WebAction (<a href="http://www.webaction.com" >http://www.webaction.com</a>) - Full Time or Intern in Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto)
WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today.
We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.
Skills you should have or at least be interested in learning:
Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries
If you are interested in joining, email us at REDACTED_EMAIL
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