Startup Jobs in Silicon Valley

Mobile Applications Engineer

jobsXtranormal — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:28:02 +0000

Mobile Applications Engineers are needed at Xtranormal, a growing digital media company in downtown San Francisco. Visit www.xtranormal.com

Requirements:
· Minimum 1 year iOS and Objective-C development
· Familiarity with HTML/CSS
· Code samples and finished applications demonstrating interactive elements and user interface for the iOS platform

Bonus Skills:
· PhoneGap
· JavaScript Adobe Photoshop, Django/Python

For more info about this position, visit http://www.xtranormal.com/jobs/se-mobile/

Xtranormal
Everyone has a story. Xtranormal brings stories to life.

The Xtranormal platform turns any idea into an animated video instantly. Millions of people have used it to tell their stories, and more are arriving every day.

Engineering a new way for the world to express itself is challenging and ambitious. It’s also a ton of fun. Our team is growing quickly. Are you ready to help build what’s next?

This is your chance. Tell us your story.

Behind the Scenes at Xtranormal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qp8feXW3s&list=UUZOR5V3ne6UYY4QS1TGDgyQ&feature=plcp

Senior Web Engineer

jobsXtranormal — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:22:08 +0000

Senior Web Engineers are needed at Xtranormal, a growing 3D and animation company located in downtown San Francisco. Visit www.xtranormal.com

Requirements:
· 4+ years of experience developing full JavaScript applications and interactive web pages
· Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and earlier standards
· Reviewable portfolio of HTML applications or interactive web sites
· Experience with server-based MVC implementations

Bonus Skills:
· Mobile web development
· HTML Canvas with video or sprite animation
· Client-side MVC (Backbone.js, Ember.js), Django/Python or Rails/Ruby, iOS/Objective-C, Android/Java, Flash, SQL/ORM, Unix

For more info about this position, visit http://www.xtranormal.com/jobs/se-frontend/

Xtranormal
Everyone has a story. Xtranormal brings stories to life.

The Xtranormal platform turns any idea into an animated video instantly. Millions of people have used it to tell their stories, and more are arriving every day.

Engineering a new way for the world to express itself is challenging and ambitious. It’s also a ton of fun. Our team is growing quickly. Are you ready to help build what’s next?

This is your chance. Tell us your story.

Behind the Scenes at Xtranormal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qp8feXW3s&list=UUZOR5V3ne6UYY4QS1TGDgyQ&feature=plcp

Quality Assurance Engineer

jobsXtranormal — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:19:18 +0000

Quality Assurance Engineers are needed at Xtranormal, a growing 3D and animation company in downtown San Francisco.

Requirements:
· 2+ years of Quality Assurance experience
· Familiarity with multiple browsers, common web technology and modern site design
· Solid written and verbal communication skills
· Experience participating in an engineering team, with usage of ticket trackers, web documentation tools and change control

Bonus Skills:
· HTML/CSS
· Mobile platforms, Mac/Windows/Linux, Windows shell scripting

For more info about this position, visit http://www.xtranormal.com/jobs/eng-qa/

Xtranormal
Everyone has a story. Xtranormal brings stories to life.

The Xtranormal platform turns any idea into an animated video instantly. Millions of people have used it to tell their stories, and more are arriving every day.

Engineering a new way for the world to express itself is challenging and ambitious. It’s also a ton of fun. Our team is growing quickly. Are you ready to help build what’s next?

This is your chance. Tell us your story.

Behind the Scenes at Xtranormal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qp8feXW3s&list=UUZOR5V3ne6UYY4QS1TGDgyQ&feature=plcp

Software Engineer

jobsXtranormal — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:16:53 +0000

Software Engineers are needed at Xtranormal, a growing 3D and animation company located in downtown San Francisco. Visit www.xtranormal.com.

Requirements:
· 3+ years coding experience using the web stack and server-side components including MVC-style frameworks.
· Familiarity with HTTP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
· Familiarity with SQL and Linux/Unix

Bonus Skills:
· Django/Python
· HTML/CSS, JavaScript, mobile applications development

For more info about this position, visit http://www.xtranormal.com/jobs/se-backend/

Xtranormal
Everyone has a story. Xtranormal brings stories to life.

The Xtranormal platform turns any idea into an animated video instantly. Millions of people have used it to tell their stories, and more are arriving every day.

Engineering a new way for the world to express itself is challenging and ambitious. It’s also a ton of fun. Our team is growing quickly. Are you ready to help build what’s next?

This is your chance. Tell us your story.

Behind the Scenes at Xtranormal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qp8feXW3s&list=UUZOR5V3ne6UYY4QS1TGDgyQ&feature=plcp

Operations Lead

jobsXtranormal — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:57:12 +0000

Operations Lead

An Operations Lead is needed at Xtranormal, a growing 3D and animation company located in downtown San Francisco.

