Data Visualization Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Visualization Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Visualization Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

We're looking for an engineer to transform data into tools that help us understand Pinners’ experience and measure the success of our products and campaigns. If you’re interested in scaling a quickly growing discovery engine and comfortable working with big data, this could be the job for you.
Responsibilities:

• Transform Pinterest data into amazing visual representations
• Build real-time interactive visualizations and APIs to make data easy to understand and access across our organization
• Experiment with latest visualization technologies like D3.js, three.js, and Processing.js

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in computer science and/or relevant work experience
• Experience building web apps and MVC Frameworks like Django or Ruby-on-Rails.
• Experience in front-end web development (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
• Experience working with one or more javascript/SVG/Canvas visualization technologies  (i.e. d3.js, processing.js, three.js, paper.js, raphael.js, KineticJS, EaselJS, etc.)
• Familiarity with Hive, MapReduce is a plus
• Excellent communicator, relationship builder and problem-solver

 

 

 

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Data Infrastructure Engineer, Discovery | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Infrastructure Engineer, Discovery | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Infrastructure Engineer, Discovery

Location

San Francisco

Description

With tens of millions of Pinners and tens of billions of Pins, there’s a massive supply of data on Pinterest—one of the most interesting data sets in the world, and the foundation of our next-generation discovery efforts.
We’re looking for talented engineers to help build our discovery platform including search, recommendations and interests. If you’re passionate about big data, data-driven engineering, and love scaling multi-petabyte datasets in real time, we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable data platform to store, process, and query petabytes of data
• Design and build a real-time, large-scale distributed system
• Diagnose and fix complex distributed systems problems
• Participate in design and code reviews and help improve our engineering practices

Requirements

• Extensive experience programming in Java or C++
• MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with big data (hadoop/cascading/spark etc)
• Self-driven team player with demonstrated leadership

 

 

 

https://about.pinterest.com/en/careers/data-infrastructure-engineer-discovery_19478 

 

 

 

Data Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Data Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

We’re looking for talented data engineers to help us build the next generation of data platforms and products. You’ll work on some of the most interesting big data technologies (Hadoop, Storm, Kafka, Spark, Redshift) in the world. If you’re passionate about big data and data-driven engineering, curious about any problem where data can be applied, and love scaling multi-petabyte datasets, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable data platform to store, process and query petabytes of data
• Design and build Pinterest’s internal analytics product and prototype new user-facing data products
• Apply data-mining and machine learning techniques to large structured and unstructured datasets
• Diagnose and fix complex distributed systems problems
• Participate in design and code reviews and help improve our engineering practices

Requirements

• Extensive experience programming in Java or C++
• Experience programming in a scripting language like Python or Ruby
• MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Excellent problem solver and communicator, and can document your work
• Experience with one ore more distributed systems like Hadoop, HBase, Storm, Kafka, Spark or Redshift
• Background in one or more areas like databases, data processing, distributed systems, statistics or machine learning

 

 

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Android Software Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Android Software Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Android Software Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

We’re looking for an Android Engineer to help us build one of the best Android apps on the market. You should have experience delivering great apps and get excited by writing performant code for mobile devices. This is a full-time position. You'll work on the engineering team and report to the mobile manager.
Responsibilities:

• Build apps for phones and tablets running Android 2.2+
• Contribute and implement new features from scratch
• Work with the creative team to execute pixel perfect designs
• Track down and resolve issues
• Keep up with the latest SDK, tools and conventions

Requirements:

• 2+ years Android application development experience (Java)
• Proven ability to ship apps from start to finish
• Holistic knowledge and passion for the platform
• Bonus: IntelliJ, Maven, Robolectric

Please include links to apps you’ve contributed to.

 

 

 

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Engineering Manager - Feed Personalization Platform | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Manager - Feed Personalization Platform | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Manager - Feed Personalization Platform

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 23 days ago

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LinkedIn’s Feed team is responsible for delivering the systems and algorithms that generate and serve feeds of professionally relevant activities and content. These feeds are used to power many of LinkedIn’s most important products including.: LinkedIn.com, LinkedIn’s Mobile App, LinkedIn Pulse Mobile App, LinkedIn Connected Mobile App, Recruiter, and many more.

