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Senior Web Infrastructure Engineer
Description: Magnify.net is seeking an experienced web infrastructure engineer to help us manage our rapid growth. The primary responsibility of this role is to manage the delivery of our SaaS web video application in such a way as to provide for extremely high availability, minimum response time, and a high degree of scalability. Candidates will be expected to have 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure for high availability web applications. The ideal candidate will have worked in a startup environment and will be comfortable working with a small close-knit team. In addition to server infrastructure management, another responsibility of this position will be technical architecture and assistance with the development of new products and features. This position may also perform some database admin functions in support of MySQL database system. Magnify.net is a fast-growing, well-funded video Curation platform supporting over 60,000 sites, from high-end publishers such as New York Magazine and the Weather Channel, to retailers, hobbyists, and fan-sites. We make it easy for anyone to seamlessly integrate user-generated video, video that they produce or video that they discover into their website.

Required skills: • At least 5 years experience managing infrastructure for a high availability web based application delivering more than 1 million dynamic requests per day • Experience with MySQL, Apache, Load Balancing, Database replication, performance tuning, Caching, data normalization and database architecture are all key to this role. • Understanding of professional software development processes. Including familiarity with the cycles of requirements definition, issue tracking, version control, automated testing, deployment and maintenance. • Clear and articulate communication, both written and spoken. • Strong desire to learn and be a part of a small, driven team.

Desired skills: • Experience with PERL, HTML, CSS, object oriented application development • Relevant startup experience is a plus, but not necessarily a requirement • Experience in systems administration, database administration, especially replication and performance tuning. • Experience working with a managed hosting provider

Location: United States, NY, New York

Pay rate: DOE

Travel: 0%

Hours: Full Time

Email a copy of your resume to jobs[at]magnify.net
LAMP Developer for Web Video Platform
Description: Magnify.net is seeking an experienced developer to join our tech team. The ideal candidate will have a background building high-volume, large-scale LAMP-based web applications. We are open to candidates with knowledge of multiple scripting languages, including, but not limited to: Perl, PHP or Python.

Magnify.net is a fast-growing, well-funded video curation platform supporting over 60,000 sites, from high-end publishers such as New York Magazine and the Weather Channel, to retailers, hobbyists, and fan-sites. We make it easy for anyone to seamlessly integrate user-generated video, video that they produce or video that they discover into their website.

Required skills: • At least 5 years experience developing web-based applications. You should have worked with page templating systems, session data storage, relational databases, caching, and inter-process communication. • Understanding of professional software development processes. Including familiarity with the cycles of requirements definition, issue tracking, version control, automated testing, deployment and maintenance. • Linux/UNIX, Subversion or similar version control, HTML / CSS, basic JavaScript. • Clear and articulate communication, both written and spoken. • Strong desire to learn and be a part of a small, driven team.

Desired skills: • Experience with HTML::Mason, DBIx::SQLEngine, and Cache::Memcached. • Experience in systems administration, database administration, especially replication and performance tuning. • Ajax, OO JavaScript, and/or AS2/3 experience a plus.

Location: United States, NY, New York

Pay rate: Pay commensurate with experience, opportunity for equity as well

Travel: 0%

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Email a copy of your resume to jobs[at]magnify.net

Interns
Description: We have a small number of slots for industrious, smart, self-starters who want to gain hands on experience. You'll learn the ins and outs of online video at an exciting and fast growing company - working with the team on building web video sites on the Magnify.net platform, beta testing new software, video content management, community outreach, new features testing, customer support and more. The internship is for someone who is computer/internet savvy and genuinely interested in online video and content aggregation.

Magnify.net is a fast-growing, well-funded video curation platform supporting over 60,000 sites, from high-end publishers such as New York Magazine and the Weather Channel, to retailers, hobbyists, and fan-sites. We make it easy for anyone to seamlessly integrate user-generated video, video that they produce or video that they discover into their website.

Location: United States, NY, New York

Pay rate: Pay commensurate with experience, opportunity for equity as well

Travel: 0%

Hours: Minimum two days a week

Onsite: yes

Email a copy of your resume to jobs[at]magnify.net