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