Software Developement Engineer at Amazon # Show : Software Development Engineer I & II - Bangalore

SDEs at Amazon should be able to:

• Design and build extremely reliable, scalable and high performing enterprise systems in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.
• Possess an extremely sound understanding of areas in Computer Science such as Algorithms, Object Oriented Design, Distributed Systems, Transaction Processing, Search and Information Retrieval and Operating Systems.
• Be able to write Amazon quality code in an object oriented language (preferably Java).
• Bring 5-12 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with strong background in algorithms and high performance distributed systems.
• B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech/Phd degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent experience, is required.

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Technical Architect ( Software Development Engineer III ) at Amazon

• Advanced software development and technical leadership capabilities. Strong system architect with standard-setting software development skills. Expert proficiency in one or more areas.
• Advanced knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.
• Capable of playing a technical leadership role for complete product cycles. Has built and delivered complex systems that leverage our technology platform and work well with other company systems.
• Capable of applying advanced software development theory and skills to architect, design and build complex systems.
• Heavily involved in scoping the technical requirements for a new project, and identifying the appropriate technology solutions for each project.
• Will work very closely with other technical leads to make sure that the pieces of the complex system work well with the other dependent systems.
• Work requires significant creativity and judgment.
• Ability to work independently with little review by more senior engineers. Would play a significant role with engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule. Would help develop long-term department technology strategies and significantly influences the cross-company engineering processes and standards. Should be able to influence engineering best practices.
• Skilled consensus builder. Should be able to work very closely with end users to make sure the application or system meets the needs of the business. Would play a consultative role with other senior engineers/engineering managers on broad technology decisions
• Mentor, develop, and train engineers. Would play a significant role in hiring great engineers.
• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics. 8-15 years of relevant, broad engineering experience.

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Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Principal Engineers provide technical leadership at Amazon.com. They help establish performance and technical standards for the software we build and help drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering methodologies. They’re responsible for maintaining and raising our technical standards by mentoring and reviewing the work of other engineers.

Principal Engineers recommend and build high quality, architecturally sound systems that align to the business needs of the organization they support. They think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together.

Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work (i.e. writing code) and high-level architectural designs. They often provide leadership on the most complex technology applications in the company.

Principal Engineer:

• Has authority over technical decisions for particular projects within a part of our business.
• Proposes and sells new ideas to department managers and engineering leaders. Helps develop long-term department strategies and influences group leadership decisions.
• Should have played a technical leadership role for several complete product cycles. Has built and owned large, complex systems.
• Should be the Go-to person in at least one major functional or technical area
• Manages the most complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact. Delivers on short-term and long-term targets.
• Mentors and trains the engineering community on complex technical issues
• Requires a B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science with 10-20 years of relevant, broad engineering experience.

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Technical Product / Program Manager at Amazon

Technical Product/Program Managers (TPPMs) at Amazon should be able to:

• Apply deep and broad technical and business understanding to research, identify and help select high-ROI business.
• Drive the strategy and technical design, assemble the right project team, assign individual responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed, and develop the milestones and schedule to ensure timely and successful delivery of the project or system.
• Contribute to cross-functional teams with technical and product expertise, assess and manage risks, anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs with the technical constraints, and encourage risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit.
• Have 5 plus years of experience

B.E/M.E in CS with an MBA is preferred.

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Senior Leader - Web Services at Amazon

Amazon has spent ten years and over $1 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers the Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Amazon.com told software developers, "Surprise Us!” by opening itself up through Web services in July 2002. Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to identify and expose more atomic pieces of the Amazon technology platform and product data nearly every day thus providing a flexible set of foundational services that allow developers to build creative applications. Since 2002, developers have used Amazon Web Services to build innovative applications from Associate web sites and e-commerce tools to consumer applications.

The Amazon Development Center in India (Bangalore) is at the core of Amazon's effort to expose even more of its platform and data to help developers innovate and build businesses. The center has end-to-end ownership of its business area of focus and is seeking a leader to drive the product roadmap, positioning, adoption, and growth of their Web Services offerings.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the competitive landscape, soliciting and distilling feedback from our developers into actionable product improvements, prioritizing where they should invest next, building business justifications and plans for their web services offerings, and developing a product roadmap.
• Driving definition and delivery for various releases and offerings by working closely with the engineering teams.
• Working with the Sr. Management to create pricing, merchandising, marketing/sales and launch plans for their various releases and offerings.
• Working with the AWS Developer relations team to drive developer adoption by building an easy to use Sandbox, getting SDKs created in multiple programming languages, building a library of educational modules and code/application samples, driving developer communications via their developer portal, discussion boards, live chats, blogs and email, building improved technical support and documentation and providing significant input into technical evangelism and strategic partnerships.
• Driving continuous improvement of the product offerings by soliciting and incorporating developer feedback and focusing on defining and meeting/exceeding service levels for their offerings
• Demonstrating a high bar in sourcing, hiring and managing a super-star team of product and program managers, software development engineers and technical writers.
• Participating in decision making for General Management functions in the center.

The Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, or related discipline required.
• Master’s degree and/or PhD preferred in mathematics, computer science, or related discipline preferred but not required.
• MBA preferred.
• The idealized candidate is most likely to be a hybrid: part visionary/part leader/part builder/part operator.
• The right person has a unique blend of business judgment, strong product and program management experience in the internet space, technical comfort, sales and marketing experience in the technology industry, and strong hiring abilities.
• Clearly passionate about the large opportunity that web services present. This presents a significant intellectual and operational challenge with great free cash flow impact.
• A leader that is extremely attracted to the opportunity and is never satisfied with the results.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about delivery and achieving the right results, winning, being the developer's advocate, and building a vibrant, robust developer community.
• Qualified candidates must be highly analytical, able to assess customer needs via primary and secondary research, adept at stepping back and thinking holistically, skilled at working cross-functionally and influencing others regardless of where they report in the org chart, experienced at leading teams of super-stars, and a strong oral and written communicator.
• Leader must command the respect – and be able to lead a team of – world class product and program managers and software development engineers.
• This leader also needs to have proven ability to define and meet service level agreements. It is important that this leader have an operational component to their leadership skill set.

