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High Scalability

High Scalability

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Who's Hiring?

  • We help Change the world every day. It’s really that simple. There aren’t a lot of technology jobs out there where your work will make it possible for a 5 year old hear or change the Boy Scouts' policy on LGBT teens. http://www.change.org/hiring/21, http://www.change.org/hiring/178

  • We need awesome people @ Booking.com - We want YOU! Come design next generation interfaces, solve critical scalability problems, and hack on one of the largest Perl codebases. Please apply online.

  • Apple has multiple openings. Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. Imagine what you could do here.
    • Software Engineer - Messaging Services. An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server software that is driving the future of messaging and mobile services. To apply please visit this URL. 
    • iCloud Documents Server Engineer - C++. The iCloud team is looking for a C++ engineer with a strong background in web services development. The successful candidate has demonstrated deep experience in building high-performing systems that are scalable and extensible. This is a terrific position for an engineer interested in developing the next generation of cloud support for iOS and OS X. To apply please visit this URL.
    • Sr Software Engineer-iCloud. An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world, including iMessage, FaceTime and Apple Push Notifications. To apply please visit this URL.
    • SW Engineering Apps Manager. Be a founding member of Apple's newly-minted iCloud Infrastructure Engineering Team! We are designing, building, and supporting new, critical infrastructural systems and frameworks which provide services like structured and unstructured storage, request routing, search queueing, security, and much more. These form the platform upon which many iCloud backend systems will be built. To apply please visit this URL.
    • iCloud Software Engineer. Explore the far reaches of the possible by joining the team building the future of cloud services at Apple!  Consider joining a small team writing the software which forms the foundation for some of our most exciting iCloud products and services. To apply please visit this URL.
    • Sr. Software Engineer - iCloud. iCloud is looking for a talented software engineer who can help us make iCloud even better. Do you love designing & architecting highly scalable, distributed web services? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your heart leap? To apply please visit this URL.
    • Software Engineer - iCloud. iCloud is looking for a talented software engineer who can help us make iCloud even better. Do you love designing & architecting highly scalable, distributed web services? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your heart leap? To apply please visit this URL.
    • Sr. Software Engineer. The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. In this role, you'll build the server stacks for iMessage, FaceTime, Apple Push Notifications, and other systems. To apply please visit this URL.
    • Sr Software Engineer-Messaging Services. The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. In this role, you'll build the server stacks for iMessage, FaceTime, Apple Push Notifications, and other systems. To apply please visit this URL.

  • LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s). Please apply online. 

  • New Relic is looking for a Java Scalability Engineer in Portland, OR. Ready to scale a web service with more incoming bits/second than Twitter?  http://newrelic.com/about/jobs

Fun and Informative Events

  • Surge - The Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI, Sept. 12th-13th, features speakers from Joyent, Fastly, Dyn, Netflix, Linkedin and Amazon. Special, High Scalability Reader Rate: $50 off registration--through Sept. 10! Book hotel and get $50 off, from OmniTI.

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Change.org is Hiring

We're looking for systems and tools engineers to help scale and create the platform powering that change. Work on continuous deployment, developer infrastructure, and scaling a platform with over 40 Million members using Chef, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Dropwizard, Redis, and Mysql.  Change.org is the world's largest petition platform, empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see. A certified B corporation, Change.org is the world’s fastest growing online platform for social change, with more than 30 million Change.org users in 196 countries.

Every day people use our tools to transform their communities – locally, nationally and globally. Whether it's a mother fighting bullying in her daughter's school, customers pressing banks to drop unfair fees, or citizens holding corrupt officials to account, thousands of campaigns have won on Change.org – and more are winning every week.

If this sounds like you let's talk.

http://www.change.org/hiring/21
http://www.change.org/hiring/178

We Need Awesome People @ Booking.Com - We Want YOU!

The colors of the buttons matter. The speed of your queries matter. The run time of your request matters. And you want to measure it all. We want exceptional people like you to come design next generation interfaces, solve critical scalability problems, and hack on one of the largest Perl codebases in the world.

