Join the Buzznet team!

We're a dedicated group of music enthusiasts that want to change the way you connect with your friends, fans, and new artists you've never heard of. We are creating a social media platform that is changing the fundamentals media publishing and consumption. In general, for all positions we're looking for passionate, hard-working candidates who love big challenges. Our company culture is "work hard, play hard and love what you do" - we want employees who have a lot of raw talent, and who have the attitude that we can solve any problem if we put our collective brains behind it. We also like to have fun - many of us have decided to leave our big-lame-company corporate jobs to get more of a small-startup experience. If all of this sounds like a good fit for you, send your resume to our contact page.

Job descriptions

Flash Engineer

We're looking for a Flash developer who has a passion for music and experience in shipping complex Flash applications. You can also help take our Buzznet.com "Widgets" to the next level. Tons of improvements and cool features to make in our flash software, but we need hard-core engineers to do this, this is predominantly an engineering role, not a design role. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• 3+ years experience as a Flash developer  (this is more of an engineering role than a design role)
• Deeply familiar with ActionScript
• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a programmer
• Extra credit: Photoshop experience, ability to create beautiful designs
• Extra credit: DHTML/AJAX skills

Web/DHTML Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Web engineer who has a passion for DHTML and Javascript/AJAX user-interface programming. Check out the various uses of AJAX/DHTML across Buzznet.com, if you look at those and your first thought is to look at the HTML source to see how we did it and how you can improve it, let's talk! The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer
• Significant experience and skill writing Web applications including DHTML/Javascript/AJAX front-end code
• Deep understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX
• Able to implement server-side XML-generating subroutines and the associated client-code for interactive AJAX applications
• Demonstrable skill at (and passion for) creating simple yet dynamic user interfaces in DHTML
• Extra-credit: Macromedia Flash scripting
• Extra-credit: server-side web/database programming

Web/Server Engineer

We're looking for an experienced engineer who has a passion for Web programming and wants to help us extend the features on Buzznet.com. There are tons of cool things we can do on this site, we're only half-way done! We are using LAMP as our development platform, so we'd love to hire somebody who has experience with LAMP technologies (or a passion for learning it). The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer
• Significant experience and skill writing Web services - back-end and front-end
• Deep understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS
• Deep understanding of scalable Web server and database architectures
• Website programming experience, particularly Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP
• Demonstrable skill at (and passion for) creating scalable web services or web sites
• Extra-credit: DHTML/AJAX programming

Software Test Engineer

We're looking for a software tester with experience and passion for testing client-side applications. The core responsibility of this job is testing the Buzznet platform, helping us find bugs and test new releases before they're released to the public. In addition, broad testing of the various features across Buzznet.com and partners blog sites are also part of this job. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E. or 1-4 years experience as a software tester or similarly technical role
• Experience and passion for client-side testing, including strong knowledge of WindowsXP and Mac OS/X
• Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX
• Passion for music and computer technology in general, particularly iTunes and social-networking websites

Software Development Engineer

We're looking for an experienced engineer who has experience in server-side stress tests, performance, monitoring, etc, as well as client-side testing. We're really looking for somebody who is both a tester and an engineer, somebody who can take on hard coding problems as well as testing problems. The key responsibility of this role will be to stress-test Buzznet.com servers to help us achieve faster performance and higher scalability. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 2-4 years industry experience as a computer programmer
• Significant experience and skill in server-side performance / stress tests
• Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX
• Significant experience with web server/db systems, preferably Linux + MySQL
• Passion for software engineering, testing, and finding bugs

Network Operations Engineer

If you've got experience and passion for installing, debugging, maintaining, and stress-testing complex server system, we want to talk to you. We're looking for an experienced netops engineer with experience in setting up and maintaining a Linux/MySQL web-server backend. We're really looking for somebody who has reasonable engineering experience, ideally somebody who can also write monitoring tools, and who can debug and solve system-level problems. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a network operations engineer
• Significant experience and skill in the deployment and management of web-server and database systems
• Specific experience with Linux and MySQL
• Good understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX

Database Engineer

We're looking for an experienced database engineer who has deep experience with databases, performance, data-mining, data modeling. We are collecting a jaw-dropping amount of data about consumer music-listening habits, and there are amazing things we can do with this data, we want your help! :-) The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a database engineer
• Significant experience and skill writing database applications either Oracle, SQL Server, ideally MySQL
• Experience in data modeling, data mining, and database performance tuning
• Understanding of Web protocols and formats - HTML, HTTP, XML/HTTP, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX
• Solid programming skills (C/C++, or PERL, or ideally PHP)

Client Engineer

We're looking for an experienced client-code engineer to write software that integrates with popular media-player / media-library software on Windows and Macintosh computers. We want your help to extend the Buzznet music experience (on Windows and Mac both), as well as to help build support for other less-popular platforms (WinAMP, WindowsMediaPlayer, etc). The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S. or E.E., and 3-5 years industry experience as a computer programmer
• Significant experience and skill writing Windows client code - C/C++ and Win32 APIs
• Deep experience with at least one major media player (iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAMP, etc)
• Good understanding of Web client-server APIs such as basic HTML, XML/HTTP, RPC over HTTP, etc
• Extra-credit: Macintosh coding experience
• Extra-credit: server-side web/database programming

Technical Product Manager

We're looking for a technical program manager who has a passion for music and experience in shipping consumer services. The job is to own end-end product definition and design, project schedule, and ideally business model and partnerships. The ideal candidate meets the following job requirements:

• College degree in C.S., E.E., or other technology-centric major
• 3-5 years industry experience as a technical product manager (or program manager) shipping consumer software
• Deep usage of iTunes, iPod, social networks and web 2.0 software products
• Extra credit: significant usage of other media players, mp3 players, and music services
• Extra-credit: business experience or M.B.A.