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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Cockroach Labs | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite | $100-150k Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, an open-source, distributed relational database written in Go. CockroachDB is scalable, survivable, and strongly consistent - hence the name. The company was founded in 2015 with a mission to Build it Right. Check out the product on Github at https://github.com/cockroachdb . Roles: -- Principal Software En…

Hi there,

Do you offer visa sponsorship for international applicants? I graduated from Duke with a CS degree, have worked at both Google and IBM (where I wrote primarily in Golang), and would really be interested in a software engineer distributed systems role at Cockroach labs.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Secret Escapes | London, Berlin| ONSITE| Full Time

Secret Escapes is a Index Ventures and Google Ventures backed startup and is the UK's biggest members-only website offering flash sales on luxury travel within the UK and around the world. We negotiate amazing deals and exclusive discounts for our members.

Travel is - and should be - exciting, and booking a holiday or hotel should be a great experience. That's what we set out to achieve, and it's the philosophy that drives us on. We want to inspire the world to escape, and we do so with strong imagery, stylish writing, sought-after destinations and unbeatable prices.

Apply if you are looking for a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment where self-starters have an opportunity to make a huge impact in one of the internet's fastest growing categories. We're a dedicated and passionate team who work hard to make things happen. You won't find us standing on ceremony or worrying about corporate red tape (we're fresh out of that stuff).

http://careers.secretescapes.com/team/technology-and-design/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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TraceView | node.js Senior Developer | Vancouver, British Columbia | Onsite, Fulltime

We’re looking for someone who’s immersed in the Node.js ecosystem--with bonus points for fluency in Ruby, Python, or Go, and really wow us if you have a systems generalist bent. You’ll be combining an eye for performance with digging into the intricacies of V8 and native extensions. If you have a passion for constantly learning new libraries and deciphering how they work, and enjoy working deep under the covers of the runtime, then we’d like you to join our talented and growing development team.

Qualifications: Deep understanding of Node.js internals, including code profiling techniques Detailed knowledge of the Node.js web ecosystem, understanding how the most popular libraries are used Solid understanding the javascript concurrency model Experience writing performant web applications in at least two server-side languages B.Sc. in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent education Minimum 4 years experience developing software in a commercial environment Excellent communication skills with a passion for sharing new ideas in a dynamic environment

If interested, please apply online at: http://solarwinds.jobs/vancouver-bc/nodejs-senior-developer/...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Librato | Lead Operations Engineer | San Francisco, CA. | Onsite, Fulltime

We are looking for fulltime Lead Operations Developer in our San Francisco office to help us build the scalable backend systems that power our monitoring and metrics service platforms.

Qualifications: 6 or more years industry experience Significant experience with cloudbased deployment and ephemeral hardware. Comfortable with a variety of *NIX platforms. Experience managing significant load in the wild, comfortable with scaleout tiers, resiliency. Strong scripting language experience (bash, Ruby, Python). Strong intrapersonal skills with the ability to work well with other team members, customers. Ability to work independently / deliver without supervision. Experience implementing DevOps practices. Experience managing large AWS infrastructures. Pluses are Metrics, Monitoring, Graphite, Logstash.

If interested, please apply to: http://solarwinds.jobs/san-francisco-ca/lead-operations-engi...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Librato | Senior Applications Engineer | Boston OR Cambridge, MA. | Onsite, Fulltime

Our customers are primarily developers and operations engineers that predominantly work in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. We are looking for a Customer Success Engineer located in our Cambridge or Boston, MA office. In this role you are a customer advocate. You are equally passionate about making a user successful as you are about the product. Your goal is to help a prospect choose the right service (it may not be ours), to educate a trial user on how to use the app correctly, to support a customer when things go wrong, and to ensure they are happy at all times.