Professional Traits

The Ideal Candidate:

• Hires great people. Develops great people.
• Has relentlessly high standards (to the point that most other people would think they are being unreasonable)
• Operates at all heading levels.
• No task is beneath this person.
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team.
• Has a conviction.
• Results oriented.
• Thinks big.
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others.

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Pizza Team Lead at Amazon

Two Pizza Team Leaders (2PTL) in Amazon manage an autonomous, cross-functional team to identify, rationalize, and achieve business and technology objectives in a defined opportunity area.

They are both strategic and tactical leaders, who establish the vision and objectives for an area, then deliver the end-to-end solution - products, services, features, or systems - that will meet rigorous business metrics.

2PTL's at Amazon should be able to:

• Bring a deep understanding of software development, technical program management, product or services development, and people management to this high-accountability role.
• Apply deep and broad technical and business understanding and creativity to identify and select high-ROI business opportunities.
• Bring proven experience building, managing, focusing, and developing/mentoring cross-functional teams that include software engineers and technical product/program managers.
• A minimum of 8 years of software development and leadership experience

B.E/M.E/PhD in CS is required.

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Development Manager at Amazon

To support our growth plan, we are looking for a technical leader to lead and grow a team of super-star software engineers. The team will play a critical role in identifying and exposing atomic pieces of the Amazon.com technology platform. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performing Web services from Amazon requires exceptional technical expertise in areas of Computer Science, such as algorithms and distributed systems, and experience building large-scale maintainable systems.

Candidates must possess strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrate proven technical leadership and people management skills. Experience in the webservices or web technologies space will be a plus. The successful candidate will be able to identify, gather, and analyze business requirements and translate them into technology solutions. A track record of building, managing, focusing and developing an engineering team that meets the needs of the business and works well within the overall system architecture is also required.
Location : India

Technical Qualifications :

• Object oriented design and development
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving.
• Experience in Java/C++, SQL, OOP.
• Experience with distributed systems/service-oriented architecture required
• Experience with the web services space would be a plus.

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Technical Recruting at Amazon

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. We’ve invested more than $2 billion in technology and content to date to solve some of the most complex technical challenges in distributed systems, operations, data mining, optimization, scalability, security and algorithms.

Software Development Engineer, High-Transaction Systems
Do you enjoy building and scaling huge, high-transaction, distributed systems with terabyte-sized databases on the back end? Are you excited by the thought of pushing technology to do things you never thought possible? Our Ordering, Performance Engineering, Software Platform Services, Web Services and other teams are looking for people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Algorithms
Do you love solving complex problems through math and statistics? Does work that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning and information retrieval get your blood pumping? Teams across our company hire people like you, including Personalization, Fraud Prevention, Supply Chain Optimization and more.

Software Development Engineer, Test
Are you detail-oriented with a knack for breaking code and finding weaknesses in complex software? Would building automated, scalable tools that can find and fix those weaknesses across huge distributed systems get you up in the morning? Almost every development team around our company hires people like you.

Software Development Engineer, Developer Tools
Do you enjoy the study of software development? Do you want to apply your advanced software development skills to automate processes and create cool development tools? This is an important role at Amazon.com. Opportunities await people like you in our Developer Tools, Infrastructure Tools and QA Tools teams.

Software Development Engineer, User Interface
Do you enjoy developing user interfaces that give end users a world-class experience? Can you create interfaces that can scale and interact with large, distributed back-end systems? Does the idea of running usability tests seen by millions of customers excite you? Groups around the company hire people like you, including Web-Site Usability, Digital Media Technologies, Seller Applications, Community Technologies, Personalization, Web Services and more.

Software Development Engineer, Merchant Integration
Would you enjoy building and integrating technology solutions--front end and back end--that allow third-party retailers to leverage the Amazon.com platform? Would you be excited to work with almost every part of Amazon's technology to build turnkey e-commerce solutions for some of the biggest names in the physical retailing world? The Enterprise Commerce Services team hires people like you.

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CSS/PHP Web Developer (Telecommute) at Image X Media

Summary:

• Image X Media is looking for a talented web developer with considerable experience working with CSS and PHP.
• The position requires exceptional programming skills, problem solving abilities, a
• strong work ethic and an eye for design.
• Reporting to the Project Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for taking a web project from the development phase to the final product or in some cases for creating or customizing Drupal modules to integrate with other applications.
• (Drupal training will be provided if you don’t have previous experience with this CMS)
  

Responsibilities:

• Working with a team (designers, creative director, project manager, and other developers) to create compelling and cutting edge web sites and web applications.
• Responsible for turning design and user interface mockups into functional web sites.
• Custom programming and web application development.
• Testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting of existing client sites.
  

Requirements:

• Independence, willingness to learn and problem solving skills are a must.
• At least two years of related work experience/education.
• Must be able to handle a face paced work environment, deadlines, and new challenges.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others.

Technical Skills:

• Proficient with handcoding HTML and tableless CSS.
• Advanced knowledge and implementation of W3C Web Standards
• Dynamic/Database Driven Development (PHP/MySQL).
• ASP is an asset.
• JavaScript, especially AJAX, is an asset.
• Macromedia Flash/Action Scripting is an asset.
• Experience with Drupal API and themes is an asset.

Compensation:

Rates will range from $20-30/hr depending on education, experience and abilities. Home
based/telecommuting contract work is most desired, but onsite opportunities are possible should we find the right candidate.

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Maintenance Manager/CSS/PHP Web Developer at Image X Media

Summary:

• Image X Media is looking for a talented web developer with exceptional customer service skills.
• The position requires someone with experience in developing sites with PHP/MySQL and
• HTML/CSS (table-less layouts).
• The position requires excellent programming skills, problem solving abilities, a strong work ethic and an eye for design.
• Reporting to the Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing multiple maintenance contracts for client sites and for building out sites on the Drupal content management system.
• (Drupal training will be provided if you don’t have previous experience with this CMS)

Responsibilities

• Working with a team (designers, creative director, project manager, and other developers) to manage our different clients’ website maintenance needs.
• Responsible for providing training for client on how to update their site.
• Testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting of existing client sites.
• Responsible for planning & fixing internal network from time to time (internet, phone, etc.)
  

