JOB LISTINGS

System Administrator

Posted: 2008.04.28
Location: Sacramento area

CodeSourcery is seeking an experienced Sacramento-area GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows system administrator on a part-time or full-time basis. If selected, you will assist in the maintenance of CodeSourcery's systems, including CodeSourcery's embedded board lab. While you will report to CodeSourcery's lead system administrator, you will also interact extensively with CodeSourcery's toolchain and high-performance computing software development teams. While you will be able to perform most of your duties from the comfort of your own home, you will also work in our Sacramento data center when on-site work is required.

Your duties will include designing, implementing, maintaining, and documenting systems for authentication, backups, electronic mail, web service, and software test infrastructure. To be considered for this position, you must have significant experience administering GNU/Linux systems, including the use of firewalls, the Apache web server, DNS, NIS, NFS, shell scripting, and related technologies. Because you will work primarily from home, you must have be self-motivated and have excellent written communication skills.

The ideal candidate will have familiarity with the Debian or Ubuntu Linux distributions, VMWare, ZOPE, QMail, Courier IMAP, and SSH. Experience with HP network switches, OpenGear serial servers, and APC power-distribution units is a plus.

Applying for This Position
If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume to jobs@codesourcery.com.

Legal Information
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

About CodeSourcery
CodeSourcery is probably best known for Sourcery G++, a commercial GNU toolchain environment using gcc, gdb, eclipse, etc. CodeSourcery builds software tools that enable its customers to get the most out of hardware platforms ranging from embedded devices to supercomputers.

Additional Information
This job listing is posted here: http://www.codesourcery.com/company/jobs/listings/sysadmin. If you have questions about the position, please email Ricardo Anguiano at ricardo@codesourcery.com. More about CodeSourcery and what we do here: http://www.codesourcery.com/company and http://www.codesourcery.com/company/jobs/.

Flash Developer

Posted: 2008.04.01
Location: San Francisco, CA

Are you one of the rare Flash developers who builds data driven applications in ActionScript rather than toys on the timeline? A Well-funded and fun web 2.0 company undergoing explosive growth after recent acquisition - requires a creative and experienced Flash Developer, experienced with video streaming or online support services - for their global web platform.

Responsibilities:
You will be building all kinds of different widgets - Web cam integrations, voice and video apps, games, animations - you must be passionate about satisfying users, and creative about building the best widgets on the web. The position requires extensive experience building XML-driven Flash applications and a strong commitment to building robust applications on a rapid development cycle.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of solid software development experience (SDLC)
• Expertise in Adobe Flash Development: Actionscript, CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript, Flash bridging, Cross-browser compatibility
• Knowledge of HTML, XML, JSON and HTTP
• Good understanding of AMF (Action Message Format), SOAP, data exchanges (between Flash app and back-end database)
• Extensive design experience
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving as well as work independently, complete projects and communicate status updates with minimum supervision

Contact: Greg Payne, Technical Recruiter, Strategi LLC. Phone #: 415-756-3142. Email: gpayne@strategi.biz

Senior Systems Administrator (Linux, Postgres, Django, Lightppd)

Posted: 2008.03.27
Location: San Francisco, CA

Well-funded and fun web 2.0 company undergoing explosive growth after recent acquisition - requires a Senior Systems Administrator, experienced with video streaming or online support services - for their global web platform.

Based in San Francisco California, this innovative online start-up uses an introduction platform that allows users to meet, see, and hear people live in 1-minute conversations. Users can instantly experience the exhilaration of meeting five people in five minutes in topical sessions straight from their webcam.

This platform encourages spontaneity and creativity. Users can easily create their own "speed sessions" based on a myriad of diverse topics and interests or join already scheduled sessions. Contrived profiles and outdated pictures are now a thing of the past as this website replaces static expression with live interaction. One of the Investors includes "European Investor of the Year" 2006.

Required Experience:

• 5 years system administration experience (ideally supporting 24/7 high traffic commercial web systems and web services)
• Experience in database administration (ideally Postgres); should have some coding experience SQL, scripting, triggers, stored procedures, etc.
• Experience with Django , Flash Media Servers (FMS) or Red 5 network services
• Experience with low-latency network mirroring at multiple/international locations
• Must have experience of keeping 24/7 high-traffic commercial web systems afloat
• Ability to work with minimum supervision; experienced at all related responsibilities (purchasing, licensing administration, support services, vendor relations, etc.)
• Linux networking and Linux system admin experience with bind, exim/postfix and Lightppd with FCGI scripts (if not lightppd then Apache/Apache HTTP Server will be considered)
• Past experience should include supporting hundreds of 1000's of users, 20,000 concurrent, within approx 5 months via a low-latency network mirrored with servers in the US and international location (ideally – the EU.)

Desired Experience:

Senior Linux Systems Administrator (sysadmin)

Posted: 2008.03.27
Location: San Francisco, CA

Well-funded and fun web 2.0 start-up undergoing explosive growth requires a senior Linux systems administrator for their global web platform. Based in San Francisco California, This innovative online start-up uses a introduction platform that allows users to meet, see, and hear people live in 1-minute conversations. Users can instantly experience the exhilaration of meeting five people in five minutes in topical sessions straight from their webcam.

