Join the Rubicon Project's fast-paced Seattle engineering office in Pioneer Square. We're seeking a motivated and skilled developer who is willing to work hard alongside our talented Brand Protection & Security Team. Looking for a candidate who thrives in a complex and challenging market, this team performs industrial-scale automated detection of ad-borne malware and annoyances like autoplay audio and pop-ups.
The Rubicon Project is leading a transformation of the online display ad marketplace and in 2010 closed another $18 million funding round, bringing total financial investments to over $60 million. This is a permanent, full-time, on-site position at an established startup company with superb benefits and perks (including free lunches and lots of other goodies) and stock options. Responsibilities: - Extend and enhance Rubicon's automated brand protection platform, which detects and eradicates malicious and nuisance advertisements - Creatively solve hard technical problems in pragmatic, scalable, maintainable ways - Add new automated detection capabilities to further protect ad quality - Tune detection logic, scoring rules, and stealth capabilities to maintain high detection rates and low false positives - Improve forensics to provide additional insight into nature of threats - Continually work to improve system capacity, reliability, and scalability - Design and implement data models, interprocess communication mechanisms, and APIs - Integrate with other Rubicon ad-serving systems - Be flexible and adapt quickly to the needs of our customers and the market, learning on the fly Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in CS or a technical/scientific field - 5+ years of professional software development experience - Proficient in LAMP-stack, back-end development - Demonstrated ability to master and apply diverse new technologies rapidly - Comfortable building high-volume distributed systems in Perl or another dynamic language - Thorough understanding of mechanics of HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, and other networking protocols - Strong SQL skills - Solid software development practices including writing documentation, unit tests, integration tests, and code reviews - Familiarity with Windows API and C++ development on Windows is a plus - Familiarity with Flash development is a plus - Security or reverse engineering experience is a major plus - Ability to travel To apply: http://therubiconproject.theresumator.com/apply/uYLZMz/Brand-Protection-Security.html _____________________________________________________________ Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List POST TO: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/
