Open positions

• *All positions require that you can speak and write fluent english and be able to commute to New York City's west side.
• Backend Developer
• Video Encoding Engineer
• Application Developer
• Flash/AIR Developer
• Senior Designer

Backend Developer

This is a position on the Development team, responsible for developing and maintaining Vimeo's backend infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Monitor overall site performance, stability, and health, including being on call for fun stuff like alert handling and disaster recovery
• Maintain our database pipeline, including managing backups and tuning performance
• Improve our LAMP, storage and cloud infrastructures
• Develop internal application services (Beanstalk, Thrift, Solr, stats)
• Work on profiling and optimizing the lowest layers of application code
• Maintain and improve our internal package management system
• Maintain and improve the development environment and release system

Skills

• 5+ years experience working on a high volume website
• Unrivaled proficiency in Linux server administration and LAMP (+ memcached) administration and monitoring
• A deep and abiding love for building scalable, high performance systems
• Fluent in PHP
• Experience with C and scripting using the appropriate language
• Experience with multi-homed websites a major plus
• Experience with EC2/S3 a major plus
• Experience with Puppet or Debian package management a plus
• Experience with Beanstalk or a general object queue a plus
• Experience with Thrift or a high-performance notification system a plus

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Video Encoding Engineer

This is a position on the Devlopment team, responsible for developing and maintaining Vimeo's transcoding system, one of the highest volume video transcoding installations in the world.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve video transcoding infrastructure, everything from the encoder farm to software pipeline
• Continually refine encoder output to maximize quality and efficiency
• Work closely with the Community Managers to identify and repair transcoding aberrations
• Work with CDN and Flash developers to optimize delivery and playback
• Monitor external development of encoding tools and test bleeding-edge releases and 3rd party patches for compatibility and performance

Skills

• Extensive experience with x264 required
• Experience with EC2 a major plus
• A deep understanding of the h.264 feature set and it's implications, especially with regards to playback performance and target platform compatibility
• Experience working with a huge range of empirical source video a plus
• Experience with terabyte-size data sets a plus
• Experience with large-scale queue management a plus
• An unhealthy appreciation for detail and limitless patience

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Application Developer

This is a position on the Development team, responsible for developing and maintaing the front-end of Vimeo.com

Responsibilities

• Implement major new features and feature improvements
• Identify and solve compatibility issues
• Work closely with the Product and Design/UX team to steadily improve user experience and the feature set
• Work closely with the Backend team to profile and optimize code for performance

Skills

• 2+ years experience working on a high volume website
• Expertise in PHP5, MySQL and memcache required
• Expertise with MVC methodologies required
• Expertise with HTML/CSS experience required
• Expertise with Javascript required, along with experience using a JS framework (we use MooTools)
• Experience with ActiveRecord-style ORM required
• Experience with SPL a major plus
• Experience with Solr/Lucene a major plus
• Comfortable working with in a CLI environment
• A history of working on modern web applications
• An unhealthy obsession with building efficient, clean, and modular code and data structures
• An understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability
• An ability to work seamlessly between client-facing and backend code
• Ingenuity to leverage all the tools at your disposal to eke out every last bit of performance and build the best user experience possible
• A history of working in a cache-heavy environment and an innate understanding of issues surrounding cache
• A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code (and the willingness to answer 3am phone calls to fix your mistakes)
• A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

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Flash/AIR Developer

This is a position on the Flash team, responsible for developing and maintaining one of the world's most advanced (and popular) Flash video players and desktop AIR applications.

Responsibilities

• Implement major new features and feature improvements to our Flash and AIR applications
• Profile and optimize Flash code for performance
• Work closely with the Product and Design/UX team to steadily improve user experience and the feature set
• Work closely with the Backend team to optimize player and video delivery

Skills

• 3+ Years working in Flash
• Expertise with AS2/3 required (we are primarily AS3)
• Experience with Flash video required, and the behavior of Flash in an embedded environment a major plus
• Experience with AIR and PHP a major plus
• A background in design or at least a portfolio that demonstrates a strong eye for design
• An unhealthy obsession with building efficient, clean, and modular code
• An understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability
• An innate understanding of human-computer interaction
• A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code (and the willingness to answer 3am phone calls to fix your mistakes)
• An interest or background in data visualization or statistical methods
• An understanding of security methodologies (ie. code signing, URL signing, public key encryption)
• A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

Senior Designer

This is a position on the Design/UX team, responsible for maintaining the visual design and the user interface of one of the most acclaimed sites on the Web.

Responsibilities

• Produce all web design for Vimeo from prototype concepts to mock-ups to final design
• Maintain the overall design standards, integrity and consistency for Vimeo brand and products both on and off-site
• Create individual brand identities for each new Vimeo product and feature, including color palettes, logos, and marketing materials
• Work closely with the ad sales team to provide any creative support needed from ideation to final implementation

Skills

• 5+ Years working in web design
• Expert proficiency with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other web design tools
• High proficiency with HTML and CSS required
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates a keen eye for user interface design, iconography and problem solving through web design
• An unhealthy obsession with design consistency across the entire web site
• An understanding of the design related issues surrounding large-volume websites
• An innate understanding of human-computer interaction and user flow
• A desire to be personally responsible for maintaining the design integrity of a highly dynamic and constantly evolving web site
• A preoccupation with staying on top of web design trends and the latest techniques

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