Systems Engineer (contract), Seattle

Systems Engineer (contract), Seattle

 

About You

You are a smart, motivated, and creative engineer who is passionate about technology.  You enjoy conversation and collaboration with teammates who share the same passion and curiosity about software architecture, design, and best practices.  You love supporting developers to get a product deployed and it working seamlessly.  You are not afraid to experiment with a new idea to see how far you can take it and will voice your opinion on how to improve existing products.  You love to interact with large clusters of systems and constantly read up on best practices, security, system optimization, and emerging technologies.

 

If you fit this profile, Marchex is for you!

 

About Us

Marchex is a publicly traded company (MCHX) and leader in the emerging local search and advertising space.  Founded in 2003, Marchex has experienced phenomenal growth in every area of its business and thus need to complement existing team of innovative, highly-motivated individuals in order to help capture additional significant business opportunities.

 

About the Role

Supporting platforms with the scale and reliability that Marchex has is a unique and challenging technical problem.  Our paid search management product is growing and maturing. We need to be able to provide reliable, high availability systems, while continually supporting the development team that is adding new features. We need exceptional and motivated team members to join our team who can support us in constructing and maintaining the next generation of internet advertising services. 

 

 

Specific Tasks include

• Deploy software releases to production.

• Communicate system design and implementation details to team members and project leads.

• Assist in reviewing deploy plans.

• Build monitors to track system performance.

• Write technical specifications

• Define assess and define appropriate hardware to meet scaling and

• Troubleshoot software and system issues.

• Support and build QA and test environments

• Mentor others when necessary.

 

 



 

Targeted Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering or a minimum of 3 years in a technical field.

• Knowledge of Perl and Bash

• 2+ years experience supporting large scale systems with near real-time requirements

• Understanding of telephony software and protocols (SIP, RTP, PRI, TDM)

• Thorough knowledge of Unix systems (file descriptors, locks, NFS, etc)

• Good software architecture and debugging skills

• Experience with SQL

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels

 

Our Benefits

We offer Great West Medical/Prescription, Delta Dental, Vision Service Providers (VSP) Vision, 401K, Basic & Voluntary Life Insurance,

Basic & Voluntary AD&D, Long Term Disability (LTD), Emergency Travel Assistance, Employee Stock Purchasing Program (ESPP), Employee

Assistance Plan (EAP), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), video games and free beverages, too!

 

To apply for this position, please go to http://www.marchex.com/careers and submit your resume online.