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This is a preview of the Content Delivery Operations Engineer job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

Content Delivery Operations Engineer-Mountain View, CA
LinkedIn seeks a seasoned engineer with proven experience in 24x7 CDN operations to coordinate resources – with various LinkedIn teams and partners – to scale and support the LinkedIn Content Delivery program. The ideal candidate will combine technical knowledge, project management strength, a metrics-driven analytical posture and a focus on maximizing UX and member satisfaction – to help further LinkedIn’s aggressive global growth.

Responsibilities:
• Coordinate short- and long-term initiatives with LinkedIn DevOps teams, as well as partners (CDN, DNS, monitoring/measurement, etc.) – prioritizing and driving project closure on all sides
• Coordinate with service owners on best practices for content caching, with an emphasis on page speed and UX
• Drive continual improvement into CDN monitoring/measurement/alerting practices and tools, with an emphasis on the acquisition, visualization and storage of CDN availability and performance metrics
• Proactively monitor CDN availability, throughput and performance – and effectively respond to monitoring alerts, incident tickets, email requests, etc.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for CDN-related escalations

Required Skills & Experience:
• Significant knowledge of CDN technology and best practices
• Knowledge of internet protocols (in practice and by RFC) – especially TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS
• Superb communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent planning, prioritization and project/time-management skills – especially in a cross-functional context
• Flexibility to work in a novel, dynamic and extremely fast-paced environment Preferred

Skills & Experience:
• Familiarity with monitoring solutions, both SaaS and software-based
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux and demonstrated shell programming experience
• Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript
• Strong troubleshooting skills spanning code, network, HTTP, DNS, etc.
• Experience running a production consumer 24x7 website at scale
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036763?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Data Services Operations Engineer | LinkedIn | Mountain View, California

Data Services Operations Engineer

LinkedIn - Mountain View, California

Posted 2 days ago

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Job description

Data Services Operations Engineer-Mountain View, CA

LinkedIn is a deeply data-driven company with data driving not only business decisions but also product features and direction. Data is embedded in the LinkedIn DNA. The Data Services team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that makes this data available and accessible to the entire company. The team works closely with Data scientists, Product Managers, Executives and other key parts of the business to understand their data requirements and build appropriate systems that meet or exceed those needs.

The Data Services team is looking for someone with a background in Data Warehouse Operations that has managed and administered multi-petabyte data warehouse deployments and is open to working with and learning cutting-edge technologies in this space. This is a mission-critical role that ensures that our complex data warehouse/pipeline and related services are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale.

Responsibilities:
• Serve as a primary point responsible the overall health, performance and capacity of our back-end Hadoop based data warehouse environment
• Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications and data pipeline by working hands on with the engineer
• Develop tools to improve our ability monitor our application and system environment
• Perform the “Root cause analysis” of any identified issues
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind
• Participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation

Required Experience:
• Deep UNIX/Linux systems knowledge and/or systems administration background
• Demonstrated programming skills in one or more of: Bash/Shell, Python, Perl, and automation
• Understanding of large-scale data processing technologies like PIG, Map/Reduce, Hadoop
• Working knowledge of databases including abilities to write/tune SQL queries
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 2-3 years in a UNIX-based technical operations role – ideally in a large scale data warehouse environment

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036774?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Senior Application Owner - Enterprise Apps | LinkedIn | Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Application Owner - Enterprise Apps

LinkedIn - Sunnyvale, CA

Posted 2 days ago

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This is a preview of the Senior Application Owner - Enterprise Apps job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

Senior Application Owner - Enterprise Apps, Sunnyvale, CA

LinkedIn is looking for an energetic Application Owner with a strong technical background in information technology and operations. This engineer will be part of a team that is responsible for providing strong technical services for Enterprise Applications including but not limited to Google Apps, Enterprise Search, Box, Confluence, Okta, Wiki, etc. The person will be a key liaison between IT, Engineering, business units and will be responsible for understanding business processes / needs, managing the technical complexities of the applications, documenting and developing education/training for users of the application as well as working with developers and/or vendors to design the application feature roadmap. This is a fast-paced position that requires a high degree of energy and focus without compromising quality. Key criteria to success will be the ability to quickly assess technical details, troubleshoot systems, be cognizant of application security, build product knowledge and build strong relationships with business units and end users.