Qualifications: 3 to 5 years experience in a developer or operations role Bachelor’s degree, MS a plus Exceptional communications skills (written and verbal) to effectively communicate with technical audiences at all skill levels Detail oriented, able to multi-task, troubleshoot, and demonstrated problem solving skills Strong understanding of software development life cycles, tools and best practices Strong understanding of the DevOps philosophy, Self motivated; able to organize and prioritize tasks independently and autonomously

If interested, please apply to: http://solarwinds.jobs/cambridge-ma/senior-application-engin...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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SolarWinds | Senior AWS Systems Engineer | Durham, NC. | Onsite, Fulltime

The System Engineer will play an important role in supporting the 24x7 availability and ongoing growth of our service offerings. A successful candidate will possess a high degree of technical skill, have a collaborate approach to problem solving, and have a financial understanding of the solutions we build. If this describes you and you are passionate about what you do and thrive in a challenging, high-growth, and dynamic environment.

Qualifications: Hands on working knowledge of global AWS deployments at scale Linux/Unix operating system support for mission-critical environment Windows platform expertise highly desirable Excellent TCP/IP networking experience and understanding (including LB, VPN, Firewalls, etc) Experience with puppet or similar tools for automation of systems deployment and management Scripting and systems-related programming skills Understanding of load balancing principles Experience with Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, and/or OpenStack is desirable but not required

If interested, please apply to: http://solarwinds.jobs/durham-nc-nc/senior-aws-systems-engin...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Flexport | San Francisco

Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are building products that are enabling anyone to participate in trade regardless of geographic, regulatory or logistical boundaries

By dramatically simplifying the process of importing goods from overseas, we aim to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs benefitting from the wonders of international trade.

To keep up with our 20% MoM growth in this multi-trillion-dollar industry and international expansion, we’re growing our team by ~3 engineers per month in our downtown SF HQ.

Check us out if you:

-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code every day -Take a product-first approach to building software -Care about the real world functionality of your programming -Have a desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity -Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals

Our stack: Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Want to learn more? Email moira@flexport.com or check out our site @ flexport.com/careers.Flexport | San Francisco

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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SolarWinds | Senior Developer | Boulder, CO. | Onsite, Fulltime

As a Senior Developer with SolarWinds MSP’s research and development group, you will be responsible for keeping the company on the cutting edge of cloud services related technologies, delivering a cloud integration platform as a feature of one of the largest managed service provider applications on the planet. Your creative engineering contributions will help us deliver solutions to the most challenging tasks that face IT services companies today.

Qualifications: Minimum of 5 years of details software development experience Exceptional C# Skills (demo your skill and creativity via our coding exercise) Experience with JSON, REST and HTTP protocols and statuses in a .NET MVC and/or WebAPI platform Experience in large service oriented applications TDD experience using NUnit, Moq or familiarity with other unit testing frameworks Strong understanding of OOD and SOLID Design concepts. Dependency Injection

If interested, please apply to: http://solarwinds.jobs/boulder-co/senior-developer/5227AFA99...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

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Thimble io | Marketing Director | Buffalo, NY | Onsite | Full time

What we do: Thimble teaches beginners the basics of building electronics by providing a monthly subscription kit and curated instructions. (Imagine building a new robot or quadcopter every month) We’ve built 16+ engaging kits, each with an intuitive web interface and video tutorials. Examples of projects include a WiFi-robot, LED cube, robotic arm, alarm clock, weather station, quadcopter, etc.

As you might imagine, we've reached a pivotal point in our startup company and we're currently looking to hire someone to run our marketing department. This is an essential hire for us as this person will run the entire department (data-driven marketing/advertising: digital and traditional ad buys, earned media, interactive content and ad copy creation). We've been doing this ourselves but need some help now.

Qualifications:

--3-5 years experience in digital marketing across all disciplines with an emphasis on media buying, campaign tracking/optimization, content marketing and influencer marketing --Being data-driven and kind of a data-geek; clear understanding of data, analytics, metrics and statistics --Maker/DIY "I can do this" attitude or familiar with Maker Movement --Being social and understanding users' behaviors. Having great customer relations skills --Graphic/web design skills (comfortable with HTML/CSS, vector and raster graphics) --A/B testing and data analytics experience --Editing and copywriting skills --Knowledge about both inbound and outbound marketing --Being curious and creative --Being relentless in pursuit of growth --Willing to learn

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please reach out to us at oscar at thimble dot io. We're three guys at the moment and looking for someone that wants to grow and be a part of something big and meaningful. Thanks in advance for reading!

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