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Description

Digg is building out the next generation analytics platform based on the Hadoop ecosystem and we need someone to lead the effort on the visualization of the analytics data.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Build out best of class dashboards to present analytics data
• Tame the data with awesome visualizations that can make it to http://www.informationisbeautiful.net
• Help build tools to create custom graphs and dashboards

Requirements

• 3+ years of web development experience
• Solid experience in building high quality web-based UIs
• Experience with JavaScript and/or Flash
• Would be great if you've played around with HTML5
• Good verbal and written communication skills

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Description

Digg is looking for a Software Engineer to design and build an industry leading ad serving platform. You'll lead the development of software that will connect millions of people each day with highly relevant, social ads.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an industry leading social advertising platform
• Mentor other engineers and help build out the team
• Apply cutting-edge technologies (Cassandra, Hadoop, etc.) in a very high volume environment
• Help define and build high-performance, high-availability advertising infrastructure
• Work closely with product, business, design and QA
• Contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of 3rd party ad servers and display advertising
• Experience leading other developers
• Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast paced environment
• Outstanding organizational and analytical skills
• Experience building online advertising platforms preferred
• Previous management experience in test-driven agile environments (XP/Scrum)
• Strong technical background and experience with open source web architectures
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
• Excellent written and oral communication skill

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Description

Digg is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with extensive experience in building scalable, world class web service APIs to lead our API team.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the Digg API and syndication frameworks
• Engage developer community and further adoption of the Digg API
• Mentor other engineers and help build out the DIGG API
• Plan and manage team sprints
• Create and contribute to open source projects while working on high traffic and scalability problems at Digg

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Web development
• Has managed large scale public API
• 3+ years experience with Python
• Proven experience leading engineering teams
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred

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Description

Digg's collecting more and more data every day and we need someone to spearhead our data storage and mining strategy.

Responsibilities

• Deal with tons of data
• Propose and implement solutions for analytics, data mining and log storage/processing
• Coordinate with the ops team to ensure our Hadoop cluster is happy      

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with storing terabytes of data in Hadoop
• Able to write map/reduce jobs by hand       
• Knowledge and experience with tools like Hive, Pig etc
• Ability to coordinate with various teams to fulfill their reporting & data mining needs
• Some experience administering a decent sized Hadoop cluster
• Have cooked up A/B testing & analytics strategies in the past

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Description

Digg is looking for a strong software engineer to lead our team of web developers tasked with the care and feeding of the flagship Digg website.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-end development on digg.com, including hands-on code development
• Mentor other engineers and help build out the team
• Plan and manage team sprints
• Work closely with the Product team to shape functional requirements and determine deliverables
• Create and contribute to open source projects
• Communicate status and escalate issues

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Web development
• 3+ years using PHP
• Excellent experience leading other developers
• Solid experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
• Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
• Knowledge of Python, Solr/Lucene, Git, Memcache, SOA is a plus
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred

  

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Description

Digg is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with extensive experience in distributed infrastructure systems to lead our infrastructure Team. Think: Cassandra, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Thrift, HDFS

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Digg's infrastructure components
• Find elegant solutions to complicated problems
• Define and build high-performance, high-availability web infrastructure
• Optimize and troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Advance open-source infrastructure projects

Qualifications

• Experience with large web infrastructure including leading teams.
• Low-level knowledge of Unix
• Networking and TCP/IP, UDP or specific protocols
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ or Java on *nix
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers, distributed systems, and/or server architectures
• Masters degree or higher in Computer Science and or similar/relevant field preferred
• Previous open source contribution a plus

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Description

Digg is looking for an experienced software engineer to lead our new team of mobile application developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of applications for Digg on the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms
• Hands-on code development for Digg's mobile applications
• Mentor other engineers and help build out the Mobile team
• Plan and manage team sprints
• Stay informed of new trends and upcoming developments in the mobile market
• Reach out to other third-party mobile development teams
• Communicate status and escalate issues

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in Objective C development
• Track record of developing and deploying at least one approved iPhone app
• Android development experience a big plus
• Proven experience leading other engineers
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred

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Description

Digg's gonna be using Cassandra as our primary data store... so, we need someone to work on the internals just about full time.

