[socal-piggies] Rackspace Hosting - Senior Developer Opportunity

Mon Jul 19 16:54:16 PDT 2010

I believe I forwarded another job opportunity from Rackspace a while ago,
but in view of their recent announcement of open sourcing their cloud
infrastructure tools (which are all Python), I thought it'd be worth posting
this.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cyndi Klein <cyndi.klein at rackspace.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Subject: Rackspace Hosting - Senior Developer Opportunity

Hi, my name is Cyndi Klein with Rackspace Hosting.  We are currently
building an industry leading cloud hosting platform and are building a team
of Senior Python Developers. People hired into this role can work remote. If
you, or anyone in your network is interested in an opportunity with
Rackspace, feel free to contact me or give out my information.

I am including a job description below.

If you are interested, I would like to set up some time to chat.  Please let
me know what days and times work best for you.  If you have a current
resume, please send that to me as well.

Have a great day!

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Rackspace, a world leader in hosting delivers enterprise-level managed
hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all
types and sizes globally. Today we serve thousands of customers from data
centers around the world. Rackspace integrates the industry's best
technologies and practices for each customer's specific needs delivering it
as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. We serve as
an extension of our customers' IT departments enabling them to focus on
their core business. Rackspace was founded in 1998 and since then has had
significant growth year after year. There are now over 2,700 Rackers
employed worldwide dedicated to providing customers our premier hosting
services.

 We are solving some of the most pressing problems in our industry such as
how to scale the enormous demand for utility computing and how to fit that
within the traditional business model of a managed IT offering. With cloud
servers being the most basic building block for services that Rackspace will
offer, our ability to deliver on features and scalability are paramount.

In addition to our primary goal of building our next generation cloud
offering, we are building all the necessary tools and utilities to manage
and sustain an ecosystem of users and developers of the Rackspace Cloud
Servers platform. CloudFiles, Drizzle, Cassandra and other tools in
development will be used.

We are looking for passionate advocates of technology. We're looking for
people who don't just use these tools and services, but people that write
them. It is one thing to start a virtual machine on a host, it is another to
have the curiosity to read the source code and figure out how it all works.

We are looking to balance the "been there, done that" with the "why can't we
do it that way?" mentality of thinking. The ability to challenge assumptions
and conventions is important.

*Qualifications:*

·    Strong desire to innovate and develop future technology

·    5-10 years experience designing and writing cutting edge software

·    Internet and operating system security fundamentals

·    Extensive knowledge designing massively scalable systems

·    Experience working in diverse heterogeneous environment and moving
quickly from one technology to another

·    Linux operating system/application development desirable

·    Proven problem solving ability

·    Programming in Python, C , Ruby, or Java

·    Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors

·    BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience (PhD a plus)

·    Excellent written and verbal skills

*Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer*

*The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and
level of work performed by employees in this classification.  It is not
designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all
duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee
assigned to this job.*

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