This platform encourages spontaneity and creativity. Users can easily create their own "speed sessions" based on a myriad of diverse topics and interests or join already scheduled sessions. Contrived profiles and outdated pictures are now a thing of the past as this website replaces static expression with live interaction. One of the Investors includes "European Investor of the Year" 2006.

Required Experience:
Linux networking and Linux sysadmin, experience of bind, exim/postfix and lightppd (if not lightppd then Apache will be considered). Must have experience of keeping 24/7 high-traffic commercial web systems afloat is very important.

Desired Experience:
If you also have postgresql you will be of even more interest and if you can add Django experience too you'll be snapped up in no time!

Past experience should include supporting hundreds of 1000's of users, 20,000 concurrent, within approx 5 months via a low-latency network mirrored with servers in the US and EU.

Contact: Daniel Parrillo, President / Sr. Technical Recruiter / Staffing Manager, Strategi LLC. E-mail: dparrillo@strategi.biz.

Front-end LAMP web developers

Posted: 2008.03.20
Location: San Francisco, CA

I am helping to recruit for an exciting company in downtown S.F.(SOMA) called StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com). A casual and very professional work environment, talented technical engineers and above all great people. The environment is the classic LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. We would like smart, creative web software development people to help grow the company. Current interest is in solid experienced front-end web developers.

Please check out their website, download their toolbar and try it and let us know your interest. You can either call Anthony at 415-332-0123 or e-mail him at Anthony [at] chancellor [dot] com.

Scientific Programmer

Posted: 2008.03.20
Location: Davis, CA

Overview:
Xerasys, Inc. is a Davis-based startup building proprietary earthquake probability and economic loss forecasting technologies for the financial markets. The Company's space- and time-dependent earthquake risk assessments dramatically improve on currently available technology. Within the next year, the Company's products will enable customers to diagnose and better manage their exposure to risk in the financial markets.

The Opportunity:
Xerasys is seeking a Scientific Programmer to develop the coding required to incorporate statistically calibrated loss models into the Company's proprietary earthquake risk assessment model. The Scientific Programmer will initially be hired for a two-month probationary period and will report directly to the Company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Desired Qualitifcations:

• Undergraduate degree in scientific field related to the Company's technology;
• Proven aptitude for building and validating statistical models (as indicated by experience or a degree in an appropriate field);
• Experience with programming in Python and compiled languages (e.g., C/C++);
• Experience with database programming (such as mySQL);
• Experience with web development (such as Javascript, PHP, and perl)
• Familiarity with Linux operating system;
• Ability to operate effectively in high-growth, entrepreneurial environment.

Major Responsibilities:

• Integrate algorithms and documentation of statistically calibrated loss models provided by the Company's CTO into the Company's core technology;
• Implement code to enable the exploration and validation of loss models provided by the Company's CTO;
• Assist in the development of web portal

Compensation:
Competitive. Dependent upon experience.

Contact contact@xerasys.com.

Linux Web Software QA Engineer

Posted: 2008.03.20
Location: San Francisco, CA

Are you looking for a creative, fun and professional environment, then please send me your resume and I will call you to discuss further and answer any questions that you may have.

This dynamic company is looking for a talented QA engineer who will help ensure the quality of code released; develop and implement test plans to ensure robust releases on production systems. Duties include test planning, test plan generation, hands-on testing, and problem reporting. The ability to work independently and with a small team is important.

We would like,

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• A minimum of 3 years experience web QA on Windows and Linux systems
• Experience and understanding of Software QA methodologies
• Scripting experience (Perl, PHP or Python) for test automation

All jobs are located in downtown San Francisco, and include health benefits and stock options. Sorry, no sponsorship available. The position is full-time and on-site.

Please send your resume to: Anthony [at] chancellor.com or/and call Anthony at 415-332-0123.

Front-end Web Developer

Posted: 2008.03.20
Location: San Francisco, CA

I am helping to recruit for an exciting new start-up on the San Francisco peninsula. Self-funded by two technical hands-on founders both with several very successful start-ups. One was the founding investor in StumbleUpon.com.

Please send your resume to Anthony [at] chancellor [dot] com. You may also call Anthony at 415-332-0123.

Principals only please. Only on-site work. Would desire key employees to live in the Bay Area (no re-location from outside the Bay Area). Must be currently authorized to work in the US and have citizenship or green card.

