Careers
Are you passionate about technology and searching for a cutting edge technical career opportunity?
Good news... Webair is hiring!
Founded in 1996, Webair Internet Development, Inc. is one of the world’s leading managed hosting providers. We are headquartered in Garden City, New York with datacenter locations in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.
Webair is an Equal Opportunity Employer, offering a fast-paced, challenging, and supportive working environment, competitive salaries and opportunities for professional growth. Webair offers a comprehensive benefit package, paid time off, casual dress and semi-annual company events.
Please view our list of available positions below and join one of the most respected names in web hosting!
Full Time Systems Developer/Programmer (NYC AREA)
Job Description:
The Systems Programmer will be an integral part of our technical group. This position will be responsible for the design and implementation of software running across thousands of servers, designing centralized management systems, integration with 3rd party APIs, and front-end interfaces. Work directly with system's administrators to create tools to automate day to day tasks, create end user web based management interfaces, implement new features, and keep up with latest technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design and develop customer facing web based user interfaces for account management and control
- Design and implement automation for system maintenance and administration tasks, such as package management, automatic patching and configuration management
- Responsible for architecting new infrastructure components used to serve very large web sites
- Architect new infrastructures for new applications and integrate with existing environments
- Design and develop system level software to integrate and/or process data flows across infrastructures
- Evaluate and recommend new commercial and open-source software
Job Requirements:
- Expert knowledge of UNIX (Linux and/or *BSD)
- Knowledge of Internet protocols such as DNS, Mail, HTTP
- Knowledge of Client/Server, multi-threaded and distributed programming techniques
- 2 years minimum UNIX C or UNIX C++ experience
- 2 years minimum Shell scripting experience
- 2 years minimum Web programming experience, including PHP, jQuery, CSS, JS, HTML
- 2 years minimum MySQL experience and a good working knowledge of SQL
- 2 years minimum LAMP experience
- 2 years minimum Revision control systems experience (cvs/git/etc)
- 2 years minimum experience intergrating 3rd party APIs such as Authorize.Net PayPal, etc.
- RoR, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal experience a plus
The right candidate must be able to deal with ambiguity, changing requirements, new technologies and tight deadlines.
The right candidate must be self-motivated and proactively investigate best solutions.
The right candidate must understand application development life cycle, application development principles and the impact of applications on scalability, performance and availability of infrastructure.
The right candidate will demonstrate an appropriate blend of superior technical, organizational and interpersonal skills.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are essential, as is the ability to simultaneously handle multiple projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. As a member of the team, the candidate should be able to interface with a diverse group of customers, peers, and stakeholders, and be able to build consensus for their solutions.
Full time, start immediately
Systems Software Engineer
Managed service provider looking for talented system engineer to join our technical team.
Job Requirements:
- 7+ years relevant work experience preferably in the Internet environment
- Strong understanding of system and architecture scalability challenges
- Expert knowledge of UNIX (preferably FreeBSD and/or Linux)
- Strong Unix C/C++ andshell scripting
- Expert knowledge of Apache, WWW, HTTP, Load-balancers, Networking, TCP/IP, Firewall, Routing, TCP/IP, Security, Cryptography
- Working knowledge in MySQL, PHP, SAN, NAS, Puppet a plus
- UNIX administration experience
- Client/Server, multi-threaded and distributed programming techniques
In addition to the above, the following skills are sought, but not required for application to this position: Java, Javascript, HTML, Tcl/Tk, Sockets, NSAPI, FastCGI, Kerberos, LDAP, DHCP, Kickstart/Jumpstart and DNS, Linux RPM and Puppet.
Job Description:
The Systems Software Engineer will be an integral part of our technical management group. This position will be responsible for the design and implementation of software running across thousands of servers, designing centralized management systems, integration with 3rd party APIs, and front-end interfaces. Work directly with system's administrators and from client feedback to create tools to automate day to day tasks, implement new features and keep up with latest technologies.
The type of work that the candidate will work on includes:
- Architect new infrastructures for new applications and integrate with existing environments
- Design and develop system level software to integrate and/or process data flows across infrastructures
- Solve complex and challenging issues using creative engineering solutions
- Design and implement automation for system maintenance and administration tasks, such as package management, automatic patching and configuration management
- Evaluate and recommend new commercial and open-source software
- Design and implement language bindings for common C/C++ security libraries in PHP, Perl, Java, Tcl etc.
The type of responsibilities includes:
- Responsible for assisting and supporting the Internet Operations team
- Responsible for architecting new infrastructure components used to serve very large web sites
- Responsible for engineering fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems
- Responsible for integration of the different components of the web infrastructure
- Responsible for overall system performance and reliability
- Responsible for mentoring team members
- Working with senior technology management and other business-side organizations
- Keep abreast of new and emerging technologies
- Internal expert/resource on systems administration issues
- Escalation point to answer systems related questions
The candidate must be able to deal with ambiguity, changing requirements, new technologies and tight deadlines. The candidate must be self-motivated and proactively investigate best solutions. The candidate must understand application development life cycle, application development principles and the impact of applications on scalability, performance and availability of infrastructure. The candidate must have stellar troubleshooting skills and serve as tier three on-call support for all Web Operations issues.
