Ruby on Rails Developer (Yammer) - Full Time

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: San Francisco, CA, US
Job ID: 844573-118446
Division: Applications and Services Engineering

At Yammer, we believe the things that separate a great engineer from a merely adequate one are passions and goals, character and personality, not specific technical skills. Engineering exists to move the business forward. We expect all employees to speak openly about their ideas, their concerns, and their contributions. Everyone has a voice in what we build and we expect them to use it.

We're seeking product-minded engineers to join the Yammer Rails team. We use Yammer every day to promote an open, collaborative culture and our goal is to help every person who uses Yammer enjoy their job more and be more effective at it. We hire smart people and trust them to make our product better through building robust, scalable, and useful features. The Rails team works on public-facing applications and services almost exclusively. We build the site and APIs which serve millions of active users (and growing) every day. We spend a lot of time thinking about things like internationalization, caching strategies, A/B testing, and the product as a whole.

Responsibilities:
Help build and maintain Yammer's Rails applications.
Integrate our Rails apps with Back End services.
Identify scaling bottlenecks and propose solutions.
Research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technology.
Solve the types of mysteries which only occur at high scale.

Desired Skills:
Ruby (including Rails)
Experience building scalable applications

Other tools we use:
Memcached
Unicorn & Nginx
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Git
Java (including Jersey)

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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