Open Source Engineer
We are looking for Engineers and Support Engineers
with talent and guts. Do you have a strong passion in writing software that
works? Are you passionate about not only the code, but also the customer? If so,
we want to hear from you. We are looking for an Open Source Engineer who will be
spending most of their time working in open source projects, developing
features, fixing bugs and helping the community build a better product. In
addition, you will help very technical customers solve very technical problems,
and help move these fixes into the core codebase.
If you are an Engineer that likes to fix things. If you have fixed many bugs
in various Open Source projects. If you like looking "under the hood" of
software projects. Join us and be part of the company that is revolutionizing
how software is consumed and distributed.
Required Skills:
- A passion for ensuring customers are successful
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Strong spoken and written English
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Usage of Linux
- Application development / deployment experience
- Deep understanding of Server Side Java (including one or more of Struts /
Axis / Spring / Hibernate / Tomcat, etc...)
- Knowledge of software build / patch / deployment processes and procedures
(i.e. maven, ant, eclipse, etc...)
Responsibilities:
- Help Develop, Debug and Patch popular Open Source projects (and get paid
for it!)
- Help Customers solve deeply technical and difficult issues, and roll these
patches back into the Open Source Codebase
- Help develop internal software to make diagnosing customer issues
- easier and more efficient
- Participate in pager rotation
- Be an active participant in Open Source Communities