Thursday 31 July 2014

Software Engineer - Tools | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area


Software Engineer - Tools | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area


Software Engineer - Tools

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago
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Job description

LinkedIn connects talented people with opportunity, but keeping up with the needs of our 250 million+ members requires a tremendous amount of infrastructure and an extremely efficient development team. It's the Tools team's job to make sure that development team works as effectively as possible. Our goal is to make LinkedIn the best place in the world to write software.

As a member of the tools team, you will use your experience and technical skills to design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing, deployment, management and monitoring of our 24x7 services and products. Working with our application teams, you will help build out the infrastructure required to develop, test, ship and maintain high quality products.As a tools developer you will shape how LinkedIn writes and ships software in a fundamental way.

Help us scale the infrastructure & tools required to keep our thousand plus developers in step when they're all sharing the same code, building and testing our software stacks, releasing and deploying their services continuously without compromising site reliability.

You will enjoy a breadth of responsibilities in this highly visible role and be recognized for solving large scale engineering and cross organization problems. You will also partner with every product team to evangelize and enable their transition to the tools and frameworks developed by the tools team. Your work will have a huge impact on the entire engineering organization and potentially be shared with the open source community.


Come join us, make an impact and help take LinkedIn Engineering to the next level! Apply now.


Required Skills:
  • B.S. in Computer Science, EE or equivalent experience, M.S. preferred.
  • Excellent programming skills in Python, Java or any other dynamic language.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting and decision-making skills.
  • Must be self-directed, detail-oriented and have excellent written & verbal communication skills.
  • Broad understanding of Internet protocols and network programming.
  • Experience working in a Unix environment, Linux preferred.


Experience in one or more of the following is desired:
  • Developing test harnesses/frameworks.
  • Large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
  • Standard build tools and version control systems (svn, git, gradle, perforce)
  • Python development using frameworks like Django, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy
  • Developing/testing RESTful APIs
  • Mobile(iOS/Android) development, tooling or testing
  • Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Apache/ATS, Scala/sbt, or Node.js
  • Database systems (MySql, PostgreSQL, Redis, HBase, Voldemort, Espresso, Cassandra)
  • Security tools, frameworks and protocols

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Developing test harnesses/frameworks
  • Large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
  • Standard build tools and version control systems (svn, git, gradle, perforce)
  • Python development using frameworks like Django, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy
  • Developing/testing RESTful APIs
  • Mobile(iOS/Android) development, tooling or testing
  • Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Apache/ATS, Scala/sbt, or Node.js
  • Database systems (MySql, PostgreSQL, Redis, HBase, Voldemort, Espresso, Cassandra)
  • Security tools, frameworks and protocols

About this company

LinkedIn takes your professional network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, more than 238 million professionals are on LinkedIn, including executives from all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from user subscriptions, advertising sales and hiring solutions
 
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.   If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@linkedin.com.


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