[Texas] Job Openings Seen at PyCon 2011

[Jeff Rush]

For those who didn't make it to PyCon or who slept while there, here are
some of the hiring opportunities you may have missed.


      Google:

Google Engineering makes Google's services fast and reliable for
hundreds of milllions of users. Described as "software engineering for
adrenaline junkies", the team combines software development, networking,
and systems administration expertise to build and run massively
distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure.

In particular, Google is looking for a Unix System/Applications Admin
for Google.com (Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA, Santa Monica, CA,
Seattle, WA, New York, Pittsburgh)

Responsibilities:

    * Be involved in every facet of Google's production site
    * From design issues to troubleshooting, from performance analysis
      to capacity planning, from DNS to networking to application
      [mis]behavior, you will ultimately be responsible for making sure
      that Google always works.
    * Wear many hats: first responder, performance analyst, service
      architect, system/database administrator, capacity planner, tools
      developer, monitoring expert, and technical evangelist for
      Google's entire productions site.


   Requirements:

    * BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience
    * At least 3 years with Unix systems administration
    * Technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
    * Experience in a high-volume or critical production service
      environment
    * Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus
    * Tack-sharp analytical abilities, coupled with a strong sens of
      ownership, urgency, and drive
    * SQL and/or MySQL experience a plus
    * Fluent written communication and unusual verbal agility are strong
      assets.

For a list of Python related positions at Google, click:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fjobs+python&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=1&cad=b
<http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fjobs+python&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=1&cad=b>


For a list of Python related positions at YouTube, click:
http://www.google.com/jobs/workyoutube/


      Microsoft:

Microsoft's Technical Computing Group is looking for Senior Software
Design Engineers to help them build a software stack to enable
predictive modeling by scientists, engineers and other domain specialists.

Scientific computing is a fast growing area. With the right tools and
the power of supercomputers, a new generation of domain specialists will
be empowered to build weather models to predict the course of climate
change, risk models to avoid the next economic meltdown, and business
models to turn a crushing amount of raw data into intelligence. In this
project, we are responsible for harnessing the distributed
supercomputing power of the client, cluster and cloud in a way that
makes sense to the domain specialist and lets him focus on the science.

There are two different positions:

Sr. Software Design Engineer:

    * 8 years of experience shipping commercial products
    * Exceptional working knowledge of C++ and C#
    * Experience in application development (Win32, COM)
    * Grounding in the fundamentals of parallel and distributed computing
    * A solid grasp of data analysis and simulation modeling techniques
    * Experience creating simple, practical software designs
    * Ability to ramp up quickly on new technology
    * Flexibility in the face of the ambiguity of an evolving project
    * BS in Computer Science or a related field


   Software Design Engineer II:

    * 4 years of experience shipping products
    * Exceptional working knowledge of C++ and C#
    * GUI development experience with technologies such as GDI/MFC,
      WPF/XAML or HTML/JS
    * Experience creating simple, practical software designs
    * Ability to ramp up quickly on new technology
    * Flexibility in the face of the ambiguity of a v1 project
    * BS in Computer Science or a related field

Experience with GUI development (WPF, HTML/JS) and Office
programmability is highly desirable. Experience with technical computing
tools is preferred, as is database systems experience (SQL, SSIS, Azure
storage paradigms), and any experience working as a domain specialist
would be extremely valuable. However, the critical requirements are
strong software development skills, a customer-centric approach,
self-motivation, the ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new
situations, and a passion for the promise of technical computing.


      White Oak Technologies, Inc.:

White Oak Technologies, Inc. (http://www.woti.jobs) will be taking
resumes at PyCon for Computer Scientists who want to join our
exceptional team in Florida or in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan
area. Applicants for these positions must be extremely innovative with
expertise in one or more of the following: Python, C++, Web
Technologies, Data Structures, Compiler Design, Relational Databases,
Perl, Text Analysis, and Linux System-Level Programming. Relocation
benefits will be provided for qualified candidates. Candidates for these
positions must be U.S.citizens.


      Mozilla:

Available positions:

    * Web Developer - Rapid Development
      <http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListing&c=qpX9Vfwa&v=1>

    * Web Application Security Engineer
      <http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=ofcyVfwE>

    * Software Engineer (Server) - Mozilla Services
      <http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=oa7BVfwx>

    * Labs Software Engineer
      <http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=oBEpVfwj>

    * Software Engineer (Open Web Apps)
      <http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=odHzVfw8>



      Caktus:

Caktus is looking for an experienced Django web developer who enjoys
working on a team and is excited to work on new and diverse projects.
Your work will involve:

    * Data modeling complex business ideas
    * Creating and integrating Django apps in new projects
    * Maintaining existing Django projects
    * Django deployment

If potential applicants could come with a resume and links to samples of
their work would be appreciated. The url to the posting is:
http://www.caktusgroup.com/careers/django-web-developer/


      Activestate:

Activestate is looking for a Python Tech Lead. Information is at
http://www.activestate.com/company/careers.  Please send your resume to
careers at activestate.com <mailto:careers at activestate.com>.


