Are you awesome?

Flickr is currently looking to hire the following people:

• Backend Engineer
• Backend App Engineer
• MySQL DBA
• Front-end Engineer
• Senior Service Engineer
• Senior Database Engineer

Backend App Engineer

We're hiring back-end application developers to work on core Flickr features and APIs as part of our San Francisco-based engineering team. Developers in this role work on new features, extending and maintaining Flickr's capabilities, and improving scalability and performance as we grow. Other typical projects include integrating with partners and prototyping new ideas. You'd also be helping us solve entirely new social problems, including scaling social asymmetric graphs with rich privacy, and building systems to store complex structured and searchable metadata.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering fast, clean code that thinks a few moves ahead
• A disciplined approach to design/architecture, development, documentation and maintainability
• Self-management in the code-test-debug cycle
• Coordination with other team members, partners and external stakeholders through documentation and discussion

A successful candidate will have:

• Experience with web development in a language such as PHP, Python JavaScript or Ruby (ideally for a large, customer-facing website)
• Competence with MySQL or other SQL databases and memcache
• Experience with optimizing storage for high-read applications (e.g. denormalization).
• Fluency with the LAMP stack, XML and browser technologies
• 3-5 years or more experience of working in software engineering teams
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher

Bonus:

• Prior work with large scale, high volume systems
• Prior experience developing user-generated content features, misuse and abuse strategies
• Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)
• Experience with node.js or Redis
• Expertise in JavaScript, Java, C or C++
• Experience with web-based authentication standards, such as OAuth, including use of, and development with, partner APIs
• A familiarity with a wide variety of tools, languages and approaches
• Expertise in networking, databases, mail handling, image processing, iOS or Android development

And of course you'll have:

• A camera
• A passion for the web and the possibilities it affords for new forms of human interaction and community
• A strong tolerance for office tomfoolery
• A desire to change the world
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to legally work in the US
• Accountability, honesty, responsibility, flexibility ... and a sense of fun and playfulness

We smile on those who already have deep experience with Flickr and photography: include a link to your photostream if you have one. Be prepared to tell us why you want to work on Flickr specifically.