Requirements:

• Excellence in customer service
• Independence, willingness to learn and problem solving skills are a must.
• At least two years of related work experience/education.
• Must be able to handle a fast paced work environment, deadlines, and new challenges.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others.
• Good leadership abilities with strengths in training and delegating

Technical Skills:

• Proficient with handcoding HTML and tableless CSS.
• Advanced knowledge and implementation of W3C Web Standards
• Dynamic/Database Driven Development (PHP/MySQL).
• JavaScript; experience with AJAX or jQuery is an asset.
• Experience with the Drupal content management system is asset.
• Adobe Flash/Action Scripting is an asset.
• Apache server configuration and tuning is an asset
• ASP is an asset.

Compensation:

• $50,000 base salary (for experienced developer) plus full benefits and profit sharing incentives.
• Position is only available for onsite work at our South Surrey studio.

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Drupal developer at Image X Media

Location: Canada

Summary:

• Image X Media is looking for a talented web developer with considerable experience working as a Drupal developer/programmer.
• The position requires exceptional programming skills, problem solving abilities and a strong work ethic.
• Reporting to the Project Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for taking a web project from the development phase to the final product or in some cases for creating or customizing Drupal modules to integrate with other applications.

Responsibilities:

• Working with a team (designers, creative director, project manager, and other developers) to create compelling and cutting edge web sites and web applications.
• Responsible for turning design and user interface mockups into functional web sites.
• Custom programming and web application development.
• Testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting of existing client sites.
  

Requirements:

• Independence, willingness to learn and problem solving skills are a must.
• At least two years of related work experience/education.
• Must be able to handle a face paced work environment, deadlines, and new challenges.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others.
  

Technical Skills:

• Significant experience with Drupal API, themes and assets.
• Proficient with handcoding HTML and tableless CSS.
• Advanced knowledge and implementation of W3C Web Standards.
• Dynamic/Database Driven Development (PHP/MySQL).
• JavaScript, especially AJAX, is an asset.
• Macromedia Flash/Action Scripting is an asset.
  

Compensation:

Rates will range from $20-30/hr depending on education, experience and abilities. Home
based/telecommuting contract work is most desired, but onsite opportunities are possible should we find the right candidate.

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Senior Developer for WYSIWYG Visual Editor (Enterprise Ajax) at Backbase

Location: Netherlands

Job description:

Backbase - leader in the market for Ajax technology - is looking for a senior software engineer to play a large role in delivering a WYSIWYG Visual Editor for Ajax/Java web development.

The right candidate will be an expert in developing modern IDEs in the J2EE world, will be user-centric and have a passion for User Interaction. Backbase offers a great opportunity to use your talents to design and implement a state-of-the-art visual composer within the Eclipse environment. The project will be closely tied to other Ajax products included in Backbase’s products portfolio such as the Backbase JSF Ajax Edition, Backbase Struts Ajax Edition and Backbase Client Ajax Edition.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute in designing modules of the IDE
• Communicate with the Technical Leads of the Backbase products
• Hands on development
• Scope and help define deliverables
• Produce design documentation
• Safe-guard the quality of the deliverable
  

Requirements:

• 2+ years developing plug-ins for modern IDEs, preferably Eclipse
• 2+ years development experience with J2EE and Java
• 1+ years development experience in DHTML (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Solid understanding of J2EE presentation layer components such as JSF, JSP, Struts, Velocity, or Cocoon
• Solid understanding of modern product development processes (preferably agile development)

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Program Manager 4- ProdDev at Oracle

Location: Redwood Shores, CA, US

Brief Description:

Program / Project Managers on the CRM Hosting Operations Team will lead a wide variety of initiatives in support of our goal to be a world class hosting operation. The projects may include operational process improvements, infrastructure improvements, the deployment of upgrades and new releases of our applications, and the roll-out of new products and services. This position will provide you with the opportunity to leverage your experience in project / and program management, while gaining knowledge and experience in the growing "software as a service" industry.

Detailed Description:

• Manage the development and implementation process of a specific company product involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.
  
• Plan and direct schedules and monitor budget/spending.
• Monitor the project from initiation through delivery.
• Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Assign and monitor work of systems analysis and program staff, providing technical support and direction.
  

Job Requirements:

• Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.
• Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• A minimum of seven years of project management, product design or related experience required.
  

Additional Details:

The successful candidiate will possess excellent communication skills, knowledge of a structured Project Management methodology and experience managing cross-functional teams. Knowledge of Siebel CRM and / or CRM On Demand would be a plus.

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Software Developer at Oracle

Location: Redwood Shores, CA, US

Brief Description

Design and implement new test suites that simulate real world customer applications for various Oracle components

Experience :

• Java, RDBMS, SQL , Oracle
• XML: XML Query, xml schema, XSLT
• Experience as Oracle DBA (Plus)
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux platform and shell scripting
  

Detailed Description

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing requirements.

Job Requirements

• Duties and tasks are varied and complex requiring independent judgment.
• Fully competent in own area of expertise.
• May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
  

Additional Details

Design and implement new test suites that simulate real world customer applications for various Oracle components

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System Administrator 4-IT at Oracle

Location: AUSTIN - Data Center

Detailed Description:

• Responsible for creating and implementing system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliablility of the system.
• Manage the load configurations of a central data communication processor and make recommendations for purchase or upgrade of data networks.
• Coordinate terminal orders and cable installation, network system planning, upgrading, monitoring, testing, and servicing.
• Approves action requests and specifies purchase requirements.
• Negotiates and places orders with common carriers.
• May play a team leader role for developing System Administrators.

Job Requirements:

• Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
• Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.
• Preferred qualifications: eight years of related experience in a medium to large network distributed and computing environment.
• BS in Computer Science or related field.

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Network/Telecom Systems Analyst 2-IT at Oracle

Location :Salt Lake City, UT, US

Detailed Description:

• Maintain records of equipment failure and liaise with engineers and suppliers as necessary. Escalate client problems according to established procedures.
• Manage the network using network management tools, analyze network performance and discuss network enhancements with senior networking specialists.
• Analyze network performance to ensure adequate bandwidth for business needs.
• Recommend enhancements to the network infrastructure, and enhance proactive network management tool set.
• Troubleshoot network problems on the campus network, remote locations and countrywide area network though to resolution, occasionally with guidance from more experience staff, depending on the complexity.
• As a team member or with assistance from others perform project engineering including requirement definition, design of solution in compliance with corporate standards, implementation, testing through to production.
• Respond to monitor alarms to identify the root cause of an outage and coordinate the corrective action in line with existing procedures and practices. Provide on-call support services as required.
  

