Perl/Go Software Engineer in GeoIP Build - remote opportunity (US-many states/Canada) (telecommute)

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Posted: June 29, 2021

Job title:
Perl/Go Software Engineer in GeoIP Build - remote opportunity (US-many
states/Canada)

Company name: MaxMind, Inc.

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: no

Description:
MaxMind  (www.maxmind.com) is looking for a talented and highly motivated
person to help us build, release, and improve our IP intelligence (GeoIP)
databases. Our GeoIP data is used by thousands of companies around the
world, including many of the world’s most visited websites.

We are hiring
anywhere in Canada and in the following US states: CA, CO, FL, LA, MN, NV,
NY (excluding New York City and Yonkers), NC, NV, OR, PA, TX, WA.

MaxMind
does not currently sponsor US employment visas. For Canadian candidates,
you must be eligible/authorized to work in Canada.


THE POSITION OVERVIEW

Every week we release a few dozen GeoIP databases in various formats. As a
member of our team you will contribute to:

- preparing input data,
transformation using multiple build steps, and quality checks against the
previous release
- evolving our tools and processes to improve our data
quality
- manage and improve the build code and process
- automate the
build steps to increase efficiency in our release cycle

You will work
closely with other software engineers on the GeoIP build team. We also have
a larger team of software engineers who are responsible for customer facing
APIs and system architecture and are available for code review and
mentorship.

Our salary range for Engineering roles begins at $125k USD or
$150k CAD (in Canada), with the specific offer depending upon skills and
experience. See more about benefits and compensation below. 


OUR
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE 

Our GeoIP build code is largely written in Perl and
runs on Linux. We are planning to migrate some of that code to Go. We
maintain fast development cycles and identify small, incremental
improvements that add up over time. All work goes through internal code
review on GitHub Enterprise.

Desired skills:
Minimum Qualifications:

- Programming experience in Perl (a programming
exercise will be given to all applicants)
- Experience with or a
willingness to learn Go
- Experience with Linux/Unix and command line tools
- An interest in wrangling large amounts of data
- A willingness to work
with and make incremental improvements to a legacy codebase
- The ability
to work with a geographically dispersed team

Website for more information:
https://jobs.lever.co/maxmind/a9544117-3398-4138-9320-3f93b903048b

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21826#contact