Re: Startup in San Francisco Bayarea is seeking for Database Kernel Engineer - Ok. I have a job available that pays between $150K and $300K. - Mailing list pgsql-jobs

Andrew,

Here is the first one...

My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting with a focus on quantitative sciences. One of my clients is a machine
learningstartup located in Northern California. The founders include a successful veteran entrepreneur with a PhD in CS
fromStanford, while the other founder is on the faculty at UC Berkeley. Their team has made unpublished discoveries in
thefield of Machine Learning and in other areas as well.   

My client would like to hire a Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer as soon as possible. Their job description
canbe found below. This group is going to be the next big thing in terms of quantitative strategies and systems.  They
arerebuilding their current system and also designing a new system.  You could work on either or both. I would love to
speakwith you or anyone else you might highly recommend about this opportunity. 

Thank you,

Charles Weitzer

CEO/Senior Recruiter
Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc.
Global Financial Recruiting Services
Email: Charles@CharlesWeitzer.com
Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182

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Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer

Fast-growing science and technology-driven startup seeks a Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer. You will be a
coremember working with the RnD, Software, Infrastructure, and Trading teams to develop, test, deploy, and manage
research,operational and production software.  

The firm researches and deploys machine learning and statistical trading strategies that are designed to generate
attractivereturns without being dependent on the performance of the overall market.  Join a team of people that
includesa professor at a premier university as well as over ten PhDs and two MBAs from top schools, led by the founder
andCEO of a successful Internet Infrastructure technology firm. We have a casual and collegial office environment,
weeklycatered lunches, and offer competitive benefits packages.  

Focus areas for the position include creating software infrastructure for our research department and production
tradingsystems, implementing and automating back office and reporting systems, as well as supporting the next
generationof our compute and storage hardware systems. We seek a candidate who can bring both development and
operationsskills to rework existing software infrastructure and guide test/automation of new and ongoing deployments. 

Qualifications:

•    Experience writing Python code in a *nix environment
•    Experience working with mission critical RDBMS, such as PostgreSQL, performance and fault tolerance
•    Industry experience as a software engineer
•    Automation deployment and virtualization (Ansible, KVM, Jenkins, etc.)
•    Experience with debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb,
tcpdump,etc. 

Useful Skills (Desirable, but not required):

•    Monitor and network management (Nagios, Logstash, Graphite, Cacti, etc.)
•    Knowledge of distributed systems, cluster computing, and fault tolerance
•    Experience making commits on open-source technology
•    Familiarity with cluster management and job queuing systems (Chronos, Luigi, Oracle grid engine, Mesos, etc.)
•    Experience in operations for highly available services

Please note that a background in finance is not required.

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To apply for this position, please send your resume to Charles@CharlesWeitzer.com.

Thank you,

Charles Weitzer

CEO/Senior Recruiter
Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc.
Global Financial Recruiting Services
Email: Charles@CharlesWeitzer.com
Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:14 AM
To: Charles@CharlesWeitzer.com; pgsql-jobs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-jobs] Startup in San Francisco Bayarea is seeking for Database Kernel Engineer - Ok. I have a job
availablethat pays between $150K and $300K. 


On 11/20/2014 01:02 PM, Charles Weitzer wrote:
> Ok.  I have a job available that pays between $150K and $300K.
>
> Charles
>
>


Assuming you're serious, I think you might need to add a few more details :-)

cheers

andrew