Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to work with a globally distributed and massively scaled environment? Are you passionate about optimizing server technology and looking for an opportunity to make an impact on the security and performance of the entire internet?

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) is looking for highly talented and technical engineer to help us build the next generation software powering the internet. This is an excellent opportunity to join a world class technical team, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

• Working on the cutting edge of a wide range of innovative software: distributed systems, high performance serving applications, restful APIs
• Architecting solutions for massive scale, resiliency and maintainability.
• Designing software solutions to challenging problems and iterating quickly
• Working on high performance teams and having an impact
• Contributing to and leveraging Open Source technologies

• BS level technical degree; Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics background preferred;
• Strong scripting skills, i.e., Python, Bash, Perl.
• Hands-on technical practitioner and individual contributor.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Strong practical Linux systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment (memory management, scheduling, filesystems, TCP/IP stack).
• Experience building sophisticated and highly performant server-side software
• Knowledge of web services technologies: Web Servers, DNS, load balancing and firewalling.
• Loves firefighting in production