Job Requirements:

• Duties and tasks are standard with some variation.
• Completes own role largely independently within defined policies and procedures.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

2 years relevant experience and degree/diploma in computer science or IT discipline

Additional Details

Skill Set: ISDN, NFAS, TDM, Windows, Linux, Cisco, VoIP, TCP/IP, Server Hardware.

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System Administrator 3-IT at Oracle

Location: Cambridge, MA, US

Brief Description

Install, maintain and troubleshoot servers, storage and file system configurations and operating systems. Perform performance trend analysis and manage the server/network capacity. Propose client configuration and implement technical solutions to enhance and/or troubleshoot the system. Work with others to define, coordinate vendor purchase requirements. Responsible for support documentation as well.

Detailed Description

• Perform performance trend analysis and manage the server/network capacity.
• Propose client configuration and implement technical solutions to enhance and/or troubleshoot the system.
• Work with others to define, coordinate vendor purchase requirements.
• Responsible for support documentation as well.
  

Job Requirements

• Job duties are varied and complex requiring independent judgment.
• May have project lead role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of related experience in a medium to large network distributed and computing environment.
• BS in Computer Science or related field.
  

Additional Details:

Perform Server Administration activities such as OS installations, migrations and upgrades, configuring storage and file systems, maintaining system security, user access administration, providing support for OS/Network related problems, monitoring availability, reliability, capacity and performance and adminstering backup and recovery, systems automation, documentation and disaster recovery.

Skills Required:

• Strong technical system administration expertise in :
• AIX 5.2, 5.3
• HP-UX 11.11, 11.23 Integrity
• Redhat Linux (recent experience), SUSE Linux
• Solaris 9,10 (8 a plus)
• UNIX Shell Scripting Skills
• Strong skills in configuration, administering and testing server & data backup & recovery
• Managing NIS lookup services
  

Experience with :

• Load Balancing
• EMC Storage Administration and Provisioning
• NFS
  
• Oracle 9i RAC / 10G Grid
• Source Control Management software
• VMWare experience
• Knowledge of App Servers (OAS, Weblogic)
• The candidates will be expected to use current internal tools (TR Tool) and third party tools for maintenance and creation of environments.

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Software Development Snr Manager at Oracle

Location: Redwood Shores, CA, US

Detailed Description:

As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture.

Job Requirements

• Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of sections.
• Ensures appropriate operational planning is effectively executed to meet Corporate requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development.

Preferred Qualifications:

BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

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Ajax Developer at DataFin Recruitment

Location : South Africa

Environment:

A Cape Town based company requires an Ajax Developer to help develop our community portal and widget style components for our publishing tool.

Requirements:

• Skills in JavaScript and CSS.
• The architectural depth to build an MVC framework in JavaScript.
• Demonstrable experience in AJAX and DHTML, including the following: XML, XSLT, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS. Bonus points for OO experience, PHP, SVG, Java/J2EE or Smarty Templates.
• The stubbornness of a perfectionist: it must be beautiful.
• The curiosity to innovate: we want to try things that haven’t been done before.
• The eye of an art critic.
• A “Get things done” attitude - we’re in start-up mode, so every team member is jumping in and doing whatever needs to be done to build the worlds best online publishing tool.

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Senior Access T-SQL Developer at DataFin Recruitment

Location: South Africa

Environment:

A Cape Town based company requires a Senior Access T-SQL Developer with 4 years MS Access, Visual Basic/VBA and T-SQL with SQL Server 2000 or equivalent (creating Stored Procedures, Views, Functions and Tables)

Duties:

• MS Access with VBA and T-SQL Software Developer for internal systems, delivering quality functionality to support the various business functions
• Deliver quality code that works first time, tested & bug free, and delivered within determined timeframes
• Adhering to development standards with emphasis on documentation of code, either inline or separate document
• Regular communication with Business Users and assist the Project Managers to provide accurate estimates (quotes)
• Assist with MS Access, VBA and VB code and peer reviews
• Assistance with hiring and training of new Access/TSQL staff
• Review all T-SQL code before deployment

Requirements:

• A tertiary education will be beneficial, specifically a degree or diploma in Computer Science or Information Systems
• 4 years MS Access 2000 or more
• 4 years Visual Basic/VBA
• 4 years T-SQL with SQL Server 2000 or equivalent (creating Stored Procedures, Views, Functions and Tables)
• Full project lifecycle
• T-SQL with MS SQL 2005 would be beneficial
• Financial systems experience would be beneficial
• .NET skills would be beneficial
• DBA skills would be beneficial

Attributes:

• Excellent problem solving skills
• Able to work well towards deadlines

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C# Developer at DataFin Recruitment

Location: South Africa

Environment:

This Cape Town based IT company based in the CBD requires a C# developer with a 3 year degree or diploma and at least 3 years C# experience as well as at least 2 years SQL experience.

Duties:

• Responsible for developing scalable real-time services and concurrent applications in the C# language.
• Implement new software and changes according to the accepted technical specifications.
• Test new systems and system changes to ensure it is according to technical specifications.
• Be able to document all work done.

Requirements:

• Technical degree or background – 3 year BSc, National Diploma in Computer Science required
• 3+ years C# experience
• At least 2 years SQL experience (including PL/SQL)
• .NET reflection
• Concurrent programming experience
• Understanding of ADO.NET
• Knowledge of transaction based systems and real-time systems advantageous
• Telecommunication and/or Medical Aid industry experience advantageous

Attributes:

• Able to work independently and within a team
• Must be self-reliant with strict attention to detail
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Willing to learn and apply new technologies quickly
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Good time management skills.
• Be willing to work over-time when required and be willing to travel.

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.Net Architect at DataFin Recruitment

Location: South Africa

Environment:

A Cape Town based IT company requires a .Net Architect for their Johannesburg branch with solid project experience and 5+ years relevant work experience.
Must be knowledgeable in a wide range of technologies and have experience in leading a team.

