Jobs @ Amie Street
Company Info
- Fast-Paced & Results-Driven Culture
- Complex and Diverse Computer Science Problems
- Minimal Adult Supervision
Amie Street is a New York-based company that has pioneered dynamic pricing and incentivized recommendations in music retail. Amie Street has garnered attention from sources including The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, TechCrunch and Slashdot. The company was founded by Brown University students in 2006 and completed it’s first round of financing in 2007 led by Amazon.com. Amie Street has a casual but fast-paced and results-driven culture.
Available Positions
Available Position:
Software Engineer
Location:
New York, NY
Salary:
Competitive w/benefits
Job Description:
Amie Street is looking for a multi-faceted software engineer who enjoys working on a wide range of projects. The problems an Amie Street engineer is expected to solve run the gamut from feature development on the principal retail site to systems applications of how to organize and store millions of song files to implementing feedback and recommendation systems. A successful applicant will be able to quickly cycle between varied projects and be willing to continuously learn new technologies and skills.
Requirements:
- Creative problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of and experience with web application design (both backend, frontend and how the two interact)
- 4 year college degree (BA or BS) or equivalent.
- Strong ability to work and manage resources independently.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience with some Linux distribution (Debian preferred).
- Strong knowledge of PHP, Perl, or Python.
- Love for music!
Bonus Points
- Knowledge of C/C++, Java, and/or Erlang.
- Knowledge of scale-out technologies/techniques (memcached, MogileFS, sharding)
- Systems/database programming experience.
- Understand what this function does:
#load "str.cma";; open Str;; let rec f n s = if String.length s < n then [] else first_chars s n :: (f n (string_after s 1));;
How to Apply:
Please send resumes in Word or PDF format to jobs [at] amiestreet.com . In addition, please include a short answer to the following questions:
After perusing our site, what do you like and dislike about it? What feature(s) would you want to work on extending or improving?
References will be requested after the first interview.
Available Position:
Operations Engineer
Location:
New York, NY
Salary:
Competitive w/benefits
Job Description:
Amie Street is in need of a systems administrator/operations engineer to help support its production and office infrastructures. A successful candidate will be a team player who is excited to contribute in a fast paced, startup-environment with 15-30 employees.
This is a position with responsibilities in two distinct areas. The position is ideal for someone with systems administration experience who is eager to learn more about operations and scalable web technologies.
This is a position with responsibilities in two distinct areas. The position is ideal for someone with systems administration experience who is eager to learn more about operations and scalable web technologies.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Primary systems administrator and IT support for all office
infrastructure. - Administer desktop machines, development systems, file storage
(NFS/SMB), user management (LDAP/Kerberos), and network. - Assist team members in general troubleshooting, software installation,
and support (Windows, Mac, and Linux clients) - Automate and maintain scheduled backups of important office and
production data. - Maintain private Debian repository for local software builds.
Secondary Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a small Operations team to maintain our production
infrastructure and systems - Ability to be on call and work quickly under pressure to diagnose and resolve
systems-related issues in our production site - Desire to learn about and understand a complex, scalable, heterogenous
production system with many moving parts. - Help to automate and streamline deployment, monitoring, and
maintenance tasks for a production environment with multiple racks of machines. - Must be excited to strive towards our goal of 5-nines reliability.
Requirements:
- Strong experience with Linux system administration (Debian/Ubuntu
preferred) - Some experience with Windows and MacOS X administration.
- Experience developing or administering scalable applications on a LAMP
stack in a multi-server environment. - Ability to script administration tasks in sh, perl, ruby, or python.
- Strong desire to learn and explore new technologies quickly and
independently - Ability to work as part of a small team in a fast paced environment,
responsibly managing and prioritizing many tasks at once. - Love of problem solving
- General understanding of networking technologies (e.g. VPN)
Bonus Points
- Experience with Solaris 10 (specifically ZFS storage)
- Working knowledge of vserver or xend
- Experience with distributed file systems and computation frameworks
(e.g. MogileFS, Hadoop, KFS, Hypertable, SGE) - Networking experience (Cisco/HP managed switches, routing, BGP)
- Experience with MySQL 5 database administration
- Knowledge of OpenVPN from both client and server perspectives
- Experience with automated deployment software (e.g. Puppet,
Capistrano, cfengine, etc) - Extensive knowledge of commodity hardware (ability to spec and build)
How to Apply:
Please send resumes in Word or PDF format to jobs [at] amiestreet.com .
References will be requested after the first interview.
