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PACKETZOOM ENGINEERING

CompanyPACKETZOOM ENGINEERING
Typefull-time
LocationRemote
Salary
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TechJavaiOSAndroid
Posted bychetanahuja
PostedAug 1, 2014
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Original posting

PACKETZOOM ENGINEERING Burlingame, CA (just south of San Francisco in the bay area) FULL TIME H1B VISA Transfer ok for the right candidate. TN VISA ok. REMOTE considered for the perfect candidate Mobile Networks are different. And yet we continue using the same legacy protocol stack (TCP/HTTP/SSL) to connect mobile devices to the cloud. If you want to help change that, come join us. Packetzoom is rethinking the whole stack from the ground up. You get to hack network and/or security protocols, innards of mobile operating systems and build a global distributed system around brand new protocols. It's a very small (but well funded) team so everyone contributes in everything. But following two are the roles where we have specific needs to fill right now. 1) SENIOR ENGINEERING LEADER IF you have shipped products or built services where you (at least) actually had to deal with unix at the syscall level (either in the userspace or kernel) in C/C++ code, I want to talk to you. If you've shipped and maintained the product for a few years, I really want to talk to you. You'd be responsible for leading the team the team that builds and runs the packetzoom protocol on mobile clients (iOS, Android and any others we decide to pursue) as well as our globally distributed cluster of servers. No pressure ;-) 2) UNIX HACKER WITH AN ANDROID BENT IF you're the kind of person who isn't happy until you've fixed up your android phone so you can ssh into it to, say, kill offending processes and/or run cron jobs, I want to talk to you. You'd be responsible for our Android platform (so you'd be writing some combination of Java and C++ code). In the process, you'd get to learn all about vagaries of mobile platforms and mobile networks at the global scale. In addition, you'll have your pick of dozens of delicious, hard problems to solve in the realm of distributed systems, unix'y things, iOS stuff, security stuff etc. if you're so inclined. I'm a Founder/CEO/CTO. You will work directly with me. We're well funded but still a very small team (< 10 people) So you get to enjoy an early stage team environment but not so much the high financial risk that goes with such things