Duties:

• Successful delivery of projects.
• Productive development teams.
• Must be able to engage senior business and technology stakeholders, including discussions, presentations and negotiations.
• Role will entail architecture consulting as well as delivery solution architecture (i.e. within build projects).

Requirements:

• Degree/diploma.
• Solid project experience (exposure to full project lifecycle) and 5+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience in a wide range of technologies, methodologies and environments and most importantly making decisions around these.
• Experience in leading a team.
• Frameworks and related: .NET (1.0 – 3.0), ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, .NET Web Services, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Enterprise Library.
• Server Technologies: SharePoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IIS, BizTalk.
• Persistence: ADO.NET, ORM (e.g. NHibernate).
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL.
• Communication: XML, XSLT, HTTP, Sockets, SOAP, REST, RMI.
• Development tools: Visual Studio 2005 Professional, Team System & Foundation Server, CruiseControl.NET, NUnit, Subversion. 11. Methodologies: Agile, XP, RUP, Prince 2, Test Driven Development (TDD).
• UML.

Attributes:

• Good spoken and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Proactive.
• Responsible decision maker.
• Accountable.
• Efficient.
• Focused.
• Thorough.
• Passionate (about architecture and coding).
• Open.
• Delivery focused.
• Practical.
• Collaborative.
• Patient and empathetic.
• Reliable.
• Trustworthy.
• Objective.
• Team player.
• Anticipates & predicts problems & risks.
• Professional.

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Jobs at Amazon

Software Development
Amazon's engineers tackle some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing. Software development engineers, technical program managers, test engineers, and user-interface experts work in small teams company-wide to contribute to the e-commerce platform that's used by:

• Tens of millions of Amazon.com customers
• Hundreds of thousands of sellers and merchants
• Tens of thousands of external developers

Information Technology
Our IT team oversees the company's technology environment. These system, database, and networking experts build and operate highly reliable, scalable distributed systems with terabyte-sized databases and infrastructure that can handle a massive number of transactions.

Retail Product Management and Merchandising
Our team of product managers, designers, buyers, and merchandisers builds and launches new product categories and stores around the world as it offers customers greater selection, lower prices, more in-stock merchandise, and a best-in-class shopping experience.

Operations and Customer Service
Our operations teams oversee and operate all aspects of supply chain management, fulfillment, transportation, and customer service. People on these teams range from optimization specialists and business analysts to fulfillment and customer-service managers and associates. Regardless of their role, however, they're completely focused on meeting individual customer promises every day, around the globe.

Business Development and Sales
Our business development and sales team forges new partnerships with leading retailers and technology companies around the globe. They recruit new third-party sellers--from big-name retailers to smaller companies that offer specialized merchandise that's hard to find--to leverage the power of Amazon's e-commerce platform and, in the process, help to add tens of thousands of additional products to our already exhaustive selection.

Finance and Administration
Financial professionals at Amazon.com operate as business partners within functional teams throughout the company. They have leadership roles in teams such as Retail, Operations, Business Development, and Software Development in addition to more traditional roles in Accounting, Treasury, Investor Relations, etc. Financial professionals help teams evaluate business investments, understand historical performance, and develop forward-looking plans in addition to providing objective perspectives to their business partners.

Human Resources
Our team of HR generalists, specialists, and recruiters partner with our very entrepreneurial, high-ownership business leaders to find, hire, develop, and retain the best and the brightest people.

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Systems Engineering Software Developer at IMDb

If you're a top notch system software developer and a fan of movies and TV, we've got the ideal job for you.

• There are many good reasons to work at IMDb, and here are several of them:
• You can make a huge difference at IMDb. We've already developed a successful business model and a stable production environment, so our programmers spend their time developing and launching cool projects with little red tape and lots of autonomy.
• We offer flexibility both in terms of your day-to-day work schedule and also in terms of work assignments.
• Our software developers provide lots of creative input into projects and get to work on many different types of projects that allow them to think creatively and to handle interesting computer science challenges.
• We have a great environment of talented people who work hard to make IMDb the most credible media source on the planet.

All software positions require a minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science with three plus years of industry programming experience. Our primary development language is Perl in the Linux/Unix environment, so a solid base of skills in OO Perl and working knowledge of database integration (MySQL or Postgres) are core skills.

The tech team creates, maintains and enhances our customer facing websites. In addition to core Perl & database skills, we need employees who can function independently while also interacting efficiently with other team members. This role is focused on improving and growing our infrastructure and systems admin toolset. Background and skills in one or more of building testing environments, performance analysis and tuning, virtual computing, robust deployments, and server scaling are important.

IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, but we operate separately and have our own technology systems. When you join IMDb, you become a full-fledged Amazon.com employee - which means you enjoy the cohesive work environment of a small company while also gaining the bigger benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company. It's the best of both worlds.

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Systems Engineering Manager at IMDb

We are seeking a person to lead IMDb (Internet movie database) system operations in Seattle. This person will have a small number of direct reports (system admins and developers assigned to tune our build and deployment processes) and will likely do a reasonable amount of hands-on work as well.

The Systems Engineering Manager candidate is an individual who is excited by solving problems and displays the ability to accurately troubleshoot them through full resolution. Writing documentation and procedures is second nature to this individual. Creating new tools, increasing efficiencies, and sharing best practices is embraced as a challenge. This individual is able to understand application code and has 3-5 years of hands-on administration experience in the Unix/Linux environment. Candidates must also be innovative, creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand support procedures and methodologies.

The ideal candidate will also have strong leadership skills. This is required as a Systems Engineer in this environment is also required to be a technical escalation point. It is critical that Systems Engineers also posses a high level of communication skills in both written and verbal forms.