Qualys System / Network Administrator

Posted: 2008.03.20
Location: Redwood Shores, CA

As a Systems / Network Administrator you will be apart of a motivated operations team where you will be responsible for the setup, administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the production, staging, quality assurance and development servers. You will also be responsible for the configuration, management, monitoring and troubleshooting of the production network equipments. You will deploy new server hardware and network equipment for the QualysGuard service, as well as perform ongoing system maintenance, administration, and troubleshooting and deploy new system and security patches. You will also be responsible for analyzing performance and identify system bottlenecks. This opening is your opportunity to work in the rapidly expanding field of computer security, in a pre-IPO company with excellent customer ratings and outstanding growth rates.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Linux System Administration coupled with expert knowledge of Linux.
• 5+ years network hardware experience (Cisco, Foundry, etc.)
• Must have experience in production environments requiring continuous uptime.
• Must be knowledgeable in: Red Hat Linux, shell scripting, Perl, Apache, RPM.
• Must be knowledgeable in TCP/IP fundamentals (including Layers 2, 4-7 and content switching).
• Must have working experience in IPsec VPN and the network routing protocols (OSPF, eBGP, iBGP).
• Hands-on experience with building servers, performing installations and troubleshooting.

Many more job opportunities in Engineering, QA, Support and Operations are available at http://www.qualys.com/company/careers/. Please send cover letter and resume to ops-careers@qualys.com.

Back-end PHP/MYSQL Developer

Posted: 2007.11.27
Location: San Mateo, CA

Us:

• Bluepulse is a free mobile social messenger. (Try it on your phone by visiting www.bluepulse.com)
• We are the fastest growing mobile social network in the world.
• The team consists of people with extraordinary backgrounds, such as former Amazon and Yahoo people.
• We are obsessed with improving the way people communicate on their mobile phones.
• Funded by Vantage Point Venture partners, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world and an early investor in MySpace.
• Office in San Mateo, near Caltrain. (YouTube's old office)

You:

• 4 years PHP/MYSQL experience, working with an internet consumer company.
• An understanding of how social and ad-networks work. Both the business and the technology.
• Demonstrated coding prowess.
• Passion for clean design.
• Interest in mobile technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

To apply, please email a resume to Ben Keighran, ben@bluepulse.com.

Multimedia Engineer

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Unknown

The successful candidate will be a member of our client's Multimedia Software Development team working on porting multimedia codecs (audio,video,camera) to an embedded Linux platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for requirement analysis, design development and testing of software related to multimedia and porting multimedia codecs and drivers to embedded Linux environment.

Skills Overview

• Three to Fours years of experience in Professional Software Development required
• Strong knowledge and expertise in C and C++ programming absolutely required
• Experience in embedded development required.
• Experience working on linux on embedded platforms required. Any kernel level device driver experience major plus.
• Familiarity with OpenMax and experience in developing GStreamer applications strongly desired.
• Experience in developing ALSA and/or V4L2 drivers desired.
• Experience with either audio, video or camera low level development required.
• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Education Requirements
BSCS/BSEE required with 3-4 years of experience; Master's degree preferred.

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit resumes to Lance Mooney by e-mail lance.mooney@humancapitalconsultants.com or call 800-378-0847 X707.

System Test Engineer

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Unknown

The Embedded Linux Platform Test group designs, develops, debugs and runs test automation software to verify a broad array of multimedia technologies (audio, video, camera) and embedded Linux operating system on our client's single and dual processor ASIC chipset products.

Our client's programming environment is Perl on Microsoft Windows. You will interact in a team environment with other test automation developers and with our client's ASIC embedded software developers.

Flexibility in work assignments and thoroughness in project management are crucial.

Skills/Experience:

• Experience with developing / testing embedded software for Embedded Linux Platform is strongly desired. Familiarity with debugging and testing Linux test suites (LTP and LMBench). Experience testing and debugging Linux drivers (memory, display, keypad, camera, USB)
• Should have experience working with these applications in a wireless environment, including CDMA IS-2000, GSM/GPRS, or UMTS networks. Experience with those air interfaces and their protocol layers is a big plus.
• Experience with multimedia standards (JPEG, MPEG, IMAP, H.263, WAP, HTTP, OpenMax IL), 2G and 3G multimedia applications (Browser, MMS, DRM, camera, third generation UI interfaces, Bluetooth, Media Player), testing and/or software development of BREW applications or Java midlets is preferred.
• Software and test automation development skills are required. Advanced Perl development is preferred, but will consider strong C and C++ candidates.
• Test experience (a strong understanding of test methodology), understanding of the software development cycle, and experience with wireless test equipment or telecommunications systems are all preferred.
• Low level knowledge of the data protocol stack (PPP, IP, TCP) is a plus.
• Application interoperability (IOT) experience with carriers, OEMs, vendors and test forums a big plus.
• Excellent Communication and organizational skills.
• Engineering experience of two to six years is preferred.

Education Requirements
Bachelor Degree in EE, CS, or CE. Masters Degree preferred.

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit resumes to Lance Mooney by e-mail lance.mooney@humancapitalconsultants.com or call 800-378-0847 X707.

UI Architect

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Foster City, CA

Our client develops an advanced search-based platform and online service that crawls, extracts and categorizes information from across the web into highly customized on-demand intelligence for the financial, technical, and pharmaceutical industries. As an emerging leader in a rapidly growing new segment, their expanding list of customers includes over 40 blue-chip companies such as Citicorp, J.P.Morgan, John Hancock, Microsoft, Sanofi-Aventis, and Novartis. As a mature start-up they have been consistently backed by top tier venture capital firms primarily because of their aggressive approach to building groundbreaking technology and equity research services while opening doors into a growing market demand for customized and hosted intelligence. With an executive team that brings an extraordinary track record of thought leadership and success in maturing small start-ups into public companies and acquisitions, this company is ready to move into its next major phase of grow th.

