Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

Marketo is a leader in cloud software and are growing like crazy. We are delighting our customers and hiring some of the best minds in Silicon Valley. Our headquarters is located in San Mateo, California and we continue to expand globally. We offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a high-energy environment with lots of room for personal and professional growth.

Would you like to join one of the fastest growing companies in the valley? Would you like to apply your technical skills and experience to blazing new trails in the Marketing Automation space? Would you like to join a team comprised of some of the valley’s best engineers in defining this new and exciting emerging market? Then Marketo is the place for you.

About the Job

As a DevOps Engineer you participate in the design, implementation, rollout and maintenance of tools and applications critical to the business and used across various groups. You will bridge the gap between product, development and infrastructure by building intuitive, reliable and efficient automations.

Who we’re looking for:

• You have solid CS fundamentals

• You love to write & read code

• You write modular, reusable, testable code

• You have good communication skills and are good team player

• You enjoy working in a dynamic environment

• You are a go getter, you get things done with minimal supervision

Your skills and experience:

• Experience developing applications running on Linux or BSD

• Experience with open source database systems (Mysql, PostgreSQL,etc)

• Experience with versioning system (Subverion, Git,etc)

• Experience writing and maintaining bash shell scripts

• Ruby experience a big plus

• PHP experience a big plus

• Rails experience a big plus

please apply @ http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oIUbYfwv&s=HN

• You love programming • You love learning new and exciting technologies and approaches • You are a full stack application developer with a Javascript specialty and .NET experience • You can build a full web app, set up a server, launch into a production environment and maintain the whole thing comfortably • You have strong communication skills and you're good on teams

Does this sound like you? If it does, you should check out Unboxed! We need a fresh-thinking, disciplined developer who loves deploying web apps but also knows their enterprise-level design. You'll build iPad and Android mobile applications using some of the latest technologies including AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, SQL Azure, and more. You’ll learn from our team of wicked-smart developers, but you'll also teach them a thing or two. You'll create simple, usable solutions that delight our clients and make them come back for more.

Interested? Send your resume to bestjobever@unboxedtechnology.com.

https://www.quantopian.com/about#jobs jobs@quantopian.com

At Quantopian, we’re building the world’s first algorithmic trading platform in the cloud. Our engineers are all generalists who write, test, and deploy code across our stack. Each of us also has an area of deep, focused excellence. If you like keeping the gears turning smoothly, crushing hard problems, and working with really smart people, then you may be the operations engineer we’re looking for to help us change the world of finance.

As a Quantopian Operations Engineer, you’ll report directly to the Vice President of Operations and play a key role in expanding and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. Your primary responsibilities will include:

- designing and implementing improvements to our application infrastructure and continuous delivery pipeline;

- identifying gaps in our application monitoring infrastructure and propose and implement solutions;

- monitoring the performance and availability of our application, analyze and troubleshoot issues, and propose and implement improvements to prevent them from recurring; and

- participating in our on-call rotation and providing occasional after-hours support for production issues.

Skills & Requirements

The ideal candidate will have experience in most of these areas:

- Hands-on management of Linux systems (Ubuntu preferred), 3+ years

- Python, Ruby automation scripting / application development

- MongoDB / other NoSQL databases

- Management and deployment of cloud-based infrastructure services such as Heroku, AWS, RightScale, Papertrail, PagerDuty

- Internet infrastructure services such as DNS, SMTP

- Development infrastructure services such as Github, Jenkins

Here are some of the Operations projects we’ve worked on recently.

- a Python class which uses off-the-shelf tools to manipulate the Interactive Brokers API Gateway, so that we can transparently log our users into their stock trading accounts through our application;

- Geckoboard status boards with custom push widgets that give us real-time visibility into site activity, with smart alerts about anomalies, displayed on a heads-up display in our office that’s driven by a Raspberry Pi; and

- strong encryption of our users’ intellectual property in our database, implemented using mongoid-encrypted-fields in our Ruby layer and a compatible Python class we built ourselves and integrated with Schematics.

About Quantopian

We’re still a small company (our daily standups include every employee!), so you’ll play a major role in shaping our direction and enjoy a complete lack of bureaucracy.

Our small size and ambitious goals dictate our approach to talent acquisition and retention: we believe in hiring the best engineers and giving them hard problems to solve and the autonomy to solve them.

Our office is conveniently located in Downtown Crossing.

We offer flexible work hours and a deeply ingrained respect for a healthy work/life balance.

We offer generous benefits, including 401(k) matching, stock options, and health insurance with no employee premium.

FOSS is the foundation of our product, and we believe in giving back to the community. We’ve open-sourced Zipline, our backtesting engine (>1,000 stars and >180 forks!), as well as other code we’ve written, and we plan on opening up more of our code in the future.

We are seeking a front-end web developer, experienced in UI/UX design to advance our modern, responsive web applications that visualize the data that drives and is produced by our software platform.

Your Skills & Experience

- 3+ years of front-end web development experience (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, jQuery)

- Recent experience using modern front-end web frameworks, like AngularJS and Bootstrap

- Recent front-end development experience working with REST APIs to build data driven web views

- Solid UI/UX design experience

About NorthPage

We are a well-funded, early stage software company located in beautiful New England, close to the NYC area. Our tools and technology help many leading retail, financial services, consumer product, pharmaceutical and technology companies achieve digital marketing success.

To apply for this position please send an email to development@northpage.com that tells us who you are, more about your skills, samples of your work, your resume and contact information.