Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. Ning's Your Own Social Network runs on the Ning Core Platform and lets anybody create their own social network (for anything!) in seconds. We've designed and built our infrastructure for horizontal scalability, performance, and availability using Solaris 10 and Zones on AMD hardware.
We're looking to add a Unix/Linux Systems Administrator to our team. You'd be joining an operations team experienced with high volume systems run at scale. You'd have a fair amount of influence over the operational infrastructure at Ning.
You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA.
You love the operations of online services and Internet start-ups. You love the thrill of a 24/7 infrastructure that’s always changing.
You have experience with online services run at scale or would like to.
You don't mind being on-call. It sort of reminds you of college.
You've stayed at a few companies for enough time to see an infrastructure evolve over time. You've also had alot of different projects within that environment.
You are an expert in Solaris and Linux systems. You have experience with DTrace, Zones and Xen.
You’ve spent a lot of time with storage management, such as SAN and NFS. If you’ve spent time with iSCSI that’s also a plus. ZFS experience? Another big plus.
You know your way around database and network administration. You consider your time with Oracle, Cisco and Force10 time well spent.
You love a solid night of system performance tuning, troubleshooting and problem solving.
You started in operations because you were curious about how you manage a data center with thousands of servers. You’re constantly looking for the most efficient ways to do so. Some might call it lazy. We call it smart.
Google isn’t your main source of information. You love spending a lot of time online and staying up-to-date on new things in infrastructure via a variety of favorite blogs.
You are equally comfortable building everything yourself as you are with buying shrink wrapped software. You aren’t religious about either path, but instead look for the right tool for the job.
You are independent, but not so independent that you don't enjoy working on a great team.
You graduated from a university, ideally with a technical degree. If you didn’t graduate from a university with a technical degree, your hands on experience will blow our minds and we’ll forget about school.
You choose simplicity, iteration and continuous improvement over ivory tower, complex architecture projects.
Before you send in your resume, you create a social network on Ning. In doing so, you want to know how the heck we’re going to scale to millions of social networks. And the thought of which is already getting you pretty jazzed.
Proven experience crafting designs that are both functional and beautiful. You can take and idea and turn it into a static mockup, and then into an actual “living” webpage, that can then, if necessary, have its interface details be refined in collaboration with an interaction designer. Proven experience creating production-quality, standards-based XHTML and CSS. Basic javascript skills are also preferred.
Basic Interaction Design Skills. You can take a set of static mockups and identify potential big problems in interaction, complexity, or user confusion. You can turn designs into production-level XHTML and CSS that developers can build on, but you can also recognize when more in-depth interaction design is required that you can’t provide.
You live and die with your tools. Whether it’s Photoshop, or Fireworks, or Illustrator, you are a master of the tool of your choice and they can pry it out from your cold, dead fingers. You know that Dreamweaver is nice, but also you know that the real work in web development is done with Firebug, Textmate, Ultraedit, or just plain Notepad.
Basic understanding of development processes and tools. You have used in the past tools such as version control and you don’t need to be convinced they’re a necessary evil. Code doesn’t scare you. You can whip up a page in PHP, Ruby or Python to show how a flow should work, or you can use basic Javascript to mockup dynamic behaviors in a page.
]]>Proven experience designing user interfaces and flows that are intuitive, and easy to use. You can take and idea and turn it into a detailed wireframe specification or basic mockups that can then, if necessary, be refined in collaboration with a graphic designer. Proven experience creating production-quality, standards-based XHTML and CSS. Basic Javascript skills also desired.
Basic Graphic Design skills. You can take a wireframe and turn it into production-level XHTML and CSS that developers can build on, but you can also recognize when more in-depth graphic design is required that you can’t provide.
You live and die with your tools. Whether it’s Visio, Omnigraffle, or something else, you are a master of the tool of your choice and they can pry it out from your cold, dead fingers. You know that Dreamweaver is nice, but also you know that the real work in web development is done with Firebug, Textmate, Ultraedit, or just plain Notepad.