As a result of this growth our client is ready to bring aboard a UI Guru who will play a key role in the direction and success of the technology.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate user requirements and complex business problems into creative, simple, cohesive and intuitive visual design solutions while working within constraints of web design standards, usability principles, technical feasibility and corporate branding.
• Facilitate and be part of user interface definition sessions through white boarding exercises and discussions.
• Create mock-ups and proof of concepts for new product ideas.
• Create deployment-quality mock-ups, prototypes, html templates and Style sheets on tight timelines that effectively communicate the visual and interaction design for technical development.
• Perform review sessions on mock-ups, concepts and wire frames and integrate this into the design process on an iterative basis.
• Coordinate with engineering team members throughout implementation to ensure adherence to the design specifications.
• Assist in development of a user interface design style guide that incorporates the visual design elements that will be used across product user interfaces.
• Help develop a visual design library for common user interface elements (buttons, icons, Style sheets etc.).
• Monitor design and visual consistency across all products and screens.
• Conduct usability study, incorporate the results into the future UI development

Experience:

Linux system and network administrator

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Berkeley, CA

Linux system and network administrator position for four neuroimaging labs at UC Berkeley. This position will be responsible for over 60 Linux workstations and a Linux fileserver with 30TB+ of data. There are also some Macs, Windows, and Sun boxes.

The candidate will assume an integral role in the design and maintenance of the computing environment for the laboratories of Silvia Bunge, Mark D'Esposito, William Jagust, and Robert Knight at the Brain Imaging Center (BIC). Specifically, work involves administration of systems being used for the analysis and display of structural and functional MRI and PET brain images. This includes the integration of these systems with the BIC environment according to the established standards. Under my direction, maintain the end-user support of these computational resources for the Bunge, D'Esposito, Jagust, and Knight laboratories and do related work as required.

Posting Title: System & Network Administrator
Requisition: 007569
Department: Helen Wills Neuroscience Inst
Location: Main Campus-Berkeley
Salary range: $4107 - $7684 monthly; Although most offers will not exceed midpoint of the range.

Apply at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/.

Software Engineer, Distributed Multi-core Systems

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Mountain View, CA

Google's global deployment of custom-designed machines has created one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in existence: cutting-edge innovation on a huge scale. The Platforms team designs and builds the software, hardware, computing platform and networking technologies that power all of Google's services.

We need experienced engineers with a passion for speed, to join several of our efforts towards building the world's most effective web-serving and distributed-computing platform. We are particularly interested in individuals with the rare combination of expertise in high-performance server design, networking and disk I/O systems, distributed computing, concurrent programming, and computer architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement high-performance server frameworks, toolkits, and other infrastructure, for current and future hardware platforms
• Design and implement concurrent-programming facilities and utilities
• Improve performance and efficiency of distributed multi-core computing systems
• Work with application developers to identify hot spots and bottlenecks, and then optimize around them
• Use, extend, and build performance-analysis tools as necessary

Requirements:

• B.S./M.S. Computer Science/Engineering. PhD is welcome.
• Experience developing high-performance servers and complex distributed-system software
• Experience developing concurrent and multi-threaded applications and libraries
• Understanding of computer architecture, including CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O systems
• Experience resolving system performance issues
• Knowledge of Gnu C/C++ compiler internals and standard library implementations
• Familiarity with x86 assembly and Linux internals

Contact Marina Moreno, Engineering Sourcer, Platforms - Systems Software, Google, Inc. moreno@google.com

Software Engineer, Linux Distribution

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Mountain View, CA

Google's global deployment of custom-designed machines has created one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in existence: cutting-edge innovation on a huge scale. The Platforms team designs and builds the software, hardware, computing platform and networking technologies that power all of Google's services.

Join the Google team and be part of the team that is responsible for the Linux distribution that is deployed across one of the world's most impressive cluster infrastructures. The role of the Distribution Engineer is to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain all aspects of a custom Linux distribution. This job requires a wide range of tasks from development, test and support activities while working internally with a large customer base. Job scope covers full range of tasks from the design of complex software systems to defining release policies and procedures through to operational implementation and maintenance. This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise in system software internals, revision control, and large-scale testing of the Google production operating system.

Responsibilities:

• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Design and development of systems to support frequent, reliable and safe deployment of the system software throughout the production data centers
• Ongoing tools development to support automation of daily tasks
• Design and implement test strategy and associated infrastructure for validation of the core operating system
• Work with internal developers to coordinate system software releases

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or other related technical degree
• Extensive knowledge of Linux internals and system administration
• 5 - 8 years of experience in working with Linux distributions / release engineering
• 3 years of coding in C/C++ and / or Python a must, scripting in shell a must
• 3 plus years of experience with RPM or other package management
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written

Contact Marina Moreno, Engineering Sourcer, Platforms - Systems Software, Google, Inc. moreno@google.com

Software Engineer, Linux Kernel

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Mountain View, CA

Google's global deployment of custom-designed machines has created one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in existence: cutting-edge innovation on a huge scale. The Platforms team designs and builds the software, hardware, computing platform and networking technologies that power all of Google's services.

