As a Member of Technical Staff, Core Systems / Windows, you will design and implement and port cutting-edge distributed, scale-out data infrastructure software systems, which is a pillar for the growing cloud infrastructure. Especially, you will bring Windows and Unix systems knowledge to the team. You will be part of a development team working on hard problems in a number of areas, including distributed caching, key-value and document data stores, distributed replication, scale-out fault tolerance and data layer reliability. You’ll work with C/C++, Java, C#, Erlang, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and a number of other programming and scripting languages. In addition, NorthScale and its technical staff are active opens source contributors for membase.org and other projects, which extends the memcached.org to become a full blown key-value Database, you’ll get your share of it.

Responsibilities

• Create the world’s best, distributed software server infrastructure products which companies will rely on for mission-critical OLTP needs.
• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design specification reviews.
• Design and implement key server modules and networking protocol dispatch layers.
• Research industry and academic leading-edge algorithms for distributed consensus, replication, consistency, availability and scalability.
• Work with peers in an agile development environment.
• Develop high quality software and use unit / component/ and end-to-end automation tests

Requirements

• Self-motivated, independent, and high performance individual, with ability to learn new technologies and become productive extremely fast; strive for challenges with a do-what-ever-it-takes mentality
• 2-7 years of commercial or open-source software experience (prefer experience with packaged, downloadable software).
• Hardcore C is an absolute must.
• Deep knowledge of Windows development environment and user experience.
• Built high-performance distributed networked server systems that run cross-platform on Windows/Linux and POSIX infrastructure.