Platform Engineer - Moz - Job Board

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Are you passionate about designing and building scaled, distributed services with low latency messaging and high availability/fault tolerance? Have you ever pondered about CAP theorem, Consistent Hashing or the intricacies of the Paxos Algorithm? Do you want to build the next generation cluster OS powering entire datacenters?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is an opportunity of a lifetime to get your hands dirty with a real-world solution implementing these concepts and learning about building large scale distributed systems from world-class people (Ex Googlers).

About The Position

At Moz, we’re changing the way the world thinks about inbound marketing and we are looking for talented engineers to join the infrastructure team and help us take it to the next level. Moz’s infrastructure team develops all distributed and big data systems and applications to efficiently run Moz’s inbound marketing, data management, and analytics platforms. 

As an engineer on the infrastructure team, you will contribute directly to our efforts in designing and implementing the critical distributed systems infrastructure that will support our current and future products.

Responsibilities:

• Help define the vision of our next generation platform architecture.
• Collaborate in the design and building of our next-generation service oriented architecture stack that will power all services in our ecosystem.
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of our next-generation machine learning systems.
• Design and implement features evolving our inbound marketing and local product offerings.
• Scale up and tune our indexing systems. Challenges come in the form of concurrency, data scale, and computational efficiency.
• Develop instrumentation/profiling tools and systems.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience developing system software or backend services
• Thorough understanding of core Computer Science fundamentals including Algorithms, Data Structures, Distributed Systems & Networking, Operating Systems.
• Strong programming skills in a major language.
• Self-motivated, quick-learner, team-player that possesses great communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience.
• MS/PhD in a systems related sub discipline.
• Hands-on development experience building distributed, Internet-scale systems, building and applying frameworks for caching, queuing, RPC, parallelism, and distributed data storage.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, systems like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, NoSQL stores like HBase, etc is desirable. Experience with Apache Mesos is a big plus.
• Published work in academic conferences or industry circles.

(This position offers an opportunity to work remotely)

About Moz

We build analytics software that gives our users the technical edge towards better marketing on the web. We are dedicated to the future of marketing analytics.  We’re obsessed with it.   We’ve been at it for over a decade and we’re in it for the long haul.  We’re a leader in our space, growing fast and receiving frequent recognition for our accomplishments (2014 lists include:  Inc 5000, Deloitte Fast 500, and the Puget Sound Business Journal’s fastest growing private companies).

Behind our software is a sea of Mozzers with a wide array of personalities, experiences, and expertise.  We’ve worked hard and deliberately to build a cultural roadmap. It’s not just about ping pong games and company parties (though we have those, too!).  Learn more about it below before you apply:

• TAGFEE is the glue that holds us together and binds how we do everything at Moz. As Mozzers, we aspire to live and breathe these values.
• We make the web a better place: (http://moz.com/about) and this is how we do it: (http://moz.com/products).
• Not convinced we are awesome yet? Check out our video “Why we love Moz” and our amazing benefits package.

Sneak Peak at the Goodies

• Competitive salary, 401K, stock options
• Generous time off plus $3,000 per year towards your vacation!!
• Home internet and transportation subsidies
• 150% charitable donation match
• And so much more (feel free to grill us about the rest in the interview!)

Why Moz?  Because we love what we do.