Working at Flickr
Flickr lets people share their life in photos and is the best place to discover amazing photos and videos on the web. It's one of the most well known brands on the internet and is visited by over 90 million users every month.
Engineering
Flickr engineering is based on the principles of rapid development, continuous deployment, and individual responsibility. We're looking for passionate and motivated developers to help us make Flickr bigger, better and faster.
Flickr is BIG
Flickr processes millions of photos and videos every day, with billions of photos already online. We serve billions of pageviews and more than 7 billion API requests monthly for over 75 million registered photographers.
Open Positions
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Senior Manager of Production Engineering
Flickr is looking for a senior manager to help support and guide our amazing production engineering team in scaling one of the world’s leading digital photography platforms. You will act as a leader and represent the engineering department (both local and remote employees) in department and companywide initiatives, balance business and engineering needs, and communicate information between and among various parts of our organization.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Do you look at an app and try to figure out its database schema? Do you wish every website provided a full API? Do you worry about cache invalidation and naming things? Flickr is looking for an experienced backend software engineer to help deliver an awesome experience to our photographers. We write non-framework PHP and are currently moving Flickr from colos to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Product Manager Monetization and Partnerships
Flickr is looking for a scrappy product manager to lead our monetization and partnership efforts. You’ll learn what makes our community tick so you can enhance our Pro subscription offering and find new ways to drive revenue while preserving and nurturing the vibrant interactions that make Flickr special.
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Senior Android Engineer
The Flickr mobile team is looking for a brilliant software engineer with experience building consumer-facing apps. We are looking for an engineer with a broad array of interests who can easily adapt to new challenges and explore new solutions to existing problems. We believe that engineering is only a piece of the effort, and that you should be as passionate about code quality and architecture as you are about user experience and design.
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Android Engineer
The Flickr mobile team is looking for a forward-thinking software engineer with experience building consumer-facing apps. We are looking for an engineer with a broad array of interests who can easily adapt to new challenges and explore new solutions to existing problems. We believe that engineering is only a piece of the effort, and that you should be as passionate about code quality and architecture as you are about user experience and design. Ultimately, you love challenges and hard problems that range across disciplines
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Benefits
As part of SmugMug, Flickr provides market-leading employment benefits.
Location
We are located in one of the most beautiful places in the world: San Francisco; a short walk from Market Street, Union Square, the SF MOMA, and SOMA.
Connect with us
Follow us on Twitter, check out our gorgeous photo blog and read the code.flickr Blog for the latest posts from our engineering team.
Popular Code Blog Posts
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Park or Bird
tl;dr: Check it out at parkorbird.flickr.com!
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Flickr's Experience with iOS 9
The basics of integrating iOS 9 Search, Universal Links, and 3D Touch in Flickr for iOS. In order to focus on those features, we simplified some of our examples to demonstrate how you could get started with them in your own app, and to show what challenges we faced.
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Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr
Through our use of perceptual compression, combined with our use of on-the-fly resize and COS, we’ve been able to decrease our storage footprint dramatically, while simultaneously improving user experience.
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Life at Flickr
The Flickr HQ Group photo pool will give you a sense of what it's like to work at Flickr headquarters. (Watch out for finger darts!)
Check out the team and click through to see our Photostreams. Some of us are actually good photographers!