Our diverse, international team of UX Designers, System Administrators and Perl Hackers here in Amsterdam, Netherlands needs your talents. Booking.com will offer you a competitive salary with bonuses, extensive relocation package and great opportunities for career progression within our fast growing company.

Apply online: http://www.booking.com/jobs.en-us.html?st=list

AppDynamics offers an easy-to-use application performance monitoring solution for Java, .NET and PHP applications running in a live production environment. Companies like Netflix, Orbitz and Edmunds.com use AppDynamics to rapidly identify & troubleshoot root cause in their large, distributed applications.

Try AppDynamics for free with AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java & .NET apps, or a free trial of AppDynamics Pro, their fully-featured application performance management solution. Both Lite and a trial version of Pro are available for download from appdynamics.com and take only a few minutes to install. Get the free trial.

Apple is Hiring

Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. If you love innovation, here's your chance to make a career of it. You'll work hard. But the job comes with more than a few perks.

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Software Engineer - Messaging Services

An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world, including iMessage, FaceTime and Apple Push Notifications. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server software that is driving the future of messaging and mobile services.

Key Qualifications:

  • 3+ years experience in software development
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Independence and initiative
  • Comfort maintaining live production systems
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, cross functional setting

The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. The ideal candidate is a solid generalist with great technical chops, one who understands client-server architectures and distributed systems.

In this role, you'll build the server stacks for iMessage, FaceTime, Apple Push Notifications, and other systems. You'll design system architectures, specify custom network protocols, and implement high performance code. You'll also develop scalability strategies for applications that support hundreds of millions of users.

We're a small team, with a focus on individual responsibility and agile development. In this role, you'll have the opportunity learn new technologies, going as deep as you like. If you enjoy thinking big and having an impact, you'll enjoy working with us!

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Familiarity with Java, C, Lisp or other high-performance languages

Experience with network protocols, storage systems, security algorithms a plus

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=9cc84c3c401dc0a139ced7320cbb5c2a.

iCloud Documents Server Engineer - C++

The iCloud team is looking for a C++ engineer with a strong background in web services development. The successful candidate has demonstrated deep experience in building high-performing systems that are scalable and extensible. You will be collaborating with engineering teams throughout Apple to define and build the web service and storage platforms that power iCloud. This is a terrific position for an engineer interested in developing the next generation of cloud support for iOS and OS X.

  • Designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable applications and web services in C / C++ on Unix platforms
  • Common web services protocols (HTTP, SSL, REST)
  • Multithreaded and event-driven programming
  • Asynchronous I/O programming
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in a cross-functional team on high profile, critical projects

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Developing Apache 2 modules and knowledge of Apache internals

Event-driven HTTP servers such as lighttpd and nginx

Distributed caching such as memcached Encryption-at-rest Scalable storage systems

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=f731809f8ff3b410808d81010889f250

Sr Software Engineer-iCloud

The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. The ideal candidate is a solid generalist with great technical chops, one who understands client-server architectures and distributed systems.

  • 3+ years experience in software development
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Independence and initiative
  • Comfort maintaining live production systems
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, cross functional setting

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Familiarity with Java, C, Lisp or other high-performance languages

Experience with network protocols, storage systems, security algorithms a plus

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=9bca09ee1b3b6ff39f18e5bbf572ab78

SW Engineering Apps Manager

Be a founding member of Apple's newly-minted iCloud Infrastructure Engineering Team!  We are designing, building, and supporting new, critical infrastructural systems and frameworks which provide services like structured and unstructured storage, request routing, search queueing, security, and much more. These form the platform upon which many iCloud backend systems will be built.