Basic understanding of development processes and tools. You have used in the past tools such as version control and you don’t need to be convinced they’re a necessary evil. Code doesn’t scare you. You can whip up a page in PHP, Ruby or Python to show how a flow should work, or you can use basic Javascript to mockup dynamic behaviors in a page.
]]>Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. The Ning Platform is built in Java 6u1, PHP, bash, Ruby, C, and a little C++.
It is one of the only modern software platforms today that supports arbitrary content operations over an Atom PP- based API, along with Javascript APIs, seamless scaling, and social features.
We’re looking to add a Core Platform Engineer to our team. You’d be joining architects and developers in a flat organization that likes to solve problems in sub-linear time and constant space.
As a Core Platform Engineer at Ning, you'll play an important role in shaping the technical direction of the Ning Platform, work with the latest Java technologies in new and interesting ways, and have tremendous autonomy in structuring, defining, and completing your projects.
You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA.
You love software. You love programming. You love designing algorithms.
You are an expert in Java and have extensive experience with Java 5 and 6
You spend a lot of time online and stay up-to-date on new, fun things out there for developers as well as regular people.
You love solving tough problems with other hard core programmers.
You devour everything you can find on new and interesting technologies.
You love object oriented design and are fluent in software design patterns.
You can point to an itch that you've scratched with software you've built for yourself or other programmers to use.
You've worked on web products on rapid development cycles. If you've been working on 12-month development cycles, you might not be a great fit, unless you hated the 12-month development cycles and never want to go back to them.
You've explored, experimented, and developed in Javascript, XML, PHP, and REST. More importantly, you have strong opinions about them.
You love to dive in and learn a new codebase.
You choose iteration and continuous improvement over ivory tower, complex architecture projects.
You graduated from a university with a strong engineering school and have a technical degree. Ideally, your degree is in computer science. You did well in school or at least did something interesting outside of school to account for your mediocre grades.
You enjoy talking about design patterns and algorithms, and can code on a whiteboard. More importantly, you can do all of these in an initial interview.
Before you send in your resume, your curiosity gets the better of you and you create a social network on Ning. You dive into a bit more detail and are struck by the Ning Content Store and why we chose that architecture. You have lots of technical questions for us.
We're looking to add an Application Developer to our team. You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA or at least come here a lot.
You love software. You love programming. You love designing algorithms.
You spend a lot of time online and stay up-to-date on new, fun things out there for developers as well as regular people.
You are an expert in PHP. You like other languages, but you love PHP. You also hate PHP in the way that only someone who loves PHP can.
You are fluent in web application design patterns.
You have experience programming scalable web applications and like to show them off.
You are an expert in AJAX. You can speak eloquently about the differences between Dojo and Prototype.
You are an expert in HTML/CSS.
You know your way around Flash.
You love solving tough problems with other hard core programmers. You love learning from other PHP experts.
You devour everything you can find on PHP as well as other new and interesting technologies.
You can point to an itch that you've scratched with software you've built for yourself or other programmers to use.
You've worked on web products on rapid development cycles. Your definition of rapid is 2-4 week development cycles.
You’re happiest using Agile development, SCRUM, extreme programming, or some interesting hybrid while working on semi-autonomous projects in a flat organization.
You love to dive in and learn a new codebase.
You choose iteration and continuous improvement over ivory tower, complex architecture projects.
You graduated from a university and have a technical degree. Ideally, your degree is in computer science. You did well in school or at least did something interesting outside of school to account for your grades.
You enjoy talking about design patterns and algorithms, and can code on a whiteboard. More importantly, you can do all of these things in an initial interview.
Before you send in your resume, you create a social network on Ning. You dive into a bit more detail and are struck by the Ning Content Store and why we chose that architecture. You have lots of technical questions for us.
