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careers@blekko.com

Software Engineer

We are looking for talented software engineers who enjoy working on big systems, appreciate the productivity wins of interpreted languages and good API design, want to work on advanced search applications at web scale, and are:

- Highly productive coders, self-motivated and able to learn new skills quickly
- Intellectually curious and more pragmatic than theoretic
- Comfortable in a small-company, startup environment

Pluses:

- (In descending order of importance): UNIX/Linux, Perl, C/C++, Javascript, HTML/CSS
- Search, particularly web search
- Large-scale distributed systems (e.g., Map/Reduce, Hadoop, distributed filesystems, clustered databases)
- Deep systems knowledge of operating systems, I/O, and networks
- Applied math, statistics and/or machine learning, particularly as applied to ranking and classification
- Degree in computer science or related area, especially masters and PhD
- Industry experience, especially in startups or domain-relevant Internet companies
- Interest in potential leadership opportunities as the company scales

Our crawl/index/search/query code is implemented on top of a distributed storage system that supports integrated map job execution, data replication, scalability, and fault tolerance. The programming model is similar to Google BigTable, but the application-level code tends to be more high-level and pleasant to work with than a typical high performance distributed application.