Life at Metamarkets
Located in SOMA, San Francisco
Frequent food truck stops
Jobs
We've raised capital to hire the best & brightest engineers to tackle big challenges across our platform. If you like big data, fast analytics, and the occasional Bao Bun, then consider applying for one of our open positions:
Engineering
Designer (UI/UX, Data Visualization, Web)
Front End Engineer
Operations Engineer (Strong AWS Focus)
Platform Engineer (In-Memory, Distributed Systems)
Product
Sales & Support
Designer (UI/UX, Data Visualization, Web)
We’re looking for a talented, experienced designer to help us build a revolutionary data exploration framework. You’ll be working with cutting edge dataviz technology (D3.js, SVG, etc) and designing interactive data experiences for our customers.
The Metamarkets platform provides lightning-fast querying of large-volume data sets (typical customer footprints are in the terabyte range). Conventional methods of data exploration (command line querying, batch load into a spreadsheet, etc) are too slow and cumbersome to fully leverage this speed, so we are building a new data application from scratch. We have established our min viable product (check it out - https://dash.metamx.com/demo/signup) and now we’re looking for additional design firepower.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience shipping features in richly interactive web apps (web 2.0, ajax, etc)
- Familiarity with advanced data viz technology, particularly in a web environment
- Experience incubating new experiences from scratch
- A passion to change the future of how professionals interact with their data
Front End Engineer
We're searching for two Front End Engineers to join the team behind our real-time analytics dashboard ( see an example ). You will be developing the navigational interface, data visualizations, and overall user experience for our clients. You should be well-versed in HTML5 and CSS standards, fluent in Javascript and its flaws, and lean towards the pragmatic. A passion for the display of quantitative information, such as financial, biomedical, or other time series data, is a plus. Experienced web developers looking to pivot into the node.js ecosystem are welcome, as are junior developers seeking to deepen their skill sets.
Core Technical Skills: Node.js, Javascript/Coffeescript, Protovis / D3, JQuery, HTML5, CSS
Operations Engineer (Strong AWS Focus)
We're searching for an operations engineer to manage our expanding footprint in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem. Your daily work will revolve around architecting the systems and services that support our distributed analytics platform, including a 1000-core deployment of our in-memory database.
You should have experience working with core AWS services -- EC2, EMR, and S3 -- and familiarity with new offerings focused on security and identity management (VPC and IAM). Proficiency with Galaxy (a lightweight deployment system developed at Ning) or similar deployment tool is desirable. Knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS and Zookeeper) is a plus.
We are also open to individuals with limited operations experience but a strong interest in gaining exposure to cloud computing infrastructures.
Core Technical Skills: AWS; Linux/Unix, Bash; Galaxy or similar; Nagios, Monit or similar
Platform Engineer (In-Memory, Distributed Systems)
We're searching for two Software Engineers, one junior and one senior, who can materially contribute to our petabyte-scale data analytics platform. You will be part of the team architecting our distributed, in-memory database called Druid -- including its real-time ingestion bus, in-database parallel statistics, and RESTful query service.
You should have a working knowledge of Java and the JVM. Familiarity with high frequency transaction data in financial, retail, or online media markets is a plus, as is experience with web-scale, distributed systems.
We're open to speaking with talented individuals who lack specific experience with Hadoop but are eager to learn its ecosystem, including Pig, Zookeeper, and Mahout.
Salary will be commensurate with skills and aptitude.
Core Technical Skills: Java, JVM, *nix/POSIX.
Product Manager (UX, Data, Mobile)
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead vision and execution for our data exploration product. You’ll join a small company, collaborate with a talented team, and work with the latest and greatest tech as we disrupt the billion-dollar world of business intelligence.
The Metamarkets platform provides lightning-fast querying of large-volume data sets (typical customer footprints are in the terabyte range). Conventional methods of data exploration (command line querying, batch load into a spreadsheet, etc) are too slow and cumbersome to fully leverage this speed, so we are building a new data application from scratch. We shipped our min viable product last fall, but now is time to accelerate and just ship ship ship.
We are looking for a talented PM with a passion for sleek and interactive web experiences. Your job will be to build a vision and roadmap for new data experiences and then manage the team to shipping a quality product.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience shipping features in richly interactive web apps (web 2.0, ajax, etc)
- Experience incubating new features from scratch
- A passion to change the future of how professionals interact with their data
Sales Manager
We're searching for a Sales Manager to prospect and convert online media and other web-scale businesses to Metamarkets' fast big data analytics platform.
Metamarkets is transforming business intelligence for some of the largest platform businesses on the web. Our top-tier, engaged and growing customer set includes real time biddable (RTB) display, mobile and video marketplaces; leading digital publishers; market-leading location-based social networks; and web-scale multiplayer online gaming platforms.
Candidates must have strong working knowledge of and business experience dealing with the largest of web-native businesses, and should have specific sales or business development experience within digital media, analytics services or the software industry.
The successful candidate will have the ability to strengthen Metamarkets’ position as the leading real-time analytics platform in the marketplace, and to introduce new, industry-transforming analytics products while working within the digital media, social network, gaming and traditional advertising industries.
- 5+ years’ experience in business development and/or sales functions
- Proven track record creating a high volume of prospect activity and closing new business
- Established relationships within digital media, social media, traditional advertising, gaming
- Experience selling SaaS in enterprise sales environment
- We are looking for a “Renaissance Sales Rep”, not a traditional sales/bus dev person. Start-up experience preferred
- Self-motivated, outgoing, organized, efficient and a strategic thinker
- Willing to travel
Technical Account Manager
We're searching for a Technical Account Manager who is passionate about understanding new business verticals, growing customer accounts, increasing customer success and working at a fast-paced, innovative technology startup.
Metamarkets is transforming business intelligence for some of the largest platform businesses on the web. Our top-tier, engaged and growing customer set includes billions-daily real time biddable (RTB) display, mobile and video marketplaces; leading digital publishers; market-leading location-based social networks; and web-scale multiplayer online gaming platforms.
The Technical Account Manager will be responsible for on-boarding new customers, helping bridge the gap between business questions and the Metamarkets platform, supporting customers in finding solutions to new problems, and growing internal adoption of customer accounts. Candidates should have experience working with data, quickly understanding new business rules for a customer, delivering training, and building trusted advisor relationships. This role plays an instrumental part in the overall success of the Sales and Success team.
Responsibilities
- Review business requirements and available data to design an integration plan built on top of the Metamarkets platform
- Work with engineering to execute on-boarding and integration plans, then manage integration plans with the client
- Provide customer support to stakeholders and key users within accounts, and manage additional support requirements until resolved
- Ensure all accounts successfully roll-out and scale-up, including integrating new users and new business units
- Maintain proactive, regular contact with accounts at multiple levels in the organization, to maximize their success and usage
- Provide customer feedback to development as part of the product enhancement cycle, to increase customer usage and product stickiness
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience with customer-facing data analysis, including deep-dive information and requirements gathering, and creation of proof-of-concept business solutions.
- Prior experience working with large datasets strongly preferred
- Prior experience with at least one numerical scripting language preferred (e.g. R, python)
- Self-motivated, outgoing, organized, efficient and a strategic thinker
- Strong interpersonal skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail
- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
- Formal engineering experience a plus
- Willingness to travel
Filled Positions
We are fortunate to have filled the following previously advertised positions with exceptional people.
- Office Manager
- Product Manager
- Machine Learning Engineer