Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

We're building a real-time machine learning platform for fast-moving ML use-cases such as fraud detection, ad bidding, dynamic pricing, recommender systems. We offer continual learning to keep your ML models up to date with the freshest data, online predictions for ultra-low latency and live experimentation of new features and models.

Looking for Founding Engineers with experience in Streaming Systems/MLOps/DevOps

Send an email with your resume or questions: siddharth@turboml.com

I currently run YC’s infrastructure and I need some help! Over the last 7 years I’ve been at YC, our software team has grown considerably both in engineers and in products. We need to invest more in our infrastructure so we can keep shipping our products quickly.

The main thing you’ll need in this job is curiosity; I work at every layer of a very large stack. One day you might dig into AWS apis, another it’s a 3rd party Ruby gem or our git history. Or maybe you get paged that all the SSDs for Hacker News (primary and standby!) died on the same day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511.

The first few months will be heavier on infrastructure work but in the future the job will hopefully be equal parts developer experience, infrastructure work, and product engineering that impacts all of our products (think SSO, sending email, security, etc).

The main products we support are all Ruby on Rails apps running in AWS (mostly in ECS); ideally you’ve already worked on apps like that. You have at least 5 years of experience. Part of that was shipping code to customers but you’ve also got cloud experience (we try to mostly use Terraform). You’re probably the person people turn to when there’s a fire to put out.

YC has excellent compensation and benefits (see more in the formal job description: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/0Ewh...). The team and the work life balance are great. About half of us are former founders and many of us are parents. And if you’re curious about startups (and possibly starting one someday), this job gives you amazing access to interact with YC’s programs, partners, and founders.

If you’re interested, I’d love to chat! I’m mark@ycombinator.com.

We use this process to make some of the harder more nebulous decisions that require a bit of research and investigation from the entire team. While it does suffer a little from "decision by committee" we haven't ran into it as a problem in practice.

It's a great way to give people a chance to try and introduce new technology, processes, or paradigms. If they're committed they'll get the entire team excited and involved. If the team isn't interested it doesn't make it to the end of the process - and that's ok!