We need world-class software engineers to help us develop technologies for one of the world's largest and most impressive Linux cluster deployments. You will have a chance to work on the unique challenges involved in building the system infrastructure that powers our Web search engine, as well as our many other services.

Responsibilities:

• Linux Kernel and Driver Development

Requirements:

• BS/MS Computer Science/Engineering. PhD is welcome.
• 7+ years of software development experience
• Extensive experience in C programming
• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux kernel internals
• Knowledge of disk storage subsystems, device drivers, TCP/IP and network programming
• Experience of developing/designing large software systems
• Experience programming in Python and/or C++ a plus

Contact Marina Moreno, Engineering Sourcer, Platforms - Systems Software, Google, Inc. moreno@google.com

Software Engineer, Platforms

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Mountain View, CA

Google's global deployment of custom-designed machines has created one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in existence: cutting-edge innovation on a huge scale. The Platforms team designs and builds the software, hardware, computing platform and networking technologies that power all of Google's services.

Help us develop management software for one of the world's largest and most impressive Linux cluster deployments. You will have a chance to work on the unique challenges involved in building the system software infrastructure that powers our Web search engine, as well as our many other services.

Responsibilities:

• Development of management and monitoring systems. Includes development of databases, GUI, low level kernel and driver development

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent (MS or Ph.D. a plus)
• 5+ years software development experience
• Experience developing/designing large software systems
• Extensive experience programming in Object Oriented and scripting languages.Experience programming in Python and/or C++ a plus
• Experience in file distribution and/or system monitoring a plus

Contact Marina Moreno, Engineering Sourcer, Platforms - Systems Software, Google, Inc. moreno@google.com

Ruby on Rails Developer

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Folsom, CA

We have an immediate need for an RoR developer for an exciting start-up company in Folsom, California. Initially the contract is 1+ month with the potential for additional hours. Work with existing R on Rails framework and integrate with Java Servelts app. The position reports to the CTO. Pay is $50 +/- on a w2 basis. Send resume to Lee Kendal, Recruiting Manager, Lee@staff-tech.net or call 916-932-1225.

Sr Unix Administrator

Posted: 2007.11.13
Location: Rancho Cordova, CA

Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is among the nation's largest publicly traded managed health care companies. Health Net's mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable. The company's POS, HMO, insured PPO, behavioral health and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to more than 7 million individuals. For more information on Health Net, Inc., please visit the company's Web site at www.healthnet.com

Job Summary:
The Senior System Engineer is a member of the UNIX system administration team with an extensive knowledge of system related skills, including hardware, software, storage, security and performance administration. The Senior System Engineer independently performs complex system administration tasks, including system configuration changes, software maintenance, storage system changes, complex, multivariate troubleshooting, and the development of non-trivial system routines and programs. The Senior System Engineer must be able to work independently and in a team environment, supervise junior team members, and act as an authoritative resource for peer team members.

Salary range is from $80K to $95K. Job type: regular full time. Looking to hire immediately.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• System management/administration of a large, heterogeneous UNIX environment supporting all phases of the system lifecycle for development, test and production installations.
• Management of a large, heterogeneous SAN-based storage architecture supporting the UNIX and VMS environments, including architecture, capacity planning and maintenance.
• Independently plans and execute new system installations and modifications to existing system configurations.
• Support periodic 24-hour on-call.
• Perform detailed system and network troubleshooting and communicate and implement necessary changes, modifications and patches.
• The Senior System Engineer is responsible for the proper design and maintenance of various UNIX based production systems hosting mission-critical applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and healthnet.com.
• The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for providing architecture, implementation, capacity management and day-to-day maintenance of our critical business systems.

Requirements:

• Education:
  Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field is preferred, but experience can substitute.
• Certification/License:
  Certification in the area of event management, storage management and/or Internet utilities is highly desirable. Highest level of certification in Systems Administration in AIX, Solaris or HP-UX is highly desirable.
• Experience:
  
  • 3+ years of EMC or HP storage management in a SAN environment is required. Expertise with ECCOE is preferred.
  • At least 5+ years as a Systems Engineer or Administrator in a Solaris, AIX or HP-UX environment.
  • Experience supporting Solaris or AIX is preferred.
  • Experience supporting a variety of industry standard software products, including Apache, Oracle, Java Application Server, Veritas.
  • Demonstrated expertise in enterprise system support over the course of at least 3 years.
  • Proven shell scripting abilities.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Proven ability to deliver design, architecture, project support, and maintenance work in a large multi-vendor technical environment
  • In depth technical knowledge with hardware architecture, operating systems, design, and implementation in large-scale multi-vendor highly structured computing environments
  • Strong organizational, written and oral communication skills
  • Some financial analysis skills to provide ROI and cost justification analysis on technical proposals suitable for presentation to senior management for approval of large scale capital expenditures
    OR
    Any combination of academic education, professional training or work experience, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.