As an Engineering Manager on the Feed Personalization Platform Team you will be responsible for leading and building a team to build the online serving platform that makes the LinkedIn feed the essential source of professional insights for hundreds of millions of users, working with some of the best of the best systems and data engineers and scientists.

What can you do with hundreds of millions of professionals, billions of professional connections, loads of shared links, conversations, and boat loads of professional attention?

We want you to build really powerful ways for professionals to be great at what they do: stay informed, get the drop on the competition, learn something new, get inspired by someone else's great work, exchange ideas, meet people who might be great to work with, and a lot more.

Responsibilities:

• Hire world class talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Fulfill leading contributor role as a lead engineer and a hands-on manager of a small team working on stream relevance
• Collaborate with system and application engineering teams to showcase the best content to our users
• Ownership of feature engineering, feed serving and controlled experimentation enabling a richer daily use-case on LinkedIn
• Empower the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) with data-driven decisions 

Desired Skills and Experience

• MS in Computer Science and/or 5+ years relevant work experience
• 3+ years relevant work experience in relevance systems
• Experience building distributed systems
• A strong interest in personalization and machine learning
• Strong belief that "Data beats Intuition" and in "Fail Fast, Succeed Faster"


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/17348806?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Architect - Relevance Infrastructure | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Architect - Relevance Infrastructure | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Architect - Relevance Infrastructure

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 23 days ago

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LinkedIn’s Relevance Team is responsible for engineering the various software platforms used to connect our 300 million members with the most relevant jobs, content and advertisements. We use the state of the art big data and machine learning technologies, such as ADMM, statistical methods, convex, linear and quadratic programming, Hadoop, Pig, and NoSQL. This team is looking for a Technical Lead/ Architect to lead the overall technical direction of our relevance infrastructure platforms. In addition to setting the strategy, you will be responsible for designing the next generation of highly-scalable machine learned systems for recommendations, response prediction, and content matching, and leading and mentoring other software engineers in the implementation of these products.

Desired Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in both individual contributor and technical lead/architect/engineering manager roles
• Exceptional background and knowledge in building large scale distributed systems in a real-time, production serving environment
• Strong background and experience with working on machine learning algorithms and systems, with an emphasis on statistical learning/models
• Significant experience in a engineering leadership role as both a system designer and mentor for other engineers
• Significant experience with solving “big data” problems using clustered computing systems (e.g. Hadoop, Cosmos)
• Significant experience with building both models and systems for recommendation, response prediction (e.g. click prediction), and/or optimization problems
• Familiarity with search engine/information retrieval technology and techniques
• Experience and ability to work with peers in engineering and product management across teams to set technical and product direction
• M.S. (or equiv.) in Computer Science, Ph.D. preferred


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/17350791?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 7 days ago

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The Marketing Solutions Engineering team has technology ownership of all advertising and messaging products and solutions for advertisers to reach the world's largest audience of professionals. This includes offerings in brand and performance advertising, Company pages (for various companies to establish a brand and experience on LinkedIn), and monetization of the Company follower ecosystem. Collectively, this represents more than 25% of LinkedIn’s revenue. Our systems power fast-growing, state-of-the-art and innovative advertising programs and are built on large-scale, distributed web services utilizing the latest technologies. We are looking for people with experience in large-scale deployments in search/advertising/yield optimization with a background in data processing, analysis, optimization, and experimentation to maximize business success metrics.

Skills, Abilities and Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in large-scale and high-performance deployments in search/advertising/yield optimization as a Senior Engineer or Senior Applied Researcher, or equivalent position.
- Significant experience in machine learning, data mining, analysis, optimization, and experimentation to maximize business success metrics of the products.
- Strong knowledge and production code experience in distributed web services
- Thrives in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and agile development environment.
- Strong team player.
- Provide guidance, leadership and mentoring to peers and less experienced team members.
- Pro-actively collaborate with business and product management partners, and to design, build and optimize technical solutions for business success. 
Education
- MS/Phd in Computer Science or equivalent experience.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/17862170?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Sr Engineering Manager - Hadoop Infrastructure team | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Sr Engineering Manager - Hadoop Infrastructure team | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Sr Engineering Manager - Hadoop Infrastructure team

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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LinkedIn has a diverse Big Data ecosystem that enables hundreds of data scientists, analysts and engineers to extract insights and build data products from massive amounts of data. These include derived data applications like People You May Know (PYMK), recommendation products and analytics dashboards.
 
