Position: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Duration: 6 Months+
Job Description
The Data Computing Appliance and Platform Software team is responsible for developing the software that deploys, manages, monitors and maintains both the appliance and software stacks that run on the platform, including the Greenplum Database, Hadoop and VMware ESX. This person will be working on future projects such as: Network Fault Tolerance (using commodity hardware), Software RAID, 1000+ Node Installation and Cluster Management, Commodity Hardware Support, Intelligent Hardware Monitoring Framework, Custom Linux Shell, and Linux Server Provisioning. This job is limited only by the potential of the individual.
Responsibilities
• Design the platform S/W infrastructure, Management software and test infrastructure
• Work with the team to write high quality, extensible, maintainable code
• Independently investigate features/issues and propose/implement/document solutions
• Review product documentation and other’s code
• Champion product and software quality
• Work closely with other teams to drive product alignment
Desired Skills and Experience
Requirements
• Experience delivering enterprise base hardware platform and software products.
• Proven Linux Clustering, Kernel, storage technologies, networking including high-speed Interconnect, distributed systems.
• Experience with developing and delivering in an agile framework
• C, C++, Python, Bash, Java
• Experience with Greenplum database, a plus
• Red Hat experience – security updates
• BS degree with a minimum of 7+years of experience in technology-oriented software development
• Excellent problem-solving, organization and communication skills.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and organizational components.
• High availability solutions.
Desired
• Parallel High-Speed File Systems and Big Data experience
• JIRA or similar bug tracking software.
• Wiki Development (Confluence)
• Knowledge of Database technologies