  • A successful track-record as a software engineering manager
  • Structured and full-text indexing and search domain knowledge
  • Experience building and launching very large-scale production internet services
  • Experience in taking on challenging projects in the fields of search relevancy, ranking, indexing, information retrieval techniques and architecture.
  • Working on a small, fast moving, highly skilled team.
  • Proven track record of successful and timely product delivery and of driving technical innovation
  • History of setting aggressive yet attainable goals, and motivating teams to achieve them
  • A focus on product and technology strategy
  • Strong communication skills, both inward and outward

B.Sc or higher in Computer Science and at least 4 years industry experience, or equivalent

Expertise with Lucene/Solr internals, or at least their usage

Familiarity with No-SQL stores like Cassandra

Familiarity with contemporary queues like Kafka

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=22612b31a0b4023c2bc5d646206a1cbe

iCloud Software Engineer

Explore the far reaches of the possible by joining the team building the future of cloud services at Apple!  Consider joining a small team writing the software which forms the foundation for some of our most exciting iCloud products and services. We are looking for an extremely capable engineer who has a strong background in web services development, and who has built high-performance, scalable and extensible systems. In this highly visible position, the successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to define and implement some of the core backend platform frameworks and systems that will power next generation Apple web services.

MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Java

NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra

Linux

Hadoop

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=9526f9d76051a9bf2d8d0f311bad1c44

Sr. Software Engineer – iCloud

Do you love designing & architecting highly scalable, distributed web services? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your heart leap?

Would you like to work in a fast-paced environment where your technical abilities will be challenged on a day to day basis?

Do you want to work for one of the world’s largest data processing environment?

If you answered yes to all of the above questions, then iCloud needs you! We are looking for an energetic Java engineer to develop a critical infrastructure component that is to be a key part of the iCloud eco system.

Work involves designing and coding this new system, making sure that it is absolutely rock solid.

  • Minimum of 3+ years experience designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable applications and web services
  • Comfortable working with Object Oriented programming techniques
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Excellent analytical capabilities
  • Passion for development

MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Java

NoSQL databases such as HBase or Cassandra Linux

Experience and comfort with iterative development, i.e., Agile/SCRUM/TDD methodologies, etc., required.

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=692fa77810dc9cf8b1eda6edc3925507

Software Engineer – iCloud

Do you love designing & architecting highly scalable, distributed web services? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your heart leap?

Would you like to work in a fast-paced environment where your technical abilities will be challenged on a day to day basis?

Do you want to work for one of the world’s largest data processing environment?

If you answered yes to all of the above questions, then iCloud needs you!

We are looking for an energetic Java engineer to develop a critical infrastructure component that is to be a key part of the iCloud eco system.

Work involves designing and coding this new system, making sure that it is absolutely rock solid.

Minimum of 3+ years experience designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable applications and web services

  • Comfortable working with Object Oriented programming techniques
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Excellent analytical capabilities
  • Passion for development

MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Java

NoSQL databases such as HBase or Cassandra Linux

Experience and comfort with iterative development, i.e., Agile/SCRUM/TDD methodologies, etc., required.

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=f62aa87ca5e291f0a7078a2e641a0c90

Sr. Software Engineer

The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. The ideal candidate is a solid generalist with great technical chops, one who understands client-server architectures and distributed systems.

In this role, you'll build the server stacks for iMessage, FaceTime, Apple Push Notifications, and other systems. You'll design system architectures, specify custom network protocols, and implement high performance code. You'll also develop scalability strategies for applications that support hundreds of millions of users.

We're a small team, with a focus on individual responsibility and agile development. In this role, you'll have the opportunity learn new technologies, going as deep as you like. If you enjoy thinking big and having an impact, you'll enjoy working with us!

  • 3+ years experience in software development
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Independence and initiative
  • Comfort maintaining live production systems
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, cross functional setting

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Familiarity with Java, C, Lisp or other high-performance languages

Experience with network protocols, storage systems, security algorithms a plus

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=7c36374d5b0264a93b12a143df33eb69

Sr Software Engineer-Messaging Services

The Messaging Services team is looking for a talented software engineer to help us develop Apple's messaging platform. The ideal candidate is a solid generalist with great technical chops, one who understands client-server architectures and distributed systems.

