Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

While we may be able to figure out a way to accommodate short periods of remote work, we want the entire team in the same place most of the time.

Disqus - San Francisco, CA

Disqus (http://disqus.com - YC07) is the leading conversation platform on the web, powering comments for communities on millions of sites. We help users engage in discussions on large sites like CNN and IGN as well as many of the tech blogs submitted on Hacker News.

This week, we launched Gravity (http://disqus.com/gravity/) as an experiment in discovery and visualization of our huge network. It's built with D3.js on top of our realtime service and postgres backend. We're inventing the future of online discussions, and our massive scale has positioned us well to do just that. tl;dr - we're more than just comments.

To change the future, we need your help. Like everyone else, we're hiring for everything (frontend / backend / data). But we really need some additional folks to join our small devops team. If you're passionate about any of the following, shut down everything and contact me immediately (mike@disqus.com):

* Performance - help us run database queries faster, eliminate slow requests, remove bottlenecks

* Availability - improve the likelihood that when users visit a site, Disqus loads

* Automation - we use puppet with our homegrown external node classifier to manage hundreds of dedicated hardware devices

* Data - our cassandra cluster handles billions of writes daily

I'd love to tell you more about the cool stuff we're doing with nginx, cassandra, and postgres.

If working on our ops team sounds fun, or any of our other positions at http://disqus.com/jobs/ are up your alley, please reach out to me at mike@disqus.com.

Splunk is looking for Software Engineer for Cloud Team. ob Description: That’s a cool job! I want it!

We are busy designing and implementing a public cloud based version of Splunk with the goals of instant deployment and extremely fast time-to-value. The service will allow customers of platform as a service provider (PaaS) and other cloud based services to quickly troubleshoot their applications and build real-time analytical dashboards, which deliver “Operational Intelligence”.

We are using the newest technologies to build a multi-tenant, horizontally scaled version of Splunk for thousands of concurrent users. This project is run a little differently than typical software projects. We believe in eating our own dog food by using other cloud services wherever possible. We are ardent believers in the concept of “DevOps” where the people who write the code also deploy and manage the virtual systems it runs on. Thus all systems are managed via “Infrastructure as Code” tools and techniques.

Responsibilities: I want to and can do that!

    Design and write code to develop and maintain systems which power Splunk multi-tenant services hosted in the public cloud
    Build high-performance and reliable data transport applications
    Implement horizontally scaled out systems, which allow thousands of concurrent Splunk users.
    Define a publish best practices

Requirements: I’ve already done that or have that!

    2+ years software development experience
    Thrives on big data challenges of large volumes, at high velocity, with extreme variability
    Fluency in programming languages such as Python, C, C++
    Strong knowledge of OOP, Network Programming, distributed computing concepts
    Understanding of application development environments such as Django and/or Rails
    Experience with deployment, operations, and management issues for complex distributed data systems
    In-depth understanding of performance considerations with web-scale deployments
    General Familiarity with tools like Chef, Puppet, cfengine, etc.
    Experience with technologies like DNS, HTTP(S), Layer 7 load balancing, etc.
    Understanding of both RDBMS and NoSQL approaches to data storage
    Experience with Amazon EC2, Rackspace or other public cloud technologies and API’s
    Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
    Previous experience in a high paced agile development environment using tools such as Git, Mercurial, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, etc.

 

Education: Got it!

    Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

About Splunk:

Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is a fast growing and pervasive part of “big data”—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, RFID and much more.

Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of effectively managing massive amounts of machine data, and providing a next-generation platform for powerful new applications. Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has almost 3,000 customers in over 70 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data for application management, IT operations and infrastructure management, cyber security, compliance, web intelligence, business analytics and more. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business.

Splunk software has become a platform for machine data!

Splunk now has over 400 employees worldwide, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in Cupertino, CA and 8 offices around the world.

We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.

Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!

Health Care, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, Commuter benefits, PTO and sick leave, 401K, 3 weeks vacation, 2 completely stacked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Monday and Bagel Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, bbqs, soccer, ski trips, on-site yoga classes, health fairs.

This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?

To all recruitment agencies: Splunk does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Splunk employees or any other company location. Splunk is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Splunk is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer supporting workforce diversity.

FiftyThree, New York, Full time, H1B transfers okay, no remote.

Since we launched Paper for iOS in March 2012, it has been downloaded more than 7 million times and Apple named it the 2012 App of the Year on iPad. Paper is just the beginning, and we’re hard at work on what’s next.

We’re looking for app developers (but we’d also love to talk to web devs, backend devs and designers).

• Love creating beautiful user experiences? We’re a design-driven company, and you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with world-class designers. In the last year, Paper won numerous design awards including the Apple Design Award, IxDA, AIGA, and Crunchie. • Enjoy a technical challenge? Interesting problems abound. • We’re a startup but we’re on sound financial ground. We offer competitive salary, benefits, and equity. • This role will be based in our NYC office. No remote, but we’ll help with relocation. If H1B, transfers only.

Apply at jobs@fiftythree.com

http://fiftythree.com Have a look at what our users are up to: http://madewithpaper.fiftythree.com/

Palo Alto, CA - Infer, Inc.

We are Infer. We use a wide array of data science techniques -- machine learning, information retrieval, entity reconciliation, you name it -- to help companies do more with their customers.

We want to bring this type of data intelligence into the enterprise space. Companies like Google and Facebook are developing very fancy algorithms and pushing the state of the art to bring amazing insights into... which cat video you should click on next? Incredible smarts are being applied for seemingly trivial things in the consumer space, while in the enterprise space, decision-making is still mostly gut-driven, at most supplemented by a few Excel charts. This shouldn't be. Enterprise companies, who are solving important problems and paying salaries, whose survival depends on allocating their limited resources optimally, need to be brought forth to the cutting edge. They need to leverage their data better. They need to make their decisions smarter.

This is what we do. We identify problems that are common across companies and are ripe for more intelligence, and we build end-to-end solutions that alleviate those pain points and create value. Our growing list of paying customers include Box, Yammer, Zendesk, Jive, Tableau and Rackspace, and we're just getting started.

And we're excited to have recently raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital Partnership, Sutter Hill Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and many esteemed angel investors:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-24/infer-promis...

We're building an amazing team with folks from MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Google Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Yahoo Research and Palantir, so if you're an engineer eager to work on a product that will provide real value and alleviate some real pain points for its users, and if you're hungry to help us grow and shape our young startup, please check out https://www.infer.com/careers.html and drop us a note!

(PS: Oh yeah, the next cat video for you is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-u8sLbBcnk)

Thanks for reading.