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WLAN QA Engineer for India

2009-11-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Location : Bangalore India

Type: Full Time

Job Description: Seeking a QA engineer to work on the the VisualRF module, which is an add-on to the Client Wireless Management Suite that provides a real-time picture of the actual radio environment of your wireless network. VisualRF is a browser-based application that makes your wireless network visible. Using real-time data and RF prediction methods, VisualRF calculates WLAN coverage and mobile user & rogue AP location and displays it on top of floor plans that you import.

Requirements:

· Background or strong coursework in wireless communication, WLAN architecture, network administration of WLAN deployments

· Strong understanding of 802.11 standards are required

· prior experience with wireless networks and access points

· Experience in Linux, SQL or networking protocols like SNMP or TFTP would be a plus

Personality Traits

Excellent work ethics, dependable, and responsible
Must be a flexible self-starter who can ramp up with new technologies quickly and can adapt to a growing and evolving team.
Ability to set up and maintain a QA lab of linux-based servers and wireless devices. Must be comfortable working on the CLI.
Imaginative, motivated, and able to work effectively under pressure.
Strong logical and creative problem-solving skills, good oral and written communication skills, and excellent analytical skills.
Must be able to succeed with minimal resources and minimal supervision.

System level and socket programming Engineer

2009-11-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

Type: Full Time
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
To Apply Send Resume to :tarun@araavinc.com

Job Description:
a) Strong Academic background in CS (preferably masters)

b) System level and socket programming on unix preferably on highly scalable servers and distributed systems

c) Concurrent/Threaded Programming expertise
d) Knowledge of HTTP, TCP and DNS in great detail.

e) Unix internals
f) Storage experience like filesystems, databases and NFS

Senior Systems Administrator

2009-07-06T19:27:00.000-07:00

Term : Full Time

Location : San francisco, CA

Description:

Senior Systems Administrator

Client is a venture-backed, location-based advertising platform looking for a super smart, energetic and organized candidate to help develop a rapidly growing business that spans the web, mobile, wi-fi and email.
The right candidate will have excellent problem solving skills, be detail oriented and have the ability to multitask in a fast paced and challenging work environment. S/he must have experience with large-scale distributed systems and be accustomed to responsibility and accountability.

This is a great opportunity to have a major impact, working directly with the management team.

Client offers a casual, creative work environment, and a comprehensive compensation & benefit package. Our offices are conveniently located in the Hayes Valley area of downtown San Francisco, CA close to great restaurants, US 101 and public transportation.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy a system infrastructure that is web-scale

Develop SOP for redundancy and failover to support strict SLAs

Manage a high availability, high volume distributed production environment

Handle network operations

Requirements

Desire to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment

5+ years experience

Expertise with high availability, high volume distributed systems

Strong skills with systems administration, troubleshooting and diagnostics

RHEL or variant is a must

Preferred

Experience with the following technologies:

Java applications

PostgreSQL and/or Oracle

Nagios

MRTG

Cisco switches and routers

What we offer

A competitive salary

Equity participation

Benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)

Excellent San Francisco location; walking distance from BART or Muni

Fun place to work and challenge yourself

Small exciting company with high growth potential and significant career opportunities

QA/Release Engineer

2009-04-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

Term : Full Time

Location : Hollywood, CA

Job Description:

The QA Engineer will be responsible for creating and running the testing/validation process all of our releases before they go into production. This will require close collaboration with the engineering team, and the operations team. The QA engineer will work with the organization to help define & the criteria for the release process. The QA engineer will be a hands-on participant in the release process as well. The QA engineer should have experience building automated test scripts in some programming language, and be very familiar with Web browser testing and engineering, as well as web extensions for various web browsers including Firefox and Internet Explorer. The QA engineer will also act as release engineer as well, working with the engineering team and operations to ensure the releases are ready for production. This will require experience with building releases and deploying them. The QA engineer will also be responsible for architecting/maintaining the QA Lab & Staging environments.

Job Skills and Requirements

3+ years serving as a Senior QA engineer at another company with similar needs
3+ years experience developing in Ruby
3+ years acting as a release engineer
3+ years writing automated test suites for Web browsers and Extensions
Capistrano experience preferred
Proven ability to work with peers to gather requirements
Experience with Cucumber or other Ruby testing tools a plus
General QA experience and in-depth knowledge of QA process a must
Must possess strong verbal, written, analytical, and persuasive skills, and the ability to communicate and interact with all members of the organization...

Personal Characteristics:

The successful candidate will reject setbacks
He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
Passionate commitment to the product quality.
Childhood dreams of being a Rockstar are not necessary for this job.

Director of Entertainment Technology

2009-04-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

Term : Full Time

Location: NY

Director of Entertainment Technology

A top 4 Internet/Media company based in New York City is looking for a Director of Entertainment Technology. The Director of Entertainment Technology reports directly to the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Entertainment. Entertainment is the largest business unit by revenue in MediaGlow Business Unit. This position is responsible for some of the most popular and beloved products on the web.

This position is based in New York City and she/he will manage several teams based in India, New York City, and Dulles Virginia

The ideal candidate will have prior experience building customer facing web applications for online media or e-commerce businesses. This includes technical and business insight needed to build scalable web application from the ground up. Responsibilities include

· Identify and use common internet protocols

· Establish best practices and basic design principles for data management

· Lead teams to meet Web Page performance guidelines

· Establish standards and best practices for software development

· Establish and meet quality standards for product implementation and availability

· Work with product teams to estimate level of effort and identify dependencies

· Work with Executive Management to establish clear technical direction

· Establish and meet audience reach goals through SEO

· Familiar with common web development software development practices including lean, agile, or TOC.