Responsibilities:
•   Become the application expert on various enterprise based systems – know how they are setup, delivered, managed, supported and used, from the business processes supported to the underlying technical stack and data to the end users who rely on these critical applications
•   Work with engineering and business on technology design and selection of applications based on needs and requirements, support the business teams through initial evaluation and manage deployment of applications.
•   Stay up to date on product announcements, security issues, performance and other updates.
•   Implement System Management Tools to provide management of the Enterprise applications.
•   Contribute and enhance Security policies and procedures for Enterprise Services.
•   Manage support issues, troubleshoot them and work with appropriate teams to resolve them.
•   Manage communication and training plans for application users.
•   Manage and implement product roadmaps for the Enterprise based applications
•   Knowledge of data backup strategy and conduct system outage analysis to prevent the reoccurrence of incidents.

Requirements:
•   6+ years direct work experience in an operational or system engineering team in Linux with multiple web application stacks
•   Significant technical experience/expertise with implementing and managing On-Premise as well as Cloud based solutions like Confluence, Enterprise Search, Google Apps, Box, Okta, Wiki, etc.
•   Ability to work on the entire software development stack to manage applications, optimize and identify and troubleshoot issues.
•   Ability to quickly execute through shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
•   Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
•   Strong technical, written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
•   Strong technical expertise with Unix based systems, ability to write Unix tools and to troubleshoot problems individually as well as working with teams.
•   Proficient in performance analysis and optimization, as well as security testing.
•   Familiar with monitoring systems and best practices.
•   Experience assessing operational needs and then building and managing a solid operations team
•   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037529?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Systems Engineer, IT | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Systems Engineer, IT

Location

San Francisco

Description

We're looking for our first IT Systems Engineer to create nimble, secure and scalable systems that help us build our business.

Responsibilities

Help us create an innovative internal systems landscape
Rebuild our authentication infrastructure so that it supports easy on/offboarding, multi-factor auth, and SSO
Help us scale throughout the world
Spend your time building services, not running servers

Requirements

Strong UNIX and TCP/IP fundamentals
Experience building authentication systems: LDAP, SAML, SSO, MFA
Strong in at least one scripting/development language—Python preferred
Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef and Casper
Familiarity with an all-cloud environment consisting of Amazon EC2 and Saas
Creative problem-solving style and strong critical thinking skills
Efficient, passionate, and comfortable wearing lots of hats

Thursday 31 July 2014

Site Reliability Engineer - Data | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

Site Reliability Engineer - Data

Location

San Francisco

Description

We're looking for a site reliability engineer to help us provide a trustworthy experience for Pinners. You’ll work with our TechOps team to keep Pinterest reliable, speedy, efficient and secure.
Responsibilites

Work closely with our development team to design, build and operate our data technologies stack (Apache Hadoop, Apache Hbase, and Kafka including batch-oriented as well as real-time processing pipelines with a focus on reliability, automation, operability and performance)
Develop and deploy software solutions
Establish alerting & monitoring systems
Capacity plan and help scale our infrastructure both on public and private clouds around the world

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Strong programming skills in a modern web programming environment (Python a plus)
Experience developing and architecting solutions using both SQL and no-SQL databases like MySQL and Redis
Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals
Bonus points for experience running infrastructure with Amazon Web Services and for experience with automation tools such as Chef or Puppet
Broad personal interests beyond software
You love to move fast and work collaboratively

https://about.pinterest.com/en/careers/site-reliability-engineer-data_18637

DevOps Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA

DevOps Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

You will help design, build and monitor our applications and systems infrastructure that currently now handles billions of monthly page views. You should have a software engineering background and a strong understanding of systems internals, and love building and running massive-scale web production systems and application environments. You get excited about reacting to a problem to find a solution and thrive on being tactically focused to ensure Pinterest's site reliability.
Requirements:

Strong programming skills in a modern web programming environment; Python a plus
Experience developing and architecting solutions using both SQL and no-SQL databases such as MySQL and Redis
Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals
Bonus points for having run infrastructure with Amazon Web Services, and for experience with automation tools such as Chef or Puppet
BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Broad personal interests beyond software
Enthusiasm for working collaboratively with talented people

https://about.pinterest.com/en/careers/devops-engineer_3865

Engineering Manager - Tools | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA

Engineering Manager - Tools

LinkedIn - Mountain View, CA

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Engineering Manager - Tools job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

LinkedIn connects talented people with opportunity, and keeping up with the needs of our 300 million+ members requires a tremendous amount of infrastructure and an efficient development team. It's the job of Tools Engineering to make sure that development teams work as effectively as possible. Our goal is to make LinkedIn the best place in the world to develop and ship software products.