Requirements:
· 5+ years in systems engineering/administration, web operations, IT, or related fields
· Experience running production 24/7 web operations
· Knowledge of GNU/Linux, TCP/IP networking and HTTP/web stacks
· Ability to write scripts using Python, Ruby, or Perl/shell for automation and integration tasks

Bonus Skills:
· Amazon EC2, Chef/Puppet
· MySQL, Nagios, Chef/Puppet, AmazonS3/SimpleDB, Solr, Django, zookeeper, MS Windows, haproxy, Celery, RabbitMQ, OpenVPN, RightScale, Trac, collectd/Graphite/Munin, 3D video rendering

For more info about this position, visit http://www.xtranormal.com/jobs/ops-sysadmin/

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@xtranormal.com with “Operations Lead” in the subject.

Xtranormal
Everyone has a story. Xtranormal brings stories to life.

The Xtranormal platform turns any idea into an animated video instantly. Millions of people have used it to tell their stories, and more are arriving every day.

Engineering a new way for the world to express itself is challenging and ambitious. It’s also a ton of fun. Our team is growing quickly. Are you ready to help build what’s next?

This is your chance. Tell us your story.

Behind the Scenes at Xtranormal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qp8feXW3s&list=UUZOR5V3ne6UYY4QS1TGDgyQ&feature=plcp

Business Development Executive

marionlong — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:44:15 +0000

You firmly believe that one plus one should equal three. You think businesses should grow exponentially, not linearly. You are passionate about long-term relationships that can change a business’s trajectory. Your motto is “Cloud and SaaS will change the world”.

At New Relic, the Business Development Executive will identify, negotiate and close long-term, complex partner transactions, as well as manage ongoing relationships between the company and key strategic partners. S/he will creatively apply strategies such as resale, integration, bundling, etc, developing partnerships that drive both customer adoption and revenue for New Relic. You’ll have the unique opportunity to have a significant impact on the business success of a start-up that integrates what is new and exciting in software: Cloud, SaaS, and app performance management.

Specific areas of responsibility include:

Work closely with the Sales and Marketing organizations
Identify and close new partnerships to drive New Relic growth.
Project manage partner integrations to completion
Coordinate the technical and marketing launches of each integrated partnership.
Score and report on success metrics for each partner on a regular basis.

Experience

Minimum 3-5 years of experience in software industry doing business development, strategic alliances, and/or channel sales.
Proven experience and demonstrated ability closing opportunities, managing multiple projects and effectively negotiating agreements.
Experience with Platform as a Service, Cloud, Infrastructure as a Service, or Application Hosting Providers is highly desirable. And/or experience with application performance management.
Strategic and analytical thinker, able to blend technology vision and business strategy to identify new partner opportunities.
Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and explain them to others concisely and effectively.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced and dynamic working environment and build excellent rapport with internal teams; strong teamwork skills is a must.

Also desirable

Related B.A./B.S., Master’s or MBA

A Little About Us

We are passionate, possibly even crazy, about application performance management (APM). Our mission is to make web applications run better, to make the internet more productive, and to make life easier for developers and devops. We are turning the APM marketplace upside down by providing SaaS products that deliver high-value functionality previously only available through enterprise software. We are well above 17,000 customers. And with your help we’ll get to 10x that number.

New Relic is a Top 100 OnDemand Company, Best of SaaS (THINKStrategies), Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing (CRN); 10 Cloud Management Companies to Watch (NetworkWorld); the list of accolades goes on. More important, we provide challenging work, opportunities to learn, high quality teammates, a great product, a company on the move, and . . . the freedom to do your work the way only you can do it.

Our offices are in the tech-rich urban center of San Francisco, with easy commute access and a plethora of good eats. We provide competitive compensation (including pre-IPO stock options) and big-company benefits (medical, dental, etc), while maintaining the energy, agility and fun of a start-up.

New Relic is most decidedly an equal opportunity employer. We seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Manager, Public Relations

marionlong — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:55:49 +0000

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New Relic is the emerging standard in “application performance management” and we are challenging billion-dollar software behemoths with our new, SaaS-based approach. And with more than 20,000 commercial deployments globally (after only four years!), we are gaining momentum rapidly.

But we’re not done. And we want you to help us get to the next stage.

Are you a skilled PR professional who is agile, proactive and excels in a thriving and fast-paced environment? Do you understand high tech PR and can utilize ‘new’ PR strategies to their fullest? If so, we want to hear from you.

In this position you will be responsible for media, industry analyst and community relations efforts for New Relic. Working with New Relic senior staff, you will develop and execute forward-thinking PR programs that position New Relic as the leader in application and business success. You will play a central role in creating brand/company positioning and work with key media and analyst contacts to establish New Relic as a thought leader. And you will create real-time responses to emerging events in the 24/7 world of social media.

To be considered for this role, you probably have:

· 3+ years experience in corporate and/or agency experience in high-tech

· Direct, hands-on relationships with media and analyst contacts

· Ability to leverage social media to strengthen the organization’s public relations strategy and to enhance positioning

· Demonstrated ability to package expertise and knowledge into multiple formats

· Strong writing and analytical skills mandatory

· Excellent written and oral communication skills

· A relevant college degree

A Little About Us

The position is in our San Francisco office, right in the middle of the vibrant SOMA tech community, and around the corner from BART. We offer competitive compensation, pre-IPO stock options, and big-company benefits (medical, dental, vision, life), while maintaining the energy, agility and fun of a start-up.

