This role is heavy in software and systems engineering. For our fundamental philosophy please see our Medium article on the subject.
Are you interested in distributed systems or big data? RetailNext is looking for engineers to help build our cloud analytics system. We pull in and process data from thousands of brick and mortar stores to help our customers better understand and serve their customers.
We're looking for engineers with experience in distributed systems or data processing at scale. We write code in Go and use tools like Cassandra, Redis, GRPC and MapReduce. We don't expect you to be an expert in everything we do, but you should have a strong background in some plus an interest in learning the rest. The team is growing fast and there will be leadership opportunities for interested and qualified candidates.
We've built an environment where you can focus on big problems. Low on meetings and overhead. We are a community of makers and we want people with the same mindset. Focused on building great solutions to the problems our customers face.
Who you are
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Company Overview
Live Planet, Inc. develops infrastructural technologies to enable next-generation video applications. Live Planet was founded by serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor, who to date has founded or co-founded technology companies that have created over $100 billion in cumulative value, including: CNET, Uphold, Salesforce, Google Voice, OpenDNS, and Vignette.
Live Planet's solutions include:
The Live Planet VR System: the only end-to-end capture, distribution, and monetization system for immersive video. The Live Planet System makes it easy, practical, and affordable to create and deliver stereoscopic VR and 360° video, whether live or recorded, allowing creators to focus on their productions and applications. (www.LivePlanet.net) The VideoCoin Network: video infrastructure for a blockchain-enabled Internet. The VideoCoin Network is a decentralized video encoding, storage, and content distribution system that turns all cloud-based video services into an efficient algorithmic market running on a new blockchain with a native protocol token, the VideoCoin. (www.VideoCoin.io) Position Overview
We are looking for a GoLang backend engineer to support our camera and cloud services. This position provides the unique opportunity to work on Live Planet camera software infrastructure and distributed cloud.
Candidate Profile
An ideal candidate shall have the following experience/credentials/experience:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field. 4+ Years GoLang experience 4+ years Python experience Google Cloud Platform administration Containers (docker) and container orchestration (kubernetes) Infrastructure deployment automation (ansible, terraform, packer) Monitoring and alerting tools (consul, telegraf, grafana, elk, fluentd) Experience working in a dynamic start up environment Strong written and verbal communication skills Outstanding attention to detail. Location: San Francisco Bay Area.
Live Planet is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
If interested, please apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/liveplanet/jobs/4037829002
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★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 7+ years of working experience as a developer
ABOUT US
★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company
NexGenT solves the growing shortage of IT engineers for enterprise companies with cutting edge education software. Our intelligent learning platform provides smart career guidance, skills assessment, and access to world class engineers for 1:1 mentorship.
★ OUR MISSION
To inspire, create, and empower the next generation of IT engineers by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.
★ RESPONSIBILITIES
CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
★ QUALIFICATIONS
You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.
Excited to work in downtown San Jose (Heart of Silicon Valley). We will relocate you if necessary.
★ Bonus
★ BENEFITS
Full Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose @ WeWork Valley Towers Full Gym and Shower On-site Included
BONUS ★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!
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Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Area company building the operating system for managing AI infrastructure across CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs in next generation data centers and clouds.
We are looking for strong cloud infrastructure engineer (developer type) with self-directed work habits and strong willingness to learn. You will be part of a collaborative team with a culture of open communication, innovation and make-it-happen mindset. You will work on bleeding edge technologies and have the opportunity to lean new technologies. Expect excellent application development skills and Kubernetes experience is a must. Experience with building highly available, scalable and generalized infrastructure and solid proficiency with at least one modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc is essential.
You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. Top-notch communication skills are essential. Strong problem solving skills and out of the box thinking are a must. Must work well in a fast paced team of talented, motivated, and coworkers. Physically located in Austin, TX is highly preferred, though remote work may be possible depending on qualifications.
Must Haves * 5+ years of relevant industry work experience * BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent program * Hands-on development with highly distributed and micro-service environments in clouds like AWS * Experience with Docker container related technologies like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc * Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures * Demonstrated proficiency with at least two modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc. - Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly * Should be able to pick up any new programming language and demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies quickly
Nice to Haves * Experience building APIs and client libraries * Experience with industry or open-source projects in large-data, parallel and distributed systems * Experience building technologies with caching, RPC, queuing, parallelism, multi-threading, concurrency * Experience with full stack web development
As part of your job application, send us some bullet points about the most recent projects you worked on with Kubernetes, whats your favorite programming language, what kind of things have you hacked in the past, why would like to be part of this team, etc.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
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DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones, making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. Trusted by businesses and individuals in over 140 countries worldwide, we are transforming the way drone users collect, manage and digest impactful data in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining and construction. Simple by design and easy to use, DroneDeploy builds revolutionary software compatible with any drone. If you’re excited about drones and want to help us create a simple and seamless experience for drone users across the world, we’d love to hear from you!
