Senior Software Engineer – Search San Francisco, CA

Department: Software Engineering
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer – Search

Description: About hi5

hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.

* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open Social

Our offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.

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The Area: Infrastructure - Search

The infrastructure team is responsible for implementing massively scalable backend systems that provide the data storage, caching, queuing, and management support for hi5 products.

The Role: Senior Software Engineer

hi5 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the User Search team. The ideal candidate will be driven with the challenge of developing components and systems that can collect, process, and analyze large sets of data. The candidate will be developing custom search systems built on top of Lucene and in-house engines to better provide people and social search. You should be familiar with distributed server computing and building highly available systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer at hi5, you will be responsible for the following:

Design and implementation of core products using distributed filesystems and RPC communications mechanisms.
Developing search systems using Lucene and custom search index systems.
Developing high-volume servers in Java or C/C++.
Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of data collection, storage, and retrieval systems.

Requirements:

4+ years of Software development experience.
Experience working with Lucene.
Expert knowledge developing and debugging in Java or C/C++ on *nix.
Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems.

Preferred:

M.S. in Computer Science.

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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.

hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.