Web Data Architect

At UpCompany, we’re looking for really smart people who can get things done. We’re looking for self-starters — the kind of people who can be given general directions and execute like mad to drive the business forward. We’re looking for insanely creative people who are bubbling with ideas, but who do not get distracted from the big picture. We’re looking for strong people who can put their personal ego aside to do what’s in the interest of the company. We’re looking for people who like to win and know what it takes to do so. If you’re the kind of person who is driven to complete things, and likes to work hard while having fun, please apply!

Our team is comprised of some of the best minds in the industry. This top notch team has a proven track record of building highly successful Internet businesses. Our thought leaders hail from Quigo, Amazon.com, News Corp., and Yahoo!, and include backgrounds from MIT and Stanford.

Below are descriptions of a few roles we need filled. Don’t worry if you’re not an exact match, we’re not trying to shoehorn people into fixed slots. UpCompany is a fluid organization, and we’re not too concerned with titles. Instead, we’re looking for people who can grow with the company. If you’re the right person, we’ll make it work.

Employees receive equity, competitive salaries, and medical and dental benefits.

Please submit your resume to:
jobs@upcompany.com

Other sample job descriptions available at:
http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WereHiring.html

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Have you built performance-based data services for a transactional website? Are you passionate about website load time? Can you compare and contrast the relative merits of relational, space-based, data cube, key-value, and tree structured data designs. Can you design a heterogeneous data service taking advantage of the relative merits of various technologies to produce a highly data driven, analytical website? Do you wax poetic about the real world differences between memcached, BerkleyDB, and LDAP? Have you researched Google’s Big Table, Hadoop/HBase, Amazon SimpleDB, and even tried them on home-grown projects? Have you constructed dimensional star and snowflake databases, but also know when data normalization is inappropriate? Do you passionately believe that Shared Nothing Architecture should properly extend as deep into the data and persistence layer as possible?

At UpCompany, we’re looking for someone who is obsessed with the power of data and has the capabilities to bring that power to fruition. Someone who can take the requirements for a massively scalable, fast, data driven website, and produce the active data service needed to implement our vision. This person is pragmatic, and can get an initial system up and running quickly, but excited and self driven and will continuously create incremental improvements which align the capabilities with our vision and direction.

Key Words: data architect, DBA, RDF, Big Table, Hadoop, memcache, memcached, semantic, triple store, distributed database, scalable architecture, navigational database, shared nothing architecture, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, python, C++, mySQL