Software Engineer - Geo (New York)

Our engineering teams are responsible for the services and infrastructure that connect hundreds of millions of active Twitter users to real-time information about what’s relevant in their lives and the world we live in. We work on some of the world’s largest distributed systems – our core infrastructure receives hundreds of millions of tweets per day and serves tens of billions of API requests, all with an uptime in excess of 99.9%. Our other systems operate at a similarly staggering scale: we serve over 2 billion search queries per day, render hundreds of millions of ad impressions, and process hundreds of terabytes of log and interaction data daily. As a systems engineer at Twitter, you will help us build, scale and maintain these systems, all of which have a direct impact on the lives of our users and the success of our business.

We are looking for a number of passionate, talented, entrepreneurial engineers to join the team in New York to help build the future of Twitter's location based systems.

Responsibilities:

* Build and maintain low latency high performance scalable systems

* Build out Twitter's Geotagging and Geolocation services

* Develop elegant solutions to complex problems

* Be awesome in developing JVM services (Scala, Java)

* Balance out your desire to ship code with your responsibility to get it right