The right candidate will demonstrate an appropriate blend of superior technical, organizational and interpersonal skills. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are essential, as is the ability to simultaneously handle multiple projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. As a senior member of the team, the candidate should be able to interface with a diverse group of customers, peers, and stakeholders, and be able to build consensus for their solutions.
Various positions available, various shifts, start immediately.
System Administrators
Managed service provider looking for talented system administrators to join our technical team. Work hands on with the latest web technologies and underlying infrastructure in high availability production environments.
We're looking for skilled UNIX gurus who love challenging problems, keeping up with Internet trends, and working in a laid back environment.
Job Requirements:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You must be able to articulate technical problems to non-technical staff and customers
- Strong diagnostic skills, evaluating problems one component at a time
- Ability to install, configure, and maintain various flavors of Linux and FreeBSD
- Experience building kernels from source, configuring device drivers, building packages from source, and installing pre-built packages
- Highly proficient in web hosting technologies such as Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Qmail, Pacemaker, DRBD, BIND, etc.
- Experience in identifying and tuning application bottlenecks
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple workloads
- VMWare / Xen / KVM experience preferred
- Hardware experience a plus
Various positions available, various shifts, start immediately.
Help Desk Manager
IT Managed service provider looking for a technical manager to manage support/workflow for 24/7 customer service department. The Director of Support will be responsible for constantly driving positive changes that assure each of our customers are delighted with every aspect of their experience. This position will be responsible for increasing overall customer loyalty by building and maintaining dedicated employees, integrating the voice-of-the-customer into the business, and driving key customer experience initiatives.
This position requires the ability to communicate goals and desired outcomes to cross-functional teams. Serving as an agent for change, the qualified candidate must be passionate about people and service as well as be committed to constantly improving performance and tackling new initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Manages resources, develop customer service strategies and provide leadership to ensure that quality of work meets requirements
- Create and maintain procedures and workflows for techs to follow to deal with various situations.
- Manage team of employees, dealing with schedule changes, long term and short term responsibilities.
- Drives Business Process Improvement
- Communicates at all personnel levels within the organization
- Develops Recognition and Reward Programs
- Provides leadership coaching and guidance for managers and techs on a one-to-one level
Job Requirements:
The most competitive candidate will have the following:
- Currently in a Team Lead or Senior level individual contributor role and have experience leading large teams
- Must have 5-7 years business experience involving management, customer care and providing world class service
- Minimum educational requirement is a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of NPS and defection churn
- Self-direction/Self-management skills
- Ability to work flexible schedule
- ITIL experience a plus
Mobile Software Programmer
We're seeking a creative senior iPhone/Android mobile application developer who can push the envelope and loves to think outside the box! We're looking for someone who is passionate about mobile apps and the iOS and Android platforms and wants to make apps used by hundreds of thousands of users, including jailbreak users! The right candidate also is someone who loves the idea of being self-directed, purpose maximizing, and mastery of your craft.
Job Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent (preferred but not necessary if you are skilled at your trade!)
- 2+ years of overall iOS & Android development
- Knowledge of MVC design patterns and development best practices
- Strong Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK
- Strong Java skills with extensive knowledge of the Android SDK
- Experience using and creating scalable web-based RESTful APIs
- Object Oriented PHP skills at all scales
- Solid SQL skills with a grasp of Cassandra and the NoSQL movement
- Work well in small teams with fast release cycles
- UI/UX experience a plus!
You will get extra points if:
- You like poking around at private iOS APIs
- You've created jailbreak apps before
- You're familiar with "hybrid" iOS apps (web apps wrapped in a native iOS app)
- You understand the fragmentation issues involved with Android
Lead Software Engineer
We're looking for a passionate Leader and PHP/LAMP developer who has experience developing high-traffic, dynamic websites. Someone with experience in video encoding and mobile app dev is a plus. The ideal candidate is an individual who is adaptable, self-driven, motivated and eager to learn. The Lead should have strong experience managing/mentoring development teams and providing code reviews/critiques on a consisten basis.
Key Traits:
- True PHP programmer that loves to hack code in several languages and has fun doing it (hands-on)
- Design, develop, maintain and optimize secure and scalable multi-tier web applications
- Strong knowledge of PHP, Perl, Javascript, UNIX shell, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML
- Comfortable with both OO and procedural programming methodologies
- Experience building cutting-edge applications with PHP5 and MySQL5 preferable
- Knowledge installing, configuring and maintaining Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP packages
- Strong knowledge of stored procedures, triggers, indexes, table normalization and database design
- Knowledge of AJAX development a plus
- Comfortable hacking and compiling Linux software packages
- Strong understanding of software development life-cycle and best practices
- Proficiency in working and developing on Linux
- Ability to thrive in high-traffic environments with clear expectations and often time fast-approaching launch dates
Job Requirements:
- BS/MS in CS/CE or significant work experience
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- 5+ years of experience managing/mentoring development teams and providing code reviews/critiques
