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Customer Maintenance Engineer Windows & Linux
Software Development Engineer
Likewise Software offers a friendly, supportive environment that fosters innovation and personal growth. We're passionate about our mission to provide enterprise interoperability solutions and we're looking for people who share that passion.
Please direct resumes to:
jobs@likewise.com
Likewise Software is an equal opportunity employer.
Current Openings
Linux/Open Source Engineer
We’re looking for experienced engineers with Linux administration experience to be part of our community engineering team. Our perfect candidate is a Linux expert and has experience with Samba and/or Active Directory. Mac experience is an added bonus. We have immediate openings on our community engineering team that is responsible for driving the technical success of Likewise Open in our growing community of customers, integrators, and partners.
This job is part developer, part administrator, and part diplomat. We’re looking for sharp technical people with good communication skills that like being part of highly capable technical teams.
We offer competitive salary, generous benefits and stock options plus outstanding growth potential for individuals looking to advance their careers.
Minimum candidate requirements
- BS in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or Industry/relevant vocational qualification
- 3+ years of experience with Linux, Unix or Mac administration
- Knowledge of Microsoft and Linux and Unix operating systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter, creative, and highly motivated
- Like to work with others to solve technology issues/challenges
- Positive attitude and a team player
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Would like experience with
- Advanced Linux, UNIX or Mac OS operating system experience
- Development experience
- Samba and/or Active Directory experience
- Open Source project collaboration
Customer Maintenance Engineer Windows & Linux
Status: Full-time
Location: Bellevue, WA
Likewise is looking for a Customer Maintenance Engineer. As a Customer Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying and supporting our flagship product, Likewise Enterprise, to multiple customers while providing constructive feedback to the development and engineering teams. This position provides ample opportunity for demonstrating creativity and innovation.
We have immediate openings for Customer Maintenance Engineering positions, responsibilities including, but not limited to: end-to-end handling of escalated support cases; understanding the Deployment process for Likewise Software; following the necessary steps to assess, test, pilot, deploy and remediate all components of the Likewise Enterprise solution to our customers while providing valuable feedback to the Software Development team; documentation of issues solved for customer knowledgebase. If you are an experienced software deployment engineer or systems administrator and are interested in working with a great team, send your résumé to jobs@likewise.com.
We offer unlimited growth potential as well as generous benefits and stock options.
Minimum candidate requirements
- Must hold at least BS or MS in Computer Science and Engineering.
- Must have 3-5 years worth of systems administration or consulting experience managing large networks.
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Active Directory or strong with LDAP + Kerberos.
- Must have robust, process-based troubleshooting skills.
- In-depth knowledge and expertise in one of the following operating systems: Windows family or Linux/Unix family.
- Linux/Unix expertise - Should have 2+ years systems management with 2 or more of the following systems:
- Windows expertise - Should have 5+ years experience administering or designing Microsoft Active Directory preferably including:
- Must be a self-starter, creative, highly motivated and responsible.
- Must have a solid understanding of the project management lifecycle from assessment or discovery through design, planning, implementation, and closure or review.
- Must possess the versatility, foresight and maturity to transcend beyond proscribed systems and focus on solving business problems with the appropriate tools.
- Demonstrated ability to implement projects on time and under budget.
- Must be a team player – we are a small company and the ability to interact well with fellow team members is crucial.
- Must possess excellent all-round communication skills.
- Must be willing to travel up to 50%
- RPM-based Linux
- DEB-based Linux
- AIX
- HP-UX
- Solaris
- Other Unix/Linux systems that may be added to the support matrix
- NIS or NIS+
- Bourne-shell, Perl or Python scripting
- AD Site topology and replication
- ADSI scripting/programming
- Kerberos troubleshooting
Desirable domain specific skills
- Distributed and internet security technologies (Kerberos, PKI, SSL, IPSec)
- SMB (server message block) protocol (Samba or Windows server)
- LDAP protocol (Active Directory or eDirectory or OpenLDAP)
- HTTP protocol (Windows IIS or Apache)
- Active Directory administration
- Demonstrable troubleshooting process
- Network routing and switching.
- PAM authentication
Software Development Engineer (Multiple Openings)
Status: Full-time
Location: Bellevue, WA
We're looking for an SDE to work on the management tools for our Likewise Enterprise product. As a developer on the team, you will be responsible for maintaining existing components and developing new software as we expand our products' functionality. The position involves a lot of C#/Winforms software development on extensions to the Microsoft Management Console and on components for our own console. The ideal candidate is one who is regarded as the “UI” expert for building clean windows, dialogs, wizards, UI controls, and reporting screens that incorporate extensible programming paradigms.
Web-developers are not what we are looking for. We specifically want experience with developing compiled GUI applications to be installed on desktop systems. Your ability to build quality applications with a clean UI that can present complex representations of rich data is important for this position. You are familiar with MVC application development or similar concepts, such that porting your product to multiple platforms is possible with a well architected approach to design.
Must haves:
- BS or advanced degree in Computer Science from an accredited university
- 8 years of experience developing commercial software
- Strong C, C++ and C# programming expertise
- Experience with C#/Winforms development
- Experience with extensible application designs and multi-platform development
- Experience with developing reusable forms/controls, object models, and libraries
- Experience with user experience storyboarding to improve software interaction with complex user scenarios
- Experience with software installers, especially WIX or Installshield
- Self-starter, creative, and highly motivated
- Solid understanding of the entire software engineering lifecycle from product conceptualization through specification, design, development and release
- Demonstrated ability to ship projects on time and under budget
- Team player - we are a small company and the ability to interact well with fellow team members is crucial
- Excellent all-round communication skills
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Candidates on employment authorization documentation or H1-B visas need not apply.
Would like experience with:
- GTK / GTK#
- Mac Cocoa/Carbon graphical applications
- Mono (C# on Linux/Mac)
- Packaging a product suite for CD/DVD and download installation scenarios
Company Background
Likewise is a privately held, fast-growing software company founded by veteran technology entrepreneurs. This is your opportunity to join an exciting and innovative company developing open source and commercial software solutions for enterprise customers. Likewise is developing Interoperability software that allows non-Windows operating systems to be first-class citizens on corporate networks. Our current products provide authentication and file server functionality on over 125 different UNIX, Linux and Mac platforms. Our software solutions require both low-level systems programming and high-level user interface code.