Apache Hadoop forms the foundation of LinkedIn’s data ecosystem, with multiple clusters comprised of thousands of  nodes spanning multiple data centers. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading a world-class team to improve operability, manageability and self-service access to LinkedIn's Hadoop Grids. You and your team will drive engagement with LinkedIn's Hadoop user community and work with a strong customer focus. In addition, you will assemble the optimal set of tools and enhancements to core Hadoop to support LinkedIn's users. The Engineering Manager will work closely with the Grid Operations team to ensure stability, uptime and utilization of our Hadoop clusters, and lead our transition to next generation technologies like Hadoop2, YARN, and interactive SQL on Hadoop.
 
As a member of the Data Analytics Infrastructure leadership team, you will assist in defining LinkedIn’s broader self-serve analytics ecosystem by integrating storage and compute layers, data acquisition and management systems, and reporting and visualization tools.

Desired Skills and Experience

We are looking for an experienced engineering manager with 4+ years relevant experience including managing fast-paced and dynamic engineering teams, providing technical guidance, fostering career development, and offering mentorship to team members. You should have experience working in a 24x7 internet environment and demonstrated ability to work with partners in data analytics, engineering and operations. As for education, you should have a  BA/BS (MS preferred) in Computer Science and/or 5+ years relevant work experience.
 
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Hadoop and/or other large data processing technologies and distributed systems as well as experience in dealing with large cluster installations in a multi-data center environment. Experience working with open source projects and communities is a huge plus.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/17243213?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Mobile | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Mobile | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Mobile

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 2 days ago

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At LinkedIn, we're passionate about connecting the world's professionals with economic opportunity -- that includes you! Join our world-class team and find your ideal job. Explore cutting-edge technology and flex your creativity. Work and learn from the best. Push your skills higher.  Tackle big problems. Innovate. Create. Write code that makes a difference in professionals' lives.
http://engineering.linkedin.com/

About Software Engineering, Mobile Applications

LinkedIn Mobile is the fastest growing segment at the company and one of its most important. We're revolutionizing the way professionals connect, communicate, and share. Our team develops the native LinkedIn apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android, as well as HTML5 mobile web apps for mobile browsers. We're also responsible for developing the front-end node.js servers powering all of our mobile apps. We're passionate about providing the best possible experience to our users -- from UI and design to speed and performance.

Our engineers love the flexibility to work across our tech stack. From iOS, Android, and HTML5 to node.js servers and Java services. The team is small enough so that you can make an immediate impact on millions of mobile professionals, but we're big enough that you can also find your niche and focus on a particular area or technology.

Apply today and find your dream job on the LinkedIn mobile team!

Desired Skills and Experience

You should have a solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design. You thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment and love scaling distributed applications, making architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns,writing code, and delivering with top-notch quality.

• You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

• You have experience building mobile applications that delight users on one or more devices – Android, iPhone/iPad, or Blackberry.  You understand how to leverage mobile OS frameworks for multi-threading, for persisting data, and for managing user experience and graphics across multiple screen sizes.

• You know how to build Java services for information delivery from server to mobile clients, and have worked with relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit,etc.).

• You are a master of object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns.

• You have experience with relational databases (both transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

• You know how todevelop multi-tier scalable and reliable applications that operate 24x7.

• You have a BS, MS. PhD in Computer Science or related discipline.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/17993351?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Front-End Engineer (Web Dev and Server Presentation Layer) | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Front-End Engineer (Web Dev and Server Presentation Layer) | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Front-End Engineer (Web Dev and Server Presentation Layer)

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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Front-End Engineers:
You love the browser, despite its quirks, and can bend IE to your will. You are the kind of person who loves a holistic approach to websites, bringing server and web client together into beautiful harmony. You breathe in JSP/Javascript/HTML/CSS/Java, exhale awesome, and want to be part of the team behind this very site you're reading right now. You are passionate about the extraordinary, you are passionate about the user experience, and you want to actually make a difference with your work.
You'll work with User Experience Designers, Product Managers and fellow developers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP) and server-side delivery code (Java, MVC). You'll be working across the company with multiple groups, bringing everyone's specializations together into a final product. Requirements:

