Dear all,

We have an opening for a Senior Systems Engineer, 3+ experience, based in Mumbai. This person will be spending most of his/her time working in our product development team. Our software product is primarily a messaging and server monitoring system, plus optional modules for network monitoring, firewall integration, etc. The product works on Linux and Unix platforms; all our customers for this product so far have been on the Linux platform.

In our company, the culture is pretty techie. All users work on Linux desktops. Marketing material, product technical reports, letters to regulatory authorities, etc, are almost always done on LaTeX. Income Tax Form 16 is prepared using an XFig template. And so on....

The selection process will involve a C programming test followed by a personal interview. We will prefer 3+ years of experience but will also look at less experience for exceptional professionals. And please understand that this is not a pure "software job", because we don't feel that people who only want to code can be of much use in our product team. We need someone who will occasionally debug problems on running systems at client sites, so that this insight is incorporated into our product offerings later. And sysadm experience of heavily loaded servers is a big advantage for a role in our product team.

Responsibilities:

- Software development on system programming-type projects - Installation and troubleshooting for Linux servers, WANs, firewalls, etc - Network, server and DBMS performance analysis and tuning - R & D on unfamiliar software, products, protocols

Profile desired:

- Excellent, not merely good, C programming skills - Thorough knowledge of Perl - Hands-on experience in Linux/UNIX operating systems - Clarity and good understanding of the fundamentals of operating systems, network protocols, and optionally, security issues - Experience in Java will be an added advantage - should preferably have read and understood (i) Maurice Bach, (ii) McKusick/Leffler/et-al, (iii) "Advanced Programmer's Guide to Unix" by W.Richard Stevens, etc. - comfortable with working in a small company

Qualifications:

- A B.Sc. degree, preferably in physics/math, or BE/B.Tech/MCA

Please can you reply to me with your resume? And it would be nice if the resume is in PS/PDF/plain text.

regards, Shuvam Misra

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