Senior Perl engineer for embedded linux devices (onsite), United States, CA, San Mateo

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Posted: October 22, 2006

Job title:
Senior Perl engineer for embedded linux devices

Company name: Fabrik, Inc.

Location: United States, CA, San Mateo

Travel: 0-25%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
We are looking for talented, creative, clever, enthusiastic, and
intelligent engineers to join our team as a senior software engineer. 
Since we are a small company, applicants with a broad range of experience
are valued.  We are looking to fill a full-time on-site Senior Perl
Engineer position at our San Mateo office.

This role is as diverse as you are, but your primary responsibility would
be developing and maintaining our embedded applications. You would be
writing these applications with perl in an event-based server.	You would
be working very closely with other engineers in a close-knit 3 to 4 person
engineering team.

Responsibilities:
 * Development of Fabrik appliance code in OO Perl
 * Development and refinement of system build scripts
 * Tuning existing applications for memory usage and performance
 * Help develop new products (defining requirements, prototyping, testing,
high-level support)


Required skills:
 * Extensive perl knowledge
 * Object-oriented experience
 * Personal interest in perl and/or *nix (BSD/Linux/etc)
 * Desire to learn and improve your skills
 * Common sense


Desired skills:
Preferred Technical Skills (Should have some of these):
 * Event-based programming (Danga::Socket, POE)
 * C/C++
 * Personal contributions to open source projectss
 * Linux Guru
 * Cross-platform development (busybox, buildroot)
 * Experience with minimal filesystems and embedded linux (busybox,
openwrt, uclibc, dietlibc, etc.)
 * Networking (ethernet, TCP/IP, NAT, routing, Multicast)
 * Contribution to open-source projects
 * Familiarity with networking ( TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, ethernet, routing,
firewalls )
 * Linux platform expertise ( iptables, iproute, init/rc scripts )
 * Perl web development (CGI, Template Toolkit, Mason, FastCGI)

Optional Technical Skills (Not required, but nice):
 * "AJAX" ( DHTML, javascript, dojo, prototype, script.aculo.us, etc.)
 * P2P technologies ( Bittorrent, gnutella, zeroconf, UPNP )
 * Advanced networking ( LVS, load balancing, multicast, IDS, traffic
shaping, NAT traversal )
 * Clustering experience ( spread toolkit, whackamole, heartbeat,
ultramonkey )
 * Knowledge of Network File Systems ( Samba, NFS, Coda, AFS, WebDAV )
 * Knowledge of Identity storage ( LDAP, NIS, CalDAV, GroupDAV )
 * Knowledge of VOIP Telephony ( SIP, H.323, IAX, Asterisk )

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4816#contact