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Senior Web Engineer
Salon Media Group, a publicly-traded online news and social networking company headquartered in San Francisco, is currently looking for a talented, motivated individual who is passionate about independent news media, to join the technical engineering team. This person will play a key role in the design and implementation of Salon's content management and blogging systems. This is a high visibility role within Salon that demands excellent communication skills, as well as the demonstrated ability to work in close collaboration with non-technical project managers.
Required Experience:
- 3-5 years hands on experience using PostgreSQL optimizing SQL queries for performance, experience with PLSQL designing stored procedures and designing database tables that efficiently store and index data. Also highly desired are skills with pgpool and slony replication of databases.
- 3-5 years hands on experience with object oriented Perl, in-line Perl and templated mod_perl (Mason preferred).
- 5-7 years hands on experience with object oriented PHP, using memcached and APC in high volume traffic environments (1M+ daily page views).
- 3 years hands on experience with Apache 2.x using mod_rewrite and mod_perl.
- Strong CSS skills. Also highly desirable to have XML and XSLT skills.
- Strong Javascript skills, preferably using Prototype or JQuery.
- A depth of experience using various web methodologies including SOAP, XMLRPC, AJAX
- Familiarity with patterns such as MVC.
- Experience using Subversion/Trac or similar version control software.
Looking for:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrated abilities to write technical specifications based on functional specifications, clearly document code, and to communicate technical requirements on a non-technical level.
- Background working on other magazine style on-line media sites, or group blogging sites with shared access controlled CMS.
- Some previous work in at least one of the following: statistical analysis of text, pattern recognition programming, spam filtering technology, natural language processing, contextual or semantic search algorithms, CJK database/programming or automated credit card processing.
- A Software Engineering degree or equivalent work experience.
Internships @ Salon
Interns are an important part of Salon's daily operations. They work closely with Salon staff to research, report, write and produce our news and culture coverage. They also take part in editorial meetings and otherwise learn about the day-to-day workings of an award-winning online news and entertainment site.
Many Salon interns have gone on to jobs in the media, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Elle, CNN and of course Salon.
Salon offers internships throughout the year in our offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and writing samples to internships@salon.com. Tell us why you want to intern with Salon! Please specify the city and particular internship you're applying for in the subject line.
News Desk Internship: San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C.
Seeking candidates with prior journalism experience who are news and politics savvy to help us handle the daily flood of breaking news. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
*Monitor news feeds and produce breaking news packages
*Edit, prep and post content
*Research and fact checking
*Editorial support
*Writing as assigned
*Option to develop your own blog on Open Salon
Culture Desk Internship: New York
The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, have strong writing and research skills, be pop culturally literate and interested in some or all of the subjects covered by the A&E;, Books and Life departments, such as women's issues, TV, film, music and books. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
*Research and fact checking
*Interviews
*Editorial support
*Regular writing opportunities for qualified candidates
Multimedia Internship: New York
Help us with all elements of video production and post-production. Stay up to date on breaking news and cultural stories with an eye toward "must-see" videos. Must have a basic knowledge of video/audio editing software. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
*Assist on production and post-production of Salon video
*Edit audio podcasts
*Research and fact checking
*Editorial support
About Salon
Salon is one of the premier sources for news and culture on the Web or in any medium. More than 14 years old, Salon was a pioneer in online journalism and has been at the forefront of online news, community conversation and information delivery ever since. Salon is an equal opportunity employer.