      Uber:

Uber is always looking for the right people. Uber's jobs page is the
best place for info: http://www.uber.com/jobs


      CMG Digital:

CMG Digital asks that applicants have a GitHub or BitBucket public repo,
and that they fork our code challenge on GitHub. Here's a URL with our
job description and link to GitHub challenge:
http://djangozen.com/jobs/view/team-looking-for-full-time-django-developer-/


They have 2 positions open right now, but they're always looking for the
best folks so they could stretch a bit for the right person.


      Loggly:

Loggly is trying to find a senior Django middleware engineer. As they
describe the position: "You will help us continue and build the
middleware for Loggly including the functions around account management,
authentication, billing, and search interface code. You also own the
Loggly REST APIs which enable our users to build unique solutions around
our logging service. Your Python skills know no limits, and you live for
building testing frameworks that ensure our users get a solid and
reliable experience when they use or code against the product."


      Enthought:

Enthought is a a small, scientific software development company located
in downtown Austin, Texas. We are currently hiring for the following
positions (http://enthought.com/):

    * Software Developer: Scientific Applications Austin, TX/ Cambridge,
      UK <http://enthought.com/company/sd-scientific-app.php>
    * Software Developer: Financial Applications - Austin, TX/ New York,
      NY/ London, UK <http://enthought.com/company/sd-financial-app.php>
    * IT Architect - Austin, TX <http://enthought.com/company/itadmin.php>
    * Web Services and Application Developer - Austin, TX
      <http://enthought.com/company/webapps.php>


      Emma:

Emma is looking for a number of people to help build their next
generation of web-based communications services.

/Platform developer (Portland, OR):/ As a member of our Platform team,
you'll work on a variety of challenging projects, employing open source
technologies and a dash of cunning to deliver top-notch solutions to
difficult problems. We're focused on topics like scalability and
reliability -- pretty much anything ending in -bility, really -- and on
building a solid foundation to power Emma's innovative applications and
services. More information at
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oyDkVfwa&s=Pycon
<http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oyDkVfwa&s=Pycon>

/Application developer (Nashville, TN):/ As a member of the Application
Development team, you'll work with various open-source languages and
software to power Emma's deceptively easy-to-use interface. While we in
AppDev get down with the nitty-gritty of scaling concerns and database
query performance, we're more often focused on the challenge of turning
the dreams of our User Experience crew into reality. More information at
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oxDkVfw9&s=Pycon
<http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oxDkVfw9&s=Pycon>


      SurveyMonkey:

SurveyMonkey is the world's leading provider of web-based survey
solutions, but there's really much more to us than that.

SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 100% of the
Fortune 100, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and
organizations of all shapes and sizes. In any given month, we collect
more than 25 million survey responses from people in over 190 countries
around the world.

We're also proud to admit that despite our incredible growth over the
past 10 years, we refuse to grow up. We are still small and nimble;
everyone plays an impactful role; and when we say good ideas can come
from anyone, we mean it.

If this sounds like home to you, and you're ready to make your work
matter to millions, we'd love to meet you. Survey Monkey is looking for
software engineers that have a passion for solving complex and
interesting problems. To handle information at the scale of the web
requires ideas from just about every area of computer science, including
information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design,
networking, security, data compression, user interface design, etc.

We are looking in particular for in-depth, hands-on knowledge of Python
and knowledge of at least one other server-side language, such as Java,
C#, or Ruby. Experience with Django, Pylons, or other Python web
frameworks is required.

Go to the job description page
<http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=q7X9VfwS&s=pycon&nl=1&page=Job%20Description&j=ow9iVfwC>
to learn more, or click here to apply.
<http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=ow9iVfwC&s=pycon>


      Eucalyptus:

Eucalyptus has a number of positions available:

    * Professional Services Manager
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/professional_services_manager>
    * support_engineer"
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/support_engineer>
    * Product Marketing Manager
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/product_marketing_manager>
    * product_manager <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/product_manager>
    * User Experience Engineer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/user_experience_engineer>
    * Release Engineer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/about/careers/release_engineer>
    * Quality Engineer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/about/careers/quality_engineer>
    * Project Manager
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/about/careers/project_manager>
    * Software Engineer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/software_engineer>
    * Web Graphic Designer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/web_graphic_designer>
    * Prepost Software Engineer
      <http://www.eucalyptus.com/careers/prepost_software_engineer>


-Jeff

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