gloo is a fully-funded startup in Boulder CO that has exited beta and launched our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and web clients. Now that we are attracting additional paying customers, we’re serious about commercializing our products. We are in search of someone to join our team who will help us harden, scale and deliver the underlying platform supporting our customers.
Your mission: to manage the AWS cloud infrastructure for a high traffic web environment that is ffast, secure, reliable and available. Easy as pie, right? Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the key focus of the DevOps team. We are building key processes and systems that deliver a world class customer experience through superior operational quality, market leading uptimes and service excellence. We need your talents to help us scale and harden. So, if you’ve been aching to try that AWS move again – but this time with all the wisdom you gained from your first shot, then keep reading!
What you'll be doing
• Designing, building and supporting the QA & Production platform on AWS
• Supporting continuous integration services using Jenkins
• Providing 24x7 monitoring and alarming services using New Relic
• Managing and aggregating log files using Logstash or Splunk
• Creating and managing configuration of infrastructure using Chef
• Evaluating all the moving parts of our current integration and deployment practices and guiding/advocating a methodology that will further improve the reliability of our platform while reducing risk.
• Performing daily network troubleshooting, administration and database management activities – come on – everyone gets to help out, after all, we’re a small company
• Thinking through a tough challenge over a game of table tennis
What you'll bring to this position
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in infrastructure, operations or configuration management with deep experience supporting web based (SaaS, mobile) products
• AWS Web Services Certification with points for HIPAA compliant application experience
• A creative, articulate and competent communicator – able to deliver your message clearly, concisely and confidently
• Experience working with Linux & an understanding of what it means to operate in a 24x7 production environment.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure monitoring tools such as Chef or Puppet.
• You have worked in an early-stage company so you know what it means to shift priorities and wear a bunch of hats
• Open Source tools are your preferred sandbox and you are comfortable with a good subset of the following: Splunk Logstash, Git Memchached, Redis, Varnish, ELB, Hapoxy, Stingray, Magento, Nginx, Rails, unicorn
• You are an organized professional capable of managing your time, tasks and activities without daily guidance
• You have a talent for making sense out of obscurity – you immediately begin executing concepts in your mind the moment someone has an idea
• Building strong and long-standing relationships is an important part of your being
• You can be patient and thrive even in the midst of intermittent ambiguity
Anti-Requirements
• A need for structure and repetition in every work day
• Using the words, “it can’t be done” in a sentence
• Believing, “that’s not my job”
And what you'll enjoy
• Compensation commensurate with Experience
• Medical with HSA contribution
• The opportunity to work with a team of smart, committed and passionate engineers
• A startup vibe without the startup hours
Goldstone Partners is helping this experienced team of thought leaders find a Rock Star who wants to be part of something big! Please send your resume to me personally at success@goldstonepartners.com. Principals only please. Unfortunately we are unable to support relocation or sponsorships at this time.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
VisionLink - PHP Developer
VisionLink develops web-based applications for non-profits and government organizations that help people in need. VisionLink's technology is behind honorable institutions such as the American Red Cross, the United Way, and a myriad of social service organizations providing services to everyday people that need help from natural disasters to homelessness. Our technology supports 3-1-1- call centers, FEMA and other national, state and local organizations’ mission critical operations.
If you are a talented web developer with a passion for doing good, VisionLink needs you. We are an established company based in Boulder, Colorado who believes in teamwork. We use the Agile/Scrum methodology to provide sanity in a fast paced environment. If you are looking for a lively, dedicated and passionate work environment that is focused on creative, new application development where your efforts make an impact then keep reading:
What you'll be doing
• Participating in the definition of the product path for future releases of our product suite
• Helping enhance and improve our existing products
• Applying your design and programming talent as an integral member of our development team
• Making sure that your team members can follow in your footsteps by documenting your work
• Analyzing and promoting system performance
• Helping support disaster relief by making sure we’re up and operating 99.9% - when it really counts!
