Software Engineer - Hadoop Zoosk
Zoosk is looking for a Hadoop / Hive Engineer who is passionate about Big Data and Analytics. You will be responsible for creating an analytical platform that turns web traffic and click streams into useful business insights. You will own the Hadoop / Hive infrastructure from design to launch, and be in a dynamic analytics team which provides business insights to the whole organization.
Our Zoosk analytics platform consists of best of breed technologies, including Hadoop, Hive, Star Schema data warehouse and multidimensional OLAP tools.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, maintain and deploy Hadoop solutions, which collect various web log data from our server clusters, and consolidate it into a centralized HDFS/Hive location for consumption
Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to aggregate our web traffic and clickstream data for datawarehouse / OLAP integration
Optimize and maintain our Hadoop Cloudera infrastructure to streamline data processing and maximize efficiency
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering / MIS is required
Strong development experience with Hadoop / MapReduce / Hive, using an industry standard framework such as Java / Python / Ruby / Pig
5+ years of analytics application development experience
Solid understanding of data warehousing and analytics, such as web traffic reporting, click stream analysis, etc.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and/or frameworks
Previous experience with relational databases, dimensional modeling, OLAP, Business Intelligence is a big plus
Previous start up experience preferred
Notable Press:
Zoosk was featured in 2012's The Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies.
| Location: |
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States
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Zoosk is one of the largest online dating services in the world, with over 50 million users, close to 20 million daily page views, from "Zooskers" in 60 countries With 100 thousand new profiles added daily, we are the single fastest growing dating service on the web and our supersonic performance was recently celebrated in the Wall Street Journal's inaugural top 50 "Next Big Thing" List (March 09, 2010).
While we originally took advantage of viral opportunities on social networks, Zoosk has evolved into an easy, fun and safe online dating experience that today connects singles from the we

Profitable



20 - 50M Raised
Investors: ATA Ventures,
Canaan Partners All Jobs: at Zoosk
| Web Site: | www.zoosk.com |
| Headquarters: | San Francisco, CA 94111
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: | Working At Zoosk
Zoosk is the fastest growing social dating destination. Our applications on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo have more than 50 million users with close to over 20 million daily page views from users in 60 countries Simply put, Zoosk is online dating that doesn't suck. Our users, mostly young professional, enjoy a fun and playful experience while they meet new people in their local areas.
Zoosk is a VC backed startup and our office is located in downtown San Francisco. We are always looking for open minded, energetic, and driven individuals that love the challenge of turning an established industry upside-down. We build world class social web products and in the process we make sure to have plenty of fun. If you want to work with exceptional people on toughest engineering problems every day, you want to join Zoosk.
Some Benefits of Joining Zoosk
- Sexy MacPro or MacBookPro stations to work in style
- Free beverages and snacks, to keep you fired up
- Free dinner every night
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Life Insurance and 401K savings plan |
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