Senior Software Engineer

Summary:

Bloglines is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sr. Software Engineer to work at our Campbell location. The Software Engineer will develop and implement a large scale data processing system in a distributed environment, in C++. The development tasks involve all aspects of scaling and improving a high-volume end-user focused web service.

Responsibilities:

• Addressing scaling issues arising from storing large amounts of data and serving a lot of web pages
• Maintain and improve RSS crawling and parsing processes
• Implement new functionality
• Develop tools and utilities to track progress and provide statistics

Technical Skill Level:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering, related fields or equivalent field experience.
• Very strong C and C++ understanding and development abilities
• Very strong UNIX abilities, including multithreaded/multiprocess development skills
• Good understanding of web protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS
• Good understanding of performance issues in a UNIX system and distributed environment
• Familiarity with web templating systems
• Familiarity with RSS and blogs
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Bash
• Familiarity with databases such as Sleepycat, GDBM, or MySQL

Professional Skill Level:

• Able to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Result oriented. Love to work on the problems until solutions are found.
• Take initiative.
• Able to actively drive project.
• Be creative, patient and efficient, produce practical solutions.
• Able to adapt to quick requirements change and produce quick solutions.
• Attention to details.
• Commitment to team.

Required Experience

• 5+ years experience
• BS in computer science or equivalent field experience