The Development Tools team is responsible for many of the tools that LinkedIn developers use every day. We are growing rapidly and need a Software Engineering Manager to take our Build Tools team to the next level. Build Tools is on a mission to radically change the definition of a software “build”. Using a combination of local continuous execution tooling and a private cloud with 100’s of high-performance servers we aim to eliminate wait time for developers and releases.

The role combines engineering leadership with people management. You will be responsible for solving technical problems related to individual developer computers, large scale distributed systems and mobile platforms. You will also be responsible for leading, managing and growing a group of talented software engineers

To learn more about LinkedIn’s development platform please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxpGLxHW93k

Required Skills:
• B.S. in Computer Science, EE or equivalent experience, M.S. preferred.
• Experience working in a Unix environment, Linux preferred.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, coaching and developing top engineering talent.
• Excellent relationship and people skills.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills. Experience in one or more of the following is desired:
• Continuous delivery and deployment.
• Mobile development, SDKs and tooling (iOS and Android).
• Build, test and release automation.
• Distributed caches and cloud systems.
• Gradle
• Play!

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036769?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Senior Systems Engineer | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Systems Engineer

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Senior Systems Engineer job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

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

Software Engineer - Tools | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Tools

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Software Engineer - Tools job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

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

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.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18038549?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile) | LinkedIn | San Francisco

Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile)

LinkedIn - San Francisco

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile) job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

Job description :

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 . As a Test Engineer, you write and build automated suites, continuously design creative ways to break software and identify potential bugs. In this role, you will be responsible for driving test automation for LinkedIn products through web and/or mobile UI automation. This role is at our San Francisco office location.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced automated test suites using object-oriented methodologies.

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

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

• Participate in product feature and infrastructure engineering design reviews.

• Certify product feature releases through automation. Requirements • BS or MS in Computer Science, EE or related field.

• Experience in one or more of the following: Ruby, Shell, Python, Javascript, Java and C#

• Experience writing front end test harnesses. • Experience with Selenium frameworks and Appium preferred.

• Experience in mobile testing and automation (UIAutomation, Robotium etc.) preferred.

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

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

• Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes and tools.

• Experience with SQL and Unix (Linux preferred).

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 200 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.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18038553?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Site Reliability Engineer | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA

Site Reliability Engineer

LinkedIn - Mountain View, Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Site Reliability Engineer job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

What does it take to run one of the most well-known social networks with high performance, and multi-nines availability?

Do you…
…desire an operations job that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product?
…think that automation is a key component to operating a large-scale system?
…enjoy problem solving from the network all the way through the application stack?
…want to work on a product that impacts millions of users and handles thousands of transactions per second?

Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at LinkedIn fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You'll use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues.

Responsibilities

Serve as a primary point responsible the overall health, performance, and capacity of our internet-facing systems
Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications
Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth
Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment
Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind
Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations

Minimum Qualifications

Deep UNIX/Linux systems knowledge and/or systems administration background
Strong trouble-shooting skills that span systems, network, and code
Demonstrated programming skills in one or more of: Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, C
Prior experience in an internet-facing technical operations role

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years in a UNIX-based web operations role
Experience with web-based Java/J2EE architectures
Python experience, specifically for systems automation
BS Computer Science

This role is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

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.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18039011?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile) | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA

Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile)

LinkedIn - Mountain View

Posted 1 day ago

This is a preview of the Test Engineer-UI (Web & Mobile) job at LinkedIn. To view the full job listing, join LinkedIn - its free!

