Nebula is Hiring

Posted by gcurtis on March 16, 2010 .

Nebula is expanding and we have three open positions on our engineering team for talented and highly-motivated individuals: Database Architect, Senior Python/Django Developer, Senior Developer for IaaS. All of the positions are located onsite at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. As a member of the Nebula team you will play a key role in developing the next high-capacity Cloud Platform for NASA and be at the center of Cloud innovation in Government. Nebula is a fast-paced project, and we are looking for individuals who are highly motivated, who can hit the ground running and who can be leaders in their area of expertise.

** To apply, send your resume to nebula-jobs@lists.nasa.gov**

 

Database Architect / Cloud DBaaS

We are looking for a senior-level database developer to help define, design and construct a multi-tenanted, highly available and highly scalable database-as-a-service offering within the Nebula Cloud Computing environment.

Responsibilities
•    Architect DBaaS to meet security, performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability requirements
•    Work effectively and transparently with the Architect, Engineering Lead, and Hardware/Networking Lead
•    Prepare DBaaS documentation to meet engineering, security, operations needs
•    Interface with the open-source release team as needed

Required Skills
•    Experienced with replication
•    Experiences with Linux-HA or equivalent
•    Software development experience using a scripting language (ruby, python, perl, bash)
•    Working knowledge of RESTian software APIs
•    Working knowledge of EC2
•    Experience working in a zero-down-time environment

Preferred Skills
•    DRBD experience
•    Load-balancing proxy experience (HA-Proxy, Perlbal, Squid, etc)
•    Experience building software APIs using Python (twisted, tornado, etc. a plus)
•    Low-level experience with replication protocols and proxying (mysqlproxy, pg/proxy)
•    Experience leading small teams
•    A predilection for measurement and statistics
•    DBA background
•    Working knowledge of NoSQL
•    Agile development experience

Experience
10+ years of related experience with 5+ Years experience setting up, managing and scaling highly-available database clusters using open-source software (MySQL and/or Postgres)


Senior Python/Django Developer / Cloud PaaS

We are looking for a Python/Django programmer to develop key functionality for the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering within the Nebula Cloud Computing environment.

Responsibilities
•    Design, develop and document web interfaces to manage the configuration, deployment and control of web applications for the NASA Nebula Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
•    Mentor pilot customers with developing applications on the cloud computing
•    Participate in periodic design reviews
•    Conduct periodic reviews of other developers code, assist with monitoring overall code metrics and quality

Required Skills
•    Excellent Python and Django skills
•    Real-world experience building high-performance, highly scaleable web applications
•    Agile experience preferred

Experience
10+ years of related experience with a minimum of 5 years experience web application development experience


Senior Developer / Cloud IaaS

We are looking for a senior-level programmer to develop open-source solutions for deploying, managing, and metering services on NASA’s Nebula cloud computing platform.

Responsibilities
•    Design, develop and document Infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas) software for the NASA Nebula cloud computing platform
•    Develop applications for managing and metering the cloud computing platform for pilot customers
•    Participate in periodic design reviews and open source releases
•    Conduct periodic reviews of other developers’ code, assist with monitoring overall code metrics and quality
•    Attend daily team meetings, providing high-value input and feedback to the team

Required Skills
•    Experience with message passing and other asynchronous programming methodologies.
•    Specific & relevant experience public cloud computing platforms like S3, EC2, etc.
•    Experience in managing open-source communities and public source-code repositories
•    Experience developing java based web applications.
•    Experience with multiple programming languages (java, scale, python, ruby, c, ...)
•    Specific and relevant experience with KVM
•    Ability to read and update code written in C is a plus
•    Agile experience preferred

Experience
10+ years of related experience with a minimum of 4 years experience developing high-performance, highly scalable web applications.

OUR MISSION

Nebula is an open-source cloud computing project and service developed to provide an alternative to the costly construction of additional data centers whenever NASA scientist or engineers require additional data processing. Nebula also provides a simplified avenue for NASA scientists and researchers to share large, complex data sets with external partners and the public.

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