Health Net, Inc. supports a drug-free work environment and requires pre-employment background and drug screening. Health Net and its subsidiaries are an Equal opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/V/D.

Contact Michael Burchfield, Senior OE Staffing Consultant - IT, Health Net Inc. michael.burchfield@healthnet.com, http://www.careersathealthnet.com/.

Open Source (LAMP) Front-end UI Architect

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: San Francisco Bay Area / Telecommute

We are looking for a self starter software engineer capable of designing and implementing a visually compelling user interface leveraging the latest web development methodologies and the AJAX programming model.

The ideal architect will have a thorough understanding of web user interface design principles, coupled with demonstrated knowledge of tools, frameworks, and languages necessary to design, build and support a new Software as a Service (SaaS) application targeted at IT vendors. We require a highly motivated individual passionate about building compelling user interfaces and capable of translating ideas from concept into reality. You will work closely with the founders and a Software Architect to architect and implement the look and feel of the application. It is anticipated that offices will be located near the mid San Francisco Bay Peninsula or mid East Bay.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years web application development experience
• XHTML and CSS experience required
• Javascript experience a must
• Experienced with Ruby on Rails or PHP (or another equivalent web 4GL)
• Demonstrated experience building AJAX applications
• Knowledge of one or more AJAX frameworks (DOJO toolkit, Yahoo User Interface Toolkit, Script.aculo.us., etc) required
• Linux/Unix expertise recommended
• Desire to work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to fulfill multiple roles
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related; or equivalent work experience

Market+ Salary, benefits package plus generous equity for founding employees Please send your resume to: Anthony.goeree [at] gmail[dot] com. You may also call Anthony at 415-332-0123.

Open Source (LAMP) Software Architect (Back-end)

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: San Francisco Bay Area / Telecommute

Would you like to become the founding software architect of a new web 2.0 start-up? Self-funded by two technical hands-on founders both with several very successful start-ups. We will start off with a virtual office and work remotely from home and locate to physical offices based on the geographical mass of the employees. Launch is scheduled for April of 2008.

We are looking for a self starter software engineer capable of designing and implementing the business logic and data access layer services of new Software as a Service (SaaS) application targeted at IT vendors. The ideal architect will have a thorough understanding of AJAX, object oriented programming, and web development methodologies. We require a highly motivated individual passionate about building scalable web services and capable of translating ideas from concept into reality. You will work closely with the founders and a presentation layer UI architect to architect and implement the business logic, workflow, and data access layers of the application. It is anticipated that offices will be located near the mid San Francisco Bay Peninsula or mid East Bay.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years web application development experience
• Experienced with Ruby on Rails or PHP (or another equivalent web 4GL)
• SQL expertise a must
• MySQL programming experience including basic table layout, stored procedures development a plus
• Experience building applications/services that send personalized emails a plus
• Linux/Unix expertise recommended
• Desire to work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to fulfill multiple roles
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related; or equivalent work experience
• Must be US Citizen or Green card holder.

Market+ Salary, benefits package plus generous equity for founding employees Please send your resume to: Anthony.goeree [at] gmail[dot] com. You may also call Anthony at 415-332-0123.

Principals only please. Only on-site work. Would desire key employees to live near Mid peninsula or mid East Bay (no re-location from outside the Bay Area).

Python developers

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: Davis, CA

We are looking for Python developers to create bioinformatics and data-mining software. We have a diverse array of problems we are working on, from cut-and-dry sequence alignment and primer design, to semantic analysis of scientific literature. We have both part-time and full-time positions available.

The Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA pipra.org) is a nonprofit organization run by UC Davis. We have a fun work environment and flexible hours. Also, we do a lot of good things around the world!

If you're interested, please contact Kyle at kyle@pipra.org.

Senior Software Engineer

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: San Francisco, CA

Scyld Software, a Penguin Computing Company, is the developer of Scyld ClusterWare, the leading Beowulf class Linux cluster operating system. Our goal is to provide innovative features that deliver customer value in clustered Linux environments. Currently focused on High Performance Computing applications, the Scyld ClusterWare Operating System will add features that will enable it to become the cluster operating system of choice in High Availability and Enterprise applications.

We are looking for a Linux kernel developer to work on the Scyld ClusterWare operating system. This is an opportunity to work with pioneers of the Linux movement and the inventors of Beowulf clustering. You will join a small team of professionals working on exciting, industry-leading operating system products and concepts. You will help us improve and evolve our existing product, while researching and implementing new concepts to advance Linux single system image clustering to the next level.

