Linux Systems and Networking Engineer

Visible Measures Corp. (VMC) is a venture-backed start-up developing breakthrough audience measurement solutions for internet video. VMC enables Internet TV publishers, platforms, and advertisers to deeply measure and analyze audience engagement patterns to yield meaningful audience insights, superior customer engagement, and increased advertising ROI.

Our patent-pending technologies go further to "look inside" the video content to analyze how users experience and engage with specific moments within a video. This type of deep analysis and the objective indices produced allows Visible Measures to enable its partners and customers to offer new brand awareness advertising opportunities and to fully grasp the specific behaviors each audience segment uses to interact with the mix of video content and advertising.

We believe that this is an exciting once in a lifetime opportunity to join a world-class team on the ground floor of a company that will truly define the next generation of media.

You are a creative thinker that communicates effectively and possesses the individual leadership and accountability to "step up" and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment while maintaining focus and a sense of humor. You possess a strong academic background, and are clearly passionate to continue to learn and grow. You thrive in a high energy team environment and have the entrepreneurial spark to seek out and manage tasks outside the bounds of your day-to-day responsibilities. You have consistently been among the top engineers on your team.

We are looking for an exceptional Linux Systems & Networking Engineer to install, operate, monitor, and support the systems and networking backbone of our media metrics infrastructure. You will be responsible for helping plan for and responding to issues, troubleshooting traffic anomalies, maintaining high-volume / high availability hosted services, and building new automation infrastructure. To achieve these goals, you will need a deep understanding of networks, operating systems, multi-tiered Internet services and an ability to seek out and resolve issues efficiently and effectively before they occur.

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
• 4+ years experience with Unix or Linux Systems Administration
• Experience designing and troubleshooting in a high-volume, critical production service environment
• Experience implementing scalable network, database, and storage architectures
• Strong understanding of networking: isolating, diagnosing, and resolving issues with service delivery components and network devices (servers, routers, switches, bridges, firewalls, hardware load balancers); identifying the potential cause of service issues using server-resident tools (tcpdump, ping, traceroute, etc.); defending against common network security exploits; understanding how to troubleshoot issues at the packet level
• Skilled in leading projects, especially in deploying live end-user systems
• MySQL database administration and clustering a plus
• Programming and troubleshooting skills in Java a plus