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Engineer, Discovery
Vimeo
New York, NY, United States
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Do you want to help make "Vimeo" a verb? There are millions of Vimeo users who are waiting to consume non-stop content about millions of topics - join Vimeo’s Search & Discovery team and help improve Recommendations for those viewers on the coolest video site around.
The Discovery team at Vimeo is responsible for: Search, Recommendations, Feed, Notifications and other similar products that are crucial in making navigation, exploration, and discovery of content as easy and awesome as possible. We work hard to help users find what they want and content they would be interested in. We are data and customer driven, our engineers work closely with the Product team to help define and articulate a vision for our products. Basically, we focus on providing simple and elegant solutions for discovering fresh and relevant content to keep the Vimeo audience interested.
What you’ll do:
• Work with our data science team to build out a recommendation engine.
• Be responsible for building our innovative recommendation platform(s) that will be used by millions of customers everyday
• Design and architect components with focus on performance and scalability of distributed services and systems and underlying data store(s)
• Ensure high availability of the platforms through systems and infrastructure engineering
• Partner with product managers to refine and prioritize requirements, estimate and scope work, and time releases
• Help improve applications automation and monitoring throughout the system
• Write clean, portable, and well-documented code
What we’re expecting:
• Mastery of at least one server-side language such as PHP, Python, Go or Java
• Experience with or interest in Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, or Storm
• Understanding and experience of modern data stores (Distributed/NoSQL etc), & Appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of different solutions.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or columnar databases (Vertica, Redshift, Greenplum) a plus
• Knowledge of machine learning and other predictive modeling techniques
• Understanding of IO issues, disk and network
• Knowledge and experience of monitoring tools
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
Bonus Points:
• Practical experience with machine learning and information retrieval is a plus
• Strong portfolio or public code (Github, Bitbucket, etc.)
About us:
Vimeo’s mission is to empower creators to make, share and sell amazing videos directly to viewers worldwide, in the highest quality possible and with no interruptive advertising. Vimeo is home to the world’s leading video creators and the hundreds of millions of viewers who love them. We’d love to welcome you to both our team, and our community.
Founded in 2004 and based in New York City, Vimeo, Inc is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).