
• Evaluate competing third-party libraries and tools, and provide feasibility assessments and accurate estimates for project implementations.
• Rapidly create prototypes and quickly iterate to a stable, production-quality release candidate.
• Develop tests for both standalone and distributed systems, and produce useful written source code documentation.

Requirements

• Best of class engineering credentials
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
• Experience or interest in distributed systems and back-end development
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one of: Java, Python, C++
• Good understanding of web technologies and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Relentlessly resourceful and scrappy; you thrive in an early stage environment
• Low ego and play well with others

Desired skills/qualities

• Knowledge of distributed systems/methodologies (e.g., Hadoop/MapReduce)
• Experience with data analytics
• Interest/background in statistics
• Have led the development of a large-scale Internet service

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I am working with an early stage start-up in Santa Clara.  They are well-funded.  The founders have backgrounds from companies such as Oracle, Google and a recent high-profile start-up.

We are looking to add to the core team of engineers who will bring this potentially game-changing technology to market later this year.  In short, we are talking about a large distributed software solution where virtualization intersects storage.

We seek software engineers who want to design and build a complex software solution from the ground up.  This will entail primarily C++, C with some Python, on Linux in a large distributed systems environment.  Storage experience is not essential.

Very talented programming generalists with a good algorithmic approach to coding are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of client software

Skills

• Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design/implementation tradeoffs in building {clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant} distributed systems software
• Strong software engineering skill sets and a passion for delivering enterprise-quality software
• Must be an excellent hands-on implementer with strong C/C++ programming skills
• Prior development experience in file systems or database back-ends is a big plus
• Familiarity with x86 architecture is also a plus

Qualifications and Experience

• MSCS (required) or PhD (preferred)
• A few years of industry experience or equivalent research experience

If you are a superstar, they want you – even if you don’t meet all of the above competencies. They are building a company for the long-term, where generalists who love solving hard computer science problems will flourish.

I am working with a customer – a hot Sunnyvale-based next generation anti-malware company.  Founded by a team of former Googlers, they are very well-funded by a team of well-known area investors.

We are looking for a software engineer with an algorithmic approach to programming. You will join a small team building a very powerful next generation anti-malware system in the cloud.

As a software engineer, you will build large, scalable distributed systems that will identify and automatically quarantine web-based malware attacks across the Internet. You will focus on distributed systems development.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and deploy high-performance, scalable systems
• Working with a team of very high caliber engineers on a web-scale distributed system

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (PhD a plus)
• Great analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience developing/designing large software systems
• Experience with security technologies (malware, network and web app firewalls, etc.) a plus
• Database development and management experience a plus
• Experience with automatically replicating distributed storage technologies (think NoSQL) a plus
• Experience in PHP, Ruby, MySQL, C, and C++ a plus
• Zeal to work in an exciting technology startup

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