Responsibilities

RESPONIBILITIES:

• Dive deep into the Cassandra community & become a regular project contributor
• Work on Cassandra's internals (performance, new features - the whole 9)
• Be an integral part of Digg's infrastructure team & help us make sure we build a rock solid, fast & scalable backend

 REQUIREMENTS:

• Senior level engineer
• Ideally you've got experience with distributed, peer to peer systems
• Know your data structures, algorithms & theory: Vector clocks and all that good stuff don't phase you       
• You've heard of (better yet, contributed to) the Cassandra, Hbase or Hypertable projects & want to get paid to work on the Cassandra internals
• The BigTable & Dynamo papers read like a bedtime story to you

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Description

Work on cutting edge open-source distributed infrastructure systems at scale. Think: Cassandra, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Thrift, HDFS

Responsibilities

• Find elegant solutions to complicated problems
• Define and build high-performance, high-availability web infrastructure
• Optimize and troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Advance open-source infrastructure projects

Qualifications

• Experience with large web infrastructure
• Low-level knowledge of Unix
• Networking and TCP/IP, UDP or specific protocols
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ or Java on *nix
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, compilers, distributed systems, and/or server architectures
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science and or similar/relevant field preferred
• Previous open source contribution a plus

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Description

Digg is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with plenty of Python and Selenium knowledge and lots of experience testing large scale websites.

Responsibilities

• Lead automated testing efforts for specific areas of functionality
• Develop tools to improve product quality and automate processes
• Contribute to test execution efforts
• Facilitate communication within business, development, product and operations teams
• Assist in maintaining QA environments

Qualifications

• Experience in development and/or testing of Web 2.0 applications - both frontend and backend
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages including Python
• Solid understanding of frontend automation and experience with Selenium
• 5+ years experience in Web testing
• Experience with source control tools such as Git
• Working knowledge of QA methodology, testing techniques and approaches
• Experience in agile development process (XP/Scrum)
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming preferred
• Experience with load/performance testing preferred (JMeter)
• Experience with production monitoring tools preferred
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems or other relevant field

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Description

We're looking for a new member for our infrastructure team that can help make our Python based services layer rock.

Responsibilities

• Write internal APIs that will be consumed by the app layer
• Ensure that services endpoints are as performant as possible and meet internal SLAs
• Help shape and steer our service layer's architecture
• Write Python code to interface with RabbitMQ, Cassandra, MySQL and various other data stores
• Help the team come up with & implement scalable solutions for all of Digg's data needs
• Play with cool technology: Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Scribe, Hadoop/HDFS, Solr/Lucene, Neo4J       

Qualifications

• You're damn good at programming, like tackling new problems & can crank out quality code
• You think "Huh, I've never used xyz technology before - I'm gonna cook up some random project as an excuse to learn it"
• Experience and/or desire to work with cutting edge technologies to solve big data problems
• Strong understanding of parallel programming
• Expert grasp of Python and/or Java is a huge plus
• Some decent Unix skills
• Experience or some basic familiarity with big data and NoSQL solutions (Have you read the BigTable paper? You heard of HBase, Cassandra etc?)
• Would be sweet if you've worked with Hadoop, Scribe and Thrift

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Description

Digg is looking for a Senior Web Application Developer with plenty of data-driven and large scale website development experience. You'll be working with some of the brightest minds in the web development, design and operations communities, on a variety of projects - adding new cool functionality to digg.com and scaling the site to meet our ever increasing traffic.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the functional requirements
• Investigate and use cutting-edge technologies (Cassandra, Mogile, etc.) in a high volume environment
• Create and contribute to open source projects while working on high traffic and scalability problems at Digg
• Facilitate communication within business, quality, and product teams
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Mentor other developers
• Assist in feasibility analysis and estimation
• Communicate status and escalate issues

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Web development
• 3+ with AMP (Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python)
• Solid experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
• Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
• Knowledge of Git, Memcache, SOA is a plus
• Experience working with APIs is a plus
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred

