Cloud Software Engineer Acquia
Summary:
We are seeking an exceptional web infrastructure software engineer who desires to deliver world-class performance and powerful tools for software developers to scale their web applications. At Acquia, we are obsessive about our customers' uptime and scalability and are looking for same. We manage over 2500 AWS EC2 instances delivering some of the world's most popular Drupal sites on our Dev Cloud and Managed Cloud platforms. Our Drupal Gardens service is running over 75,000 web sites!
Job Requirements:
?Strong software development and technical leadership skills
?Passion for web site configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
?Deep, working knowledge of OS, web server, and database systems (Linux, Apache, and MySQL preferred)
?Holistic understanding of the Internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer.
?2 to 8 years of related experience
Basic Qualifications:
?Design and develop tools that automatically deploy, maintain, and monitor LAMP-based hosting environments
?Research, specify, and test hosting architectures leveraging your web, database, and OS knowledge
?Debug the toughest web service production issues
?Share your expertise with customers, partners, and the open-source community via blogs, papers, talks, etc.
Extra Credit:
?Languages: Ruby, PHP
?Cloud hosting experience (e.g., Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Eucalyptus)
?Web Development (e.g., Drupal, CSS, JSON, jQuery)
?Configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Subversion, Git)
?Web security (e.g., IDS systems, DOS prevention)
?Networking (e.g., TCP/IP, load balancing, clustering)
?Linux packages (e.g., Debian or RPM packages)
?Excellent organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written
?BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
| Location: |
Burlington, MA
United States
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We are a new software company that will provide value-added software products and services for the Drupal social publishing system

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Investors: North Bridge Venture Partners,
O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures,
Sigma Partners All Jobs: at Acquia
| Web Site: | www.acquia.com |
| Headquarters: | 150 Presidential Way
Woburn, MA 01801
United States
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| Employees: | 41-100 |
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| Year Founded: | 2008 |
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| Industry: | Software |
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| Company Profile: | With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build compelling websites. Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social publishing system, including media companies, non-profit organizations, publishers, and many others.
Acquia plans to accelerate and extend market adoption of Drupal by advancing the core technology and offering value-added software products and network services that dramatically speed deployment and reduce risk.
Our founders are Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the Drupal open source web content management system, and Jay Batson, previously founder and CEO of Pingtel. |
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