Ning is an online platform for social networks, which means that anyone can customize the code running their social network on Ning for free, in (almost) any way they’d like. There are currently over 160,000 social networks on the Ning platform, with 5000 new networks being created every week.
Put your mark on a rapidly growing online platform for creating social networks used by people in their daily lives.
Leverage your broad technical and software development skills to help people achieve their goals with their social networks. Create great, rewarding relationships in the process.
Get creative with our platform and inspire others to build great things with it.
Field code questions, feedback, and suggestions from Network Creators and Developers in our Help Center; on our Network Creators and Developer networks; and on posts throughout the blogosphere.
Rapidly funnel your recommendations into Ning’s rapid development cycles, new and improved documentation, and other Network Creator and Developer resources.
Develop additional shared libraries, code snippets, and tutorials to make the learning curve for new Developers customizing their social networks on Ning faster and even more efficient.
You love software. You love coding, specifically PHP, JavaScript, and HTML. You love teaching people new stuff.
You love helping people and find it rewarding to dive in and troubleshoot issues, then use that experience to make the whole service better.
You enjoy writing.
You think putting your stamp on a new developer network for a new breed of platform, specifically one focused on empowering people to create their own social networks, is exciting.
You spend a lot of time online and stay up-to-date on new, fun things out there for developers as well as regular people.
You have experience working on tight development cycles, love rapid iterations, and enjoy working with product managers, developers, QA engineers, and operations in getting things done. You enjoy work that changes every day.
You’re the go-to person for all of your friends when they need technical topics translated into something that they can understand.
You graduated from a university and have a technical degree. Ideally, your degree is in computer science.
You live near Palo Alto, California or are interested in moving here. We will consider remote roles for outstanding candidates.
Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. Ning's Your Own Social Network runs on the Ning Core Platform and lets anybody create their own social network (for anything!) in seconds. We've designed and built our infrastructure for horizontal scalability, performance, and availability using standards based systems.
We're looking to add a Network Engineer to our team. You'd be joining an operations team experienced with high volume systems run at scale. You'd have a fair amount of influence over the operational infrastructure at Ning.
You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA or at least like coming here a lot.
You love the operations of online services and Internet start-ups. You love the thrill of a 24/7 infrastructure that’s always changing.
You have at least 5 years of experience in complex WAN and data center networks, ideally with online services run at scale (or would like to). You love finding the compromise of keeping applications up with high levels of availability, yet dealing constant change and incredible growth.
You don't mind being on-call. It sort of reminds you of college.
You've stayed at a few companies for enough time to see an infrastructure evolve over time. You've also had alot of different projects within that environment.
You take pride in designing, building, and operating a network that grows larger every single day. You thrive on the idea that the work will never be complete.
You are comfortable making decisions and building infrastructure that you know will have to change in a couple of months.
You have built and run production network environments, ideally for online services hosted at colo environments. You have experience dealing with IP transit providers, IP address space acquisition and management, traffic engineering and route optimization. The word DOS means more than “some old operating system” to you.
You are an expert at functional LAN/WAN systems, IP routing (BGP, OSPF), network security, and server load balancing. You are experienced with Cisco and Juniper gear but you know enough about the technology and standards to quickly master other platforms. The idea of manually doing repeatable tasks more than once frustrates you; automation, monitoring and metrics are your mantra to live by.
You don’t mind digging a bit deeper on the application and systems side when debugging complex, hard to nail down problems.
You love a solid night of performance tuning, troubleshooting and problem solving. You are experienced at using network management tools, packet sniffers and flow data to diagnose how well the network is running.
You KNOW there is always a better way to do things. Improving efficiencies and streamlining work is your mantra.
Google isn’t your main source of information. You love spending a lot of time online and staying up-to-date on new things in infrastructure via a variety of favorite blogs.
You are equally comfortable building everything yourself as you are with buying shrink wrapped software. You aren’t religious about either path, but instead look for the right tool for the job.