Skills Required:

• Advanced knowledge of Linux/Unix with Troubleshooting Experience
• System Administration in a distributed Linux environment
• Scripting and programming in Perl, CGI, one or more shells
• Understanding of NFS and other cluster/distributed file systems
• Understanding of Oracle & MySQL environments running on Linux, and reading/generation of SQL queries
• Best Practices in Internet Security
• Performance tuning on Apache
• Understanding of role of virtualization & proxies
• Understanding of monitoring and metrics
• Advanced understanding of Server Hardware
• Experience working with customers and across multiple teams & geographies
• Excellent documentation skills
• Application development experience is a plus
• A degree in computer science or a relevant area (recommended)
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Detailed understanding of disk sub-systems

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Revenue Analyst at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an experienced Revenue Analyst. This position is full-time and located in our Downtown Palo Alto office. The Revenue Analyst will be expected to work closely with Sales, Operations and Finance management to support requests while managing the invoicing process on a timely basis to support a fast close.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Help establish and maintain the guidelines/policies & procedures for A/R and Revenue
• Assist manager with month-end reporting and reconciliation of sub-ledger accounts to General Ledger
• Collect evidence of arrangement, proof of delivery and reconciliation to analyze and calculate accurate billing and revenue recognition
• Invoice Creation
• Keep excellent records and maintain documented information for all invoices
• Maintain quality customer service with both internal and external customers
• Ensure that proper accounts receivable policy and procedures are being followed
• Lead less senior revenue analysts and provide guidance, training and advice on revenue topics and day-to-day processes

Requirements:

• 5-6 years relevant business experience in Accounting or alternatively, Ad Operations for online advertising companies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent Excel skills required
• Experience with Quick Books or other financial systems
• Experience with SalesForce.com preferred
• Experience with online advertising strongly preferred
• BA in Accounting, Economics required
• Flexibility required for fast growing environment
• Ability to train and document desk procedures, policies and sub-processes in the order to cash process

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Accountant at Facebook

Facebook is looking for a well-rounded top performer who can be a key contributor in a high-energy growth environment. The ideal candidate is one who has been a top academic performer with a proven track record in global, high tech companies and has the desire to excel in everything they do. Your work history should demonstrate job stability with increasing levels of responsibility. This is a full time position reporting to the Accounting Manager.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Assist with monthly close including account reconciliation, financial reporting and analysis
• Perform technical accounting research and prepare documentation outlining issues and conclusions
• Support and review monthly reconciliations of International subsidiaries
• Assist in review of global consolidated reconciliations
• Assist with improving, implementing and documenting processes and internal control policies and procedures
• Identify opportunities for process improvements or automation and then drive the implementation of the solution
• Support various organizational requirements such as audit and tax preparation
• Other projects and initiatives as required

Requirements:

• B.S. degree in Accounting or Finance. MBA a plus
• CPA required
• 3+ years relevant experience with Big Four and minimum of 3+ years with large, fast-growing, multi-national company
• Solid knowledge of GAAP, including FAS 52
• Related industry experiences a plus
• Strong computer and analytical skills, including proficiency in Excel
• Excellent planning, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Superb attention to detail yet possesses an understanding of the "big picture”
• Organized and thorough with desire for continuous improvement

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Advertising Operations Associate at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an Advertising Operations Associate. This position is full time and is based in our office in New York, NY. There are minimal travel requirements for this position.

Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implement advertising campaigns sold by Facebook account executives
• Support multiple account executives in a fast-paced startup environment
• Schedule campaigns in Facebook ad server
• Work with account executives, clients, and advertising agencies to gather, test and QA creative
• Optimize campaigns mid-flight, re-allocate impressions and targeting
• Work with Finance team to ensure precise and timely delivery reports and invoicing
• Pull and format weekly analytical reports for clients and agencies
• Work with other members of the Ad Operations team to handle inventory and scheduling of advertisements

Requirements:

• Excellent written and communication skills
• Very familiar with Office applications, particularly Excel
• Strong ability to multi-task
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Critical thinker
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment a plus

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Manager, Corporate Communications at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an experienced Manager, Corporate Communications. This is a full-time position based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director, Corporate Communications.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Own Strategic and day-to-day management for various internal and external communications
• Protect and enhance the reputation of Facebook’s technologies and platform
• Create awareness for current and new applications on the site
• Educate users, analysts, journalists and bloggers about Facebook products and platform
• Drive positive coverage in the business and technology press
• Support and interface with engineering team

Requirements:

• 6-8 years PR experience
• BA/BSA degree in journalism, communications or equivalent preferred
• Strong project management and decision-making skills
• Previous experience working on Internet-related subject matter
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Must know AP style guidelines and be a master of grammar
• Experience working with media to achieve communications goals
• Ability to think and communicate strategically with a variety of people
• Experience in both technology and Internet PR required
• Deep understanding of Facebook preferred
• Knowledge of PHP, AJAX and open source preferred

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Media Researcher at Facebook

Facebook is looking for a seasoned Media Research professional to join our Trade Marketing team. Primary responsibilities are to provide day to day insights and storylines to directly support Sales’ revenue goals. This position will report to Sr. Trade Marketing Manager in our downtown Palo Alto office.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop vertical insights for sales’ top client categories to support USP (audience profiles, purchase behavior, new trends, etc.)
• Feed Trade Marketing lead data to quantify key messages and support major thought leader programs – and help build storylines with relevant data language
• Update Sales’ monthly audience profile collateral and alert internal teams of monthly trends/changes
• Educate Sales Planners/Account Management on how advertisers use third party media research sources and keep them abreast of major changes and training opportunities
• Create Facts & Figures quarterly report for clients around key themes to support revenue (e.g. Shopping trends of 18-24 for holiday advertisers)
• Develop insight “gems” for trade keynotes and priority sales verticals
• Collaborate with internal data team to understand changes in site/audience performance and engagement to ensure Sales presentations are accurate
• Partner with internal data team on discussions with 3rd party companies to increase relevant measurement of our site and audience

Requirements:

• 6-8 years relevant experience, advertising/marketing/sales/internet preferred
• BA/BA degree with focus in marketing and/or analytics
• Expert knowledge of how ad agencies and marketers use different research sources and the ever changing strengths and weaknesses of each source
• Knowledge of top evaluation metrics in marketing and how internet companies may track those metrics with different names
• Proven success supporting advertising sales with insights that led to revenue
• Passion for cobbling data points into persuasive and compelling storylines and presentations
• Heavy interest in emerging trends within social media and viral marketing
• Prior experience diving deep in industry marketing – CPG, Retail, Entertainment ideal

