by Angela Guess
Merkle has an opening for a Data Store Engineer – NoSQL/Hadoop in New York, NY. According to the post, “Merkle, Inc. is the nation’s largest and fastest growing, privately held, customer relationship marketing (CRM) agency with a team of over 1,400 exceptionally talented people working throughout the United States, China and the UK. This is a place where exceptionally talented people want to be — a place where they can harness their skills, build enduring relationships, and do remarkable things they otherwise wouldn’t. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in large data analysis that have managed and administered large data warehouse deployments and have experimented with cutting-edge technologies in this space.”
Qualifications include the following: “Experience with NoSQL data stores (Cassandra, MongoDB). Experience with Hadoop. Strong in data structures and programming practices. Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably MySQL. Well versed with debugging and benchmarking. Proficient in Shell scripting (Bash, Awk, etc). SQL experience is strongly preferred. Solid experience with large-scale, distributed systems design and development with a strong understanding of scaling, performance and scheduling. Experience with Big Table/Map Reduce or other parallel programming/processing techniques. Strong experience with Linux systems. Expert understanding of ETL techniques and best practices to handle extremely large and complex volume of data.”
photo credit: Merkle