Technical Requirements
If you are a strong C software developer with experience on cooperative software engineering projects, have a good understanding of the software engineering process and best practices, and have recent Linux kernel experience, we would like to talk to you. In particular we're looking for experience in any of these areas:

• Experience with POSIX/Unix compatible systems
• Significant knowledge of Linux and how a Linux distribution is put together
• Experience developing kernel modules or device drivers
• Package installation and management software - especially RPM
• Understanding of high performance computing, distributed computing and MPI
• Understanding of shared-nothing clusters
• Networked system administration and monitoring tools

We offer a competitive compensation package, stock options, full benefits, and a casual working environment. We are located in San Francisco's Financial District, close to BART and convenient transit hubs. Equal talent will always receive equal opportunity at Scyld Software and Penguin Computing Inc.

To Apply:
Please send your resume with salary history and expectations to jobs@penguincomputing.com. Please include your name and desired job position in the subject line. No calls please.

System/Sales Engineer

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: San Francisco, CA

Penguin Computing, Inc. is a rapidly growing provider of hardware, software and services for high-performance, high-availability and enterprise Linux computing. IDC and others project that Linux computing will be among the fastest growing segments of the technology industry for the foreseeable future. The company is privately held and backed by leading venture capitalists. Management includes well-known and highly experienced veterans of industry-leading technology companies. We have approximately 70 employees. Penguin Computing is a roll-up-your-sleeves environment where senior executives are accessible, and decisions can be made and implemented quickly. This is an ideal environment for a self-starter

• Support regional sales manager selling Penguin/Scyld products and services via outbound field activities with potential and existing customers.
• Troubleshoot software/hardware/OS/application compatibility and configuration issues
• Support territory management including but not limited to identifying and closing new accounts, growing existing accounts, customer visits and presentations, contributing customer field data to Product Marketing and Engineering groups
• Document and translate customer requirements to be integrated into our product solutions
• Expect travel as part of the role

Requirements

• Should have 6-8 years experience with Linux hardware, distributions (RedHat, SUSE, Scyld) and operating system internals
• Must have expertise in one or more scripting languages (BASH, Perl, Python preferred)
• Should have experience configuring Linux for specific applications (Web serving, database, desktop, etc.)
• Minimum 2-3 years Outside sales experience in consultative technical sales (systems and solutions sales preferred) to Enterprises.
• Four year college degree in an appropriate technical discipline
• Driven, self starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of cluster distributions and HPC a plus
• Prefer US citizenship as many of the customers are Federal installations

This is a full-time position, salary commensurate with experience and market knowledge. Penguin Computing offers a competitive benefits package including medical, vision, and dental.

To Apply:
Please send your resume with salary history and expectations to jobs@penguincomputing.com. Please include your name and desired job position in the subject line. No calls please.

We regret that we cannot offer relocation or H1b visa sponsorship for this position.

Equal talent will always receive equal opportunity at Penguin Computing, Inc.

About the Company
Penguin Computing is the leading innovator of highly scalable Linux cluster, server and workstation platforms based on open standards hardware and software. Scyld Software, a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, provides the industry leading Linux clustering software, Scyld Beowulf. The company's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and educational institutions. Founded in 1998, Penguin Computing is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

For more information, please visit Penguin Computing at www.penguincomputing.com.

Sr. Cluster Engineering - Server Hardware

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: San Francisco, CA

We are looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer with experience in industry standard servers and clusters of standard servers. You will leverage the company's existing suite of servers, and design new clusters, including component qualification, racking, power and cooling, interfacing to the company's sales order management and supply chain systems and sales and manufacturing teams. You will interact daily with a small group of engineers designing cluster hardware, selecting and qualifying major components such as interconnects, switches, storage, file systems and management software.

Your background will include:

• At least 10 years working with server hardware
• At least 5 years working with industry standard servers
• Experience clustering standard servers, and connecting clusters to an ecosystem of storage and other services
• Specific knowledge of power distribution and cooling within racks of servers and storage
• BSEE
• Proven ability to manage schedules and projects, and to create and follow process and procedure

It would be beneficial if your background includes:

• Storage and storage management software
• Hardware management tools and software
• Integration of industry standard server with other major components
• Experience interfacing with manufacturing and supply chain, particularly with respect to creating process and procedure for assembling and testing racks of servers and other components
• Knowledge of the competitive cluster products based on industry standard servers.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Competitive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage
• Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications

To apply, please forward your resume to jobs@penguincomputing.com, and include "Cluster Engineer" in the subject line. We are sorry but we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this position.

About the Company:
Penguin Computing is the leading innovator of highly scalable, easy to use Linux clusters and servers based on open standards hardware and software. Its unique industry leading Linux clustering software, Scyld Beowulf, dramatically simplifies the deployment and management of Linux clusters by making large pools of servers act like a single virtual system. As a result, Penguin Computing's clusters deliver the power, manageability and scalability of an expensive SMP machine or supercomputer, at a fraction of the cost. The company's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and educational institutions. Founded in 1998, Penguin Computing is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more about HPC and Linux clustering, please visit Penguin Computing at www.penguincomputing.com.

Performance Analysis Engineer

Posted: 2007.10.25
Location: Mountain View, CA

We need world-class software engineers to help us develop one of the world's largest and most impressive Linux cluster deployments. You will have a chance to work on the unique challenges involved in building the system infrastructure that powers our Web search engine, as well as our many other services.

