Our client is a digital media company headquartered in NYC that’s looking to grow the engineering team supporting our Exchange team by adding developers.

Some major projects the Exchange team is currently working on: continuing to scale our core exchange platform, honing the intelligence of our optimization, cutting feedback time for business intelligence, and aggressive automation. Currently, we:

• handles millions of transactions per second, hundreds of billions of times each day
• evaluates, selects, and optimizes ad-serving based on advanced statistics and machine-learning
• returns responses collected from dozens of parties in milliseconds
• constantly evolves to meet market demands that change in days and weeks, not months/years
• factors thousands of data-points in every serving decision

What you’ll be doing:

• Deploying, configuring, monitoring and maintaining multiple big data stores, across multiple datacenters. Perform planning, configuration, deployment and maintenance work relevant to the environment. Managing the large-scale Linux infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime. 
• Developing and documenting system configuration standards and procedures. 
• Performance and reliability testing. This may include reviewing configuration, software choices/versions, hardware specs, etc. 
• Advancing our technology stack with innovative ideas and new creative solutions. 

Who are you: 

• Collaboration is in your DNA. You enjoy contributing to a mutual cause, that is why you know when the team succeeds, you succeed. 
• You are always looking for ways to grow your skills. You are hungry to learn new technologies and share your insights with your team. 
• You like a big picture perspective and also digging into the fine details. You can think strategically but also dive into complex systems and break them down and build them back better. 
• You are a proactive problem solver. You are irked by an unreliable infrastructure and your first instinct is to find ways to fix it. 

What you'll need:

• Multi-faceted Alluxio and Hadoop understanding, including the Kerberos, for data storage and Trino, Hive, and Impala for data retrieval.
• Experience managing Kafka clusters on Linux.
• Thorough understanding of Linux (we use CentOS in production). 
• Experience administering SQL/NoSQL databases (we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Any scripting language (Python/Ruby/Shell etc).
• Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP stack, DNS, CDN, load balancing).
• Must be willing and able to East Coast U.S. hours 9am-6pm EST

Bonus, but not required:

• Ability to work with Cassandra cluster from installation through troubleshooting and maintenance. 
• Puppet configuration management tool. 
• Experience with scalable infrastructure monitoring solutions such as Icinga, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana and ELK.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Train/mentor junior-level staff. 
• Experience in AdTech or High-Frequency Trading.
• Experience with Security-related best practices.

Waiting for your CV!