Interested? Send your resume with a cover letter telling us why this is the right position, and the right company, for you. We look forward to hearing from you!

Field Technology Engineer/Solutions Architect – SF area

cloud9 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:40:09 +0000

Reference:

Cloud9 is looking for an extremely bright and talented SQL/XML developer to join our Field Technology Group. This is a unique opportunity for someone who truly wants to make a difference, advance their career and grow their skills. Teamwork and a good attitude are essential. We are a tight knit team so everyone contributes and everyone makes a difference. The work environment is fast paced, informal, fun and highly collaborative.

Responsibilities

Participate in all aspects of the Cloud9 application configuration process including design, development, and deployment
Involvement in Pre and Post Sales activities, support, customer on-boarding, services, support, and professional services
Strong communication skills

Skills

BS in Computer Science or equivalent
2 – 4 years of experience in software development, solving complex problems
Solid experience writing complex SQL. Multi cursors, stored procedures, etc.
Solid experience with XML (Java a big plus)
Solid understanding of Perforce, WinSCP, like tools
Solid understanding of Excel based solutions
Solid understanding of database features and functions
Experience in technical customer support a plus
Experience with Salesforce.com a plus
Understanding of sales process also a plus
Excellent problem solving skills and creativity
Willing to take on responsibilities
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a multi-tasking environment
Excellent communication/Customer facing skills
Self-starter who can work independently
Proven success

Linux Systems Administrator

SugarSync — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:40:09 +0000

Overview

Want to join one of the hottest technology spaces today (Cloud Computing) and be a part of an exciting, fast-paced company?

We’re looking for a Linux Systems Administrator to help the build-out and growth our large scale data center and provide input into the overall architecture for our infrastructure and operations. You’ll be responsible for supporting and maintaining the server and networking infrastructure in our data center as well as the deployment and troubleshooting of our award-winning software.

We want folks who can hit the ground running, who love getting his/her hands dirty, and has the ability to solve complex problems and situations. Great communication skills and ability to multitask are a must. In short, if you are looking for an opportunity to not only make a discernible difference in a growing company, but also be part of a sharpshooting sys admin team that will help you grow in this field, SugarSync is the place for you!

Experience

Must have 2+ years of systems administration experience on Linux/Unix servers in a 24×7 environment.
Must have 2+ years of experience with Unix shell scripts, PERL, python, or similar languages. Must be able to demonstrate scripting skills at interview.
Must have experience supporting and implementing a large (100+ servers), scalable, highly-available web and storage production infrastructure.
Experience with the following software technologies: Clustered Web/Application servers, CentOS/RedHat Linux, Apache, and Tomcat.
Experience with configuration management tools like puppet/cfengine/etc.
Experience with monitoring solutions (Nagios, Cacti)
Comfortable working in a startup environment.
Willing to participate with SugarSync 24×7 on-call operations
Able to lift PCs, servers, network hardware, etc. (up to 50 pounds); must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Education

Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent experience

Mobile User Experience Designer (on-site contract position)

SugarSync — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:40:08 +0000

We’re looking for an experienced mobile user experience designer who possesses a passion for great design, a superb aesthetic sense, an exceptional eye for detail and a deep appreciation for simple solutions to complex problems. As the Mobile User Experience Designer, you will define the mobile app experience of a service that is dramatically improving the way people manage their digital lives. The ideal candidate will have experience designing successful mobile apps. They will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. You’ll join a talented team obsessed with delivering the best user experience possible.

Essential Job Functions

Design interaction models and workflows
Present designs and design rationale to the product and engineering teams
Author detailed interaction specifications (e.g. wireframes and interaction diagrams)
Incorporate/transform existing product design work to deliver mobile app specifications
Collaborate with visual designers to create an integrated, branded customer experience
Work closely with product management and engineering to implement interaction designs
Assist with usability testing and other research initiatives

Required Experience and Skills:

4+ years of experience of interaction design experience
2+ years of experience designing mobile applications for iOS and Android
Knowledge of mobile user interface/interaction standards, patterns and best practices
App(s) that we can download and review that you’ve designed and/or a diverse portfolio that showcases your work
Experience working with cross-functional teams (other designers, product managers, engineers) and partially remote teams
Exceptional design skills, production value and meticulous attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Proficiency with tools used for communicating designs (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
Ability to give and take constructive feedback
Thorough understanding and application of contemporary user-centered design methodologies

Desired Education:

Degree in Human Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, User Interface Design, Cognitive Psychology or equivalent related design experience

Contract position, 40 hrs/week, onsite at our offices in San Mateo, CA

To apply for this position, please send resume to jobs@sugarsync.com

If available, include links to online portfolios or examples of previous work. No recruiters please.