Are you the type of person who:

Is an incredible, proven lead QA Engineer, with an aptitude for setting up QA processes and building a team from the ground up? Then this is your place to shine!

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a talented, responsible, lead QA engineer who is passionate about product quality
• Loves QA methodology, best practices and test-driven development
• Is enough of a developer in multiple languages/platforms to be dangerous (or at least to test our products well)
• Thrives in an environment with lots of change, who is excited to learn and likes to test their mettle
• Can multi-task and “own” the QA process for all three of Aptana’s product suite
• Excels at picking up new languages and technologies as the Aptana product suite expands even further

The Opportunity:

• Work as the lead QA engineer at a company that already has traction in the market and (effectively) thousands of volunteer testers
• Establish process and best practices with the in-house support and resources to "do it right"
• Promote an environment where the entire team creates reliable, bug-free code - the first time around
• Help build a small, top-notch QA team and establish and refine QA best practices
• Collaborate with a team of productive, smart, energetic, passionate engineers

Responsibilities:

• Test multiple products on multiple operating systems and their integration
• Work directly with developers to author test cases
• Establish a rapport with our engineering team and create a QA process that they buy into and support
• Identify, report and track issues in a bug tracking system
• Perform manual testing as required
• Evaluate, select and integrate third party testing tools
• Author code to automate written test cases to aid in regression testing
• Realistically manage the tradeoffs between quality control and the need to ship product to hungry customers
• Find new ways to leverage our numerous users to identify bugs and improve product quality

Qualifications:

• Previous experience building a QA discipline at a startup from the ground up
• Strong work ethic
• Superlative analytical skills
• Take pride in your work
• Coding/testing experience with most of the following: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, Python and various web technologies

Please submit resumes to kathy@aptana.com. Thanks!

The Aptana Cloud team is chartered with defining, designing, implementing, and managing the Aptana Cloud offering, including APIs and infrastructure to support multiple cloud server and service providers, management applications and tooling, and integration facilities. Key positions are available on this team. If your skillset and passions fit some significant subset of the following list, please get in touch – we are looking for a few brilliant, versatile, driven individuals as we prepare to launch our 1.0 offering.

• Love to build, assemble and administer OS + software systems of many different sorts?
• Understand virtualization and abstraction of APIs at many levels?
• Want to understand and work closely with top-notch cloud server providers: Amazon, Google, and others?
• Get excited about defining the future of cloud services and integration points?
• Yearn to build very cool management and reporting applications on top of the services?
• Feel confident in being the technical liaison with integration partners?
• Excel at gluing systems together or – when you can’t find the right pre-built system – excel at just building your own?
• Wear many hats – and are you the person everyone always comes to for expertise in multiple areas?
• Jump at the opportunity to own a scalable, fail-safe Java server to…
  • Automatically provision nodes in a cluster based on “smart” business rules
  • Define and implement APIs that talk to the cloud provider, the IDE, the billing system, the monitoring system, and even the cloud users’ code
  • Offer both OLTP and OLAP reporting for monitoring, management, and trend analysis
  • (At least this part of the cloud infrastructure is in Java; the rest can be in various languages)

• The software stack of virtual servers (web, DB, app server, etc.)
• Monitoring and instrumentation (e.g. Nagios, and/or roll-your-own scripts)
• Versioning a cluster of machines
• Optimizing performance and resource utilization (incl. kernel hacking)
• Horizontal scalability, distributed systems, failsafe design
• RESTful APIs
• Java Tomcat
• MySQL

Are you the type of person who:

Would thrive in a multi-product tasking role; where being a significant contributor to the product strategies, road maps and priorities is at the core of what you love to do? Then this could be your dream job!

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a web-savvy Product Manager, who thoroughly understands the needs, preferences and trends of Web developers who use scripting languages like JavaScript/Ajax, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and perhaps Python
• Is thoroughly familiar with the deployment, administration, management and monitoring of Web applications

The Opportunity

• Be the product leader for Aptana’s suite of development tools and servers for scripters and Aptana’s new Elastic Application Cloud offering

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing competitive product research and analysis and significantly contribute to product strategy
• Lead product planning and drive processes to keep development teams focused on major product goals while handing the queue of minor enhancements and bug fixes

Desired Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with PHP, Ruby, Ajax and JavaScript development
• Knows and loves their open source web servers: Apache, Tomcat and maybe even Aptana Jaxer
• 4+ years of experience in product management
• A Bachelor's degree. A BS/CS would be great, but not necessary

Please submit resumes to kathy@aptana.com. Thanks!

Are you the type of person who:

Wants to kick the pants off of NetBeans Ruby support, thinks TextMate is just a shiny editor and would like to advance the state-of-the-art in Ruby IDE’s?

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a phenomenal plug-in tools developer
• Has written significant pieces of functionalities relative to plug-ins
• Has lots of Eclipse plug-in and/or RCP experience
• Loves being a developer who is versatile, fast and strong
• Gets things done

The Opportunity:

• Work with awesome people (us!)
• Join the ground floor of a cutting-edge startup that caters to web developers
• You will get to work full time on the leading Ruby on Rails IDE

Responsibilities:

• Work on all aspects, including building and extending out Aptana RadRails

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong Java development experience
• Expert knowledge of Eclipse plug-in and/or RCP
• Deep user-centric UI design experience
• Strong experience and domain knowledge with Ruby on Rails

Please submit resumes to kathy@aptana.com. Thanks!

We are looking for someone who:

• Loves web development, and is fascinated with what's going on in Web 2.0
• Is interested in finding ways to make web development easier.
• Is interested in building an incredibly dynamic and empowered online community that promotes learning and sharing
• Is wise enough to know when to re-use and/or hack existing web site components to do what's needed versus writing them anew
• Insists on keeping their hands dirty and building cool stuff
• Someone who likes to poke around with new tools and technologies, but who also knows how to put their head down and get stuff done
• Someone who could build the equivalent of a web-based iTunes on their own

The Opportunity:

• Create a community based website for the massive "Web 2.0" or Ajax developer community to:
• share experiences
• learn new development techniques
• provide feedback on our products
• helps establish Aptana as a thought leader

Responsibilities:

• Create a website that captures and retains the attention of busy developers.
• Choose the framework for the community site and code it from the ground up. (write lots of code)
• Interface with users to figure out what they want and hack it in
• Ensure the site integrates seamlessly with Aptana Studio
• Own our corporate website
• Collaborate with and/or manage interaction and visual designers to ensure ease of use.
• As much as possible, use our own tools to build and maintain the site (i.e. eat our own dog food)

Desired Qualifications:

• At least 6 years experience developing websites using the latest and greatest tools: PHP, Ruby on Rails, mysql, Ajax, Javascript, CSS, dynamic languages, wikis, bug tracking systems, open source development, blog tools, code sharing, feeds, RSS, mashups, etc.
• Very strong technical acumen and aptitude
• Passion for building community oriented websites
• Strong work ethic
• A strong sense of "what works" on the web that is informed by experience.

Please submit resumes to kathy@aptana.com. Thanks!