Job description

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. As a Test Engineer, you write and build automated suites, continuously design creative ways to break software and identify potential bugs. In this role, you will be responsible for driving test automation for LinkedIn products through web and/or mobile UI automation.
Responsibilities:
Design and build advanced automated test suites using object-oriented methodologies.
Implement and execute automation strategies on all supported platforms and languages to help improve overall quality and test code coverage.
Define, implement and maintain test plans, test specifications and test suites. Participate in product feature and infrastructure engineering design reviews.
Certify product feature releases through automation.
Requirements:
BS or MS in Computer Science, EE or related field.
Experience in one or more of the following: Ruby, Shell, Python, Javascript, Java and C#
Experience writing front end test harnesses.
Experience with Selenium frameworks and Appium preferred.
Experience in mobile testing and automation (UIAutomation, Robotium etc.) preferred.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, multi-tasking, troubleshooting and decision-making skills.
Must be self-directed, detail-oriented and have excellent written & verbal communication skills.
Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes and tools. Experience with SQL and Unix (Linux preferred).

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 200 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.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18039017?trk=jserp_job_details_text

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Systems Administrator | Trulia, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Systems Administrator

Engineering | San Francisco, CA, United States

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qzZ9Vfwm&j=o3CZYfwm&page=Job%20Description

Engineering gets respect. We use the phrase “we're a tech company that does Real Estate” to emphasize how important engineering is to the company. Engineering is the department that drives our apps, tools, data, and interfaces forward. This attitude comes not only from the Engineers, but from our CEO and other top management. They believe in us.
We have awesome problems to solve. The housing market provides a fantastic blend of problems. We need creative people to help us combine the data about every address in America with the soft side of helping people find a home that makes them feel safe, happy, and comfortable.
Stability is wonderful. We're that rare company that holds the culture of its startup roots, while blending in the sanity of a regular work schedule with an emphasis on work/life/family balance. It’s like this because we worked hard to make it this way.
The junior sys admin will be responsible for the monitoring of servers and systems in an environment requiring 24 X 7 X 365 uptime. Demonstrate accurate and timely escalation of production outages both internally and externally, with a strong focus on sense of urgency and customer service. Provide efficient notification of production outages to internal and external clients. Follow established Standard Operating Procedures in response to system alerts and routine tasks with consistent accuracy. Demonstrate strong initiative by providing immediate feedback when processes and procedures are incorrect, inefficient, or do not exist. Assist team members and Management with the development of process and procedures. Demonstrate a consistent attitude of teamwork and cooperation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Monitor/Troubleshoot/Escalate connectivity and system issues.
Continual observation of Trulia monitoring systems.
Respond to alerts from any system by following documented procedures for verifying the issue, determining the cause, and resolving or escalating as necessary.
Record outages for daily review
Check status and performance of systems, update documentation
Troubleshoot and escalate Customer Reported Issues by providing Level 1 operations support for issues
Service these issues by researching, troubleshooting, or escalating as documented.
Review Process/Procedural Documentation - Demonstrate initiative and provide feedback on existing processes and procedures, submit ideas for on-going improvements. NOC Operators should use their experience with the system to help review documentation on a continuous basis. At times, NOC Operators may be called on to create/update Standard Operating Procedures.
Employees may be required to work overnight, weekends, and holidays.

REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS:

College degree or 1 year of relevant work experience.
Basic Linux experience is required.
Previous experience in a 24x7x365 production environment is a significant plus!
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong customer service focus.
Experience managing site-wide incidents, including multi-department escalation to on-call and management personnel, coordinating technical conference bridge calls with escalation partners and third-party vendors.
Basic to intermediate knowledge of computer networking
Basic to intermediate applied knowledge of UNIX (Ubuntu Linux preferred) in a medium to large production environment.
Scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Perl, shell, etc.) a strong plus.
The ability to effectively and accurately multitask is a requirement.

