[jobs] The Hottest Start-Up in NYC- Back End Services Engineer

Mon Aug 13 19:18:34 EDT 2012

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Chin SPG <opencv4me at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pete,
> With all due respect, this is a job opening that I am actively working on,
> and can help a qualified candidate in landing this role for a highly
> coveted employer.
> If the group is only limited to hearing about *BSD Unix related
> opportunities, then I will be limited in my abilities to help.
>
 However, there are folks that have already reached out to me from this
> group that take joy, and professionally focus on activities in working
> on challenges outside of a *BSD Unix.
>

There certainly are a lot more challenges when working ouside of a *BSD
UNIX.

>  Further, one may stand to benefit tremendously to reap the rewards from
> this opportunity while addressing technical challenges in scaling,
> performance, throughput, and more- it's a scope that's transferrable, in my
> humble opinion, and can leverage expertise developed by working on an
> Advanced Operating System (FreeBSD) and its peripheral components that many
> folks that contribute to it are innately equiped with. I guess it's for
> those that have a platform agnostic and open attitude and are more so
> driven by technical challenges- no matter what the environments are coined.
> BTW, Am I really that off?
>
> Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
> assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims
> towards POSIX compliance.
>
> Anyhow, I am only exposing this role to the group for a client that I have
> a successful track record of doing business with, and can lend an
> additional peek behind the scenes to prepare someone that's interested and
> well qualified for.
> If you are not interested in taking this on, I totally understand.
> Thank you for your suggestion, by the way- perhaps, I am barking up the
> wrong tree...
> However, looking at the archives, I would hope that this group is open to
> hearing about the wealth of opportunities that I'm working on in order to
> gain exposure to what's hot now in the market. From folks I have spoken
> with, I feel as though there's a much wider talent pool than you give this
> group credit for, Pete.
> Thanks!
> Sincerely,
> Chintan
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi - I read this job description bellow and this does not seem like a
>> *BSD Unix specific job, infact it looks like a Linux admin job.  This
>> also looks like a generic Monster.com job posting, there are no details
>> about who is looking for work.
>>
>> My understanding, and others can feel free to correct me, but this jobs
>> list is intended for positions relating directly to *BSD Unix.  For
>> Linux specific jobs I would suggest reaching out to a Linux specific
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -pete
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:09:54PM -0400, Chin SPG wrote:
>> > Hi Again!
>> > If you identify yourself in this role, please feel free to reach out to
>> me
>> > for more info... I don't so much care for a resume just yet, unless if
>> you
>> > are compelled to send it. Rather, I would love to learn more about you
>> to
>> > see if we have a match!
>> >
>> > This is a great opportunity for a Hot Start-Up (many say the hottest on
>> > this coast). Recognized name in 'micro-blogging', well backed by VC's,
>> > already ranking top 20 world-wide in internet traffic (~ 5 Years since
>> > creation). Slated for an IPO in the foreseeable future.
>> >
>> > Great opportunity for a competetive Base + Equity (options).
>> >
>> > If you see yourself in this role, let's talk!
>> > To narrow it down, this requires someone from a high-traffic website or
>> > start-up, experienced in an outward facing website but to work on
>> back-end
>> > services in helping to scale, optimize performance, and much much more
>> > while leveraging some really cool, new open source technologies.
>> > Relevant Skills: Ruby, PHP, C, Expert Core Java or C++ will be
>> considered
>> > also, complemented with a NoSQL DB, and Popular Big Data/Open Source
>> Stacks
>> > are appealing as well.
>> >
>> > Please read below:
>> >
>> >  *Location:* New York, NY *Department:* Engineering *Type:* Full Time
>> *Min.
>> > Experience:* Experienced
>> >
>> > A veteran back-end developer who likes to take things apart ? and then
>> put
>> > them back together with twice the efficiency and half the code.
>> >
>> > *What you'll do:*
>> >
>> > ?                 Improve the back-end of our core application,
>> refactoring
>> > or even rearchitecting entire components to boost performance and reduce
>> > complexity
>> >
>> > ?                 Develop powerful tooling and automation software,
>> capable
>> > of operating on hundreds of servers concurrently
>> >
>> > ?                 Help scale our fast-growing data stores, and the app
>> code
>> > that interacts with them
>> >
>> > ?                 Work closely with our Web Operations, Platform
>> Services,
>> > and Product teams to improve site reliability
>> >
>> > *What we're looking for:*
>> >
>> > ?                 A pragmatic problem-solver capable of troubleshooting
>> > complex performance issues at any level of the stack
>> >
>> > ?                 5+ years of professional web development experience
>> >
>> > ?                 Familiarity with relational databases as well as NoSQL
>> > solutions
>> >
>> > ?                 Extensive knowledge of Linux
>> >
>> > ?                 Curiosity, smarts, and equal willingness to learn and
>> > teach
>> >
>> > *Tools we like:*
>> >
>> > ?                 Ruby
>> >
>> > ?                 PHP 5
>> >
>> > ?                 C
>> >
>> > ?                 MySQL (InnoDB)
>> >
>> > ?                 Memcached
>> >
>> > ?                 Redis
>> >
>> > ?                 Hadoop and HBase
>> >
>> > ?                 Graph databases (FlockDB, Neo4j, etc)
>> >
>> > ?                 Puppet
>> >
>> > ?                 Gearman
>> >
>> > ?                 Nginx
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank You!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Chintan Vora
>> >
>> > 212-403-6103
>> >
>> > cvora at solomonpage.com
>>
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>> --
>> Pete Wright
>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>> twitter => @nomadlogicLA
>>
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