The Position Principal Software Engineer

About Greenplum

Greenplum, a division of EMC, is driving the future of ‘big data’ analytics.

Greenplum Hawq platform combines the co-processing of structured and unstructured data with a productivity engine that operates on data at extreme scale to enable collaboration among data science teams. Greenplum Hawq includes Greenplum’s massively parallel RDBMS, Greenplum Pivotal HD - Hadoop, and the Greenplum Chorus portal.

Metro

Metro is the code name for a Greenplum R&D initiative which is focused on utilizing the latest development methodologies (Agile, XP, Scrum etc), crossing team and component boundaries and improving our products and processes. The team is organized around a mission, not around ownership of a particular component or part of the system.

Position Summary

Reporting to the head of the Metro team, the Principal Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in the architecture, design and development of critical GPDB technologies driven by real customer needs.

Major Responsibilities

• Participate in the architecture, design and development of features which resolves real customer pain points.
• Deliver robust, fault tolerant, production code - this is a hands on coding position.
• Interact with members of the Greenplum team across US & China to better align with each other.

Experience & Skill Set

The ideal candidate will have recent, demonstrated experience delivering robust, reliable database software or Linux systems software in mission critical enterprise environments.

Deep, meaningful, recent development experience with most of the following is required;

• Deep database system development knowledge, either SQL or NoSQL
• Working knowledge of distributed system, deep understanding of network and concurrent programming
• Linux systems code development in c/c++
• Demonstrated good problem solving skills for complex system software development

Optional, but highly desirable skill sets;

• Good at Java
• Familiar with at least one scripting language, prefer Python
• Familiarity with Hadoop HDFS
• Extremely large scale application development
• Cloud computing and storage

Ideal Personal Characteristics

· Technology Savvy - The ability to come up to speed quickly on new software technologies in complex, non deterministic systems environment.

· Personal Integrity & Initiative – A passionate individual with sound judgment who is sensitive to the needs of a small and rapidly growing division of a large company. Key attributes are intelligence, loyalty, honesty, customer focus and being a team player. A self starter with high motivation to ‘get the job done’.

· Hands-on Orientation – This is a ‘hands on’ development position. Be prepared to be involved in all aspects of software development. Will ‘roll-up-the-sleeves’ and get things done without the assistance of a large supporting organization.

· Excellent Problem Solving Skills – Ability to crack tough technical problems quickly when a solution is not immediately obvious. A combination of mental flexibility, creativity, analytical ability and sound judgment, which is required to develop and execute against seemingly intractable technical problems.

Educational Background

This position requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. Advance degrees preferred.

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