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Description

Founded in 2004 and backed by top-tier investors, Digg is a recognized pioneer in the social media space, is well-funded, and is continuing to expand and grow all areas of the business. We are seeking a world class Product Marketing Manager to drive innovative, impactful and measurable marketing programs for Digg. The ideal candidate will be proactive, flexible and have a strong online marketing background.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Report to the Head of Marketing and work closely with the Product and Engineering teams, to develop and execute on strategic marketing plans for Digg
• Create innovative, efficient, and measurable programs to aggressively drive Digg’s user growth and retention
• Develop programs for Digg’s key audiences, including B2B and B2C
• Work directly with product management team to drive launch strategies, set appropriate success metrics, and drive marketing programs that reach our target audiences through all available channels
• Be a true product and industry expert and be the audience champion within Digg.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience in product marketing or related function
• Bachelors Degree with strong, relevant course work combined with strong work experience.  MBA or equivalent a plus
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute marketing strategies, with measurable and consistent results
• Strong aptitude for positioning products and developing clear strategies around launch marketing
• Excellent written, oral communication and presentation skills
• Solid understanding of Digg’s value proposition and the competitive space
• Deep understanding and use of analytics and business cases to drive decisions.

  

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Description

We're looking for a world-class data architect and database administrator. We need someone who is curious about big data problems and excited about Digg and its future.

Responsibilities

You must know when to denormalize your data, when to store it using the blackhole storage engine, whether to use SQL or NoSQL, and when to use flat files. You will work on an elite team of database gurus, alongside systems administrators and operations engineers.REQUIREMENTS:

• BS/CS or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience as a Database Administrator.
• Extensive experience with Unix/Linux.
• Extensive experience with MySQL.
• Experience in a high-volume data environment.
• Experience in a large cluster environment.
• Intimate familiarity with typical CS algorithms.
• Familiarity with and deep interest in NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with Map/Reduce programming methodology.
• Ability to carry a pager and be available 24x7.
• A sense of humor and an unflappable demeanor.
• Python, BASH, and/or Perl scripting skills (in that order).
• Desire to commute to Potrero Hill in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience with Cassandra, Hadoop Hive, PostgreSQL.
• Experience working in an engineering organization.
• Experience with data warehousing technologies.
• Experience with fulltext searching technologies.
• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring systems and best practices.
• Familiarity with Puppet or other configuration management systems.
• Experience coding Erlang, Java, C, C++.
• Experience with Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB, Hypertable, HBase, Voldemort, MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, etc.

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Description

Digg is looking for people with an interest in network engineering. Come help us build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps Digg running.  You will be helping support our internal infrastructure usedby Developers, R & D and Operations as well as maintaining public infrastructure used  by millions of people a day.

Responsibilities

• Manage physical and logical configuration of all network devices including: switches, load balancers, and routers
• Work closely with all functional groups to maintain and build Digg's infrastructure
• Monitor network statistics to proactively stay ahead of the growth curve

Qualifications

• 2-4 years experience (minimum)
• Switching/routing configuration including: Vlans, Spanning Tree, BGP, OSPF, VRRP
• Network troubleshooting
• Experience with application load balancing
• Good understanding of common ip protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP
• Basic UNIX knowledge
• Scripting/programming strongly preferred
• Able to lift at least 40 lbs
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

  

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Description

Digg is looking for Systems Engineers with some development experience and an interest in taming large infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve tools that we use to manage our infrastructure
• Help manage the configurations we use throughout our environment
• Work with developers, QA, and R&D on designing and implementing maintainable systems architectures
• Maintain an understanding of the infrastructure as a whole and be able to fix things if gremlins decide to wreak havoc in our systems

 

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or higher (preferably in Computer Science)
• Experience in development and/or systems engineering
• Understanding of distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Python (other programming languages a plus)
• Experience with Debian and Debian packaging
• Experience with source control tools such as Git
• Familiarity with some or all of the following: Puppet, Apache, mysql, cassandra, scribe, hadoop, mogilefs, gearman, memcached, rabbitmq, clusto, etc.

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