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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Post by tatiana317 » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 9:21 PM UTC

Data Services Engineer, AppNexus, New York, NY

The AppNexus Data Pipeline processes nearly 10 billion log records a day (> 2TB of data) generated by our real-time bidding engines and adserving platform. We use this data to create aggregated analytics reports, budget updates and drive optimization engines. This is a large scale engineering problem both in terms of the amounts of data and the processing involved. We are looking for a talented, hands-on senior engineer who will take ownership of all architecture around this stream of work. This is a highly visible role in a critical area of our platform, with the opportunity to lead the build-out at a time when the strategic requirements are still being scoped out. For the right candidate, we expect this role to turn into a team lead position. The immediate responsibilities for this role include architecting performance optimizations to our current, custom-built ETL solution, while building and executing a roadmap to scale up our platform at the rate that our hyper-growth sales requires.

Requirements:

    *  Production s/w development experience
    *  Experience with manipulating/crunching large data sets
    *  Strong experience with data structures, algorithms, time vs space tradeoffs
    *  Experience with databases, SQL, query optimization, data modeling
    *  Strong experience with scripting in shell/perl/python
    *  Excellent problem solving skills
    * Ability to work with modelers/analytics/optimization

Desirable:

    *  Experience with object oriented programming languages ( C++/Java )
    *  Experience with data warehousing solutions (Netezza, Teradata )
    *  Experience with ETL tools
    *  Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce and other large scale data solutions
    * Team Lead experience

Why AppNexus?

If they always called you "nerd" as a kid and you answered "awesome!" then you will love working here. We are dynamic and diverse (we have several entrepreneurs who have started multiple companies, creative writers, artists, and a fashion designer), and we focus our talents on working together to build a massively robust, intricate, and usable ad platform. Even after growing rapidly and being validated by our many customers and industry praise, we've stayed a lean, agile, and efficient organization: the MacGyver of advertising.

That still not exciting enough? How about the $50 million in funding we just received? http://appnexus.com/news/press-releases.php

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

#232

Post by tatiana317 » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 9:28 PM UTC

C/C++ Software Engineer, AppNexus, New York, NY

We are seeking world-class, senior software engineers (who are still very hands-on) to work on our state-of-the-art ad serving platform. Our extremely successful platform is very large-scale, globally distributed across 3 data centers, service oriented, and event driven. We handle a hundred thousand ad serving requests per second (100s of billions per month), and respond with very strict latency requirements. In addition, we data-mine a warehouse of 10 TB+ of data (and growing!), to generate some very sophisticated analytics/optimization that drive decisions behind the ad-serving process.

We expect a dramatic increase in the data rates and volumes in the near future and even more stringent latency requirements from our partners, and so need to make significant additions to our team to help evolve our platform to the next generation.

The environment is very fast paced. Successful candidates must be comfortable in making architecture decisions for a platform which is changing daily, all the while clients are actively using the system. We believe in an agile and incremental software development and particularly value simple solutions to complex problems. We also look for ability to diagnose a problem across the entire software and hardware stack rather than just debug a piece of code. Given the uptime constraints on our platform (24/7, 99.99%), operational maintainability of our software is of utmost importance.

The exact domain experience is less of a concern for us than the ability to fit into the above general profile. We are open to candidates from areas like telecom and automated trading/finance.

Requirements:

    * Experience developing production-level software
    * Outstanding architecture, programming and debugging skills in C/C++
    * Excellent problem solving skills
    * Experience with real time, low latency, high throughput and large scale systems
    * Experience with data structures, algorithms, profiling and performance optimizations

Desired:

    * Experience with kernel optimizations and the TCP/IP stack

Why AppNexus?

If they always called you "nerd" as a kid and you answered "awesome!" then you will love working here. We are dynamic and diverse (we have several entrepreneurs who have started multiple companies, creative writers, artists, and a fashion designer), and we focus our talents on working together to build a massively robust, intricate, and usable ad platform. Even after growing rapidly and being validated by our many customers and industry praise, we've stayed a lean, agile, and efficient organization: the MacGyver of advertising.

That still not exciting enough? How about the $50 million dollars in funding we just received? http://appnexus.com/news/press-releases.php

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

#233

Post by bravura » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 11:59 PM UTC

lipaktest wrote: post #227

bravura wrote: post #78

MetaOptimize is hiring contractors for exciting project work building real-world NLP + ML systems. This is for remote, short-term gigs. You can set your hours. The only requirement is that you kick ass and add value from day one. We are looking for generalists: * Hardcore programmers who learn new technologies and APIs quickly. * Experienced sysadmins, especially who have experience with AWS and EC2. And also special…

these guys never reply. :(

Sorry, we're not several guys, I'm a one man shop who manages each project, chases every deal, and does all of the hiring. Unfortunately, the hiring is priority three, I have a backlog of hiring emails to get to because the response has been really good. But I'll definitely get to you.

Does it sound like I need to hire someone to help me? Yeah, it's a fucking chicken-and-egg problem. :)