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Sr Architect, Archiving & Database Systems

Mimosa is a fast-paced organization that has built a world-class core of engineers and brought to market a highly successful software product that has distinguished the company as one of the fastest growing start-ups in the valley. The candidate will need to be a high-energy hands-on architect with very deep and current technical skills who will get a unique opportunity to work on Mimosa's next-generation carrier-class software architecture and gain experience in cutting-edge Microsoft technologies as well as the leading edge database technologies. Mimosa is an elite Managed ISV partner with Microsoft and obtains early access to unannounced Microsoft technologies through TAP, Ascend, Touchdown and other technical partnerships, often more than a year before these products become public knowledge.

Job Description
This individual will serve as the hands-on lead of a small and high-powered technical team that is responsible for the archiving and database systems and the data and metadata management infrastructure of the Mimosa enterprise class software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, development, integration, delivery and evolution of the archiving subsystem and the overall database infrastructure of the Mimosa products
• Work closely with product management, customer support, other engineering teams and SQA to continuously evolve and improve the enterprise class data management and metadata management software and system infrastructure of the Mimosa products
• Maintain efficient and effective communication and collaboration with other engineering teams and SQA to manage dependencies and deliverables between various groups and to ensure end to end integration and quality
• Ensure robust, safe, securely accessible, highly available and highly scalable data and metadata management infrastructure meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations
• Technical co-ordination of offshore and onshore development and SQA teams
• Participate in the problem resolution triages within engineering and for escalated customer cases on a regular basis

Professional Background - Required

• It is imperative to have deep and current skills in Microsoft C++ and C#.
• Very deep knowledge of Win32 and CLR programming and a deep understanding of the implementation and performance characteristics of the underlying Windows platform.
• Advanced knowledge of multi-threading and synchronization and the ability to implement and debug lock-free MP-safe code.
• Very deep experience with distributed computing and the ability to design, implement and debug implementations that use remoting, web services, and MPI.
• Understanding of the Windows I/O stack and the ability to implement high-performance asynchronous I/O that can maximize throughput and hardware utilization.
• Understanding of advanced techniques for writing and tuning for highest performance such as time-based and frequency-based profiling, and the utilization of profile-guided optimizations.
• Deep knowledge of high-performance C++/C# database programming using mechanisms such as ADO and ADO.NET and the ability to isolate and optimize performance bottlenecks.
• Significant experience with highly scalable and high performance databases, including SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 and Oracle, with extensive schema design and SQL programming experience
• Significant experience with variety of data import, export and transformation techniques, including vendor specific techniques such as DTS, commercially available ETL tools, XML and web services based techniques, and custom developed techniques
• Deep experience with developing highly scalable and high performance OLTP and OLAP systems
• Deep experience with indexing, table and index partitioning, clustering, query and insert/update optimization and locking control techniques
• Experience with XML and .NET integration with databases
• Experience with database reporting and analysis services
• Experience with database security
• Experience with database replication and high availability
• Significant experience with database deployment planning and performance tuning for large customer installations
• Significant experience with high throughput and high capacity and extremely scalable data and metadata management systems managing many terabytes of data
• Significant experience delivering enterprise class solutions in one or more of the following areas – enterprise messaging, workflow and collaboration, document management, enterprise content management, or enterprise data management
• Strong understanding of robustness, usability, scalability and performance
• Some startup background or from a company with aggressive “small company” culture
• Experience leading a team of 5+ senior developers
• 10+ years of professional software development experience

Professional Background – Desirable

• Experience with storage management, availability, clustering, backup/recovery, and replication technologies
• Experience with policy based content classification and categorization
• Experience with records management
• Experience with implementing solutions for regulatory compliance
• Experience with data security, encryption and access control mechanisms
• Experience with manageability, monitoring and diagnostics

About Mimosa Systems, Inc.
Mimosa System, Inc. provides comprehensive data management solutions that unify archiving, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery for email, documents and other semi-structured and unstructured data. Mimosa's first solution, NearPoint TM is for Microsoft Exchange. Mimosa is based in Santa Clara , California and its executive team consists of industry leaders from Cheyenne/CA, Brocade, iXOS, KVS, Veritas, and Zantaz. Mimosa is a Venture Capital financed company that has raised $21.5 Million in financing from Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital, JAFCO Ventures, Lighthouse Capital and DotEdu Ventures. Mimosa has a close partnership with Microsoft and August Capital is represented by Dave Marquardt who is also on the board of Microsoft Corporation.

To Apply
Interested candidates send resume to jobs@mimosasystems.com