Senior Backend Engineer - Fanout (<a href="http://fanout.io" >) - Mountain View
Fanout makes it easy to build realtime applications and APIs. We operate a distributed cloud service for delivering data in realtime via a variety of transport mechanisms: REST, HTTP streaming, WebSockets, Webhooks, XMPP. Useful for creating applications like chat, sports updates, stock tickers, games, and collaborative applications.
You're a backend engineer who is passionate about realtime technologies, network protocols, and open standards. You hate silos and walled gardens. You have opinions about when to use event-driven vs threaded programming patterns. You lie awake at night thinking about how to optimize out network round trips. You might even know assembly language, or did in a past life.
Also, our code is almost entirely open source! You should think that's pretty incredible. <a href="http://fanout.io/open/" >
Important pieces of our stack: C++ &amp; Python/Django, ZeroMQ, Mongrel2, Redis.
Your job:
- Help us build out and scale our distributed cloud service.
- Squeeze the most value out of our servers.
- Make the service bulletproof.
- Gloat about how you get paid to code publicly on GitHub.
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