What you'll bring to this position
• B.S. in computer-related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of LAMP development experience
• 5+ years of SQL database programming experience
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP and JavaScript
• 3rd party API integration
• Ability to develop quality code that performs well under high capacity and is easy to maintain
• Passionate about making deadlines
• Comfort working in an Agile (SCRUM) development methodology
• A creative sense of humor, and adequate softball skills
And what you'll enjoy
• A competitive salary
• Incredibly productive work environment with a group who really cares
• Outstanding benefits package
• Liberal time off
• The ability to apply your talent and make a tremendous difference – when it matters most.
If you are a talented web developer with a passion for doing good, VisionLink needs you. We are an established company based in Boulder, Colorado who believes in teamwork. We use the Agile/Scrum methodology to provide sanity in a fast paced environment. If you are looking for a lively, dedicated and passionate work environment that is focused on creative, new application development where your efforts make an impact then keep reading:
What you'll be doing
• Participating in the definition of the product path for future releases of our product suite
• Helping enhance and improve our existing products
• Applying your design and programming talent as an integral member of our development team
• Making sure that your team members can follow in your footsteps by documenting your work
• Analyzing and promoting system performance
• Helping support disaster relief by making sure we’re up and operating 99.9% - when it really counts!
What you'll bring to this position
• B.S. in computer-related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of LAMP development experience
• 5+ years of SQL database programming experience
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP and JavaScript
• 3rd party API integration
• Ability to develop quality code that performs well under high capacity and is easy to maintain
• Passionate about making deadlines
• Comfort working in an Agile (SCRUM) development methodology
• A creative sense of humor, and adequate softball skills
And what you'll enjoy
• A competitive salary
• Incredibly productive work environment with a group who really cares
• Outstanding benefits package
• Liberal time off
• The ability to apply your talent and make a tremendous difference – when it matters most.
Monday, August 11, 2014
EchoStar - Python Developer
We are looking for a Software Developer who is highly detailed and incredibly analytical with the ability to work alone or as part of a team to write and analyze requirements, design, develop, and maintain software. We will hire someone who is a passionate and creative Systems Engineer with a curious attention to detail that can apply software development expertise in the software development life cycle for a complicated software system.
Responsibilities:
* Participate in requirement gathering to ensure robustness, redundancy, and scalability
* Participate in solution brainstorming and reviews to ensure all identified problems are solved
* Develop lab and production monitoring tools and scripts using various programming languages
* Design and write software in a functional style, combined with object-oriented techniques.
* Design and write unit tests and automated tests.
* Write, test and execute installation procedures while minimizing downtime of a 24-hour TV system
* Routinely analyze the production system to expose weaknesses and find ways to re-design for greater success
* Identify and troubleshoot production software issues
* Communicate production problems to software vendors and suggest desired solutions
* Continually populate a team knowledge repository with production information, takeaways, techniques, and tutorials
* Create innovative ways to improve a large distributed software system
Basic Requirements:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
* At least 3 years of experience working within the Agile software development life cycle (SDLC)
* At least 1 year of experience programming in Python or Scala
Preferred Qualifications:
* Prefer experience in Java and shell scripting. Prefer experience with command-line utilities in Linux/Unix.
* At least 6 months experience in Perl, PHP, and SQL.
* At least 6 months of experience using Linux and/or Unix (strongly preferred)
* At least 6 months of experience using relational databases such as Oracle or MySQL.
* Experience using agile development methodology.
* At least 6 months experience applying the test driven development methodology (TDD).
* Analytical, detail-oriented, and thorough when working on assigned tasks
* Ability to quickly identify a problem and find multiple creative solutions
* Ability to manage multiple projects, activities and tasks simultaneously and work them to completion with little supervision
* Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
* Capable of organizing resources and establishing priorities while facilitating change management
* Knowledge of computer network and application layer protocols
* Ability to perform detailed troubleshooting and find the root cause quickly
* Ability to work under pressure with many assigned tasks and hard deadlines
About Echostar:
EchoStar delivers innovative products and services that power global communication, commerce and entertainment. Through our market-leading Digital Broadcast Centers across North America, we operate one the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast networks, serving over 17 million end users every day. Our historical pioneering development of market solutions such as satellite spot-beam technology, end-to-end MPEG4 video delivery, placeshifting, whole home DVR sharing and VSAT data network management have consistently set new standards in the industry.
