Monday, September 29, 2014

Box - Hadoop Operations Engineer

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Hadoop Operations Engineer

Los Altos, CA
Technical Operations
Full-Time

Box is seeking a Hadoop Operations Engineer to support our production data analytics systems and work with developers to enhance the capabilities of our metrics and analytics infrastructure. The Hadoop environment at Box is also a critical component of customer-facing production services and we are building a team able to rapidly scale services, explore and adopt new technologies, and ensure high availability and performance. We are in a high-growth phase with a variety of operational and architectural challenges which should appeal to candidates interested in making a big impact on the organization and services.

Responsibilities

    • Own and manage several Hadoop clusters in production and development environments.
    • Work with engineering software developers to investigate problems and make changes to the Hadoop environment and associated applications.
    • Develop monitoring and performance metrics for Hadoop clusters.
    • Automate deployment and management of Hadoop services.
    • Investigate emerging technologies relevant to our needs.
    • Contribute to the evolving architecture of our services to meet changing requirements for scaling, reliability, performance, manageability, and price.
    • Document designs and procedures for building and managing Hadoop clusters.
    • Train NOC staff to follow support and escalation procedures.

Qualifications

    • 2+ years experience operating Hadoop services, preferably in a large-scale production environment.
    • Familiarity with use of standard Hadoop ecosystem features and applications such as MapReduce, HBase, Hue, and Hive.
    • Knowledge of OpenTSDB or Kafka would be a plus.
    • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
    • Solid basis in systems management automation using popular open-source tools (eg, Puppet, Python, Bash).
    • Experience running and troubleshooting Java applications. Java programming background would be useful.
    • Responsible and meticulous approach to work.
    • Team player with good communication skills and ability to perform under fire.
    • Interested in engineering productivity and supporting software developers.

About Box: Box provides a secure way to share content and improve collaboration on any device. Desktop, tablet or mobile. From huge corporations to mom and pop stores, Box believes technology should never limit anything you do. Businesses of any size can be more productive, inventive and powerful on Box. The company is well funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box is proud to be on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies, is used in 240,000 businesses - including 99% of the Fortune 500 – and is the go-to product of 27 million people.

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