Big Data Infrastructure Engineer
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Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1.2 million properties listed in over 190 countries. We have millions of travelers visiting our site per year and serve millions of page views per month. Our mission is to make every vacation rental in the world available to every traveler in the world through our online marketplace and we're committed to helping families and friends find the perfect vacation rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together. As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.
What You’ll Do:If you’re the right person for the job you will be joining the growing Cloud Engineering team focusing on our Data Platform. As a Big Data Infrastructure Engineer, you will continue to drive HomeAway's culture of engineering excellence. The Cloud Engineering - Data Services team manages the infrastructure, services, and data pipelines that empower the organization to have the right information at the right time. The team consistently delivers, and has continually enjoyed a high customer satisfaction score as measured by HomeAway's engineers. You’ll be helping build tools necessary to enable horizontal scaling, provisioning, graphing, monitoring and rapid deployment on our bare metal, public and private cloud environments.
What You’ll Get: As a member of the Cloud Engineering team you will be driving HomeAway's engineering culture, by building, evangelizing and supporting our multi-petabyte Data Platform. You’ll have the chance to work with highly powered distributed systems and the latest industry tools ensuring no chance of boredom. Our ever-growing footprint will give you the opportunity to work at scale while being creative in an agile team. You’ll be joining a team that grows together, and people go out of their way to help each other succeed. You’ll also get to work with stakeholders across the globe gaining international experience in a fast paced eCommerce industry all while working in an incredible office space!
Responsibilities:- You will build and maintain the data infrastructure, tooling, and upkeep of the platform.
- You will be involved in prototyping, architecting, and implementing/updating the data infrastructure platform.
- You will be developing integration test suites for distributed systems.
- You are involved in usage/performance forecasting/modeling and monitoring.
- You will conduct peer reviews and code walk-throughs for infrastructure code.
- You are a self-starter and can work independently on technical projects but also work collaboratively with project team members through an agile
development.
- Utilize your excellent communication skills to assist in conducting user interview sessions, requirements gathering, and design reviews.
Qualifications:- Systems administration – You’re a hardened Linux systems administrator. You have opinions on what a production ready system is. Managing and
diagnosing issues on mission critical systems comes second nature.
- Automation -- Managing infrastructure as code is the only solution in your book. You have hands on experience writing code for some of the major
configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Ansible/etc.).
- Code – You are comfortable writing code in your favorite language. Is it ready for production? Of course it is because your test suites and integration tests
can prove it! Java/Python/Ruby/Go is a plus. Excellent shell scripting skills are expected.
- Database skills – You understand use cases for relational and non-relational data, you’ve administered several different database platforms. Bonus: maybe
you’ve even been a DBA in a past life.
- Experience – Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Mesos, Spark, Splunk, Zookeeper, Puppet
- Understanding of code promotion, CI/CD best practices, Platform as a Service Architecture, and Distributed systems orchestration.
- Application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Experience working in an agile team environment
- Committed to Open Source Projects. Please provide Github links if appropriate
- Conduct code walk-throughs, peer reviews, and produce technical documentation
Benefits:
- Great Medical & Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSU's)
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our C-Team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Stand-Up Desk
To understand the mission of HomeAway watch our ad by Prince EA, Working to Live or Living to Work, on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRldP18bH8!
Visit our Engineering Blog - https://tech.homeaway.com
What You’ll Do:If you’re the right person for the job you will be joining the growing Cloud Engineering team focusing on our Data Platform. As a Big Data Infrastructure Engineer, you will continue to drive HomeAway's culture of engineering excellence. The Cloud Engineering - Data Services team manages the infrastructure, services, and data pipelines that empower the organization to have the right information at the right time. The team consistently delivers, and has continually enjoyed a high customer satisfaction score as measured by HomeAway's engineers. You’ll be helping build tools necessary to enable horizontal scaling, provisioning, graphing, monitoring and rapid deployment on our bare metal, public and private cloud environments.
What You’ll Get: As a member of the Cloud Engineering team you will be driving HomeAway's engineering culture, by building, evangelizing and supporting our multi-petabyte Data Platform. You’ll have the chance to work with highly powered distributed systems and the latest industry tools ensuring no chance of boredom. Our ever-growing footprint will give you the opportunity to work at scale while being creative in an agile team. You’ll be joining a team that grows together, and people go out of their way to help each other succeed. You’ll also get to work with stakeholders across the globe gaining international experience in a fast paced eCommerce industry all while working in an incredible office space!
Responsibilities:- You will build and maintain the data infrastructure, tooling, and upkeep of the platform.
- You will be involved in prototyping, architecting, and implementing/updating the data infrastructure platform.
- You will be developing integration test suites for distributed systems.
- You are involved in usage/performance forecasting/modeling and monitoring.
- You will conduct peer reviews and code walk-throughs for infrastructure code.
- You are a self-starter and can work independently on technical projects but also work collaboratively with project team members through an agile
development.
- Utilize your excellent communication skills to assist in conducting user interview sessions, requirements gathering, and design reviews.
Qualifications:- Systems administration – You’re a hardened Linux systems administrator. You have opinions on what a production ready system is. Managing and
diagnosing issues on mission critical systems comes second nature.
- Automation -- Managing infrastructure as code is the only solution in your book. You have hands on experience writing code for some of the major
configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Ansible/etc.).
- Code – You are comfortable writing code in your favorite language. Is it ready for production? Of course it is because your test suites and integration tests
can prove it! Java/Python/Ruby/Go is a plus. Excellent shell scripting skills are expected.
- Database skills – You understand use cases for relational and non-relational data, you’ve administered several different database platforms. Bonus: maybe
you’ve even been a DBA in a past life.
- Experience – Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Mesos, Spark, Splunk, Zookeeper, Puppet
- Understanding of code promotion, CI/CD best practices, Platform as a Service Architecture, and Distributed systems orchestration.
- Application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Experience working in an agile team environment
- Committed to Open Source Projects. Please provide Github links if appropriate
- Conduct code walk-throughs, peer reviews, and produce technical documentation
Benefits:
- Great Medical & Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSU's)
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our C-Team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Stand-Up Desk
To understand the mission of HomeAway watch our ad by Prince EA, Working to Live or Living to Work, on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRldP18bH8!
Visit our Engineering Blog - https://tech.homeaway.com
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