We'll trust you to:

•  Ensure optimal availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Bloomberg application development
•  Respond to and resolve unexpected and potential service problems
•  Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation and other non-functional systems requirements
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methodology for improving operating services
• Write production software acceptance tests and own systems releases including coordination of coverage and communication plans

You'll need to have:

•  A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
•  Experience developing customer-facing, high availability, large-scale distributed applications
•  In-depth knowledge of Linux/UNIX
•  Exposure to C/C or Java technologies
• An understanding of a variety of scripting languages

We'd love to see:

•  Extensive experience working with fault-tolerant approaches in a large-scale distributed environment and high performance systems
•  Familiarity with complex systems environments
•  A solid understanding of Internet and networking protocols
•  A passion for performance excellence and robustness
•  The ability to analyze and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems
•  The ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests