Sr. Software Engineer - Big Data Analytics Platform

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About Skype
Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Hundreds of millions of individuals and businesses actively use Skype to make over 300 million minutes of video / voice calls per day, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Skype is building a Data Analytics platform and this is an opportunity to be part of a new team that will shape the big data strategy of one of the world's most recognized internet brands. If you have a keen desire to stretch yourself to support the delivery of great products and features then Skype's the perfect place for you.

The Brief
Skype is looking for creative, highly motivated software engineers to play a key role in the definition, design, implementation and delivery of Skype's data analytics platform. With your considerable technical expertise, you will be part of a team that will be making the hard decisions around tools, technologies, architecture, implementation and delivery of the platform; impacting how Skype does business now and in the future. We are looking for people that have experience implementing distributed, highly-available, flexible and secure back-end software systems and designing / implementing automated test infrastructures.

Pre-requisite Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Very high level of proficiency in C++ and either C# or Java
• Experience and expertise implementing systems that can handle PB of data, thousands of TPS and millions of sockets
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL data base technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB etc. as it pertains to replication and distribution
• Experience working with common elastic cloud solutions such as EC2, Google App Engine, Azure, etc.
• High level of proficiency in at least one scripting language such as python, ruby, bash, JavaScript, PHP, etc. Several scripting languages and JS in particular is a plus
• Experience building and shipping software within an Agile software development environments
• Knowledge of cloud/web services in general, and the Hadoop distributed system in particular
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or related field