Yammer is hiring engineers in SF and London, and a bunch of other non-engineering positions in London/NYC/AUS/elsewhere. Full jobs listing at https://www.yammer.com/jobs
Yammer is basically a social network for the enterprise, but Yammer isn't just where you talk about work, it's increasingly where you do work.
Large corporations are really inefficient and hierarchical and Dilbert-y, and we build software that treats every employee as an empowered human being. We have a success-story video on our site from Supervalu, a large retail store chain in the US, and their CTO tells a story about how Yammer literally changed the way they do business. In the old world, store managers would report their intelligence up the managerial chain, the upper management would try to synthesize everything, and 3 months later a "report" would be issued that told everyone how to best try to do their jobs. After Yammer, store managers would just talk to each other over Yammer, learn directly what was successful and what wasn't, and as a side effect, let the upper management gain invaluable visibility into day-to-day operations. When we say Yammer "breaks down silos" and "enables horizontal communication", this is what we mean. Sure, Yammer is just like Facebook, but we're so much more than that. Corporations don't share cat pictures, they turn into efficient business machines.
Supervalu testimonial video: https://www.yammer.com/customers
In fact, Supervalu isn't the only company that has changed the way they work due to Yammer. We have tons of examples at that link. Yammer is used by 85% of the Fortune 500.
Yammer is expanding. We just raised an 85MM round, reflecting a valuation that puts on right up there in the enterprise software space. We're growing quickly and we need strong capable solid engineers to help us. We have an excellent technical platform but we need to scale more. This is where you come in. We're looking for engineers of all stripes, be it Ruby/Rails, JS/Node, Java/Scala, Obj-C/iOS/Android, or other. Again, full list at https://www.yammer.com/jobs
If you're remotely interested in solving real engineering problems at scale, for a serious application, I urge you to get in touch. My email is bkudria@yammer-inc.com, and you can ask me any questions about Yammer that you'd like.
To give you an example of the sort of stuff we do behind the scenes at Yammer, here's what my team has shipped:
* a realtime message delivery service which handles hundreds of thousands of concurrent clients
* an activity stream data store serving just shy of a billion requests a day
* a distributed database serving well over a billion requests a day over tens of terabytes of data with ~10ms response times at the 99th percentile
* a realtime search indexing pipeline, complete with a denormalized entity store, index replication and an autocompletion service
* a data export service which basically performs a diff of the state of millions of business objects and sends it out as a streaming ZIP file
* a user account synchronization service which handles streaming JSON dumps of companies' LDAP/AD server data
* an affinity prediction service which provides ranking of arbitrary objects based on past interactions (e.g., who you're most likely to CC on a message)
* an OAuth2 token service for 4MM users
* a collection service for the user events pipeline of our analytics system, handling hundreds of thousands of user events a second
* plus a grip of open-source libraries
And this is a team of seven people (now). The other teams at Yammer ship just as much as we do.
Yammer is basically a social network for the enterprise, but Yammer isn't just where you talk about work, it's increasingly where you do work.
Large corporations are really inefficient and hierarchical and Dilbert-y, and we build software that treats every employee as an empowered human being. We have a success-story video on our site from Supervalu, a large retail store chain in the US, and their CTO tells a story about how Yammer literally changed the way they do business. In the old world, store managers would report their intelligence up the managerial chain, the upper management would try to synthesize everything, and 3 months later a "report" would be issued that told everyone how to best try to do their jobs. After Yammer, store managers would just talk to each other over Yammer, learn directly what was successful and what wasn't, and as a side effect, let the upper management gain invaluable visibility into day-to-day operations. When we say Yammer "breaks down silos" and "enables horizontal communication", this is what we mean. Sure, Yammer is just like Facebook, but we're so much more than that. Corporations don't share cat pictures, they turn into efficient business machines.
Supervalu testimonial video: https://www.yammer.com/customers In fact, Supervalu isn't the only company that has changed the way they work due to Yammer. We have tons of examples at that link. Yammer is used by 85% of the Fortune 500.
Yammer is expanding. We just raised an 85MM round, reflecting a valuation that puts on right up there in the enterprise software space. We're growing quickly and we need strong capable solid engineers to help us. We have an excellent technical platform but we need to scale more. This is where you come in. We're looking for engineers of all stripes, be it Ruby/Rails, JS/Node, Java/Scala, Obj-C/iOS/Android, or other. Again, full list at https://www.yammer.com/jobs
If you're remotely interested in solving real engineering problems at scale, for a serious application, I urge you to get in touch. My email is bkudria@yammer-inc.com, and you can ask me any questions about Yammer that you'd like.