System Engineer

Circonus provides Big Data analytics and monitoring for Web-Scale IT. Developed specifically for the requirements of DevOps, the Circonus platform delivers alerts, graphs, dashboards and machine-learning intelligence that help to optimize not just your operations, but also your business.

• Perform maintenance and feature development on data storage systems (both open source and proprietary)
• Design and implement active-active idempotent soft real-time systems
• Ensure code quality and performance for core architecture components in both C, Java, and Javascript
• Diagnose production issues, suggest a fix to the problem, or be able to articulate what the problem is to your peers and collaborate with them
• Document design and implementation decisions

• Distributed systems knowledge including consensus approaches, consistent hashing, vector clocks or lamport timestamps, and commutative vs. non-commutative operations
• Solid experience programming in C and Java (Javascript is a plus)
• Programming language agnostic
• Ability to analyze/review/design a solution with a solid understanding of immediate performance, scalability, resource utilization and long-term behavior
• Fluency in at least one SQL database technology (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Fluency in at least one distributed KV-store technology (Riak, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.)
• Experience working in Solaris, Linux, BSD and UNIX in general
• Thorough background in either traditional software engineering or agile development practices
• Thorough understanding of VCS systems (at least one of Subversion or Git, others are helpful)

CAN ARGUE, DISCUSS, AND REASONABLY EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING PAPERS IN PLAIN ENGLISH:

• Dynamo: amazon’s highly available key-value store
• Resettable vector clocks
• An intelligent prediction system for time series data using periodic pattern mining in temporal databases