Perl System Programmer (Linux) (onsite), Warsaw, Poland

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Posted: March 29, 2018

Job title: Perl System Programmer (Linux)

Company name: Monit24.pl Sp. z o.o.

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
We are a company based in Warsaw - Poland, providing dedicated, advanced
software-as-a-service for websites monitoring, and other IT services
monitoring (SaaS, API, VOIP, video streams, mobile applications
monitoring). We created our own solution based on Perl (95%) with elements
of C, Python and Ruby. Our customers are the biggest representatives both
from banking/finance, GOV, e-commerce, cloud and media sectors, mostly from
Poland.  We have developed our solution since 2006, so we have been through
at least 2 significant system architecture changes and paradigm shifts. Our
software is still robust, complies with the latest standards, and it is
created with passion. 

- If you want to work with us on developing great
new features of backend of our monitoring system (both core, API and
modules) giving our customers the best value software-as-a-service product;
- if you want to be part of a great, open-minded team and be a innovative
architect and programmer of our monitoring system;
- if you love Perl and
you are 100% committed to it;
we will love to work with you :)

Our
solution is divided into following parts in which you will be able to
contribute and of course gain new knowledge:
	1. Our version 3 API,
based on Swager / OpenAPI, implemented purely in Perl (with one algorithm
embedded in C for exceptional speed)
	2. Main monitoring server – a
daemon implemented in OO Perl, divided into dozen of runtime processes
responsible for particular tasks
	3. Monitoring stations – daemons
implemented in Perl, scattered all over the world, allowing our customers
to check their websites from various Internet locations/networks. The
newest modules are also written in Python since it has very robust
interface for chromium engine that we use in about 5% of services.
       
4. Tools for our system management, both in Perl and Ruby since we like to
explore new technologies and gain new knowledge.

Desired skills:
The programmer we are looking for will be:
- implementing new features of
our software in Perl
- helping in design of new features and changes of our
monitoring system
- documenting one’s created code and new features
- unit
test writing for created code
- code optimization and refactoring

In our
system architecture we use also following technologies and solutions:
-
gitlab
- GIT
- MySQL/MariaDB
- nginx/apache/psgi/plack
- Linux Debian
-
OpenAPI
- Perl modules including but not limited to: Curl, LWP,
Crypt::Rijndael, JSON, IO::Socket, IO::Select, POSIX, Git::Raw, List::Util,
Test::Most

We use Agile techniques for project management, and we have
adopted with some improvements
nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ for managing development
process.


Requirements
- you have to be proven Perl programmer with at
least 4 years of working experience in a Linux environment
- it will be
nice if you have at least bachelor degree in IT (programming, operating
systems or databases)
- you need to have strong understanding of
Linux-based software development environments
- at least basic knowledge
and experience with relational databases and SQL is a plus 
- knowledge and
experience with programming using following mechanisms: multi
thread/process, IPC, OO programming, network programming (IP)
- knowing of
debugging tools like strace, gdb, NYTProf will be a significant advantage
-
easiness working in Linux systems environments
- Polish or English language
is desired
- strong analytical and problem solving skills will be
extensively used in this position
- security aspects of programming and
computer systems (Linux) are important skill

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21236#contact