Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

We Deliver Decision Support Innovation to the Edge – our work is focused on providing those on the leading edge of their domain with data to support their efforts; from counter human trafficking to information campaigns, from community engagement to crowd sourcing, from remote monitoring to data collection. IST operates in a true R&D environment and we apply our trade to making a positive impact in the world. Founded in 2008, we’re growing rapidly and are looking for high caliber talent that believes in our mission and is passionate about using technology to solve hard problems.

TechOps-

Group Mission – Data Preservation, Reliability, Security

We don’t expect a candidate to have experience with everything we use, but having a solid technical ability is needed to succeed. Here is a general list of the tech we play with every day:

Experience with high availability, high performance and open source technologies; Hadoop (significant distributed computing exposure is desired); Cloud Computing (AWS); Linux & Networking; Server Automation (Ansible); Broad to Deep knowledge of some, if not all: PHP, Python, Java, Shellscripts; Exposure to ElasticSearch would also be a big plus

We are looking to fill two positions, one senior and one junior. Distributed computing is a must for the senior position. Either of the two must be East Coast hours. Contact - info@istresearch.com

We are a global hedge fund with 1800+ employees and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. We pursue a global multi-strategy approach to investing, seeking to achieve above-average risk-adjusted returns.

We are looking for 2 positions (1 senior engineering, 1 junior operations) in the Information Security team to work on building our program. We are a small but focused team and do everything from packet analysis, to writing code, to prepping decks for management, usually in the same day! If you can thrive in chaos and have the ability to get stuff done, please contact me at: infosec@mlp.com

Runtime Application Security is the best place to be in the security space. We have proven products and doing well in the market. We are now getting into expansion mode to take on much larger segment of the market. We are well funded and have very good revenues to drive our expansion.

We are looking to hire several junior and senior Java and C# developers to take our security products to the next stage. If you like diving deep into frameworks and come up with creative solutions to problems, you'll enjoy working at Prevoty.

Check out our career site for more information: https://info.prevoty.com/careers

At SSG we have brought together some of the world’s brightest traders, researchers, and technologists to collaborate and solve some of the most intellectually stimulating and technically challenging problems faced in any industry. Our cross discipline team holds degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics. We share ideas and collaborate to maximize our differing experiences and backgrounds. Our team finds inspiration everywhere, including academia and parallel industries, sparking our next great ideas.

As a core developer you will focus on building scalable solutions for handling a variety of data, where optimization and speed are at the heart of our systems. We write highly performant systems using a mixture of tried and true methods (C/C++), and we constantly evaluate newer technologies and the open source communities that support them.

Are you driven by your desire to build and constantly improve high performance systems? Are you interested in the technological challenges of building systems that are able to swiftly gather information from data sources all across the globe and writing the software that enables researchers and traders? Are you grounded by your pragmatism? Do you hold yourself accountable, while working well with others?

If so, we want to speak with you.

Necessary Skills •Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. •Experience writing performance optimized code using object oriented programming in C++ •Strong background in data structures and algorithms. •Experience writing low level software and expertise in threading •Extensive experience in distributed systems and parallel processing •Excellent communication