Job Description:Responsible for the performance of any/all functions involved in the development and/or maintenance of new or existing capabilities associates with the GRID application. Using programming language and technology, writes code, completes programming and documentation, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer applications. Will interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.Required Skills:8+ Years Experience designing, developing , deploying & Supporting large scale distributed systems8+ Years with Java in a distributed environment 5+ Years of LAN/WAN protocols (TCP, UDP, FTP, JMS etc)5+ Years of Data Serialization formats (Avro, POF, Thrift, JSON, XML etc…)5+ Building fault tolerance and failover patterns into Distributed Systems3+ Years of Distributed Database Design and Development at large scale (Coherence, Cassandra etc..)3+ Years of Data Loading experience in a Distributed Data Base environment3+ Years of Data scalability and multi-tenant data architectures3+ Years of Data architecture and implementation using local or cloud-based storage and NoSQL data stores3+ Years of Performance and optimization in a large distributed system environmentThe Ideal candidate will also have:Experience with or Knowledge of ZooKeeperExperience with Hardware (specifically tailoring HW for Distributed Systems)Experience with creating Tools, Test Harnesses and Developer utilitiesExperience with Machine Learning methods and toolsExperience with Agile & Test Driven Development Excellent Communication and Presentation skillsExperience with Git and Gerrit