JOB SUMMARY
This engineer will be part of the GemStone/S engineering team in Beaverton, Oregon, and will focus on product testing. Since most of the tests are automated, the work primarily involves writing and debugging Smalltalk code.
PRODUCT AND TEAM
GemStone/S was introduced at the first OOPSLA in 1986. Since then it has earned a reputation in the Smalltalk programming community as being the premier object database and application server. GemStone/S allows thousands of Smalltalk virtual machines on hundreds of hosts (with various operating systems) to share a single image (or database) with billions of objects taking up terabytes of space. The database provides full ACID capabilities (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability), has extensive indexing and large collection support, and includes a number of sophisticated garbage collection algorithms. The Smalltalk virtual machine has a JIT compiler on several platforms and supports a shared object cache effectively limited only by the amount of memory available in the machine.
GemStone/S has an add-on product, Gem Builder for Smalltalk (GBS), which supports transparent object replication for VA Smalltalk and VisualWorks. Other add-on products provide an interface to Java and Oracle. GemStone recently announced support for Seaside (a Smalltalk web application framework) and availability of a 4 GB edition that is free--even for commercial use.
The GemStone/S team consists of about 10-12 people. This group has a very low turnover and includes a number of senior-level engineers who have decades of experience in areas such as VM architecture, database internals, application development, and consulting. Team members regularly present at industry conferences such as Smalltalk Solutions and OOPSLA.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
* Design and develop complex functional, performance, and scalability tests and test frameworks. * Run tests, analyze results, and work with other engineers to identify and resolve issues. * Be self-directed, assertive, and able to concurrently work on multiple tasks. * Have a commitment to software quality and performance. * Adhere to company coding guidelines.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
* BS Computer Science or equivalent, including understanding of: o Database record/object locking, transactions, backup & restore; o Multi-user concurrency; o Multi-threaded applications; o Network communications; and o Software engineering principles and methodologies. * Moderate experience (e.g., 3+ years) in: o Developing large client/server database applications; o Testing, including performance and scalability testing; o Developing test frameworks and tools; and o Smalltalk and object-oriented programming. * Experience (e.g., 1+ years) in: o Unix/Linux shell programming; o Source code management tools; o C/C++ programming; and o Perl programming.
CONTACT
Send email to resume@gemstone.com and include 'Smalltalk QA' in the subject.