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Systems Architect at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a seasoned Systems Architect to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyze application flow and infrastructure design to improve performance and scalability of the site
• Collaborate on design of services infrastructure from servers to networking
• Monitor, analyze, and make recommendations as appropriate to improve site stability and availability
• Evaluate hardware and software technologies to improve site efficiency and performance
• Troubleshoot and solve issues with hardware, applications, and network components
• Lead team efforts from design to implementation, prioritize tasks and resources while interacting with Engineering and Operations
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in Operations with large web farms
• Extensive knowledge of web architecture and technologies, including Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, TCP/IP, security, HTTP, LDAP and MTAs
• Strong background/interest in application and infrastructure design
• Scripting and programming skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Systems Engineer ,VA at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and will be based in our facility in northern Virginia and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Northern Virginia, VA

Responsibilities:

• Continually improve the performance and scalability of the site
• Configure and support Linux, mySQL and Apache servers
• Monitor site stability and performance
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Prioritize tasks and work independently yet interact well within a project-oriented team environment
• Solve problems quickly and automate processes
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience with Linux
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, security, LAMP, HTTP, LDAP and MTAs
• Scripting and programming skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Data Center Technician at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Data Center Technician to join the Operations team. This is a full-time position based in our facility in northern Virginia and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Northern Virginia, VA

Responsibilities:

• Install new servers, switches, routers, and storage hardware
• Fix and upgrade servers
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware and Linux OS
• Track issues and run reports
• Entry level opportunity for NOC engineers, system administrators or network engineers

Requirements:

• Certification such as CCNA, RHCT or equivalent experience with Cisco or Juniper switches/routers, Red Hat, MySQL or Apache servers
• Experience working with server/network hardware and Linux OS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lift/move 20-30 lbs on a daily basis
• Off-hours coverage

Operations Software Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in Downtown Palo Alto, CA. The Software Engineer will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design core, back end software components
• Maintain and extend release and deploy tools
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of website and supporting systems

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Solid design and development experience
• Scripting languages (perl, php, shell)
• C/C++ and Java development on *nix preferred
• Extensive experience building large-scale server applications
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, distributed systems, or server architectures

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Email Systems Administrator at Facebook

This role is responsible for ensuring the delivery of over 50M email messages a day that are a part of the Facebook experience and are essential for continued growth. The position is full-time and reports to the Director of Operations. The position is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Facebook email delivery systems and messaging infrastructure
• Configuration of mail servers (e.g. Sendmail)
• Monitoring of email processing, delivery, and effectiveness
• Achieving resolution of email delivery problems through engagement and coordination with various ISP’s (e.g. Aol, Yahoo, etc)
• Working with outside email monitoring services (e.g. Returnpath)
• Insuring the appropriate mapping of Facebook mail features to destination email domain policies

Requirements:

• The successful candidate will likely have experience in Unix/Linux system administration and will be comfortable in automating operations using programming languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, and shell scripting
• Must have experience in configuring mail servers (e.g. Sendmail, Postfix, etc)
• Should have experience in setting up and maintaining mail systems for high volume internet companies
• Prior experience interfacing with ISP’s at a senior level desirable
• Should be a strong communicator with the ability to work on projects independently

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Technical Project Manager at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Technical Project Manager with web and enterprise application experience. This is a full-time position based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage complex project plans and ensure on-time delivery
• Provide hands on analysis, design, development testing, implementation and post implementation support
• Act as primary interface with mail providers and ISP’s to prevent spam and blocking of Facebook messages
• Work with engineers to improve overall performance of messaging infrastructure
• Build or configure technologies based on requirements submitted by business partners and best practices
• Promote user adoption by preparing training documentation and conduct training sessions for business users
• Build test cases & manage internal and beta testing cycles
• Assist with risk management and change management on projects
• Create ad-hoc reports, queries and data extracts as requested
• Provide day-to-day support and quality assurance for projects and tasks
• Assist with internal process improvements

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of Operations experience and 2+ as a Technical project manager
• Prior experience working with ISP’s and managing email/messaging infrastructures
• Experience working in a web or internet start-up environment a plus
• Very familiar with UNIX/Linux OS (scripting experience a plus)
• Perl, PHP experience a big plus

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Operations Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an Operations Engineer to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Monitor site stability and performance
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Resolve technical issues related to LAMP technologies
• Identify and triage all outage related events
• Facilitate communication, coordinate escalation, work with subject matter experts and implement a fix
• Automate and streamline processes
• Track issues and run reports

Requirements:

• Certification such as CCNA, RHCT or equivalent experience
• Prior experience working in a high-traffic, internet operations environment preferred
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux and LAMP
• Experience working with network management systems and network monitoring tools, such as Nagios
• Scripting experience with Perl, bash or shell scripting a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A sense of urgency in dealing with and resolving critical issues that relate to the performance of the site and/or iweb infrastructure
• Off-hours coverage and willingness to be on call

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NOC Manager at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a NOC Manager to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a 24x7 technical organization
• Implement and expand the monitoring tools for rapid identification and resolution of network/application service issues
• Develop code to automate repetitive tasks to allow the team to scale with Facebook's rapid growth
• Identify and triage all outage related events
• Facilitate communication, coordinate escalation, work with subject matter
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Automate and streamline processes
• Track issues, run reports and escalate issues

Requirements:

• Management and technical experience with the desire to roll up your sleeves when required to get the job done
• Develop and document repeatable operational procedures
• Planning and executing routine network maintenances with a premium on minimizing risk and application downtime
• Certification such as CCNA, RHCT or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux and LAMP
• Experience working with network management systems and other industry standard NOC tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Prior experience working in a NOC environment required

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Systems Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to join the Operations team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Continually improve the performance and scalability of the site
• Configure servers and network
• Monitor site stability and performance
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Prioritize tasks and work independently yet interact well within a project-oriented team environment
• Solve problems quickly and automate processes
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience with Linux
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, security, LAMP, HTTP, LDAP and MTAs
• Scripting and programming skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Storage Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Storage Engineer with SAN and NAS experience. This is a full-time position based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto and will report to the Director of Operations.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Architect and tune SAN/NAS solutions for various applications
• Design and manage backup infrastructure and architecture
• Setup and optimize hardware, kernel and appliances
• Track usage and plan for future needs for each LUN
• Provide on-call support for storage related events
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience focused on SAN storage
• Strong preference for candidates with prior technology operations experience for a high-traffic top-25 consumer Internet service
• Intimate knowledge of HDS, Brocade, fiber channel protocols and SAN design
• Experience with such storage systems as NetApp, EMC, IBM, STK and 3PAR preferred