You are independent, but not so independent that you don't enjoy working on a great team.
You graduated from a university, ideally with a technical degree. If you didn’t graduate from a university with a technical degree, your hands on experience will blow our minds and we’ll forget about school.
You choose simplicity, iteration and continuous improvement over ivory tower, complex architecture projects.
Before you send in your resume, you create a social network on Ning. In doing so, you want to know how the heck we’re going to scale to millions of social networks. And the thought of which is already getting you pretty jazzed.
Ning is an online platform for social networks, which means that anyone can customize the code running their social network on Ning for free, in (almost) any way they’d like. There are currently over 160,000 social networks on the Ning platform, with 5000 new networks being created every week.
A Community Advocate at Ning is responsible for helping Network Creators and their members get the most out of their networks on Ning. It’s a fun and extremely rewarding role as you are on the frontlines getting people what they need to customize their own social networks.
Help define the "voice" of Ning in our interaction with the thousands of Network Creators and their members across Ning today. This will include work across multiple touch points: marketing (including Frequently Asked Questions), communication with Network Creators on http://networkcreators.ning.com, and individual requests for help from Network Creators and their members.
Assist in the highly rewarding effort to make Network Creators from all walks of life successful and "Your Own Social Network on Ning" a product that millions of people use in their daily lives.
Serve as a highly visible representative of Ning inside and outside the company.
Creatively and proactively solve the problems of Network Creators and their members. Use this insight and experience to make "Your Own Social Network on Ning" a product that we continue to love and evolve to be the best it can possibly be.
Serve as the initial point of contact for inbound requests for help from Network Creators and their members via Network Creators and The Ning Help Center
Identify and analyze issues, patterns, and trends in inbound help requests as well as questions on Network Creators. Funnel this data into new Frequently Asked Questions, product improvements, and bringing in others for technical troubleshooting (aka – finding bugs and getting them fixed).
Author blog posts, articles, podcasts, videos, and screencasts – whatever media you want to use – to communicate creative uses of networks on Ning from the simple to the complex.
Proactively escalate issues, observations, opportunities, and insights to the executive team. Communicate issues, opportunities, and insights to the company at large.
You love helping people and find it rewarding to solve people’s problems. Then you love to proactively use that experience to make the whole service better.
You think putting your stamp on a new social network for a new breed of platform, specifically one focused on empowering people to create their own social networks, is exciting.
You like working hard and thrive on the excitement of a start up environment.
You are an independent, creative self-starter who loves running with things while keeping everyone inside and outside the company in the loop.
You love to write. You take pride in what you write. And you can write well.
You spend a lot of time online and stay up-to-date on new, fun things out there for web savvy users as well as regular people.
You live in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and are willing to commute to Palo Alto.
Full-time in Palo Alto, CA
Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. Ning's Your Own Social Network for Anything runs on the Ning Core Platform and lets anybody create their own social network (for anything) in seconds. The application uses PHP and AJAX on top of the Ning Platform REST APIs to deliver an extremely friendly and infinitely customizable experience to Network Creators on Ning.
We are looking for an outstanding Black Box QA engineer to join our small, agile QA team in a flat organization. This team is unrelenting about every part of a spectacular user experience. You'll be creating social networks, using social networks, and exploring every nook and cranny of improvements and new features we make to the social networks on Ning.
You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA.
Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. Ning's Your Own Social Network for Anything runs on the Ning Core Platform and lets anybody create their own social network (for anything) in seconds. The application uses PHP and AJAX on top of the Ning Platform REST APIs to deliver an extremely friendly and infinitely customizable experience to Network Creators on Ning.
We are looking for an outstanding QA engineer to join our small, agile QA team in a flat organization. This team is unrelenting about every part of a spectacular user experience. You'll be doing exploratory testing, identifying edge cases, and generally looking for ways to break the Ning Platform and the applications running on it.
You'd be full-time in Palo Alto, CA.