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Senior Software Engineer, Data Capture

Role:
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 senior engineer with very deep and current technical skills who will get a unique opportunity to work on Mimosa's next-generation data capture subsystem and gain experience in cutting-edge Microsoft 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 design and develop multi-tier enterprise data capture systems and associated applications. This individual will be responsible for the design and development of these enterprise level data capture application products. This individual will also be responsible for ensuring high standards in the design and implementation leading to the timely delivery of quality releases that meet or exceed the company expectations.

Candidate must have more than 5+ years of deep experience with the Windows platform in areas including Windows file systems, I/O, networking, LAN/WAN data transfer protocols, Windows Security, Memory Management, Crash Dump Analysis, Synchronization, Scheduling and Manageability. Experience with distributed systems on Windows platform is essential. Experience with Unix/Linux file systems and SAN, NAS and storage management highly desirable. Experience with C++ development on Windows is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolution of the crawler and data capture subsystems of the Mimosa products in conjunction with a sound understanding of the overall product architecture
• Work closely with other engineering teams, product management and customers to continuously evolve and improve the enterprise class crawlers, data and metadata capture agents and services and all related aspects of the enterprise information management products that Mimosa delivers
• Maintain efficient and effective communication and collaboration with team members, other engineering teams and SQA to address dependencies between various sub-systems and to ensure end to end coverage and quality in the implementations and product releases
• Ensure application usability and effectiveness from customer perspective meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations

Professional Background - Required

• Significant past experience designing, developing and delivering enterprise level data and metadata capture solutions
• Some startup background or from a company with aggressive “small company” culture
• Experience with collaborative onshore /offshore or distributed non-stop software development teams
• At least 3-4 years experience in the area of File Systems
• Must have deep understanding of NTFS
• Must have a good understanding of file sharing protocols (CIFS/NFS)
• Knowledge of WAFL (NetApp's file system) and UNIX/Linux file systems desirable
• Experience developing file system crawlers and other data/metadata extraction techniques
• Windows kernel level filter driver development experience
• File system virtualization experience highly desirable
• File system security experience for Windows
• Data resilience and high availability experience
• Experience with compression, encryption and storage optimization techniques
• Experience with block and file level replication and backup/restore techniques
• Significant experience with architecting solutions leveraging SAN, NAS, DAS storage and related storage management technologies
• Experience with CDP solutions
• Knowledge of native storage replication and volume snapshot technologies and experience with vendor specific implementations
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-threading, inter-process communication, network programming and synchronization techniques on the Microsoft Windows platform
• Experience with Microsoft enterprise platforms and applications and experience with Microsoft development environment
• Strong understanding of robustness, usability, scalability and performance
• Windows Programming (C++, COM, .NET, C#, XML, ADO , SQL) experience
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange ESE and VSS APIs highly desirable

About Mimosa Systems
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa™ NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery and storage optimization. NearPoint assures email continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for its competencies in Networking Infrastructure Solutions, ISV Software Solutions, and Information Worker. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Munich, Germany and Pune, India. For more information see www.MimosaSystems.com.

To Apply
If you have relevant experience and are passionate about success, then we are waiting to hear from you! Submit resumes to: jobs@mimosasystems.com.