Responsibilities:

• Improve the performance of our code base by tackling performance debugging (at the single machine or datacenter levels)
• Developing performance tools to profile hardware utlization at all levels.
• Working with software developers to identify hot spots, and bottlenecks, and optimizing around them.

Requirements:

• B.S./M.S. Computer Science/Engineering. PhD is welcome.
• Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following:
• Performance debugging and optimization of complex workloads
• Design of performance tools
• Compiler design and code optimization
• High-performance software development techniques
• Design of system analysis tools such as monitoring of I/O operations, and characterization of network traffic

Desired skills include:

• Knowledge of Gnu C/C++ internals and standard library implementations
• Deep understanding of computer architecture
• Experience with complex distributed system software
• Familiarity with x86 assembly and Linux internals

Location: Mountain View, CA. (Must be willing to relocate.) For consideration please contact directly - Long Phung lphung@google.com.

Senior Software Engineer

Posted: 2007.09.06
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA

We are seeking a motivated, intelligent Senior-level Software Engineer who wants to work for a dynamic software engineering team. You must be able to work well in teams and on individual basis. You must be able to thrive in fast-paced development environment, multi-task efficiently, and be able to perform well as a leader, guiding a staff of 2-4 other engineers. You must be organized, be able to work in concert with other engineers, engineering managers, and product managers.

This person will be on a team that currently has 2-3 other developers. They will be focused on the customer-facing platform. Will be getting requirements from PM team, and interact quite a bit with project managers. Will also work with product group.

You will be developing, maintaining, testing, supporting, and documenting for our primary LAMP-based web application. You will be required to lead other members in your group in development of new requirements, bug fixes, code re-factoring and other maintenance. You will also be required to develop backend functions and libraries that serve as a middle-tier layer between Web front-end and database backend. Backend modules typically interact extensively with MySQL database, and many integrate with XML-based Web-Services. You must be comfortable with hand-coding HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years web-based software development experience
• Experience leading a team of 2+ engineers
• 4+ years PHP development experience
• 4+ years experience with writing SQL queries on MySQL (or equivalent) database
• Experience with Web Services, SOAP desired
• Experience with HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS desired
• Experience with Software Design Patterns, OOP required

Contact Semone Roberts, Technical Recruiter, Outsource Technical IT Staffing, sroberts@ostechnical.com.

Sr. Linux Administrator

Posted: 2007.09.04
Location: San Jose

MindSource specializes in placing technology professionals with companies in the Silicon Valley Region. We have an immediate need for a Sr. LINUX ADMINISTRATOR with one of our clients in SAN JOSE. This is a CONTRACT POSITION for 6 months with possible extension.

Job Description:
You will be a part of a small team that has built and scaled a website that attracts millions of people, has over 2 billion monthly page-views and is considered one of the largest internet forums in the world. <.p>

An ideal candidate must be highly motivated, have a keen interest in Internet technology, a love of open source software (WE DO!), and a fanatical attention to detail. Not only will you work to directly influence infrastructure design and implementation, you will work along side our developers to help improve our system design, security and user experience.

Candidates with prior experience working on a high profile, large-scale consumer facing websites will be highly valued.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Linux system administration. (Debian or RHEL preferred).
• Strong Networking experience with TCP/IP, Subnets, routing and switching. Must be able to troubleshoot at the packet level.
• A deep understanding of traffic load balancing using either software or hardware load balancers.
• Ability to script in a high level scripting language (Perl and bash are preferred). Should have a strong foundation in OO Design.
• Strong and current working knowledge of modern x86 based server hardware.
• Strong understanding of software and hardware RAID with Linux.
• Experience building Linux kernels and troubleshooting kernel issues.
• Experience with high traffic web servers running apache or lighttpd.
• Experience with DNS setup and management.
• Kernel and application performance tuning and profiling.
• Experience using Source code version control software (subversion, git, cvs).
• Experience with collocated servers.
• Willing to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Please let me know if you are interested in this position by sending your updated resume, rate and availability for a phone interview to Raj Vemuri, raj@mindsource.com.

Unix Systems Administrator

Posted: 2007.08.20
Location: Folsom

Maintain and support Unix based systems including Oracle Database server, development and test environments.

Perform architecture and budget forecasting for planned and future data center growth. Planning and implementation of disaster recovery strategies. Primary administrator for enterprise wide deployment & support for system & network monitoring & notification applications; and primary administrator for all business system backups.

Administrator for SAN (storage area network) support. Perform inventory and maintenance of off site tape data storage facility.

Application support for for Solaris, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas File System, Oracle, HP Openview, Network Node Manager, AlarmPoint, EMNS, Live Upgrade & Tibco.

Develop and maintain detailed application and process documentation for multiple environments.

Preferred certifications:

• Sun Certified SA
• Sun Competency 200
• Sun Cluster
• Veritas Volume Manager

Contact Joy Merrill, Technical Recruiter, joy@staff-tech.net.

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