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SurveyMonkey ( http://www.surveymonkey.com ) Offices in: Palo Alto, CA, USA Seattle, WA, USA Portland, OR, USA Job Description: Survey Monkey is looking for software engineers who have a passion for solving complex and interesting problems. In addition to scaling site, we are looking for people who can help with advanced analysis and data visualization, natural language processing, and new storage architectures. Requirements * Experience writing top quality software for high-volume/high availability websites, including being involved in building critical user-facing components. * Comfortable working in a Unix environment * Experienced in working with multiple databases and datastores (Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc.) * Love Python About the company SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, but there's really much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period. We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the insights and information they need to make better, more informed decisions. We help customers collect over 2+ million online survey responses daily. SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and organizations of all shapes and sizes. * What Python is used for: Our primary services/applications are all built on top of the Pyramid Webframework. We use pylibmc, ansible, jinja2, sqlalchemy, and many other open source python libraries to power our infrastructure. We are planning to do our first Python3 and PyPy deployments in 2014. Along with moving from weekly releases to continuous deployment. * Contact Info: Contact: John Anderson E-mail contact: johna [at] surveymonkey.com No telecommuting