• You know JSP, PHP or Java and use relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, yui-test, etc)
• You can build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and pages using JS frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
• You are a strong communicator and collaborator who can work in an agile/iterative development team.
• You have a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field from a leading institution.
• You have 5+ years of experience in your craft.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036756?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Staff Engineer - Advertising/Marketing Solutions | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Engineer - Advertising/Marketing Solutions | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Engineer - Advertising/Marketing Solutions

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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The Marketing Solutions Engineering team has technology ownership of all advertising and messaging products and solutions for advertisers to reach the world's largest audience of professionals. This includes offerings in brand and performance advertising, Company pages (for various companies to establish a brand and experience on LinkedIn), and monetization of the Company follower ecosystem. Collectively, this represents more than 25% of LinkedIn’s revenue. Our systems power fast-growing,

• At least 5 years of experience in large-scale and high-performance search or advertising applications as a Senior Software Engineer, or equivalent position.
• Expert knowledge and production code experience in distributed web services, ideally in Java. Strong understanding of server side software, scalability, performance and reliability aspects.
• Mastery of design, coding and testing patterns.
• Thrives in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and agile development environment.
• Strong team player.
• Provide guidance, leadership and mentoring to peers and less experienced team members.
• Pro-actively collaborate with business and product management partners, and to design, build and optimize technical solutions for business success.
• MS/Phd in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036760?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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The Growth Team at LinkedIn is looking for a senior-level Software Development Engineer to innovate LinkedIn's search engine optimization (SEO). The team is responsible for overall Growth with a very high SLA for membership Growth and Engagement. One of the key Growth drivers is the need to optimize SEO to maximize member acquisitions and finding content on LinkedIn. We work closely with cross functional teams across the organization to SEO their data, and responsible for the backend infrastructure to support SEO. We have aggressive goals and a highly effective team focused on moving fast, delivering results and having passion and fun in what we do!
In this role, you'll work with User Experience Designers, Product Managers and fellow developers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP) and server-side delivery code (Java, MVC). You'll be working across the company with multiple groups, bringing everyone's specializations together into a final product.
This is the job for you if:
You love the browser, despite its quirks, and can bend IE to your will.
You are the kind of person who loves a holistic approach to websites, bringing server and web client together into beautiful harmony.
You breathe in JSP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/Java, exhale awesome, and want to be part of the team behind this very site you're reading right now.
You are passionate about the extraordinary, you are passionate about the user experience, membership growth and engagement, and you want to actually make a difference with your work. 
Specific job responsibilities will include:
• Designing and building large-scale analytics systems used to track traffic from search engines, trends in search terms, conversion and other key traffic metrics
• Designing and implementing dynamic website components, web services and back-end processes both used on desktop and mobile to improve ranking and indexing of LinkedIn pages
• Designing and delivering an experimentation framework to drive continuous testing of SEO concepts
• Working with other teams to improve platform support for SEO
• Optimizing the landing page experience and improve member signup conversion both on desktop and mobile

Desired Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C++, C#, Python, or Perl
• Proficiency in JSP, PHP or Java and relevant tools (IDEs, Ant, JUnit, YUI-test, etc)
• Ability to build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and pages using JS frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
• Experience in developing SEO solutions
• Experience in building components of a large commercial search engine (e.g., crawling, indexing, run time query parsing, relevance ranking, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with large scale MapReduce-based data processing frameworks like Hadoop
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field from a leading institution
• 5+ years of working experience (internship/coops included)
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, system design and complexity analysis
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment. You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036767?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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Software Engineer Ads & Data Mining
The Marketing Solutions Engineering team has technology ownership of all advertising and messaging products and solutions for advertisers to reach the world's largest audience of professionals. This includes offerings in brand and performance advertising, Company pages (for various companies to establish a brand and experience on LinkedIn), and monetization of the Company follower ecosystem. Collectively, this represents more than 25% of LinkedIn's revenue.
Our systems power fast-growing, state-of-the-art and innovative advertising programs and are built on large-scale, distributed web services utilizing the latest technologies. We are looking for people with experience in large-scale deployments in search/advertising/yield optimization with a background in data processing, analysis, optimization, and experimentation to maximize business success metrics. 

