StumbleUpon is a fast growing discovery company that enables people to find relevant and entertaining web content based on their personal interests. We have nearly 10 million registered users and our goal is to become the #1 way that people discover the best content on the web. We need talented people like you to help us get there!
To apply, email your resume to with the name of the job as the title. At the beginning of your email please include:
A short paragraph explaining how you would improve SU
Relevant experience (personal projects are great!)
Your current location
The Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and company equity
Our generous benefits package covers employees at 100% and dependents at 80% with no waiting period
Company-sponsored benefits include: medical, dental, vision, flex spending, Roth IRA/401(k), Life/AD&D insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, EAP services, three weeks PTO, eight company-paid holidays, commuter and gym membership reimbursements, and a myriad of voluntary benefits programs like Aflac and WageWorks
The Perks
Your contributions will make a big impact because we are a small team
We strive to keep our employees happy, healthy and wise
We are located in SOMA San Francisco and are easily accessible via BART, CalTrain, MUNI and the Transbay Terminal
Our office has great natural light, windows that open and lots of plants
The kitchens are stocked with organic fruits, healthy snacks and yummy beverages
We offer free lunch on Mondays and Fridays
Local artists exhibit their artwork in our office in exchange for free traffic
Each quarter we pile into the SU Spaceship and go on an adventure together
We hold company-wide pool and ping-pong tournaments
We look forward to hearing from you!
Site Reliability Engineer
You're a ninja: coding by day, systems engineering by night, and a little of everything else in between. You thrive on keeping massive-scale web products running smoother than an 16-year old Tomintoul. You know your bitmasks, your LACP, and your heredocs. You found yourself enjoying systems work after a distinguished development career, or vice-versa, and now you're making the two worlds meet with the utmost of care.
StumbleUpon brings the best of the web to our users, and we're 10+ billion stumbles into history. You're going to bring us to the 100 billion "stumble" mark. Quickly. This position provides the backbone of StumbleUpon's services: Participate in the creation and analysis of new products, platforms, applications, and tools. Own the reliability of the user-facing experience. Dive into memory stomps and CSS alignment issues alike. You are the front line and last word when it comes to StumbleUpon's face to the world. Please apply only if you want to raise the bar for all future engineers at StumbleUpon.
Qualifications:
3-5+ years of C, C++, or Java experience
3-5+ years of scripting experience: Perl, Python, shell (PHP a plus)
Previous large-scale systems engineering or administration exposure
Send your open source contribution links (GitHub, Freshmeat, et al) for a gold star
Knowing that somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Senior Software Engineer
StumbleUpon is seeking a self-directed Senior Software Engineer with a desire to build scalable and interesting web applications. We are seeking someone who is comfortable writing efficient database schemas, clean and efficient back-end code, and has passionate opinions about user interface and interaction. The Developer will be working to design and implement new StumbleUpon features and improve the overall experience for millions of people. The Developer will be part of a team that works on diverse, site-spanning projects involving community-facing tools, video, web services, security, anti-spam, user-to-user interaction, advertiser network, and more. Projects will be for both internal tools and highly-used public-facing products.
Qualifications:
5+ years software development experience
5+ years MySQL programming experience
5+ years PHP
Linux/Unix expertise is essential
Experience with version control systems such as Subversion or CVS
Intermediate to advanced HTML/DOM experience (ability to understand and slightly tweak UI team's output)
Experience with C/C++ a bonus
JavaScript and JSON experience a bonus
AJAX familiarity; intermediate to advanced experience a bonus
Desire to work in a fast-paced environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong collaborative skills and flexibility in fulfilling multiple roles
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related; or equivalent work experience
Active Stumbler!
Research Engineer
StumbleUpon is seeking a talented research engineer to help us improve the quality of our recommendation engine. This will involve research, analysis and implementation of algorithms and data elicitation methods that improve recommendation relevance as user feedback occurs. The data source: Explicit preference and markup data on 29M websites from over 7.5M websurfers. In total over 9 billion detailed stumble/rating/review records are available to analyze. If you are self-motivated and possess a Can-Do attitude, we want to talk with you!
Responsibilities:
Research and implement changes to improve recommender quality
Help invent new heuristics and algorithms for information distribution and content discovery
Use statistical methods and machine learning to characterize user preference
Investigate data mining and concept extraction strategies using classification and clustering
Create visualizations for complex datasets
Explore new data collection methods, both explicit and implicit
Qualifications:
MSc or Phd in Computer Science or related field
3+ yrs of applied research experience related to recommender systems, computational linguistics, data analysis, statistical learning methods, or search
Experience with basic statistical methods such as modeling multi-variate distributions, hypothesis testing, bayesian inference, simulation modeling, time series analysis
Experience working with large data sets (100GB+)
Knowledge of text classification and clustering
Knowledge of unsupervised learning methods a bonus
Experience with distributed computation a bonus
SQL experience required
PHP, C++ experience strongly desired
Strong people skills to work with other engineers
Strong work ethic, diligent and reliable
Proactive problem solving skills
Superb verbal and written communication skills
Active Stumbler!
Advertising Sales – New York, NY, United States
StumbleUpon is seeking an exceptional Advertising Sales representative to help grow the company’s East Coast client base. Reporting directly to the CFO, the successful candidate will possess a proven track record in consistently delivering direct sales revenue. The ideal candidate will have established relationships with our target markets and be able to immediately close new business. Additionally he/she will be capable of growing existing client relationships for repeat sales to successfully meet and exceed quarterly revenue targets. The successful candidate must be comfortable working remotely and demonstrate the ability to proactively manage our East Coast interests. If you are self-motivated and possess a Can-Do attitude, we want to talk with you!
Responsibilities:
Lead the company’s East Coast revenue generating activities (main target markets include NYC, DC, Boston, Chicago and Miami)
Add new business to our existing East Coast client base – identify prospects, qualify leads and close business
Provide local support to our existing client base – work closely with our account management, financial & engineering teams in San Francisco to effectively manage client accounts
Provide market feedback to SU Product Managers & engineering team on all advertising matters
Effectively manage your time and company resources to meet corporate expectations for revenue and growth in target market
Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years direct sales or account management experience in either the traditional and digital media (agency or publisher) industries, with at least 3 years in a sales management role
Demonstrated ability to think, act and lead strategically while managing the execution of the sales process
A thorough understanding of digital and traditional media players in and around the East Coast, with established relationships with agencies and advertising client decision makers
Strong organizational skills, proactive business style, excellent communication and strong presentation skills – this is a client facing position
Highly self-motivated and able to manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision
Proficiency in Office software (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) & Salesforce CRM
Strong proposal writing experience is desired with ability to compile and analyze campaign performance data and metrics