Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

So, uh, I'm looking for an entry-level sysadmin/data-center monkey. You could call this an intern type position, but I don't care if you are in school or not.

Prgmr.com rents virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and datacenter space. Right now, we have 3 full-time folks, counting me, and two part-timers but I'm the only hardware person, and only two of us are local.

So, there are several catches. the first? I can't afford a full time person for at least two months. If you are willing to show up and work between then and now? $15/hr on a 1099. After those two months (and after I'm done paying for twice the co-lo I need) we can talk about going full time W2. (prgmr.com pays for Kaiser, if you are full-time)

Now, I do have an arrangement with a local refurbished server and network hardware dealer; I give him a good entry level person, he'll hire them full time with health insurance and stuff (for a little more than I'm paying; not a lot more, this is definitely still entry-level pay.) and he'll rent you back to me on a per-day basis at a discount (sort of as a referral bonus to me.) - so that's one way you can make this full-time before I stabilize prgmr.com. Note, he's based out of mountain view, and I'm in Santa Clara and all of this is very much hands-on work.

So yeah, what I need is someone I can teach how to handle my layer-1. I need my shit wired up, I need it wired up neatly (I can train you in cable lacing, but the neater you are, the better.) I need all my ports labeled inside my network gear (I can show you how to do this; Serial ain't rocket science.) and inside my PDUs.

This would be pretty good for someone studying up on their CCNA or something; I probably have obsolete hardware I could give you for your lab, too.

I need someone I can train up to set up my IPMI out of band access. Again, I can train, it's not hard. Again, experience using the command line helps a lot.

I also need someone who can handle racking/stacking servers, dragging servers to the car and back. You need to be able to safely lift 50lbs, (and more importantly, you need to ask for help when you /can't/ lift safely. pester the security guys; they will usually help, and if not, call me.) and you need transportation that can handle 50lb servers. (meh, if you have transportation, we can probably work something out with the hauling. I've got an old van I loan people.)

You need to be able to handle ssh, and ssh with public key authentication with minimal help from me.

So, the way I usually do this is that people email me, we go back and forth a few times (I won't hire you if you can't communicate via email... sorry, just one of my things.) then next time I need help I call you up. You show up and work. I pay you (check, but if you want we can drop by the bank and get it cashed for you same day... just when I pay cash the accountant gets mad at me) If you do well and I need help again, i call you back; At these rates, (and especially with this (lack of) stability) it's not fair to expect you to interview for free.

So yeah. Entry level. If you seem teachable, I don't care if you are currently unemployed.

I demand honesty, but not loyalty; by that, I mean I'm realistic. I'm not going to be angry if you move on to a better paying job quickly.

Especially at first, while we're just doing 'as needed' gigs? I'm understanding about your schedule; I don't demand you drop everything for me. (Once you go full time, we'll have to talk more about this. I do eventually want someone besides me to be hardware on-call, but I understand that needs to be worth your time, and this offer probably is probably not good enough to get you to let me drag your ass out of bed at 2am.)

TrailBehind - Berkeley - California. Software Developer

We make the best outdoor GPS app - Gaia GPS, and other software for the network's fringe. We are a mostly boot-strapped, profitable team of 4, looking for the perfect 5th. People on our team has worked for Google, thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, and won high-profile card tournaments. We also have a 50/50 male/female ratio.

We'll pay you a good salary, along with stock, health insurance, profit-sharing, flexible hours, and other perks. Our office is a sunny, breezy, and just where you might like to spend a Berkeley summer.

Visit www.gaiagps.com, and send us an email at jobs@gaiagps.com. You can also try and find me at the next Geo-Meetup in SF.

Proximic, Palo Alto, CA

Building "The Bloomberg of the Online Advertising Ecosystem": Proximic is setting the new golden standard of real-time Data Services in display advertising and we are delivering big data insights and solutions for marquee customers in the industry. Proximic specializes in Contextual and Brand Protection Data to improve ad targeting, and Audience Interest Data to improve predictive modeling. Our non-linguistic contextual profiling technology called Pattern Proximity™ along with our Dynamic Category Matching™ engine provides the most granular, accurate and actionable data in the market.

Proximic is a privately funded company based in Palo Alto, backed by successful investors. We are a team consisting of industry veterans and smart people who love making a difference in the industry, are thrilled with the current opportunities in the ad tech and data space, and enjoy what we do. We're looking for talented, motivated and impactful people to help our business grow! Come help us scale in the marketplace.

Java Engineer

We are looking for a dynamic contributor to Proximic's core development team, who enjoys building innovative technology and applications designed for huge scale and effectiveness. Work with us to create game-changing products for the advertising data space, that have immediate market impact with large, well-known customers. This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. Applicants must be suitable for immediate employment.

Responsibilities

- Develop extensible, scalable, reliable software for distributed processing/ querying and responsiveness

- Propose and test improvements to ad targeting, optimization, brand protection and test algorithms

- Understand and affect the product direction related to data-driven applications that emotionally excite and financially benefit our customers

- Adhere to modern development processes (task breakdown & estimation, code reviews, unit tests, version control, ...)

- Participate in the full development cycle from scoping to implementation within realistically aggressive time frames

Requirements

- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - M.S. or Ph.D. a plus

- 3+ years experience of in server side development of multithreaded, complex, scalable systems

- 5+ years of systems-level/core Java Strong experience in building high performance applications and using different caching techniques in real world situations

- Proven track record of excellent coding skills to write reliable / clean and maintainable software

- Structured thinker, effective communicator, excellent programming and analytic skills

- Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming in Java

- Experience in online advertising systems (display or SEM), computer linguistics, applied statistics and/or machine learning a plus

- Start-up-comfort: wear many hats in a fast-paced environment, willing and eager to learn and design new technologies; must be flexible in approach

- Highly self motivated, proactive, hardworking innovator with a "team-first" attitude

Contact jointeam@proximic.com and mention that you saw our post on hacker news.

It is refreshing to see posts like this that are willing to teach. Wish I could do it. Have a good one, and good luck filing the position.

San Francisco, CA (full-time, H1B welcome) Expect Labs

(http://www.expectlabs.com)

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Expect Labs is a startup based in downtown SF that is building a product called MindMeld (www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld). We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's most well-known investors as well as some of the technology industry's largest and most influential companies. Our investors include Google, Samsung, Intel, Telefonica, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, KPG Ventures, Quest Venture Partners and several prominent angels.

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Open positions include:

- Back-end Software Engineer

- Front-end Software Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Android Engineer

- UX/UI Designer

- Product Manager

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If you want to work on cool things, we'd love to hear from you. Visit http://www.expectlabs.com/jobs or shoot us an email at jobs (at) expectlabs (dot) com. Thanks and good luck!