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Senior Software Engineer - Ruby / full-stack Rails

Pay: Salary + Stock Options + Health Insurance

We're in search of a full-stack software engineer to be a core part of a small, agile team that is building both a web application and a backend web service that interfaces with our software on a huge number of smartphones. What do we mean by a huge number? Millions of devices connecting a day, a billion full-stack requests per month, managing hundreds of terabytes of data. Our servers handle collaborative anti-malware scanning with phones, monitor new and existing threats, back up and restore data, and provide remote management facilities for devices. You'll be working on a web-scale application, so an aptitude for developing elegant, scalable, robust, and maintainable code is a must. You should have very strong knowledge of relational databases, and be ready to work with NoSQL and distributed systems as well. Our Dev and Ops groups are tightly integrated, so expect to be involved in automation, data analysis, and monitoring, as well as working with QA on load and performance testing. We're looking for bright engineers who are responsible, self-motivated, and confident; and gets things done. We look for problem solvers, who can intuitively anticipate problems; look beyond immediate issues; and take initiative to improve both our software and our development infrastructure. In short, we look for people who take pride in the craft of software engineering and have proven to be great at it. We believe in agile software development, metrics, short feedback loops, well-designed APIs, test driven development, automation wherever possible, and all sorts of other things to make sure we can minimize friction and focus on solving the big problems. Ideal candidates will have: Ability to come up to speed quickly on our existing implementation (Rails) Ability to contribute significantly or lead development of our backend service, including designing the architecture, estimating, and delivering a high quality solution that can scale to hundreds of millions of users Solid expertise writing Ruby (on or off rails), or an ability to learn/advance pretty rapidly, transitioning from Java or other programming languages Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and friends (or ability to quickly learn them as necessary) Experience developing scalable network services Significant experience working with relational databases (MySQL preferred) in the context of web services Discipline for testing and automation - unit, functional, integration, and other forms of automated testing Desire to own features end to end--a feature isn't delivered until all aspects of it are done to a high degree of quality (whether they are sexy or not) Collaborative attitude, with an interest in growing a strong engineering team and culture: everything from hiring great people, to mentoring greenhorn engineers, to fine-tuning process as necessary Stellar communication skills, able to work well with a smart, passionate and growing team Preference for working in a dynamic startup environment where every day offers new challenges Lookout Mobile Security 500 Third Street, Ste 455 San Francisco, CA 94107 http://www.mylookout.com/about/careers About Lookout: Your smartphone is a huge part of your every day life. Lookout Mobile Security is dedicated to making yours safe (as well as 10 million others, and counting!) We believe you should be able to use your mobile device freely without having to worry about things like hackers, viruses, malware, and other threats. We’re disruptive, and our development team is lean and agile, we’re transparent and data driven. Based in the SoMa district of San Francisco, we’re funded by top-tier venture and angel investors who have helped build companies such as Skype, Facebook, Admob, PayPal, Dropbox, Juniper, Good Technology, Vontu, and Symantec. Check out recent press coverage in the New York Times, CNET, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, BBC, Forbes, TechCrunch, and others in our news room http://www.mylookout.com/about/news/ http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1108/gallery.smartest_people_tech_main.fortune/2.html Lookout's development and operations disciplines are tightly integrated. Our cloud is the backbone of our service and provides constant support of mobile clients in the field, enabling them to receive real-time threat protection, backup and restore their data, find and protect their lost devices, and stay connected 24 hours a day. The vast majority of our users connect to the service on a daily basis. Our systems handles billions of requests per month, and we're continuing to scale. The performance and reliability of our cloud is paramount to our success. We already support over 10 million users today. Software Engineers and Operations Engineers alike get to work hands-on with plenty of exciting scale challenges as we grow to support millions more across hundreds of servers with petabytes of storage in a hybrid dedicated/cloud environment. No bureaucracy here, just tough problems, an open environment, and a heads down vibe, up until beer o'clock. Things that fuel us: MySQL, Ubuntu, caffeine, HiRedis, Hadoop, waffles, Ruby on Rails, Puppet/Chef, kegerators, AWS, Heroku, node.js and HTML5, turntable.fm, and game night.

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