job requirements

Linkedin:

• You should have hands-on development experience building distributed, Internet-scale systems, building and applying frameworks for caching, queuing, RPC, parallelism, and distributed data storage.
• You deeply understand multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• You should be excited to work on cutting edge open-source systems.  Voldemort, Kafka and Azkaban.
• You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Further, it would be fantastic if you are intimately familiar with internals of any major database system/operating system/ file system.
• Understanding of search engine internals and expertise with Lucene/Solr

Twitter:

• Strong Java development skills

• Experience developing scalable and complex distributed systems

• Extensive experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, and/or large-scale data processing

• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)

• Strong algorithms and data structures background

• Experience with distributed storage systems such as Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and MegaStore BigTable

• Experience with Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols

• Experience with Hadoop or other MapReduce-based architectures

• Experience with in-memory caching systems (such as Redis, Memcached)

• A history of open-source contribution

• Experience Implementing large scale cloud services (IaaS, PaaS)
  

• Ability to design and implement efficient algorithms for crawling, indexing, searching, and ranking documents

Facebook:

• Design core, backend software components
• Code using primarily C/C++, Java, and PHP
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

• Develop reusable tools for the management and manipulation of hundreds of terabytes of data
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of data collection, storage, and retrieval processes
• Work closely with data analysts to construct creative solutions for their analysis tasks
• Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level
• Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically

• B.S. Computer Science or related field preferred
• Extensive experience building large-scale server applications
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ or Java/C#
• Knowledge of Perl, PHP or Python a plus
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers also a plus