Systems Engineer at Circonus, Inc. (Fulton, MD) (allows remote)
Skills Requirements
- Distributed systems knowledge including consensus approaches, consistent hashing, vector clocks or lamport timestamps, and commutative vs. non-commutative operations
- Solid experience programming in C and Java (Javascript is a plus)
- Programming language agnostic
- Ability to analyze/review/design a solution with a solid understanding of immediate performance, scalability, resource utilization and long-term behavior
- Fluency in at least one SQL database technology (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
- Fluency in at least one distributed KV-store technology (Riak, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.)
- Experience working in Solaris, Linux, BSD and UNIX in general
- Thorough background in either traditional software engineering or agile development practices
- Thorough understanding of VCS systems (at least one of Subversion or Git, others are helpful)
Can argue, discuss, and reasonably explain the following papers in plain English:
- Dynamo: amazon’s highly available key-value store
- Resettable vector clocks
- An intelligent prediction system for time series data using periodic pattern mining in temporal databases
If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or are involved in technology in some other way, we would love to hear about it when you apply!
About Circonus, Inc.
Circonus is a software company that is changing the way the world monitors both IT infrastructure and businesses it powers. Our SaaS and on-premise solutions enable companies to navigate the torrent of telemetry data produced by technology enabled businesses, turn that data into information and leverage it to make better and faster decisions.
At Circonus, we are committed to excellence and passionate about technology. We have high standards for our people and in turn offer a work environment that fosters training and development with a generous compensation and benefits package.
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