Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

Locations: Seattle WA, North Virginia, Dublin Ireland (EU), Sydney Australia

We're looking for security-minded engineers at various skill levels. Our positions range from support engineers (who we expect to have a good technical depth, but not necessarily a security focus) to principal engineer (capable of running a security campaign across 100s of thousands of servers and 10s of thousands of employees.

[edit: linebreaks] Key focus areas include:

- Recognize, adopt, utilize and teach best practices in security engineering: secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response.

- Collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer. When none of the proposals is the obvious winner, you are still decisive, able to disagree and commit to the team’s decision

- Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

- Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

- Partner with teams throughout the Company to develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk

- Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context

- Maintain an understanding of the Internet threat environment and how it affects the company

- Find and fix flaws in existing company systems and sites

- Leverage current state of network and application security tools and how they can benefit the company

- Maintain knowledge and skills required to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape

- Participate in efforts that create and improve the company’s security policies

- Work under extended, extreme pressure, handle situations calmly and lead incident response teams effectively

- Proactively support knowledge sharing within the team and across the company

- Help recruit the very best people for Amazon through active participation in the overall recruiting process

- Large-scale security engineering Cloud security experience is obviously a plus, but not a firm requirement. Listings are available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?jobSearchKeywords... Or PM me and I can provide a professional reference.

Our vision is digital intelligence for retail. We help retail to capitalize every visit via contextual engagement. Our target market is Asia. We are funded and are currently building out our founding team. It'd be fun working in a huge space with the latest tech in the best Asia city. More info: http://looppulse.com/joinus.html

If interested, please email me at t@looppulse.com.

We're building the world's largest distribution service for magazine articles. Our goal is to bring the thousands of print magazines into a modern era of digital distribution by bringing personalization tools to readers. Read about anything, anytime, anywhere from top-tier magazines.

Our backend engineer will join a small engineering team and have latitude to build out the best syndication engine for millions of new magazine articles. We're well funding and growing our reach. Please reach out to info@themagazinechannel.com

Full time in San Francisco (3rd St. and Market)

We're a team of people who are passionate about building excellent developer tools for people who use API's. We're all very passionate about building great tools that we would (and do!) use ourselves on a daily basis to get our jobs done.

Read more about our available positions and what we're up to: https://www.runscope.com/work_at_runscope

Hey there! Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Expensify and we do "expense reports that don't suck!" (Google "expensify" to read more.) We're getting crushed under an ever-growing pile of super awesome work, and I need one bright soul to help us dig our way out. I can guarantee you fun, an amazing opportunity to learn, and the siren's call of distant riches. But only if you are all of the following:

- An incredibly hard worker, even when it's not so fun. There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks. After all — we do the sucky work so our customers won't need to. I need you to buck up and grind through server logs, user emails, source code, and bug reports, without complaint or supervision, and come back asking for more.

- A cool person to be with. Not a crazy party animal, just someone we can trust, rely upon, hang out with, bounce ideas off of, and generally interact with in a positive way, both personally and professionally. In fact, this is one of the most stringent requirements we have: would you be fun to hang out with day and night on some remote, exotic beach? This isn't a rhetorical question, either: every year we take the company overseas for a month and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun. We've done Thailand, Mexico, India, Turkey, Croatia and the Philippines. We just went to Portugal...where do you want to go next?

- Super talented, in a general way. We're going to throw a ton of work at you of every possible sort, and you need that magic skill of being able to figure it out even if you have no idea where to start. On any given day you might bounce between super low-level coding, super high-level technical support, marketing-driven data-mining, updating our user documentation, inventing/designing/building some new feature, etc. This is not a code monkey job — you're going to be a full participant in the process, and you need to bring your own unique blend of skills to the table.

- Specifically talented in a programming way. You can instantly visualize solutions to problems big and small. Your code is always clean, well commented, has good nomenclature and indentation. You can switch on a dime between C++, PHP, Bash, Cron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Dwoo, SQL — not because you know them all, but because you're the sort of person who can just pick it up and figure it out. If you're this sort of person, you'll know what I mean. If not, then this position isn't for you.

And there are a bunch more, but odds are if you got this far, nothing I can do would stop you from applying. That's a problem because while I know you are awesome, it's actually really hard and time consuming to find you in the midst of the literally hundreds of other applications I get from everyone else. So this is where I'm going to ask my first favor: can you make it really easy and obvious how great you are, so I don't accidentally overlook you?

There are probably many ways to do that. But the easiest way to do that is to check out we.are.expensify.com and send in an application(which you can find at http://we.are.expensify.com/apply).

We are excited to hear from you!