Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

____ing awsome! Family friendly :)

Are you considering remote candidates?

London, UK (or Remote for the right candidate, with a UK work visa) Likely Ltd are looking for developers to work on some interesting social media analytics problems. I'm leaving at the end of the month, but it's a great place to work - at the moment we need people with experience in any or all of: Ruby, Erlang, Java, Hadoop (Mapreduce and Hbase). If you have any machine learning or statistical computing skills that'd be a definite bonus. If you're iterested, please send your details to Henry, our CTO, at henry@likely.co Thanks!

Django Contractor, London, UK

The company and the position originally founded in 1997, AWAL has empowered independent artists and labels to take control of their own destinies and bypass the gatekeepers of the old music industry allowing anyone to sell their music digitally.

We're a small team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about music.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will be building features, fixing bugs, maintaining servers and greasing the cogs of the platform.

This is a full-time freelance role starting ASAP.

You You like to get things done, get your hands dirty and dive into code. You favour the command line where possible. You care about the quality of your code as much as you care about the quality of its results. Hopefully you'll be able to provide links to things you've worked on and example code.

You'll need to be eligible to work in the UK and in commutable distance of our London office.

What you'll get

- competitive day rate

- comfortable working environment in a music studio in north-west London

Skills we want to see - Django/Python (2/3+ years commercial experience)

- Postgres

- good knowledge of HTML/CSS (though you don't have to be a front-end expert)

- some JS/jQuery

- version control (preferably git or mercurial)

- basic *nix server administration

Bonus skills

- administering Xserve/OS X Server

- a standards-driven, semantic approach to HTML/CSS

- functional and/or unit testing

Applying - send a cover letter

- details of availability

- your CV, including references

- sample URLs to sites and code (e.g. GitHub/Bitbucket) you've worked on

- to techjobs@awal.com

Recruitment agencies: Please don't call or email. If we need you we'll get in touch. Promise!

Austin, TX / NYC, NY / London, UK

Bazaarvoice is hiring for a bunch of positions - big data software engineers, front-end engineers, DevOps, etc. Ping me for more info.

Here's the DevOps spec:

Who We Want: Bazaarvoice serves traffic on some of the biggest websites on the internet. Every day our content is served to tens of millions of people making tens of thousands of requests per second, resulting in tens of thousands of gigabytes of traffic. Our request logs alone add up to almost 1TB daily. If the thought of doubling these numbers excites you, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities: * Develop internal tools and processes to maintain stability and performance of our infrastructure * Work with Development teams to build applications in an Operationally sustainable way * Design cross-datacenter, world-wide systems with a high availability mindset * Research, analyze and propose new technology solutions for Bazaarvoice's infrastructure * Make things go faster Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role: * Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or MIS; or equivalent experience * 5+ years experience with LAMP development/administration * Hands-on scripting with shell & Python/Ruby/Perl * Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking & DNS * Excellent project management, communication, prioritization and analytical skills * Strong customer service mindset

Technologies: * Linux * Tomcat * Solr/Lucene * MySQL * Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC)

Bonus experience: * Puppet/Chef * Hadoop/BI/Big Data * Cassandra/Riak * OpenStack/Eucalyptus * Open source contributions

Could you please inform me if John Lakos's and/or Alisdair Meredith's teams are hiring and how to find these job postings?