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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cyndi Klein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyndi.klein@rackspace.com">cyndi.klein@rackspace.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM<br>Subject: Rackspace Hosting - Senior Developer Opportunity<br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am including a job description below. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have a great day!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000">Keeping Rackspace Unique and Special </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000;letter-spacing:-1.0pt"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Qualifications:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <br>
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· Strong desire to innovate and develop future technology<br>
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· 5-10 years experience designing and writing cutting edge
software<br>
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· Internet and operating system security fundamentals<br>
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· Extensive knowledge designing massively scalable systems<br>
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· Experience working in diverse heterogeneous environment
and moving quickly from one technology to another<br>
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· Linux operating system/application development desirable<br>
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· Proven problem solving ability<br>
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· Programming in Python, C , Ruby, or Java<br>
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· Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple
hypervisors<br>
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· BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience (PhD a
plus)<br>
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· Excellent written and verbal skills</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
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