Burt is looking for a distributed computing and data storage engineer. You should love big data and cluster computing, especially in the context of solving large-scale, real-world problems that improve our core products. An interest in teaching and enabling coworkers with this technology is ideal. The ideal candidate will dream about distributed systems for the parallel processing of massive quantities of data, be familiar with Hadoop/Pig/HBase and MapReduce, and frequently think to themselves, “Yeah, that works for 500 MB of data; what about 500 TB?”. This position is full-time and based in our main office in Gothenburg, Sweden(*).

Responsibilities

• Work on the scalability, resilience, and efficiency of backend components, particularly Hadoop.
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa.
• Work with data analysis to construct creative solutions for supporting Burt’s products.
• Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level.
• Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically.
• Debug runtime problems and understand the interactions between systems,
• Build systems, libraries, and frameworks within, around, and on top of Hadoop.
• Code using primarily Java, Scala, and Python/Ruby.

Preferred experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with large-scale Hadoop clusters is a big plus
• Experience or interest in distributed network systems
• Knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
• Experience developing with Python, Ruby, or PHP
• Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of a compiled language

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create their roles, instead of us creating them for them.

Read more about our company and what you can expect from working at Burt here.

Is this you? Contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*)  A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

We’ve filled this position, but if your profile matches and you’re awesome(*) please send your CV and cover letter anyway.

In our industry having 99.99% uptime is the difference between getting payed by the customer and paying the customer. If you’ll ever work for a company that really appreciates your work – it’s us!

As a skilled systems administrator you’ll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe (**) (here, here, here, here and here) to provide technical support and administration to our ever-growing number of machines.

You have experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to build a high performance and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers.

You listen well, produce quickly and you’re proactive with problems. You really know how to get things done, but more importantly you know when to say ‘No.’.

Your beard is trustworthy.

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create their roles, instead of us creating them for them.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering groups to design, build, and maintain systems
• Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
• Write scripts to monitor and automate processes
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• System failure analysis and recovery

Knowledge and skills required:

• Experience in operations department of large-scale Internet service
• Experience with Linux/Unix/BSD
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, and memcache
• Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python)
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Track record of practical problem solving

Valuable Additional Skills:

• Experience automating systems maintenance tasks
• Experience building fault tolerant, scalable systems
• Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Hadoop and similar technologies
• Experience with Ruby, Java
• Experience with Ruby on Rails stack performance tuning

If you’re interested, contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*) Awesomeness subject to arbitrary review.

(**) Our development and operations offices are currently located in Gothenburg, Sweden. A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.