Posted: 2013-02-14 00:00:00
Tags:
Engineering
scala
Internet
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Company: Twitter
Location: Greater New York City Area
Hours: Full-time
job Poster: Sonny (Technical Recruiter at Twitter)
Expiry Date: 2013-03-16 00:00:00
Description:
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
Desired Skills & Experience:
Requirements:
* Development experience with Geospatial data storage and querying
* Knowledge of Geospatial data sources and providers
* Hands-on experience with Geo API's (Google Maps, Bing Maps, foursquare, Twitter)
* Extensive experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure and/or large-scale data processing
* Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
* Strong algorithms and data structures background
* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Desired:
* Active user of Twitter
* Open source contributor
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