Senior Software Engineer or Architect in Media Platforms

Company Description

Must have the qualifications - client eager to hire by June 10 2011

What We Do WITH Employers

We offer Permanent and Executive Search staffing. Serving a broad spectrum of industries and have candidates that are qualified in their fields. We are able to meet the most diverse staffing requirements. All our consultants have been in your "corporate hiring shoes with a mix of agency background". Exceptional recruiters always find the right "fit" regardless of the role they are working on.

Our qualified candidates assume positions covering a wide range of employment areas: Office Administration, Accounting, Engineering, Finance, Customer Service, Call Centre, Human Resources, Information Technology, Sales & Marketing, Logistics, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Legal, Bilingual Services, Retail and Management & Executive Search.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

* Design, research, develop, and maintain new software functionality.
* Learn relevant technology and systems.
* Maintain standards for reliable, scalable, and secure systems.
* Document designs and proof-of-concepts, present for peer review with the team.
* Interact with development, product management, architecture, and QA throughout the product lifecycle.
* Stay up to date with internet, hardware, and software technologies and standards our projects utilize.
* Research new concepts, methods, and technologies relevant to our solutions.
* Provide 2nd/3rd level support and training for engineering and support/services

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications
* Education: BS degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience.
* Minimum 5+ years of relevant hands-on software development and architecture experience.
* Minimum 3 years experience with developing in static typed languages such as C, C++, and Java.
* Minimum of 2 years of strong expertise with scalable, high performance, and multi-threaded development.
* Minimum 2 years experience with developing in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, or shell scripting.

Desired Qualifications

* Leadership experience with architecture, design and operations for large, distributed and complex systems.
* Deep knowledge of media streaming technologies, encoding, protocols, and formats.
* Expertise with scalable, high performance, and multi-threaded development.
* Experience with the complete software development life cycle, from requirements to design, implementation, testing, and release.
* Deep knowledge in large scale data, non-relational, and distributed databases.
* Experience with systems like CouchDB, Cassandra, or Hadoop/HBase a plus.
* Experience with security models including authentication, encryption, and PKI.
* Familiarity with software development on Linux.
* Understanding of Internet protocols and content delivery. Depth in Internet routing, TLS/SSL, and TCP/IP a plus.
* Experience with standard relational databases like Oracle or MySQL.
* Demonstrable experience in object oriented design and analysis.
* Ability and passion to maintain high quality standards, be self-motivated, a fast learner, and have the drive to research and innovate.
* Strong communication and consensus-building skills.

Other Information
* Is relocation available for this position: No 
* Is US Citizenship required: No 
* Is a Security Clearance Required: No

Additional Information

****We Are Looking To HIRE quickly by June 10 2011 ****

We look forward to receiving your application!
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About the Job

Are you the type of person that likes to design and develop software to make online transactions faster and more secure? Have you built e-commerce payment gateways? Are you interested in working in a heavily distributed environment? Do you live, breathe and mull over C/C++ code? If so, please read further and feel free to submit your resume for this exciting opportunity.

Your C/C++ code will run on thousands of edge servers and help deliver a safe online environment for hundreds of top consumer and business web sites. You will be a key member in a high performance team to extend our core software that powers secure content delivery network.