by Angela Guess
The Mitchell Group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with Hadoop, NoSQL, and large data set experience in Palo Alto, CA: “We are looking for highly accomplished engineers. As a company in the social media space, we enable site publishers to provide a simple one-button option to users to share site content with others through email, social networks, and social bookmarking. We promote sharing of interesting content among users connected by a social graph and shared interests. We are able to accumulate significant data and provide insights on interests, and influence circle of users. We have experienced significant growth both in adoption by site publishers and share actions by users. Over 130,000 publishers have incorporated our widget driving 5 billion+ page views monthly.”
The post continues, “The idealized candidate is most likely to be a hybrid: part sysadmin and part engineer. This needs to be a candidate that is clearly passionate about the challenges related to large infrastructure, applications associated with date processing, online advertising, and social media. It is essential for the candidate to have outstanding technical skills. From a technical perspective, the candidate must have direct domain experience in data product engineering, deep understanding of systems administration. The candidate must demonstrate first-hand experience in building and deploying systems that scale. Implementation experience in SQL or NoSQL based systems, AWS, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS/HBase or equivalent is strongly preferred. Experience in scripting languages such as Shell, Perl and programming languages such as Java/C++ and/or Python, PHP, SQL is expected.”
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