· Familiarity and previous experience with the following technology is desired

Linux file systems, methods of authentication and access, shell scripting
HTTP, cookies, headers, caching, keep-alives
Use of load balencers
Building web servers to handle large volumes of short lived HTTP requests
Open source data management tools like Kettle, Talend, or Mule
MySQL Innodb memory usage and locking
The programming language Java and related JDK
Application servers like Tomcat, Resin, or Jetty
JavaScript libraries and JavaScript methods available in the browser

Basic understanding of Cascading Style Sheets

Sr Engineer : Web extensions

2009-04-21T13:25:00.000-07:00

Term: Full Time

Location : Hollywood CA

Job Description:

The Senior Engineer will be responsible for working on a core piece of our product. There are various parts of our products, so if you have a thing you are great at, we will let you do it.

This is the job you were starting to lose hope it existed. Sorry it took us a while. (We have the most flexible schedules).

This will require solid development skills in Ruby, AJAX/Java Script, CSS. The Senior Engineer must also have solid skills applicable to building web extensions for multiple web browsers. In addition, experience in ActiveX and Flash are both highly desirable. Working with peer engineers to build a scalable/solid architecture is a must. This core piece of development will interact with all facets of our architecture, including web infrastructure, extensions & databases. The Engineer must possess the ability to build/solve complex algorithms and develop bulletproof optimized code. The Senior Engineer will be working closely on a small, senior engineering team, and with senior operations and QA people.

Job Skills and Requirements

5+ years serving as a Senior Engineer at another company with similar needs (Translation: Don’t be a goober. Be Cool. Be Smart. Be Professional)
3+ years experience developing in Ruby with AJAX/Java Script… or impress the Aces on our team.
3+ years experience with CSS would not be looked down upon
Love of Math very much a plus… love of Psychology and History is Super Plus… and love of Penmanship is a BIG MINUS.

Must possess ability to work with small, senior engineering & operations teams
Advanced - expert level JavaScript, not just Prototype/jQuery.
FireFox extension development a plus
Git experience preferred, svn acceptable
ActionScript/Flash/Flex experience a plus
Photoshop a plus
Artistic skills, a love of superfluous animations and UI/UX are all bonuses
Wii or Xbox skills are subject to testing, if you claim to be “good,” then we must duel.

Personal Characteristics:

The successful candidate will reject setbacks

He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
Passionate commitment to the product quality.
Childhood dreams of being a world-travelling adventuring archaeologist are not necessary for his job, but we will question your humanity.

Core Search Engineer

2009-04-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

Term : Full-Time

Location : Hollywood CA

Job Description:

The Core Search Engineer will be responsible for Architecting and developing our core search technology. This code will interact with all facets of our architecture. The Core Search Engineer must possess the ability to build/solve complex search algorithms and develop bulletproof optimized code. Through the life cycle of the product, our data will be ever expanding and grow rapidly requiring the Core Search Engineer to be able to write scalable code and solve very complex algorithms. Building a scalable/solid architecture form the beginning is a must. Proven Ability to access and optimize internal search quality is also extremely important. Candidate must possess the ability to interact with various databases, display information to WebPages and custom web extensions. The Core Search Engineer will be working closely on a small, senior engineering team, and with senior operations and QA people as well. Ability to clearly communicate and work effectively with peers is a must.

Job Skills and Requirements

3+ years serving as a Senior Engineer at another company with similar needs
3+ years experience developing in C and/or Ruby with AJAX… or you can be one of those weirdoes that refused to learn anything past Fortran
Proven track record of building Core Search Technology at another company… other acceptable places include: your garage back in Palo Alto, CA in 1998 or that dream you had.
Ability to solve complex search algorithms… or “guesstimate” powers.

General development experience and in-depth knowledge of overall engineering process a must
Must possess ability to work with small, senior engineering & operations teams
Must possess strong verbal, written, analytical, and persuasive skills, and the ability to communicate and interact with all members of the organization.

Personal Characteristics:

The successful candidate will reject setbacks

He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
Passionate commitment to the product quality.
Childhood dreams of being a Rockstar are not necessary for his job, but we will question your humanity.

Sr Java Client Developer on MAC

2009-04-08T10:41:00.000-07:00

Term: 2 month Contract ( Possibility of Contract to Hire )

Location : Sunnyvale, CA

Description:

This is a demo quality spike related to desktop management. Client has a console for unify all of these clients. Client only support Windows, but want to create a Java client specifically for MAC laptops that can report into there console.

High level requirements

Client should run in the background, equivalent to minimized on task bar in Windows.

Accept an HTTP post which will inform the client to send statistics to a particular IP and port with a certain frequency.

Collect rudimentary statistics including (if possible)

- Hostname

- Interfaces

- MFG

- Model

- OS

- Memory utilization

- CPU utilization

- Battery Life (optional)

- WLAN security

- RF Neighbors

If the spike goes well, then Client might turn this spike into a real product with the additional requirements:

- Ability to accept and apply software updates

- Ability to collect a total manifest of all software on the device

- Ability to remote-control the device (VNC capability)

- Professional installer

- Ability to auto-upgrade