Perl Software Engineer (telecommute), United States

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Posted: July 16, 2018

Job title: Perl Software Engineer

Company name: Circonus, Inc.

Location: United States

Pay rate: Negotiable

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: no

Description:
Our Software Engineers focus on the design, development and overall
lifecycle of our software products. You’ll join a team of high-performing
engineers who strive to improve Circonus’s monitoring and analytics
platform.

As a Software Engineer you’ll be expected to operate
independently, though your day-to-day will often involved working working
with a small team to create, support, and deploy production applications.

In particular, we’re seeking someone with relevant experience to take over
development and maintenance of our existing web application. Prior
experience with such efforts is strongly preferred - please mention it
directly within your cover letter.

Responsibilities
- Work in the office
or remotely, or both (but not at the same time)
- Maintain and document the
existing Perl based Circonus web application
- Develop and support back-end
systems and support tools
- Implement customer requests including API
features and tool requests
- Find and address software errors and bugs
-
Improve deployment, utility, observability, and operability in everything
you do
- Find and address bottlenecks and performance issues across the
application stack
- Unit, functional, and performance testing of produced
deliverables
- Work with Product team to ensure high quality deliverables
-
Participate in peer review during design, coding and testing

Desired skills:
Qualifications
- 3-5 years experience building, testing, and deploying high
quality, highly reliable, scalable application servers
- Strong server-side
development experience with Perl and working knowledge of mod_perl, this is
mandatory, please do not apply if you don't have real world Perl experience
- Strong knowledge and experience with a RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred)
-
Understanding of Unix-based software development environments
-
Understanding of message queues
- Passion for quality-oriented software
development best practices including unit and functional testing,
automation, continuous integration, and low-dependency architectures
-
Comfortable working with git and GitHub for version control, including
opening/reviewing pull requests and distributed branching models
-
Experience working with project management software such as JIRA
-
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
- Excellent
written and oral communication skills

Website for more information: https://www.circonus.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21358#contact