Sunday, February 9, 2014

[KITlist-Tech] Sr Staff Engineer | Nominum (Redwood City, CA)

Please direct your responses to: Herbnj@gmail.com

Nominum based in Redwood City/San Francisco is a small firm that is poised for dynamic growth moving forward. Our software manages over 1.3 trillion queries a day. Our new product Vantio supports over 30% of the internet traffic worldwide. We are embarking into a massive opportunity in big data and analytics due to present and future product development. Our firm has over 40 patents issued and pending and and our leadership team is determined to continue our innovation in technology and products at Nominum. We are profitable, and count over 35% of the world largest ISP's as our customers. Our innovative new products, established business, and leadership in the market is fueling our current expansion. Take advantage of this opportunity to truly make a difference in the market.

Staff Engineer background in security is helpful for this role as well

SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Sr Director of Engineering, the Staff Engineer is responsible for developing tools and algorithms for cleaning, standardizing and the analysis of our list data and DNS data. The Data Engineer will be responsible for refining the classification of DNS data to be used for deterministic and predictive analytics.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
⁃ Become an expert in our data sets, both raw DNS log data and our list data
⁃ Develop the tools to aid in the extraction of meaningful insights to the very large amount of data we work with
⁃ Work with our 3rd party list providers to clean and improve the accuracy of the data
⁃ Design and implementation of tools to analyze very large dataset of raw data
⁃ Interact with the other development teams to determine the data required for our analytics platform
⁃ Coordinate feature development and release with the QA team and release engineering


QUALIFICATIONS:
⁃ Expertise with C++/Java, with knowledge of Python
⁃ Solid understanding of Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence systems
⁃ Experience with data mining and analysis
⁃ Experience with any one of the following a plus (text mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, etc.)
⁃ Experience with web crawling/scraping technologies
⁃ Knowledge of database systems (MySQL, NoSQL, etc.) a plus
⁃ Outstanding organizational, analytical and problem solving skills
⁃ Clear written and oral communication skills

Education and/or Experience:
⁃ BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
⁃ 4+ years of experience in software design and development
Graduate level data analytics/research desirable

Nominum is still a private firm, so we offer outstanding compensation, lucrative stock options in our firm, excellent benefits and a chance for you to expand your technical scope and expertise. Please send your information to herbnj@gmail.com




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