Software Engineer -- Distributed Services Tumblr
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Department: Engineering Type: Full Time Min. Experience: Experienced
A senior-level platform engineer who is passionate about designing, creating and delivering highly scalable distributed services.
What You?ll Do:
Design and develop high-performance distributed services enabling millions of people to create and explore
Research, prototype and verify software solutions that overcome technical boundaries
Architect the right kinds of flexibility to fuel growth, optionality and sustainability
Generalize and simplify technical solutions to solve multiple needs
Benchmark possible solutions and implement improvements to expand capacity
What We?re Looking For:
Several years of in-depth experience designing, writing and deploying scalable software
A track record of solving problems and getting things done
Strong proficiency with algorithms and data structures
Successfully managing large amounts of data and/or high throughput on distributed systems
Professional experience with low-level optimizing, tuning and debugging for performance
Top-notch expertise in at least one relevant technology
Highly productive developer in Java, C++ or similar, with functional programming experience
Tools We Like:
Scala
Thrift
Redis
HBase
MySQL
Memcached
Linux
Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 34 billion posts to date. Our pageview to engineer ratio is 0.5 billion PV per month to 1 engineer. This means every line of code every developer writes has a huge impact. We are focused on building tools and technologies that will advance the state of the art in dealing with massively scaled websites as we quickly grow past 50,000 requests and 1,400 posts per second. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.
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419 Park Avenue South
Suite 807
New York, NY 10016
United States
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED