Love what you do? Linux C/C++

We are looking for a few good Linux C/C++ hackers for openings in our Chicago and NYC offices.

Who we are and what we do -
- A small cutting edge research and development group (<7 people) in a successful company (<300 people) with a 20+ years track record
- We work in an informal environment with a startup culture
- We use open source and love all things Linux
- We admire elegant solutions and well written code
- We build high performance platforms using C/C++ on Linux with a sprinkling of Perl/Python/MySQL

We offer
- Casual work environment replete with technical challenges
- Access to tons of hardware and an industry to put it to work
- Avenues to learn and deploy new technologies and upturn the industry paradigms (faster,cheaper!)
- Good espresso
- Competitive salaries and generous performance driven bonuses (20-50%)
- Full benefits (401(K), Medical/Dental Insurance)

You want to:
- Design complete solutions from the network topology to the application protocol
- Engineer beautiful solutions and write elegant code - hit the sweet spot between reliability and performance
- Prove you can out code and out engineer the competition
- Work in collaborative atmosphere where you can challenge others and be challenged
- Build cool distributed and parallel high performance applications
- Crank serious code to solve real world problems

You have:
- A B.S. in CS from a top university (or equivalent)
- Spent at least 3-5 years engineering solutions and writing code
- You have a very strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, compilers, networking
- You have a decent understanding of parallel programming and distributed systems
- You have fluency in C/C++, stl, pthreads, shared memory, networking and the rest of the Unix programming menagerie

If this is you then reply with your resume/cv (txt/pdf only please - no doc files!) to qedhiring@gmail.com.