Desired Skills and Experience

At least 5 years of experience in large-scale and high-performance deployments in search/advertising/yield optimization as a Senior Engineer or Senior Applied Researcher, or equivalent position.
Significant experience in machine learning, data mining, analysis, optimization, and experimentation to maximize business success metrics of the products.
Strong knowledge and production code experience in distributed web services.
Thrives in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and agile development environment. Strong team player. Provide guidance, leadership and mentoring to peers and less experienced team members.
Pro-actively collaborate with business and product management partners, and to design, build and optimize technical solutions for business success.
Education
MS/Phd in Computer Science or equivalent experience.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036770?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineering Manager | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineering Manager | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineering Manager - Linkedin (San Francisco)

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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Linkedin is looking for an engineering manager to lead a product engineering team. This team focusses on SlideShare website, content consumption and growth. Slideshare website drives over 215 million page views per month and is one of the top 120 most visited sites in the world.
Who we are:
• We are growing fast, and we still operate like a start-up. We are the world’s largest professional content sharing platform reaching +60M unique visitors worldwide on a monthly basis.
• The company is fast-paced, fun and always collaborative! We have built a platform for our users to share, discover and engage with great content.
• Our playground currently consists of: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, and more ...
• By joining SlideShare’s Engineering Team you'll have the benefits of working for a large, public company (LinkedIn) while spending your days on a small, fast-paced team.
Who you are:
• Passion for working on product, front end web applications
• Proven technical leadership/management and architectural experience with a passion for mentoring
• Experience with SEO, driving traffic and engagement
• You have a passion for technology, learning and inspire that in your team
• BA/BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field

Desired Skills and Experience

Skills/Experience that we look for:
• Experience in web technologies (object-oriented JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• 3+ years of leading product teams including development on group’s technical strategy and roadmap.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, manage technical teams
• Experience building scalable products on top of distributed systems
• Ability to work with geographically distributed teams. SlideShare has an engineering team in Delhi as well.
How we roll:
• We speak Ruby. Don’t know Ruby, Puppet, etc? No worries we’ll teach you!
• Dozens of code deployments per day… means you ship code WHENEVER your feature is ready.
• Small/collaborative team culture with peer programming and code reviews
• No big egos –we know you’re smart – we all want to do something big - we just think its more fun as a team!
• We play foosball with a passion on a daily basis, so brushing up on your skills is recommended!
We offer a competitive salary; full benefits including health, dental and vision insurance; equity; catered lunches, drinks and snacks; and an onsite gym with yoga and workout classes! We are located in the heart of the Financial District, San Francisco (close to BART, Caltrain, Muni etc.). You will join a bright group of folks working together to build a great site and software.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036772?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Applications | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Applications | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Applications (SF Office)

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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About Applications

Developing Applications at LinkedIn in our SF office
We're proud of our distributed, Java applications capable of serving billions of page views to over 300 million LinkedIn members, and earning hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Our engineers are responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and supporting the most visible Internet-scale features and infrastructure at LinkedIn.  Opportunity and challenges focus on product design, usability, business logic, building APIs and user-centric online applications, scaling performance and 24X7 reliability. 

Desired Skills and Experience

Back-End Engineers:
You love scaling distributed applications, making architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, writing code, and delivering with top-notch quality. Requirements:

• You know how to build web applications and services, working with relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, etc.) and object oriented programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• You are a master of object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns.
• You have experience with relational databases (both transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.
• You know how to develop multi-tier scalable, performing and reliable applications that operate 24x7.
• You thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment. You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You have a BS/MS or PHD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field from a leading institution.
• You have 5+ years of experience in software design, development and algorithm related solutions.