In this role, you'll build the server stacks for iMessage, FaceTime, Apple Push Notifications, and other systems. You'll design system architectures, specify custom network protocols, and implement high performance code. You'll also develop scalability strategies for applications that support hundreds of millions of users.

  • 3+ years experience in software development
  • Familiarity with modern server technologies (e.g., non-blocking IO, distributed storage, etc.)
  • Independence and initiative
  • Comfort maintaining live production systems
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, cross functional setting

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Familiarity with Java, C, Lisp or other high-performance languages

Experience with network protocols, storage systems, security algorithms a plus

To apply for this position, copy/paste the following URL into your browser:

http://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=e17a744579359dfd0e7b4e24cf443bc7

What The Rackspace Cloud API Can Do For Your Business

The Rackspace Cloud Application Programming Interface (API)  has changed the game allowing customers to easily modify their cloud configuration with just a few lines of code. The API is a powerful tool regardless of your level of technical ability.

So what exactly can you do with the Rackspace Cloud API? Anything you can dream up. By stringing together commands, you can have your application dynamically modify your cloud environment three of the most popular things that customers do with the Rackspace API.

Surge 2013: The Scalability And Performance Conference

Surge - The Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI, Sept. 12th-13th, features speakers from Joyent, Fastly, Dyn, Netflix, Linkedin and Amazon. Special, High Scalability Reader Rate: $50 off registration--through Sept. 10! Book hotel and get $50 off, from OmniTI.

Install Aerospike Community Edition in 10 Minutes!

Install Aerospike Community Edition in 10 Minutes! To help you get up and running with our Community Edition as quickly as possible, we've created a tutorial video on AerospikeTV that provides guidance on installing your free database. Download our FREE Database and see how easy it is to install!

New Benchmark shows Aerospike nearly 10x Faster than the Competition

Thumbtack Technology YCSB Benchmark shows Aerospike nearly 10x faster than Cassandra, Couchbase and Mongodb for consumer-facing applications that require extremely high throughput and low latency, and whose information can be represented using a Key-Value schema. Read it now!

Test aiCache acceleration for free. No sign-up required.

We have set up aiCache on the Amazon Ec2 cloud to allow you to accelerate your website, test it, and optionally deploy in about 10 minutes. No sign-up required and its free.

You give us your website address and we spin up an AWS Micro instance running aiCache configured for your site. We then give you a simple configuration tool, if you want to further tune the Dynamic Caching.

You can then test your regular site and the accelerated site side by side in real time, from a third party testing service, complete with waterfall chart to tell you what is slow. With a few clicks you can tune the Dynamic Caching and re-run the test till you get the optimal config, unique to your site.

Want to deploy it? Great put in the AWS instance ID and Key and we will push it to your choice of live server.

Got everything perfect? Update your DNS or pull a copy to your datacenter.

Want help? We can have one of our engineers hop on and joint edit the config file with you, to work through tricky SSL and Session authentication. A do it yourself kinda engineer? Great context sensitive help is available of every line of the config file.

Want to save it for later, no problem. Want to download it for use on your own box, clicky-clicky free.

See the power of aiCache on your time without being bugged.  http://aicache.com/deploy

LogicMonitor is Hiring a Front End Engineer

Growing SaaS company seeks Front End Developer for long-lasting and mutually fulfilling relationship! LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours.

Big talk, but we mean it. LogicMonitor is in an interesting phase of a company's life: we have a great product, thousands of users, rapidly growing revenue - but have never had a dedicated front end engineer. We've realized the error of our ways, and are putting design first. Customers like our product now - can you imagine what impact a great front end developer will have? Can you imagine how much fun it will be to have such an impact?

So what are we looking for? Someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s), and ensure they are highly functional, performant, and visually compelling. Someone to lead the implementation to change a product that customers like for its functionality into one they delight in using for its design. Could that someone be you.

