Monday, December 10, 2007

Software Engineering Manager in New York, NY

Monday, December 10, 2007
About DoubleClick

DoubleClick is a global leader in digital marketing technology and services. The world's top marketers, publishers and agencies rely on DoubleClick's expertise in ad serving, rich media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium. DoubleClick provides unique insights and insider knowledge no one else can. That's why all 10 of the world's top 10 brands, 8 of the top 10 global agencies and 8 of the top 10 U.S. and European Web sites choose DoubleClick to help meet their digital marketing needs. Headquartered in New York, and with 17 offices and development hubs and 15 data centers worldwide, the company employs more than 1000 people. Learn more at .



Our suite of products is driven by the DoubleClick Technology Group (DTG), comprised of over 300 IT professionals, located in New York, Colorado, Chicago, San Francisco and Europe. DTG is an agile software development shop, and employs a mix of open-source and third-party technologies including Java, C++, Perl, ASP.NET, Ab Initio and Oracle running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. In this rapidly growing industry, DoubleClick is both a market leader and innovator, creating an impressive number of new product releases every year.



We pride ourselves with hiring passionate, self-motivated and innovative professionals who enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and pushing those technologies to their limits. If this sounds exciting, come join us taking our world-class, high-volume systems to the next level!



Job Description:

DoubleClick's Ad-Serving system is the company's most critical the industry's highest performing ad delivery platform. Our distributed, reliableand high performance applications help web publishers, marketers and ad agencies deliver billions of digital events every day.

We are looking for a high energy, high caliber technical lead/engineering manager to lead our SWAT team that solves the toughest of technical challenges, handles scalability, availability and performance issues. Must posses a solid understanding of application architecture and capable of doing hands-on troubleshooting whenever necessary.



Responsibilities:

- Lead a small team of highly talented engineers and QAs as a SWAT team for production support

- Manage adserving platform troubleshooting and incident reports

- Prioritize and facilitate architecting the infrastructure projects for scalability, capacity growth and removing performance bottlenecks

- Work with other engineering, operation and client support groups to track, dispatch and resolve helpdesk tickets

- Develop and enhance metrics to measure volume growth,system performanceand problem issues



Requirements:

- BA/BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent (MS preferred)

- At least6 years ofserver application development experience(C++ preferred), with at least 2 years in a technical leadership capacity

- Proficiency in C++ and/or Java

- Fluency in Perl or other scripting languages

- Solid workingknowledge of Windows operating system

- Fluency in writing SQL

- Strong understanding of networking principles, load balancing and HTTP protocols

- Solid experience of high performance distributed application systems and performance testing

- Flexible and adaptive to a fast-faced, challenging environment

- Excellent problem solving skills

- Excellent interpersonal, communication and coordination skills and proven ability to work effectively withcross-functional teams



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