 
 
Front-End Engineers:
You love the browser, despite its quirks, and can bend IE to your will. You are the kind of person who loves a holistic approach to websites, bringing server and web client together into beautiful harmony. You breathe in JSP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/Java, exhale awesome, and want to be part of the team behind this very site you're reading right now. You are passionate about the extraordinary, you are passionate about the user experience, and you want to actually make a difference with your work.
You'll work with User Experience Designers, Product Managers and fellow developers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP) and server-side delivery code (Java, MVC). You'll be working across the company with multiple groups, bringing everyone's specializations together into a final product. Requirements:

• You know JSP, PHP or Java and use relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, yui-test, etc)
• You can build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and pages using JS frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
• You are a strong communicator and collaborator who can work in an agile/iterative development team.
• You have a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field from a leading institution.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036775?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Applications | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Applications | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Applications

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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About Applications

Developing Applications at LinkedIn
We're proud of our distributed, Java applications capable of serving billions of page views to over 300 million LinkedIn members, and earning hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Our engineers are responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and supporting the most visible Internet-scale features and infrastructure at LinkedIn.  Opportunity and challenges focus on product design, usability, business logic, building APIs and user-centric online applications, scaling performance and 24X7 reliability. 

Desired Skills and Experience

Back-End Engineers:
You love scaling distributed applications, making architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, writing code, and delivering with top-notch quality. Requirements:

• You know how to build web applications and services, working with relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, etc.) and object oriented programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• You are a master of object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns.
• You have experience with relational databases (both transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.
• You know how to develop multi-tier scalable, performing and reliable applications that operate 24x7.
• You thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment. You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You have a BS/MS or PHD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field from a leading institution.
• You have 5+ years of experience in software design, development and algorithm related solutions.

 
 
Front-End Engineers:
You love the browser, despite its quirks, and can bend IE to your will. You are the kind of person who loves a holistic approach to websites, bringing server and web client together into beautiful harmony. You breathe in JSP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/Java, exhale awesome, and want to be part of the team behind this very site you're reading right now. You are passionate about the extraordinary, you are passionate about the user experience, and you want to actually make a difference with your work.
You'll work with User Experience Designers, Product Managers and fellow developers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP) and server-side delivery code (Java, MVC). You'll be working across the company with multiple groups, bringing everyone's specializations together into a final product. Requirements:

• You know JSP, PHP or Java and use relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, yui-test, etc)
• You can build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and pages using JS frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
• You are a strong communicator and collaborator who can work in an agile/iterative development team.
• You have a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, or related field from a leading institution.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037521?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Performance | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Performance | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Performance

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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If you are fueled by the challenges of deep diving into large scale applications spanning diverse technology stacks, then LinkedIn Performance Team is the place for you. Our scalability needs span the full spectrum from mobile/browsers to systems and storage. We open source technologies such as Kafka, Helix, Databus that power other Internet companies. 
 
We are looking for talented Software Engineers with a passion for Performance who can take on performance analysis and code optimization challenges across multi-tiers and multi-data centers with focus in one or more of the areas below 

•  Capacity Planning & Optimization : Interface with engineering and operations to understand and optimize site-wide capacity.
•  Mobile Performance Scalability :  Enhance user experience by measuring and optimizing user interface across mobile devices.
•  End-to-end performance analysis. Analyse large scale distributed environments and optimize performance bottlenecks in our application stack.
•  Design Benchmarks,methodology, and analysis tools to be adopted company-wide
•  Evangelize and support performance work throughout the engineering team and across the industry

Desired Skills and Experience

•  Passion for and/or expertise in working on the performance of large scale distributed systems
•  Hands-on experience in JVM and Linux development, configuration, and performance tuning. MySQL performance tuning is a plus.
•  Experience with  performance & modeling of capacity planning medium to large scale websites a big plus
•  Experience in debugging performance of Mobile devices (IOS and Android ) and Node.JS server applications a big plus
•  Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams
•  Strong background in software development.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037525?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Senior Systems Engineer | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Systems Engineer | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Systems Engineer

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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Responsibilities:


Reporting to Senior Engineering Manager, key position for supporting LinkedIn’s mission critical QA, test and engineering environment.

Develops and maintains shell, Python and/or Ruby scripts to enhance deployment and monitoring framework.

Develops and maintains comprehensive documentation for multiple environments.

Designs and oversees mission critical systems configurations for Redhat Enterprise Linux and Mac OS X servers.

Troubleshoots systems and network problems, collaborates with end users to resolve issues.

Designs and manages change control procedures on both RHEL and OS X.

