Work at SlideShare

SlideShare is hiring for full time positions in San Francisco & New Delhi. We (sometimes) also have short term positions & internships. Apply using the form, or send resume to jobs AT slideshare DOT com

SlideShare is a fun, geek-friendly place to work at. We have nerf gun battles in the office. We also work really hard (and fast) to deliver SlideShare to the community. The quick pace of development means you can show your friends and family what you built last week. And best of all, there is ice cream everyday. (ok, maybe that's an exaggeration!).

• Get up close & personal with one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites on the web
• Work alongside a smart team of developers, designers, community, product folks
• Existential bliss: Contribute your ideas and help shape the direction of a product that is used daily by millions of people across the world
• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Fun workplace, No hierarchy, No corporate BS!

Current Job Openings

Operations Engineer / System Administrator
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile:You should speak native Linux and have operations experience with a large server cluster. You should be enthusiastic about systems automation (we love Puppet, Chef or CFEngine experience will also give you the right philosophical background). We don't believe ops should spend all day firefighting and doing chores to keep the system healthy. We believe ops should create valuable intellectual property the way software engineers do. We use tools like Puppet, MemCached, Varnish, TokyoCabinet, HAProxy, Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, and MySQL. You must be able to come up with creative solutions to problems and be good at communicating these solutions to others. You will be responsible for helping scale SlideShare to hundreds of servers, using automation, virtualization, and cloud computing technologies like Amazon EC2, SQS, S3 (which we use extensively).
Desired Background: 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time position

Web Application Developer
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile: We're looking for web-savvy hackers who know JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, Flash and at least one server-side scripting language, and can use them to full effect in crafting amazing web applications. We use Ruby as a programming language. Experience with Ruby is a plus, but not a necessity; PHP, Python experience is fine as well.
Desired Background: Degree in Computer Science, 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time position

Backend Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile: If you LOVE writing code and are comfortable hacking on Linux systems, doing deep algorithmic work (e.g., search, semantic analysis, recommedation), SQL tuning and optimization, data mining, hacking media & document formats/APIs to create new mashups, generally modifying open-source code to your own twisted purposes, then you might be a good fit for a back-end position.
Desired Background: Degree in Computer Science, 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time position

Flash / Rich Internet Application Developers
Location: New Delhi
Profile: We're looking for RIA hackers who work with Flash, ActionScript (AS2 or AS3), Flex, Adobe Air. Strong fundamentals needed in OOP, XML handling, knowledge of Flash rendering & optimization, integrating Flash with external APIs & Web Services. Experience in building media players, widgets, embeddable audio/video players is an advantage. Knowledge of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript is a plus.
Desired Background: Degree in Computer Science, 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time Position

Content & Community Manager
Location: New Delhi
Profile: You will be SlideShare's public face to the community. You will need to engage users through multiple channels to solve their problems, elicit their feedback / ideas and loop that back to the tech / product teams. You'll have to curate site content (remove spam, categorize content into verticals) and copy edit site text. Perks include getting to decide what goes up on our homepage ;->), reading support emails in Swahili, Hebrew & Icelandic! We are looking for someone who enjoys interacting with people, must have excellent written & oral language skills, can handle photo/video editing tools and last but not least must live, breathe and sleep the internet 24X7.
Desired Background: Prior exposure to blogging, social media etc is a must; degree in marketing, mass communication etc may help (but is not necessary); 1-3 yrs exp in similar role in an internet company.
Type: Full Time Position (we also have short term positions)

Product Manager
Location: New Delhi
Profile: You will handle functions like product management, online marketing, SEO, tracking traffic trends & metrics. You should have enough technical knowledge to act as a bridge between SlideShare users and our dev team. We'd expect you to manage the entire chain from product ideation to launch i.e. conceptualise new products/features, do first-cut interaction design, create low level mockups, work with the dev team for coding, design, QA and finally product launch. Excellent knowledge of SEO reqd -search engine algorithms, keyword tracking, knowlegde of web development & design (HTML/CSS/AJAX) and how it affects SEO. Prior experience reqd with metrics & traffic trends using tools like Google Analytics, Quancast, Comscore.
Desired Background: Degree in engg, MBA, media etc; 3-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time Position (we also have short term positions)

Interaction Designer / UX Designer
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile: We are looking for someone with a mix of interaction design and web design skills. You should be able to conceptualise wireframes & taskflows, conduct heuristics evaluations & usability testing and prepare high fidelity prototypes (that can be handed over to the development team). You should also have good knowledge of HTML/CSS (handcoding), W3C web standards, table less layout, cross browser compatibility (IE, FF, Safari, Opera), SEO friendly mark-up, graceful website degradation etc. We need you to ship products of the highest quality through strict attention to visual, interaction & content details.
Desired Background: Degree in Interaction / GUI design, web design or HCI ; 3-6 yrs exp in similar role in an internet / tech company.
Type: Full Time Position (we also have short term positions)

Internships
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
From time to time, we offer student internships in areas such as software development, systems & operations, web design, interaction/information design, content writing, product management, community etc. If you are looking for an internship in these areas, send us your resume. We might just have an interesting project for you.

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