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MySQL DBA at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a MySQL DBA. This position will be primarily responsible for managing and providing active support for MySQL production/QA/dev environments. The position is full-time and will report to the Director of Operations. The position is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managing MySQL in production/QA/dev environment including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, upgrades and schema changes, etc.
• Quickly diagnose server problems and employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers
• Assistance in database daily operation
• Assistance in developing MySQL tools using PHP/Perl
• Estimating project duration, effort, resource load and cost
• Creating processes to ensure data integrity and identify potential data errors

Requirements:

• Proficient in SQL and scripting languages (PHP, Perl)
• Experience with Database Administration
• Performance tuning experience
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with other staff members, to complete short and long-term projects
• MySQL experience preferred or ability and willingness to learn MySQL in depth
• Experience with replication a plus
• Oracle experience a plus

Software Engineer, Data at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Data team. The ideal candidate will dream about distributed systems for the parallel processing of massive quantities of data, be familiar with Hadoop/Pig/HBase and MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable, and frequently think to themselves, "Yeah, that works for 500 MB of data; what about 500 TB?" This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. This position will report to the Senior Manager of Data.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop reusable tools for the management and manipulation of hundreds of terabytes of data
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of data collection, storage, and retrieval processes
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Work closely with data analysts to construct creative solutions for their analysis tasks
• Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level
• Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically

Requirements:

• Extensive experience working with large data stores
• Deep understanding of storage appliance and storage software internals
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
• Experience developing with Python, Ruby, or PHP
• Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems

Software Engineer, Internationalization at Facebook

Facebook is seeking experienced engineers to join our Internationalization Team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. These positions are very fast-paced; creativity, enthusiasm, and smarts are a must. This position will play a key role in designing and building the architecture for launching internationalized Facebook products.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement architectural components to support launching of localized products
• Code in a variety of languages, primarily PHP/C++/python. Flexibility is required.
• Interface effectively with other teams
• Conduct design and code reviews

Requirements:

• B.S./M.S. Computer Science or related field
• A keen attention to detail - someone who can sweat the small stuff
• Expertise in one or more of the following is greatly preferred:
• Programming language theory
• Character set encodings
• Translation memory systems

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Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook

Facebook is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering team. The position is full-time and is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. The Software Engineer will report to the VP of Engineering. There are minimal travel requirements for this position.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design core, backend software components
• Code using primarily C/C++, Java, and PHP
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

Requirements:

• M.S. Computer Science or related field preferred
• Extensive experience building large-scale server applications
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
• Knowledge of perl or PHP or python
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers, distributed systems, or server architectures

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Data Analyst at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a Data Analyst with strong communication skills and a mild obsession with extracting useful information from data. The ideal candidate will read Matthew Hurst, the Juice Analytics blog, paidContent.org, information aesthetics, and Many-2-Many; that is, they will be interested in the business and product of an online social network while having a passion for data analysis and visualization. The position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. This position will report to the Senior Manager of Data Insight.

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business users and product managers to determine how the data we collect could help solve their problems
• Apply your expertise in statistical inference, data mining, and the presentation of data to help inform and support our business and product decisions
• Work with the data infrastructure team to translate the business requirements into technical specifications
• Possess a thorough understanding of our data collection methods
• Develop reports and monitor the validity of the data being reported

Requirements:

• Data junkie
• The ability to communicate the results of your analyses in a clear and effective manner
• Crazy Excel skills or experience with data reporting and analysis tools such as Spotfire, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, et al
• Experience with R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, or a similar tool for data analysis
• Understanding of the methodologies of the major internet audience measurement firms: comScore Media Metrix, Nielsen//NetRatings, Hitwise, Quantcast, Alexa, Compete
• Basic knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Strong willingness to contribute to a small team

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Web Developer at PageUp

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Advertised: 21 Sep 2007
Closing date: 5 Oct 2007 at 5:00pm

Are you a top web developer seeking employment in a young, fun and rapidly growing company?

Based in Melbourne, PageUp builds sophisticated web applications, used by Australia’s biggest names.

What is needed:

• I’m a gun at Javascript, CSS, HTML & XHTML.
• Browser compatibility quirks drive me crazy, but I can figure out how to get things looking right in Mozilla Firefox & IE.
• I’m into cutting edge technologies like DHTML & AJAX.
• I have an “eye” for web design, user interface design and web usability.

If you’re still at Uni, a recent Graduate or if it’s just in your blood then no worries! As long as you’re up to the challenge. You’ll be working in a supportive environment with fantastic opportunities to grow your career. We offer a competitive salary and a range of other job benefits. Apply now!

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PHP Performance Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a PHP Performance Engineer to join the Product Engineering team. The position is a full-time position based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Identify performance bottlenecks in PHP applications
• Provide code optimization recommendations
• Prototype and implement optimization techniques
• Benchmark existing code and enhancements
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Code primarily in PHP
• Interface with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Identify and communicate best practices

Requirements:

• A passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Knowledge of PHP and system profiling tools
• Adept knowledge of the PHP API
• Experience building PHP applications and frameworks
• Basic knowledge of PHP internals and Apache architecture
• Experience working with Apache/PHP in high-performance environments
• Interest in working on the second largest PHP website in the world
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

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PHP Internals Engineer at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a PHP Internals Engineer to join the Product Engineering team. The position is a full-time position based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto. The PHP Internals Engineer will report to the CTO.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design software components
• Code primarily in C
• Interface with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Educate other team members on PHP best practices
• Extend PHP functionality to support our unique requirements

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C on Linux
• Extensive experience building PHP applications and extensions
• Past contributions to the PHP project
• Knowledge of PHP internals and Apache architecture
• Experience working with Apache/PHP in high-performance environments
• Excellent debugging, profiling and optimization experience
• Experience with compile time optimizations
• Interest in working on the second largest PHP website in the world
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

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