Senior Erlang/Python hacker, Disco Map/Reduce

Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Type: permanent
Reference: ER#00053
Salary: Competitive package based on experience
Status: This job is already taken.

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Description:

Engineer scalable infrastructure for Big Data from the ground up, together with specialists in large-scale computing, visualization, data mining and machine learning. Get paid to contribute to one of the most exciting open-source Map/Reduce implementations in the world, Disco (discoproject.org), using Erlang, Python and Javascript.

Our client is looking for candidates with strong experience using Erlang, Python, and Javascript and who are familiar with problems of scalability and distributed computing. Experience with other languages, such as C, Haskell or Standard ML, is a plus. Candidates should be comfortable thinking in the Map/Reduce paradigm and anxious to develop tools for data analysis and machine learning that go well beyond the state-of-the-art.