Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

Meraki - http://www.meraki.com

Meraki is the leader in cloud networking and we have over 18,000 customer networks around the world. You can see a sample of customers who rely on Meraki at: http://www.meraki.com/customers. We were funded by Sequoia and Google, and are based in the Mission district of San Francisco - yes, it's sunny here!

Our cloud infrastructure has been developed from the ground up, and we pride ourselves in its reliability, resilience, and performance (we have a 99.99% uptime SLA). Our wireless access points and routers make network management simple, and our relentless focus on user experience delights our customers.

We’re looking to hire in San Francisco and we have a few positions open in London as noted.

// Engineering

On the front-end, distributed web application lets network administrators quickly sift through historical data, perform diagnostics, and navigate a huge space of possible network configurations through an intuitive interface. Our multi-site, hosted backend system provides services thousands of networks and millions of client devices. Your work will be widely deployed and used by millions of people, and you’ll be able to collect an incredible amount of data about how your code is performing. Our team is small enough that you will work on problems core to our business.

* Front-end: sharp and creative UI engineers who love to work with Javascript, CSS, and Ruby on Rails. http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#frontendengineer

* Back-End Systems: familiarity with C++, Ruby or Python, an understanding of databases, and especially experience running a live service or building production systems. http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#backendsystemsengineer

* Firmware: fluent in C, some device driver experience, with a love for building new products and things like bringing up new platforms. http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#firmwareengineer

// Marketing

* Technical Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, a solid technical background, and the skill to tackle a wide variety of activities, such as launching new products, providing technical education to customers and partners, building collateral and competitive positioning to assist Meraki's rapidly growing sales team, and more. http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#technicalmarketingmanager

* Frontend Developer: expert level command of HTML and CSS with strong Javascript skills, knowledge of a scripting language, familiarity with back-end application concepts and a strong design aesthetic. (B.S. degree in computer science or equivalent) http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#frontenddeveloper

// Support

* Technical Support Engineer: sharp, energetic, technical support engineer who can work closely with many groups within the company, including engineering, to diagnose and resolve critical escalated issues, identify, reproduce, and document bugs. http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#technicalsupportengineer

// Sales

We have many openings for sales positions, including inside sales, regional sales, sales engineers, and strategic sales.

Interested? Feel free to get in touch with me: pablo@meraki.com

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Come join a young and innovative team in a startup environment where your ideas are heard and your creativity is valued. We are looking for professionals with high initiative and desire to develop games for PC. Our studio is in Rio de Janeiro.

Requirements: • Graduate in Computer Engineering or Computer Science. • Solid knowledge in Object Orientation. • Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team. • Willingness to learn new technologies. • Advanced English. • Passion for Games (of course).

Intrested? Please send your CV to jobs@olympya.com. We want you on our team!

Customer Support Agent

What You Can Expect: We have a dynamic, laid back office with other funded startups. We believe the more fun and freedom an individual has, the more they create and contribute, and our office shows this. You'll also get to be a part of the early stages of a young company, knowing that you are helping provide what could be the best customer experience ever :)

What We Expect: You LOVE talking to people, and and you're creative with ways to delight them. You can easily handle a phone call, 3 chats, and a barrage of emails, all while boxing up t-shirts to send out and compiling our daily reports. You have a tremendous drive to succeed, and you like discussing creative ideas on how to do that. You're eager to learn about the startup world, and you've had entrepreneurial ideas of your own. You plan on staying with us for awhile, because you love seeing projects through to the end. You have phenomenal communication skills, written and verbal, and you tackle problems head on.

Full Stack Lead Developer / Architect

background includes... 5+ years experience with RoR with demonstrable experience using best practices. For example: 'separation of concerns', 'skinny controllers / fat models', 'progressive enhancement' testing frameworks - preferably RSpec/Cucumber/Web as well as Continuous Integration (both setup and use). Should be part of your daily workflow. Ability to plan and develop a coherent system across various platforms - desktop, mobile, mobile apps External API's - producing/consuming XML-based data feeds Git - should be comfortable with not only basic usage - but more advanced features as well - push/pull branches, gitflow, etc. HTML5 & CSS3 - best practices and graceful degradation Javascript. Should be very comfortable with Javascript/JQuery/Ajax Experience with payment gateways and e-commerce solutions. Experience creating mobile sites Confident inheriting legacy code that needs improvement. Authoritative Dev Leader, with the ability to collaborate across departments Must have excellent communication skills - both verbal and written, able to articulate ideas. Ability to break a job into smaller tasks and accurately estimate time to complete overall project

…a plus: Experience deploying / managing apps on EngineYard iOS or Android Develop experience

Software Engineer

You'll work on: Crawlers Feature engineering and machine learning Parsing and natural language processing algorithms Scaling to handle 10,000 QPS Mining data about apps and usage patterns Tools for our partners Among other tools, we're using Python 3, MongoDB, AWS and git.

We do everything we can to help you do your best work. Private cubicles with sliding whiteboard doors Any hardware you want, e.g. dual 30' monitors Three healthy catered meals a day Fridges stocked with high-quality food and drinks Free membership to Equinox gym High-end medical, dental, vision and life insurance

Also hiring engineering interns.

To apply, please solve a coding challenge here: http://www.codeeval.com/public_sc/59/