Open positions

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
  • 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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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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System Administrator

This is a position on the Development team, responsible for maintaining and expanding 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
  • Improve our LAMP, storage and cloud infrastructures
  • Working with developers, maintain and improve testing and staging environmentments
  • Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot problems with internal application services (Beanstalk, Thrift, Solr, stats)
  • Maintain and improve our internal package and configuration management systems
  • Maintain and improve the release system
Skills
  • 5+ years experience working on a high volume website
  • Unrivaled proficiency in Linux server administration, including network tuning and kernel optimizations
  • A deep and abiding love for building scalable, high performance systems
  • Expertise with configuration management software and custom Linux packages required
  • Expertise with Apache, nginx and/or lighttpd for a variety of traffic types required
  • Experience with C and expertise scripting using the appropriate language required
  • Experience with multi-homed websites a major plus
  • Experience with virtualization (EC2, xen) a major plus
  • Experience with large memcache clusters a plus
  • Experience with SOLR or Lucene a plus
  • Experience with PHP5+ a plus

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Learn more about Vimeo

What's Vimeo?

Vimeo is a small company located in New York City. We run the web's most creative and exciting video sharing platform and we're only just getting started. Our developers are nasty and our team is one of a kind. We hope to take over the world someday (in a good way of course) and we need your help to do just that. We are only looking for the most talented, fun, and creative people to join our team, so if you fit that bill, then apply today. We're looking forward to hearing from you.

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