SurveyMonkey ( <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com" > )
Offices in:
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Portland, OR, USA
Job Description:
Survey Monkey is looking for software engineers who have a passion for
solving complex and interesting problems. In addition to scaling site,
we are looking for people who can help with advanced analysis and data
visualization, natural language processing, and new storage
architectures.
Requirements
* Experience writing top quality software for high-volume/high
availability websites, including being involved in building critical
user-facing components.
* Comfortable working in a Unix environment
* Experienced in working with multiple databases and datastores
(Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc.)
* Love Python
About the company
SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, but there's really
much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who
work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period.
We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the
insights and information they need to make better, more informed
decisions.
We help customers collect over 2+ million online survey responses daily.
SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the
Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and
organizations of all shapes and sizes.
* What Python is used for:
Our primary services/applications are all built on top of the Pyramid
Webframework. We use pylibmc, ansible, jinja2, sqlalchemy, and many
other open source python libraries to power our infrastructure.
We are planning to do our first Python3 and PyPy deployments in 2014.
Along with moving from weekly releases to continuous deployment.
* Contact Info:
Contact: John Anderson
E-mail contact: johna [at] surveymonkey.com
No telecommuting
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