Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Union Metrics | Operations Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time

We’re looking for an Operations Engineer to support, maintain and scale our fleet of servers powering unionmetrics.com and our analytics data pipeline. Millions of social events continuously flow and propagate through our systems every day, and our Operations Engineer will be responsible for keeping the lights on and blinking at the right frequency.

DUTIES

  * Maintain and scale existing services to maximize uptime and performance
  * Triage and resolve system alerts; participate in on-call rotation
  * Develop runbooks and other support materials as part of a continuous improvement process
  * Work with a talented team at a great company with all these benefits and perks

REQUIREMENTS

  * Strong mastery of and absolute comfort in Linux, including knowing when to
    trust a second-nature reflex of reaching for grep/sed/awk, and when to back away slowly
  * Strong background in configuration management, preferably Chef
  * Experience with monitoring and alerting systems such as Nagios, Munin/Monit
  * Experience with at least a handful of open source datastore technologies such as
    Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Solr
  * Comfortable with at least one scripting language, e.g. Ruby, Python, Golang
  * Experience supporting a web stack, e.g. LAMP; Rails experience preferred
  * At least two years operations engineering experience
  * Familiarity with the construction and maintenance of highly available systems
    preferred, e.g. HTTP load balancing or distributed databases such as Cassandra,
  * Degree in MIS, Computer Science, or other technical field preferred

EXTRA CREDIT

  * Competency with Ruby, SQL
  * Experience with: Jenkins, Spark, Hadoop, Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes
  * Know some good GIFs
  * Experience in small start-up environments

If you think this job is right for you email jobs@unionmetrics.com with the subject line Operations Engineer. Include your resume and a link to your GitHub account. If you don’t have a GitHub account, send us some code you’re proud of.

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My company is looking to hire a senior Javascript developer to take change of our Backbone.js frontend.

Here are a few of the things I believe we should try to accomplish (I'm looking for someone to have this conversation with):

* Our Backbone codebase is currently located deep within a Rails app, and served with the Rails asset pipeline. I think we should separate the two codebases. The Backbone Javascript codebase could then use be set up with modern tooling such as npm, webpack, etc.

* Some folks have thought we should scrap the Backbone codebase entirely and rebuild it using a newer framework like React or Angular. But, I believe that it's too large for that, and I'd prefer a moderate approach where, we upgrade to the latest Backbone version, perhaps using Marionette as well, while also refactoring / cleaning the codebase. We could also refactor it to use a v2 of the Rails API.

You should be a modern Javascript expert who has worked on many (minimum 2-5) Backbone.js projects. You should be comfortable and passionate enough about Backbone.js to be willing and interested to refactor a large, existing app to be more performant, easier to work with, and so on.

So -- and thank you for reading this far -- basically we have a great opportunity -- lots of well paid, very comfortable, steady, challenging and interesting work, for the right person.

We offer very competitive pay, a very diverse, friendly, modern (unlimited snacks and drinks! not too many meetings!) and relaxed work environment, as well as valuable stock options. Office is in SF, SOMA and you must be able to come into the office several times per week.

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Ideally having worked remotely, held an intership before, or something equivalent. But I remember applying for my early dev jobs when every posting wanted 3 years experience. We don't exclude anyone by default, no hard requirements, a PR is is the best way to get our attention https://github.com/onaio.

Hi,

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Hi,

I have 5+ years of Big Data and Data Science Experience and I'm a DataBricks Certified Apache Spark Developer, MapR Certified Hadoop Developer, Cloudera Certified Hadoop and Spark Developer, Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrate, DataStax Certified Apache Cassandra Developer and I have very good experience in working with USA clients. My profile here. https://in.linkedin.com/in/sandishkumar

https://streamsets.com/blog/visualizing-netflow-data-streams...

https://www.phdata.io/visualizing-netflow-data-with-apache-k...

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Thanks, Regards, SandishKumar HN