Urban Airship is hiring full time senior software engineers in San Francisco and Portland.
We're looking for people to join our back end team (which is primarily Java, hbase, cassandra, high volume RPC services), and our web team (JavaScript, python/django, d3, etc...)
Our San Francisco location is a small, engineering and operations-focused office in SOMA. We have the feel of a much smaller company, but we operate at a scale of billions of events per day. If working on APIs that get called 40,000 times per second, all day, every day sounds interesting, you might like us.
Doing interesting things with a firehose of kafka events is also something we also do a lot of.
We support open source software and believe in good tooling (we just released a new project yesterday -- <a href="https://github.com/urbanairship/tessera;" > full disclosure - that was my project for our internal Hack Week recently, and we're now monitoring our metrics in production with it), and minimizing the obstacles to getting stuff done. We also believe in work/life balance, as well has having room for people to work on their side projects; most of our monitoring stack started as side projects!
In our backend stack, experience with Java, netty, protobufs, kafka, hbase, high volume TCP/IP messaging in general, designing and building REST APIs, postgres, postgis, cassandra, geolocation technology, automated testing and deployment are all valuable.
You can check out the official listings at <a href="http://urbanairship.com/careers" >, or send me a note at REDACTED_EMAIL
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