Work at Digg
Digg's growing like a weed. If you can throw a Nerf football deep through the office without destroying anyone's laptop or spilling Kevin's tea, perhaps you're right for one of our current jobs. We offer access to all sorts of great benefits and a fine workspace in San Francisco's Potrero Hill. Check out the positions below. If you think you've got what it takes (cue "Groove Is In The Heart"), apply to join us at Digg by sending your resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com.
To all recruitment agencies: Digg does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our job postings, our employees or any other company location. Digg is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Benefits of working at Digg
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage generously subsidized at a rate of 85% for employees and their dependents. We offer 7 different design options administered by 2 preferred insurance carriers.
- Paid life and disability insurance
- 401K Savings Plan
- 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) annually
- 11 paid company holidays
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts for qualified medical/dental care, dependent care, and transportation expenses
- Monthly Wellness/Gym Company Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Program
- Breakfasts twice a week, fresh fruit and all the tea you can drink
- The Digg Dugg machine in the kitchen!
Jobs
Ad Products Developer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- Digg is looking for an Ad Products Developer with plenty of PHP, MySQL and large scale website development experience. You'll help architect and implement creative, engaging, social and relevant advertising offerings for the Digg community.
- Responsibilities
- Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
- * Play with Memcache, Gearman, Mogile, PEAR, etc. in a high volume environment
- * Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems at Digg.
- * Facilitate communication within business, quality, product and technical teams
- * Help enforce and refine development practices
- Assist in feasibility analysis and estimation
- Communicate status and escalate issues.
- * 5+ years experience in Web development
- * 2+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- * Experience with third party ad network integration, inventory management, targeting, and optimization strongly preferred
- * Proficiency with web analytics, custom reporting, A/B testing, quantitative analysis
- * Proven ability to communicate with business teams effectively
- * Solid experience with version control, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
- * Knowledge of Git, Python, Memcache, SOA, PEAR, and JSON is a plus
- * Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
- * Knowledge of microformats and open standards are nice to have
- * Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
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Lead Developer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- Digg is looking for Lead Developers with plenty of PHP, MySQL and large scale website development experience. You'll be leading teams working on a variety of projects - adding new cool functionality to digg.com and scaling the site to meet our ever increasing traffic.
- Responsibilities
- Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
- Lead teams in an agile environment
- Spearhead communication within business, quality, product and technical teams
- Participate in early product feasibility and planning
- Mentor and coach other developers
- Help enforce and refine development practices
- Assist in architecture definition
- Communicate status and escalate issues
- Play with Memcache, Gearman, Mogile, PEAR, etc. in a high volume environment
- Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems
- Qualifications
-
- 2+ years experience leading teams.
- 8+ years experience in Web development
- 3+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- Solid experience with version control, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
- Knowledge of Git, Python, Memcache, SOA, PEAR, and JSON is a plus
- Agile development experience desirable (XP/Scrum).
- Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
- Knowledge of microformats and open standards are nice to have
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Performance Engineer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- Responsibilities
- Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
- Work in small agile teams
- Help define and build high performance architectures
- Simulate load, baseline systems, profile code and tune performance.
- Help define and implement development processes to guarantee performance.
- Work closely with our operations team to monitor performance and resource utilization in production environments
- Work with business, quality, product and technical teams
- Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems
- 6+ years experience in Web development
- 3+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- Experience with profiling (e.g. xdebug), load simulation (e.g Jmeter), Linux optimization, database (MySQL) optimization
- Solid understanding of scalable web architectures, queuing and partitioning.
- Knowledge of Memcache, SOA, PEAR, JSON
- Solid experience with version control, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
- Experience with Git, Erlang, C and Python desirable.
- Agile development experience desirable (XP/Scrum).
- Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
- Knowledge of open standards
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
- Work in small agile teams
- Help define and build high-performance, high-availability web infrastructure
- Work with business, quality, product and technical teams
- Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems
- Responsibilities
- 6+ years experience in Web development
- 3+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- Solid understanding of scalable web architectures, queuing and partitioning.
- Knowledge of non relational database architectures e.g. Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Dynomite
- Knowledge of Memcache, SOA, PEAR, JSON
- Solid experience with version control, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
- Experience with Git, Erlang, C and Python desirable.
- Agile development experience desirable (XP/Scrum).
- Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
- Knowledge of open standards
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Senior Web Application Developer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- Digg is looking for a Senior Web Application Developer with plenty of PHP, MySQL and large scale website development experience. You'll be working on a variety of projects - adding new cool functionality to digg.com and scaling the site to meet our ever increasing traffic.
- Responsibilities
- Learn from some of the brightest minds in the PHP, design and operations communities:
- Play with Memcache, Gearman, Mogile, PEAR, etc. in a high volume environment
- Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems at Digg.
- Facilitate communication within business, quality, product and technical teams
- Lead code reviews
- Help enforce and refine development practices
- Mentor other developers
- Assist in feasibility analysis and estimation
- Communicate status and escalate issues.
- Qualifications
-
- 8+ years experience in Web development
- 3+ with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- Solid experience with version control, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
- Knowledge of Git, Python, Memcache, SOA, PEAR, and JSON is a plus
- Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
- Knowledge of microformats and open standards are nice to have
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Sr. Systems Engineer
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer with development experience. Our team is always working on ways to improve our infrastructure. If you're self-driven and can work on a team without much bureaucracy we'd like to talk to you.
- Responsibilities
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- Develop software tools and scripts to configure, monitor and maintain our operations services.
- Manage the physical and logical configuration of Debian Linux servers
- Develop and maintain operations procedures for daily maintenance of servers
- Analyze and maintain performance data to optimize the usage of our server systems.
- Qualifications
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- Bachelors in Computer Science/Information Systems or comparable experience.
- 3 or more years of operations experience at a high volume Web site.
- Must have Python experience. Additional experience with SQLAlchemy, Twisted, and /or WSGI a plus.
- Solid understanding of Unix systems administration
- Experience with Apache, MySQL and PHP
- Proficiency in perl, C, ruby, or C++ is a plus
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Account Manager-San Francisco
- Job Type and Location
- Full-Time — San Francisco, CA, United States
- Description
- We are looking for an exceptional Account Manager based in San Francisco to play a key role in supporting the company’s growing advertising client base. Reporting to Digg’s Director of Advertising Operations, the candidate will bring a successful track record of providing world-class account management service. The experienced AM will have the perfect balance of account management skills and a strong sales mindset.
- Responsibilities
- The ideal candidate will have solid expertise in managing online advertising campaigns, from building media plans and executing successful campaign launches to post campaign services. Equally important in this role is the know-how for identifying, proposing, and closing up-sell opportunities, while operating in lock step with the Sales Executive. This person will be a team player and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that strives for excellence.
- Develop ad media plans, manage and optimize campaigns, and create post campaign summaries
- Drive new incremental and/or renewal business from campaigns
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Sales, Ad Operations, Finance, Product Management, and Business Development to assure execution and optimization of commitments and unlock new opportunities
- Engage in the sales process including prospecting, the RFP process, inventory planning, campaign adjustments, and post-mortems
- Develop capabilities to drive analysis on advertising results for internal, agency and client use
- Qualifications
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- Proven record that includes 5+ years in large-account interactive ad sales and sales program management.
- BA/BS degree, preferably from a leading institution. Advanced degree a plus.
- Proven capacity to enhance revenue and margins, year over year.
- Demonstrated ability to think, to act and to lead strategically while managing the execution of the sales process.
- Ability to compile and analyze performance data and metrics.
- Strong passion and understanding of social content, online advertising, interactive marketing trends and brand building.
- Strong strategic and tactical skills, as well as technical skills to understand the online advertising and e-commerce market in order to create demand and generate revenues.
- Strong organizational skills, entrepreneurial approach, proactive business style, excellent communication and presentation skills.
Qualified applicants should apply online at Jobvite.com. (Or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@digg.com)
Do you know someone who'd be great in this position? Tell them about it!
Last generated at 5:28:44am July 6th, 2009 (UTC)
Digg is looking for creative and innovative individuals who will be passionate about being a part of our continued growth. Growing a business is exciting and rewarding, yet it also requires dedication and hard work. From time to time, extended evening and weekend hours will be necessary. Most employees must be able to work for long periods of time on a computer, and all employees must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Digg, of course, is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified disabled applicants and employees so they can perform the essential functions of a job. Digg requests that employees and applicants identify any accommodations that they may need in order to fulfill the essential duties that may be asked of them.
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