EchoStar provides a variety of benefits for all employees. In addition to health and wellness benefits that support a new era in healthcare management, we provide unique benefits including Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Stock Purchase,
Discounted rates on HughesNet and Dish Network services, Slingbox discounts and much more.
For a complete list of benefits and specific company detail please visit www.echostar.com
EchoStar is an EEO employer (M/F/D/V)
Responsibilities:
* Participate in requirement gathering to ensure robustness, redundancy, and scalability
* Participate in solution brainstorming and reviews to ensure all identified problems are solved
* Develop lab and production monitoring tools and scripts using various programming languages
* Design and write software in a functional style, combined with object-oriented techniques.
* Design and write unit tests and automated tests.
* Write, test and execute installation procedures while minimizing downtime of a 24-hour TV system
* Routinely analyze the production system to expose weaknesses and find ways to re-design for greater success
* Identify and troubleshoot production software issues
* Communicate production problems to software vendors and suggest desired solutions
* Continually populate a team knowledge repository with production information, takeaways, techniques, and tutorials
* Create innovative ways to improve a large distributed software system
Basic Requirements:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
* At least 3 years of experience working within the Agile software development life cycle (SDLC)
* At least 1 year of experience programming in Python or Scala
Preferred Qualifications:
* Prefer experience in Java and shell scripting. Prefer experience with command-line utilities in Linux/Unix.
* At least 6 months experience in Perl, PHP, and SQL.
* At least 6 months of experience using Linux and/or Unix (strongly preferred)
* At least 6 months of experience using relational databases such as Oracle or MySQL.
* Experience using agile development methodology.
* At least 6 months experience applying the test driven development methodology (TDD).
* Analytical, detail-oriented, and thorough when working on assigned tasks
* Ability to quickly identify a problem and find multiple creative solutions
* Ability to manage multiple projects, activities and tasks simultaneously and work them to completion with little supervision
* Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
* Capable of organizing resources and establishing priorities while facilitating change management
* Knowledge of computer network and application layer protocols
* Ability to perform detailed troubleshooting and find the root cause quickly
* Ability to work under pressure with many assigned tasks and hard deadlines
About Echostar:
EchoStar delivers innovative products and services that power global communication, commerce and entertainment. Through our market-leading Digital Broadcast Centers across North America, we operate one the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast networks, serving over 17 million end users every day. Our historical pioneering development of market solutions such as satellite spot-beam technology, end-to-end MPEG4 video delivery, placeshifting, whole home DVR sharing and VSAT data network management have consistently set new standards in the industry.
EchoStar provides a variety of benefits for all employees. In addition to health and wellness benefits that support a new era in healthcare management, we provide unique benefits including Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Stock Purchase,
Discounted rates on HughesNet and Dish Network services, Slingbox discounts and much more.
For a complete list of benefits and specific company detail please visit www.echostar.com
EchoStar is an EEO employer (M/F/D/V)
Friday, August 08, 2014
Yieldex - Systems Engineer
Description
We're looking for a highly motivated Systems Engineer to join a cross-functional systems and software team that builds the core of Yieldex's infrastructure. You'll bring your expert Linux administration and systems knowledge to collaboratively solve real-world problems. Many of the technical challenges faced by Yieldex are not available as prepackaged solutions, so we build it.
Who are we?
Yieldex created the first comprehensive, fully integrated revenue and inventory analytics platform for digital publishers. Yieldex’s format-agnostic platform, Yieldex Analytics, accurately forecasts, manages and prices inventory across all revenue channels. Digital publishers who use Yieldex have stopped leaving money on the table because they no longer have to juggle multiple delivery platforms across channels and formats or untangle complicated, overlapping inventory. Leading media companies such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scripps, CBS, Viacom, ESPN, Fox, Pandora, The Weather Channel and dozens of other publishers all use Yieldex to unlock the true value of their inventory. For more information, visit www.yieldex.com.
