Data Caching Engineer San Francisco, CA

Department: Database
Position Title: Data Caching Engineer

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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About the Team

The data team is responsible for providing data persistence and caching services to its internal customers within engineering, along with the frameworks needed to interact with said services. The data team also supplies administration, scaling, and maintenance services to the operations team, along with an escalation path.

About the Position

The data caching engineer is responsible for the Hi5 caching layer from engineering access to operational maintenance.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and Innovate Caching Framework. Accept ownership of Caching Framework from existing owner.
• Guilde Engineering toward most efficient use of caching Framework. Work with individual engineers on their individual application's use of the Caching Framework. Educate larger groups of engineers on best practices.
• Scale Production cache infrastructure. Guild operations in scaling cache infrastructure overall, and for each application.

Requirements

• BS in CS/math or equivalent, MS is a plus
• Background in design of large scale distributed systems
• Strong motivation for developing outstanding software used by millions of users worldwide.
• Sense of Humor
• 5+ years Java development with Multithreading experience.
• 1+ year c/c++ develoment
• Experience using Memcached from java

Preferred

• Java Performance tuning experience
• Understanding of Garbage Collection mechanisms
• Knowledge of database design concepts
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks

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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.