Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Description: the world's largest content recommendation platform, is hiring an expert software developer for a Software Engineer position in the Infrastructure Engineering R&D group.In this job you will:"Develop one of the largest real time high scale operation in the world to support over 1.4B users, >500,000 requests / second, 100TB of new data every day"Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services"Solve production issues in the framework code"Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members"Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internetHere are some of the things software devs in our group did in the last several months:"Rewrote part of our recommendation servers to reduce serving time p999 by >40%"Rolled out custom Cassandra compaction strategy"Created and improved Kafka consumer designed for very high scale"Developed a brand new metrics pipeline, ingesting over 100B metric messages per day"Anomaly detection engine for application metrics"Rolled out a new custom home-built authentication service"Many more things...Our Tech Stack:Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, RedisThis is us!You will work with:"The people who wrote the first lines of code (and many many more lines after that)"The proud owner of a beer brewery"People who are deeply familiar with the code of Kafka, Cassandra, AirFlow, Prometheus and Spark (including committing back)"Famous internal hackathon winners"The designers and implementers of a offheap, zero GC, Custom Kafka Producer which cumulatively sends ~100B messages / day Additional Positions: , Category: Job Qualifications: "Experience developing large scale distributed systems"Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures systems, applications programming and multi threading programming"3+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language"Production systems understanding"Experience with SQL and No-SQL"Highly Proficient in Linux environment"Proven ability to work effectively across multiple teams"BS.c in computer science or equivalent experienceNice to have:"Experience in Big Data tools"Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning Company Occupation: Internet related Company Size: 500+