Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Our employees at Shutterfly are passionate and possess the deeply held belief that a team working for a cause will reach and benefit millions of people. We are looking for those rare individuals who share our passion about building a great company while delighting our customers, partners and fellow employees.
Do you enjoy designing distributed systems capable of scaling linearly and cost-effectively? Do you love learning about the latest scalable Internet architectures and have ideas of how to make them even better? Are you looking to be part of a team responsible for our software platform that manages over 1.5 billion high-resolution customer images and provide state-of-the-art Web 2.0 experience to millions of customers?
This is a great opportunity to join the Shutterfly team where you can have impact and make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Design distributed system and software architectures that are scalable, available, manageable, and cost-effective.
• Develop robust infrastructure software that is multi-threaded, efficient, minimizes contention, and effectively utilizes shared resources.
• Develop and conduct load testing to understand and optimize system performance and scalability.
• Design and develop platform software that provides common services to other application development groups: e.g. access to databases, messaging, caching, monitoring, logging, etc.
• Performance tune Tomcat configuration, Java memory and thread utilization, database connection and SQL, cache utilization, messaging, and other infrastructure systems.
• Collaborate with Internet Operations on system design, capacity planning, monitoring, engineering escalation and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Release and QA on deployment and testing.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of infrastructure software and systems development, mostly in Java.
• Strong object-oriented design and Java coding skills; able to design efficient database schema and queries; experience developing software that minimizes latency.
• Experience redesigning and migrating existing software to new software platforms.
• Experience leading infrastructure projects from concept to deployment; experience with performance tuning and improving existing infrastructure software.
• Experience designing scalable and cost-effective Internet-based distributed systems – load balancing, fail-over, distributed caching, messaging, database scaling (e.g. sharding).
• Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing, dynamic environment
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent commercial experience.

Desirable:

• Production experience with the use of systems and software packages: e.g. MemCached, SQUID, Coherence, Terracotta, Hibernate, and JGroups.
• Production experience with MySQL and other database technologies.
• Production experience with virtualization technologies.

Working at Shutterfly:
Shutterfly offers many perks and benefits beyond salary. We offer shares in our company, 401K, 10 Company Paid Holidays as well as 15 PTO days per year – and your birthday is a paid day off! We are easy to find off 101 on the peninsula, half way between San Francisco and San Jose in Redwood Shores. We keep a fun and casual environment at Shutterfly. Free drinks and cheap snacks are always available. We have walking and biking trails all right outside the front door. We have the excitement of the dotcom era and the stability of an established, profitable company. We provide Medical, Dental, and Vision as well as Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, and an Employee Assistance Program. Shutterfly is an equal opportunity employer.

No Phone Calls Please.

Please forward all resumes to jobs@shutterfly.com.