Software Engineer - Rentals | Trulia, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer - Rentals

Engineering | San Francisco, CA, United States

Trulia is focused on creating the very best technology in the industry. We don’t just talk about innovation; we actually dedicate time to work the magic. Engineers get to build the products they want to build. We need your ideas to keep it going.
Innovation happens every day. http://youtu.be/YJHsr2ep1cw
What you’ll work on:

Look for innovative uses of technology to dramatically scale systems for processing large datasets, currently delivering tens of millions of emails per week and reaching an audience of over 50 million unique monthly users
Scale a critical large-scale distributed system that drives traffic, builds relationships with millions of users, and has an immediate and measurable impact on the success of Trulia
Work in a small cross-functional team -- use creativity to drive projects and solve challenging problems
Create highly scalable code processing several gigabytes of data
Collaborate closely with product management, design, all of engineering, and quality teams

You:

4+ years experience with SQL databases (MySQL preferred)
4+ years OOP experience (Java preferred)
Experience with large scale & high availability architectures
Experience working with batch processing
Experience with UNIX/Linux and shell scripting
Excellent communication skills & attention to detail
Ability to understand complex data sets and help derive new ways to use data to increase user engagement
BSCS or equivalent

Preferred:

Experience with marketing email systems
Experience with queuing technologies, specifically Kafka or ActiveMQ
Experience with Hadoop and Hive
Experience with Lucene, SOLR and ElasticSearch

What you'll work with:
Our base web stack is LAMP, which interfaces with Solr/Lucene, Hadoop, Java, Python, Couchbase, StrongMail, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Open Street Maps, and more. Utilizing a homegrown distributed PHP system, we crunch through several gigabytes of data daily. We’re also in the process of folding SASS into our workflow. Git is our version control system of choice. If there's something that's a good idea for the team, we'll do our best to implement it.
Why work at Trulia?
Engineering gets respect.
We use the phrase 'we're a tech company that does Real Estate' to emphasize how important engineering is to the company. Engineering is the team that drives our apps, tools, data, and interfaces forward. This attitude comes not only from engineers, but from our CEO and our senior management team. They believe in the technologies we design and build.
We have awesome problems to solve.
The housing market provides a fantastic blend of problems. We need creative people to help us combine the data on every address in America while making it easier for people find a home that makes them feel safe, happy, and comfortable.
Stability is wonderful.
We're that rare company that holds the culture of its startup roots, while blending in the sanity of a regular work schedule with an emphasis on work/life/family balance.
How we work:
The engineering team is about a 150 people strong, and we break into small teams of 2-4 to focus on specific projects. We release weekly, but new features are always under development and often span releases. Our local QA team writes automation tests and does hand testing of your features, working with you to ensure that only high quality code gets to production. You will have weekly 1-on-1 meetings to review code, exchange ideas, and ensure we're doing everything we can for you to thrive in your role.
Other Perks: - 'Innovation Week' every quarter - People you're happy to see every day - Stocked Kitchens and kegerators on every floor. - Unbeatable SOMA location with penthouse roof deck - All IDEs welcome - Aeron chairs - Great benefits (untracked time off, variety of health plans, 401k match)
Trulia is a successful high growth Internet technology company, we've redefined the home search experience for consumers and are continuing to change the way real estate professionals build their businesses. Our marketplace, delivered through web and mobile

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Senior Software Engineer –Data Processing | Trulia, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer –Data Processing

Engineering | San Francisco, CA, United States

Look for innovative uses of technology to dramatically scale systems for processing large datasets, currently delivering tens of millions of emails per week and reaching an audience of over 50 million unique monthly users
Scale a critical large-scale distributed system that drives traffic, builds relationships with millions of users, and has an immediate and measurable impact on the success of Trulia
Work in a small cross-functional team -- use creativity to drive projects and solve challenging problems
Create highly scalable code processing several gigabytes of data
Collaborate closely with product management, design, all of engineering, and quality teams

You:

4+ years experience with SQL databases (MySQL preferred)
4+ years OOP experience (Java preferred)
Experience with large scale & high availability architectures
Experience working with batch processing
Experience with UNIX/Linux and shell scripting
Excellent communication skills & attention to detail
Ability to understand complex data sets and help derive new ways to use data to increase user engagement
BSCS or equivalent

Preferred:

Experience with marketing email systems
Experience with queuing technologies, specifically Kafka or ActiveMQ
Experience with Hadoop and Hive
Experience with Lucene, SOLR and ElasticSearch

Senior Software Engineer | Trulia, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Engineering | San Francisco, CA, United States