The Challenge
The DevOps team is tasked with ensuring the reliability and security of our exponentially scaling platform, while serving as a force multiplier for the rest of the engineering organization. Other teams rely upon our expert guidance to design a product that earns the trust of our users, without slowing down the pace of development. We believe that automation and developer empowerment are the key to creating systems that are reliable and secure by default, while minimizing cycle times. We use a collection of SaaS, open source, and proprietary technologies; whichever provides the right solution and seamless integrations for that piece of the puzzle. Some of the key technologies we leverage include Docker (for code packaging and deployment), Kubernetes (for container orchestration), Ansible (for lightweight config management), and Terraform (to control our cloud infrastructure).
The Role
In this position you will be expected to:
-Have a mind for simplifying unnecessary complexity. -Empathize with the people who use the systems you build. -Excel at critical thinking and adapt to new situations. -Anticipate future problems, without over-engineering the present. -Share your expertise with others, but never stop learning new things.
We are looking for someone with:
-A depth of knowledge in at least one domain. -Minimum of 2 years’ experience managing complex systems using software. -Experience writing and maintaining software applications in languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, JavaScript, C, C++, etc. (not just scripts, side projects ok). -Available to work on-site within our San Francisco office, or work remotely on Pacific Standard Time hours. -Familiarity with configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform, CloudFormation). -Experience solving difficult problems with a scripting language (e.g. Bash, Ruby, Python) in a Linux environment.
Bonus points:
-Experience with container technology (Docker/cgroups/LXC/etc) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Mesos/CloudFoundry/etc). -Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
Life at DroneDeploy
We’re a team of star wars loving, hot sauce eating, tech enthusiasts with inspirational talents. Everyone is empowered to explore and implement new ideas and improvements. We enjoy our collaborative office environment and encourage each other to push boundaries. We host weekly Friday night BBQs on our rooftop deck, offer great salaries, generous equity,100% employee health coverage, unlimited vacation and delicious catered meals among other perks.
DroneDeploy is an equal opportunity employer.
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Beeswax, named one of Business Insider’s “hottest pre-IPO ad tech startups of 2016,” is looking for a Software Engineer to build and maintain the REST APIs that our customers rely on. Our goal is to offer the most extensible set of APIs in the world of online advertising. You can read more about our APIs at www.beeswax.com/docs.
Our current REST API runs on AWS ECS and is built using PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Our APIs serve internal clients in our stack written in Python, Java, and C++ in addition to external customers.
Beeswax is an engineering-led company that places high value in building great software. Because advertising is extremely high scale (millions of transactions per second) and our team is still small, Beeswax engineers are involved with difficult scale problems all the time.
This position reports to the CTO, a long-time senior engineer from Google who was a key technical lead in the process of scaling Gmail.
Responsibilities include:
Building new features for customers and internal users Maintaining existing features and fixing issues as they arise Architecting solutions to complex systems tasks Testing, managing and releasing high-quality code Working with other engineers to produce a highly-reliable and easy to use advertising API Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science Strong familiarity with backend REST APIs and relational databases, SQL knowledge and PHP experience is a plus A desire to be deeply involved in product definition. Our engineers are expected to contribute to the direction of their projects. Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS Ability and desire to build great software
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We're looking for someone who has: - At least 5 years of software engineering experience. - Significant experience writing Golang. - Built an open source framework for software development. - Significant open source software contributions. - Experience working in an agile development environment. - The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through. - Worked with and mentored junior engineers. - Exceptional communication skills. - Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be: - Improve the SDK codebase by committing DRY, well tested code. - Work with the SDK team to triage tickets and move the project forward. - Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors. - Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team. - Help with developer adoption by supporting projects using the SDK. - Participate in developer discussion forums and work to improve the usability based on user feedback. - Promote the SDK by publishing blog posts and guides.
What we offer: - The opportunity to build the future of the internet. - An exciting role building open source software. - Flexible work schedule. - At least 4 weeks of paid vacation. - Very competitive salary, including equity.
About our application process:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
The process can take up to 3 weeks.
How to apply: To apply, please fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/jpdRI1wD8pdfoqKl2
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We're looking for someone who has: - At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions. - Written structured, high-quality programs and scripts for automation. - Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages. - Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software and infrastructure tools like Elastic stack, InfluxDB stack, DataDog, PagerDuty, or VictorOps. - Built solutions with a broad set of technologies in and around cloud solutions (AWS EC2, ECS, Route53, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, - Google Container Engine, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm). - Implemented continuous deployment before (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, Ansible, Chef, Puppet). - Experience with SDLC tools (Git, GitHub, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA). - Experience with QA/SIT tools (Selenium). - Experience in Linux System administration including package management, network management, and security management. - Familiarity with open source P2P networking protocols. - Experience working in an agile development environment. - The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through. - Exceptional communication skills. - Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be: - Help scale software systems with automation, in an effort to improve reliability, velocity, and simplicity. - Create, maintain, and improve the tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery. - Build and maintain tooling for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining clusters of Tendermint nodes on our testnets and mainnets. - Build and maintain tooling to help shorten feedback cycles within teams and projects. - Plan, build, and maintain public facing services in association with business goals. - Build tools to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.
Apply : https://goo.gl/forms/jpdRI1wD8pdfoqKl2
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Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.
Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.
As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.
You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.
We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.
You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.
Responsibilities * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions
Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments
Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development * Contribution to open source software * Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. * Experience in small startup environments helping large enterprises. * Experience with a distributed team
About Swish
Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.
We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.
Work is organized in sprints - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.
We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.
Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.
Join the future of work today.