Coordinates with engineering developers to make systems and applications changes.


Required Qualifications & Abilities:


Ability to write and maintain shell, Python and/or Ruby scripts to automate processes and enhance productivity.

Experience developing tools and processes for configuring and managing large numbers of servers.

Ability to demonstrate expert knowledge of operating system internals, file system structures and machine architectures in Linux and OS X operating environments.

Experience using enterprise cluster technologies.

Extensive experience with automated installation tools such as Kickstart.

Experiencing implementing and maintaining a system management tool such as CFEngine.

Ability to work off-hours for systems upgrades, emergencies.

Ability to solve problems quickly and decisively.

Team player who is flexible and able to work with end-users and production issues simultaneously.

Strong project management and communication skills.

Experienced working in dynamic, fast-paced Dev-Ops environment with well-developed practices and procedures.

Experience running mid-size 24x7 business critical systems (more than 2000 servers).

Proficiency in compiling, customizing and supporting tools and products obtained from source code.

Good understanding of administering network equipment including firewalls, routers, load balancers and switches.

In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and administration of NFS and NIS.

Experience supporting mobile engineering development environments a plus.

Redhat and/or OS X Linux Certification a plus.


Desired Experience:

7+ years professional experience administering one or more enterprise level Linux, UNIX, or BSD operating environments.

4+ years professional experience administering utilities such as Sendmail, Bind, SSH.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037526?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Test Engineer- API & Services | LinkedIn | San Francisco, CA

Test Engineer- API & Services | LinkedIn | San Francisco, CA

Test Engineer- API & Services

LinkedIn - San Francisco, CA

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Are you ready to be a part of a world class team that is setting the pace for technical innovation and growth? LinkedIn is seeking test engineers who are innovative and passionate about quality. Test engineers at Linkedin write and build automated test suites. As a test engineer, you continuously design creative ways to break software and identify potential bugs.In this role, you will be responsible for driving test development of Linkedin services and distributed systems.


Responsibilities:


Design and develop advanced test suites using object-oriented methodologies.

Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms and languages to help improve overall quality and test code coverage.

Design and develop Integration, Performance, Scalability, and Stress tests using industry standard tools.

Assist in capacity planning and certify backend services.

Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts.

Define, implement and maintain test plans, test specifications and test suites.

Advocate for customers and operations in design reviews.


Requirement:


BS or MS in Computer Science, EE or related field.

Excellent programming skills in one of the following - Java, C, C++, C#, or Ruby.

Experience writing backend integration and API tests.

Experience with JUnit or TestNG frameworks Experience testing RESTful web service APIs

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting and decision-making skills.

Must be self-directed, detail-oriented and have excellent written & verbal communication skills.


Additional Factors for Success:


Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes and tools.

Knowledge of PIG,Hive and Hadoop offline data processing.

Knowledge of relational databases/SQL, NoSQL structured data solutions,Data Warehousing and ETL tools, network and file system protocols.

Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.

Experience working with mobile client-server architectures and automation.


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037533?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Software Engineer - Systems & Infrastructure | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Systems & Infrastructure | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Systems & Infrastructure

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

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We're building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn – including an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search platform. Help us scale LinkedIn's infrastructure to handle massive growth in membership, traffic, and data, as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products. Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems-design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale.
 

Desired Skills and Experience

It goes without saying that you have a solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design with solid development experience in Java, C++, or another object-oriented language.

• You should have hands-on development experience building distributed, Internet-scale systems, building and applying frameworks for caching, queuing, RPC, parallelism, and distributed data storage.
• You deeply understand multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• You should be excited to work on cutting edge open-source systems.  Linkedin has already pioneered well-known open-source data infrastructure projects like Voldemort, Kafka and Azkaban.
• You thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• It would be great if you have contributed to industry, open-source projects or academic research in large-data, parallel and distributed systems.
• Published work in academic conferences or industry circles.
• Further, it would be fantastic if you are intimately familiar with internals of any major database system/operating system/ file system.
• You have excellent communication skills, initiative and teamwork.
• Understanding of search engine internals and expertise with Lucene/Solr

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Excellent communication skills, initiative and teamwork.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18038542?trk=jserp_job_details_text