Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

NoRedInk | Front-end, Backend, Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Pacific Time (PST) to Central European Time (CET)

We’re an ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become strong writers! Our team may be small, but NoRedInk is used by 1 in 3 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 2 billion questions on our platform.

We’re a group of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other. We discuss past mistakes openly so we can adapt our processes to the challenges that come with progress. Puns flow freely across our San Francisco office as well as on Slack, and we have remote engineers spanning six different time zones.

Our engineering team [1] prides itself on code quality and innovation. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our new front-end code, and have been migrating legacy React code to Elm as well. We started with Ruby on Rails on our backend, and have lately been working to introduce Elixir to our stack. You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog! [2]

In addition to spending work hours open-sourcing useful libraries we develop [3], we also invest financially in open source. We hired the creator of Elm, Evan Czaplicki, to develop Elm full time. [4] Evan discusses his plans for the language with the team every week, periodically pairs with other engineers on Elm, and cracks up members of the sales team with his lunchtime jokes.

We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure and automate all of our deployments using OpsWorks and Chef. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. Our process for new features begins with our product team and in-house visual designer, continues with a GitHub pull request from a feature branch into master, and ends with our in-house QA specialist trying to break it before it reaches production.

We’re hiring both engineers who have been around the block many times, as well as those who started their careers just a couple years ago. We’re looking for engineers who want to work on a mission that makes a difference and who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness, over convincing the group they’re right.

You can learn more about what to expect through blog posts about our interview process [5] and on-boarding experience [6].

If you’re interested, please apply through our jobs page! https://www.noredink.com/jobs

[1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team

[2] http://tech.noredink.com/

[3] https://github.com/NoRedInk/

[4] http://tech.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan

[5] http://tech.noredink.com/post/145260396603/our-engineering-h...

[6] http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...

Amazon Web Services | Senior SDE / SysDE | Seattle (ONSITE) | VISA, aws.amazon.com, AS16509

The Internet is the world’s most complex network, with over 57,402 unique networks connected together, it contains hundreds of millions of edges and nodes. It is THE most pervasive, important, and complicated communications network in the world -- somewhere out there things are about to go south.

One of the core backbone routers of a major Tier-1 Internet provider is having a bad day. It started with a transient, yet persistent, problem which was only detectable by a slight increase in dropped packets that went mostly unnoticed. An hour later the router suffered a catastrophic failure dumping 500Gbps of traffic onto an already congested alternate path causing ripples across the Internet, disrupting websites and other Internet based services on the U.S Eastern seaboard.

Social media is ablaze as frustrated people rant about their favorite website, video, or gaming service being down, or so slow that it’s unusable. While the Internet burns, our customers are humming away oblivious to the disaster.

If you have an insatiable curiosity, love the process of discovery, and you’re reading this with a grin... we should talk.

Come join us and...

* Do what nobody else in the world is doing... literally.

* Gain knowledge and expertise on the inner workings of the Internet, working with top-tier Network Engineers

* Define and Develop Amazon’s Internet Monitoring architecture

* Play in the piles of data to discover patterns that push our understanding and knowledge of Internet performance and availability anomalies

* Build massive real-time systems which inform and drive complex changes across the Internet

* Gain practical experience building software using Amazon Web Services

We have positions for entry-level, and mid level SDE/SysDE as well.

Want more info? Email me: nahtnow at amazon dot com.

Codecademy | Senior Software Engineer: System and Infrastructure | New York City | Full Time | ONSITE

Codecademy teaches millions of people across the world how to code on our online platform. Our mission is to equip our users with technical skills they need to find success in a rapidly evolving digital world. Codecademy was founded in 2011 and received Series C funding in 2016.

As a senior systems software engineer, you will work on unique problems such as allocation and securing of our interactive learning environment resources to users on the fly as well as more familiar problems such as scaling high traffic services, improving the server provisioning process, and refining service deployment infrastructure. As the responsibilities grow, you will help hire infrastructure/systems engineers to complement your fields of expertise.

More info: https://www.codecademy.com/about/jobs/senior-software-engine...

If interested, email me at ryan@codecademy.com

ZipRecruiter - https://ziprecruiter.com - Santa Monica (LA area) - REMOTE OK for some positions

Our goal is to create the best online services for filling and finding jobs. We bootstrapped for the first four years, growing to 500+ employees. In 2014, we raised $63M led by Institutional Venture Partners.

We have a number of open positions:

  - Software Engineer (primarily Python) (Santa Monica)
  - Software Engineer (primarily Perl) (Santa Monica or remote)
  - DevOps/Linux Systems Administrator (Santa Monica)

We're growing rapidly and have a large customer base (primarily small and medium sized businesses). We have interesting problems to solve in the areas of search, yield management, analytics, scalability and new product development. If you'd like to learn more, please visit https://www.ziprecruiter.com/hiring/technology or email us at techjobs@ziprecruiter.com

Vertical Sysadmin, Inc. | Sales | Los Angeles, USA | REMOTE, PART-TIME

Seeking commission-only sales agent for high-quality Ops and DevOps training.

We deliver on-site training world-wide. Our model is: small class sizes (12 max), expert instructors, excellent materials, tons of lab exercises. Customers tell us it's the best training they've ever had. We are partnered with CFEngine, GitLab, Docker, and O'Reilly Media.

Looking for an independent sales agent.

Offering 15% commission.

We charge $3000 per day plus a $2000 admin feeo

Our last training sale was $5000 for one day of training on GitLab CI to a car manufacturer.

Course catalog: - Linux shell basics - Time Management for System Administrators - Editing Files with vim - Git Foundations: From Novice to Guru - Continuous Integration with GitLab CI - Engineering for Reliability, Maintainability, and Security with C and C++ - Configuration Management with CFEngine - Introduction to Ansible

www.verticalsysadmin.com