We are looking for senior systems engineers who will contribute to our efforts in designing and implementing our distributed data warehouse. If you're passionate about data analysis of large volumes of data, application performance, distributed systems and are interested in joining a world class engineering team you might well be the person we're looking for. Qualified individuals will have a solid background in the fundamentals of computer science, and some background in distributed computing, large scale data processing, and performance tuning.
Responsibilities
* Build large distributed systems that scale well - work on improving and adding new functionality to Pentaho's distributed data warehouse
* Understand performance bottlenecks, failure points, and security holes in such large scale systems, then design and implement software that prevents such faults
* Develop tools that automate the operations, administration, and tuning of Pentaho's distributed data warehouse clusters
* Assist the technical support team in the isolation and resolution of customer issues Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical members of the project team
* Simultaneously handle multiple tasks and projects
* Support customers, partners, and the open source community
Required Qualifications
* 5+ years of relevant experience
* Must be hard working, team oriented, bright, creative, cooperative, and an exceptional problem solver
* Must be able to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical implementation
* 3+ Years Experience with Java, C++ or C#
* Solid understanding and working knowledge of relational databases
* Solid understanding and working knowledge of modern operating systems and/or scalability techniques
* Proven skills in scalability analysis and performance monitoring and measuring techniques
* Experience with Linux based operating systems
* 4-year University degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
* Experience with software development best practices and design patterns
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a team environment
Desired Qualifications
* Experience with Apache Hadoop
* Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and concepts including ETL, OLAP, and Reporting
* Understanding of agile or other iterative software development methodologies
About Pentaho
Pentaho is the world's leading provider of commercial open source business intelligence (BI) software. Pentaho is widely used on all continents and in over 150 countries. With more than six million downloads and close to 1000 commercial SMB and Enterprise customers, Pentaho is proud to be one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform. Pentaho’s major differentiators are 1. Ease of Use for the business end user as well as the developer; 2. Scalability and flexibility of the platform; 3. Price is a fraction of the proprietary alternatives.
Interested? Email Will Gorman (wgorman@pentaho.com) your resume and why you are interested in this position.
Source: Joel On Software