Please apply online.

ScaleOut Software. In-memorry Data Grids for the Enterprise

Our in-memory data grid combines distributed caching with powerful map/reduce analytics and management tools to give you a complete solution for managing and analyzing fast-changing data in a server farm, compute grid, or in the cloud. ScaleOut Software's suite of software products eliminates scalability bottlenecks by storing fast-changing operational data in a memory-based grid spanning multiple servers. Built-in analytics can continuously evaluate your data to spot issues or opportunities.

http://www.scaleoutsoftware.com/

New Relic is looking for a Java Scalability Engineer in Portland, OR

Are you ready for the challenges of scaling a web service that's already got more incoming bits/second than Twitter? You're an experienced engineer who knows Java. We're delivering the best application performance management service on the Web. We need your help to solve the scaling problems of a rapidly growing and successful company. At New Relic, you'll be taking on those challenges as part of a smart, fun team in a uniquely supportive work environment.  We're looking for a pragmatic engineer who has built systems that scale for growth. You have applied network programming, caching, concurrency, object-oriented design, and databases (relational and otherwise) to real business problems. You are fluent in Java and not afraid of JavaScript. You know how the web works, from HTTP to how cookies actually behave in browsers. Perhaps you read W3C specs for fun.

What tools would you use? We build our data collectors with Java and MySQL, on a fairly typical web stack that handles 50+ billion incoming rows per day. We use Thrift, memcached, git, and Jenkins, with Linux in production and OS X on our desks. Other than that, we expect that you will use the right tool for the job. You'll evaluate technology choices with clear vision. You'll learn every day about what works and what doesn't by monitoring, evaluating, and continuously delivering your work to customers.

Apply at http://newrelic.com/about/jobs

LogicMonitor takes the hassle out of monitoring

LogicMonitor’s hosted monitoring proactively alerts you to issues before they negatively impact your business without you having to take an engineer away from development to spend hours configuring and maintaining a monitoring infrastructure.

  • Monitor entire stack with one tool. Keep tabs on power, network, hardware, virtualization, storage, operating systems and applications from a single web-based portal.
  • Flexible email/SMS alert routing & escalation: Ensure the right people get alerted at the right time.
  • Historical trending graphs: Accelerate troubleshooting, improve capacity planning.
  • Customizable dashboards: View all your important metrics on one screen.
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery: Pay-as-you-go monthly subscription eliminates CAPEX costs, upgrade fees, system maintenance.
  • Automation: Eliminate manual configuration. Scale more efficiently, reliably.
  • Affordable: $20 a host per month. Cost per host decreases significantly with volume.

Try it free and be up and running in just 15 minutes.

AppDynamics Troubleshooting Java Performance for Free

AppDynamics is the very first free product designed for troubleshooting Java performance while getting full visibility in production environments. If you're an application owner and need to ensure high availability and performance--but not ready to purchase a full monitoring tool--AppDynamics Lite is build for you. Install in two minutes; be monitoring a Java Virtual Machine in 10 minutes.

Visit http://www.appdynamics.com/free

ManageEngine Applications Manager

ManageEngine provides Enterprise IT Management suite of products. ManageEngine Applications Manager helps SaaS companies monitor their production applications and helps keep costs low.


There is out-of-the-box support for monitoring application servers, database servers, servers and web servers from a single web console. In addition to support for IBM Applications, Oracle Apps and Microsoft applications, there is deep support for Open Source Applications like JBoss, Memcached, LAMP stack etc.  Pricing starts at $795 for monitoring 25 servers or applications. Learn more about the Application Performance Monitoring tool.

Site24x7

Site24x7.com (from ZOHO) is a Website and Web Application Monitoring service. It helps you ensure your shopping carts and other web transactions work. It also helps you monitor the performance of your websites from a global point of presence. You can Sign Up for a Free Trial. The Professional Edition starts at $1 / Month. Learn more about the Website Monitoring Service.

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