What level of volume are we talking about? Billions of impressions per month — the kind that requires hundreds servers in the hadoop cluster alone. For a company of our size, we manage an incredible percentage of internet traffic.
Yieldex has lots of fun, hard problems to solve that come with a handling large volumes of data nightly. We are constantly figuring out new, creative ways to make the system do what our customers expect and how to evolve the infrastructure to meet the exponential growth in the volume of data we’re processing.
Required Skills and Experience
Ability to manage a physical Linux server infrastructure. You'll be responsible for everything from procuring hardware to helping rack, cable and install. You are self-motivated and possess excellent Linux skills and task automation. You use tools for improving productivity, if one doesn't exist you build it, knowledge of scripting/building tools is essential. Practical knowledge of configuration management tools (chef/puppet). Monitor, monitor, monitor is your mantra. Monitor every aspect of the data center so you know before a component of infrastructure fails. A solid understanding of networking, good TCP/IP knowledge at a minimum. Experience with high performance scale-out networks and routing protocols is a plus. Experience administering Hadoop and other clustered systems. Experience administering MySQL and Oracle Experience managing multiple data center locations is a plus. Any certifications seen as a plus, not a prerequisite.
Our Environment
Ubuntu Linux Java Hadoop MySQL Oracle Minimal Mac support
Bring your best to our growing company and in return you will be heard, supported in your professional development, and work with a team that respects your commitments outside of work.
Competitive salary, benefits and options. Full time. Permanent.
Please send relevant resumes to jobs@yieldex.com with the position name as subject.
We're looking for a highly motivated Systems Engineer to join a cross-functional systems and software team that builds the core of Yieldex's infrastructure. You'll bring your expert Linux administration and systems knowledge to collaboratively solve real-world problems. Many of the technical challenges faced by Yieldex are not available as prepackaged solutions, so we build it.
Who are we?
Yieldex created the first comprehensive, fully integrated revenue and inventory analytics platform for digital publishers. Yieldex’s format-agnostic platform, Yieldex Analytics, accurately forecasts, manages and prices inventory across all revenue channels. Digital publishers who use Yieldex have stopped leaving money on the table because they no longer have to juggle multiple delivery platforms across channels and formats or untangle complicated, overlapping inventory. Leading media companies such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scripps, CBS, Viacom, ESPN, Fox, Pandora, The Weather Channel and dozens of other publishers all use Yieldex to unlock the true value of their inventory. For more information, visit www.yieldex.com.
What level of volume are we talking about? Billions of impressions per month — the kind that requires hundreds servers in the hadoop cluster alone. For a company of our size, we manage an incredible percentage of internet traffic.
Yieldex has lots of fun, hard problems to solve that come with a handling large volumes of data nightly. We are constantly figuring out new, creative ways to make the system do what our customers expect and how to evolve the infrastructure to meet the exponential growth in the volume of data we’re processing.
Required Skills and Experience
Ability to manage a physical Linux server infrastructure. You'll be responsible for everything from procuring hardware to helping rack, cable and install. You are self-motivated and possess excellent Linux skills and task automation. You use tools for improving productivity, if one doesn't exist you build it, knowledge of scripting/building tools is essential. Practical knowledge of configuration management tools (chef/puppet). Monitor, monitor, monitor is your mantra. Monitor every aspect of the data center so you know before a component of infrastructure fails. A solid understanding of networking, good TCP/IP knowledge at a minimum. Experience with high performance scale-out networks and routing protocols is a plus. Experience administering Hadoop and other clustered systems. Experience administering MySQL and Oracle Experience managing multiple data center locations is a plus. Any certifications seen as a plus, not a prerequisite.
Our Environment
Ubuntu Linux Java Hadoop MySQL Oracle Minimal Mac support
Bring your best to our growing company and in return you will be heard, supported in your professional development, and work with a team that respects your commitments outside of work.
Competitive salary, benefits and options. Full time. Permanent.
Please send relevant resumes to jobs@yieldex.com with the position name as subject.
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