Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

Aptitive is a Chicago-based IT consulting firm (~30 FTEs) that solves complex business issues through best-in-class data solutions. Our core offering is building data & analytics platforms for mid-size to large enterprise customers in Chicagoland.

As a technology agnostic firm, we have the ability to recommend the best tech stacks and tools for our clients based on the use case and long-term impact. We build end-to-end solutions, from data strategy projects to data warehouses to analytics and ML capabilities.

Our differentiatior is in giving our team a large consulting firm's opportunities with much more rapid career growth experiences. You will not be a behind-the-scenes analyst for years under a partner, instead you will be client facing and have opportunities in two years that you would have in five at a Big 4. The same goes for mid-level hires.

Please email careers@aptitive.com, or find us on aptitive.com/careers. We offer some great perks, including $3k yearly training stipends and 100% employer paid premiums for insurance (you pay $0 in premiums).

I'm also happy to answer any questions and provide introductions to our team for feedback on the quality of life / day in the life at Aptitive.

At Cumulus Digital Systems, our job is to build the Internet of Tools. We are making industrial facilities safer, cleaner, and more productive by connecting workers, tools, and data.

We are looking for software engineers that are passionate about frequently shipping intuitive, quality products. You should have a startup mentality, meaning the ability to rapidly pick up new required skills, and be proactive when it comes to project execution. You also need a keen eye for design and thoughtful user experiences. We use ReactJS, React Native, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, ASP.NET, UWP, Entity Framework and ASP.NET.

Reach out to us at careers@cumulusds.com

AVOXI has been serving Contact Centers for over 15 years. This position is available in our casual office environments in either Atlanta, GA or Charleston, SC. In addition to generous compensation, medical/dental/vision insurance, quarterly bonuses, and 401K with match, we enjoy having team lunches together and semi-annually participating in week-long hackathons.

Please email jake.johnson@avoxi.com if interested

We're hiring a Senior SRE to work on our Transit team. The Transit team is responsible for the infrastructure relating to the transit of data - this includes caching, messaging, queueing, and application routing (nginx). We're slowly transitioning to be more of a "tier one" team, which means that we'll be responsible for those systems and more - service discovery, site performance, and more.

We're looking for someone to help us maintain these systems and, possibly more importantly, determine the right path for an AWS migration. One of my favorite parts of this job is that we get to work incredibly closely with engineering teams to help them choose the right tools for the job, and then help them implement their use cases around those tools. Our ideal applicant doesn't necessarily have experience with any of these tools, but they do have general ops and/or application engineering experience and are willing and excited to learn the other side. Ideally you're also excited to mentor - a big component of this job is working with engineering teams and helping them build with the infrastructure in mind.

I find the best way to explain our team is to share some of the problems we've been working on:

# Redis Performance For legacy reasons, we're running multiple instances of redis on a single VM. They've recently started clobbering each other in competition for disk i/o. We've been working on various projects to migrate to new hardware, split the multiple instances to different VMs, and reduce or remove the usage of redis entirely.

# Site Routing As we move more services to AWS, we've had some complications with how we route web requests. How can we ensure the same routing expectations are met in AWS as they are in our on-prem datacenter without massively increasing our operational burden, and having multiple different systems performing the same task in different datacenters?

# Network Traffic Reduction Or, as we've taken to calling it, "the service call diet". This is primarily manifesting as a change in how we make use of our caching systems (other than redis). Some of our services make hundreds of calls to memcache for a single request. This means that any sort of network latency can be magnified 100x over. We've been working with engineering teams to provide caching best practices and to build out a new internal caching library to simplify and abstract our caching infrastructure.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please email me at tylerl@surveymonkey.com. Come help us build this team!