# \[Jobs\] Sr. Software Engineer-Cloud Infrastructure **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 11, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jobs-sr-software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure/193090 "2010-08-11T04:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CC\_Pace](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@CC\_Pace](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CC_Pace)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jobs-sr-software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure/193090/1 "2010-08-11T04:16:48Z")
Hello All, CC Pace is an IT Consulting Firm located in Fairfax, Va. We have been in business for 30 years providing different companies with IT solutions/SME in business and systems analysis, software development, project management and more. As a result of some of our long-term relationships with clients over the years, a staff augmentation division has developed. We are currently tier 1 vendors to several companies in the DC Metro area, Richmond Va. and other cities across the Eastern Seaboard. Our staffing clients look to us for assistance in finding top technical talent for their permanent, contract and contract-to-hire opportunities. ## We are in need of a Sr. Software Engineer with Cloud Infrastructure experience and Ruby. This is a permanent posiiton with a streaming media client of ours located in Dulles, Va. The detailed job description is below. If you are interested in speaking about this opportunity further please email us and include your resume and a good time and phone number where you can be reached. Thank you! Software Engineer (Design/Development 8-10 yrs exp)– Cloud Infrastructure (Elasticity/Virtualization) Looking for analytical individuals with strong computational skills to work on cloud infrastructure projects at a premier video technologies company. Come join a team filled with incredibly talented individuals which are focused on a singular goal: delivering the best video experience to the web. Software engineers have the satisfaction of knowing that their efforts play a large part in the success of a small and incredibly efficient company. Through us you could have the opportunity to affect people all over the world. Required Skills: • provable programming prowess in Ruby (1-2 yrs) and exp with dynamic scripting languages • experience working on infrastructure projects; building the foundational pieces and middleware that run scalable applications • experience with Unix/Linux • ability to analyze, troubleshoot and design experiments to quickly validate ideas • experience with a sizable source code base (1/2 milliion lines of code) Desirable Skills: • experience working on large data sets (pedabyte of data, millions of assets, a lot of transactions happening, 10’s of thousands a minute) • experience with Rails, MySQL • experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, SDB) Savvis Web services good substitute • software engineering practices Education Level: • hold or are finishing a M.S. or Ph.D. degree in computer science is not required, but is a plus • degree in an analytical subject (e.g., engineering, math, statistics or physics) and have worked on projects requiring a software development effort of non-trivial size Responsibilities: Candidates will need to apply all manners of software engineering techniques to add new features and to maintain a state of the art infrastructure project. Infrastructure sits at the center of the team thus the candidate needs to have exception communication skills. This is a great opportunity to work on challenging and market-relevant problems as the web-based video industry is taking off! Candidates should be open minded and eager to learn.