Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

SwiftStack helps companies address the rapid growth of valuable but unstructured data. We build an object storage system capable of safely storing many petabytes of data and effectively managing the ecosystem of machines, devices, and drives that it takes to do so. We do all of this on commodity hardware so that companies can build out storage behind their firewall in a way that is both cost-effective and optimized for them personally.

Some relevant info:

* Our stack is primarily Python with some Go, but we know you can learn those things if you don’t know them already.

* Our headquarters is in San Francisco, and we have a small office in San Jose as well.

* We have a small team that punches way above its weight class.

* We love open source. Our storage engine is based on OpenStack Swift, and we’re big contributors to it as well as other open source projects.

We’re looking for talented engineers of all stripes. If you have a strong background in storage management, distributed systems, or devops, then we’re particularly interested, but many of our number began as very gifted web developers with a hunger to learn something new.

Our interview process: (1) intro with founder + entertaining technical phone screen, (2) onsite, technically focused interview that's mostly small work-sample programming that you perform on your own computer, + meeting the team (3) there is no number 3.

To apply: https://www.swiftstack.com/jobs/

Thank you!

Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Bing, Apple, Facebook and Groupon.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience . If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

You can email me personally at alexr@factual.com, or view our job postings here: https://www.factual.com/jobs#openings

Aetion provides a leading-edge analytics platform for rapid-cycle analytics of real-world healthcare data that our customers use to generate real-time evidence on the effectiveness, safety, and value of healthcare interventions. With this essential evidence in hand, our customers can make the smart, value-driven decisions needed to transform healthcare.

Aetion practices DevOps - where both systems and software engineers are involved in the day to day management and support of Aetion's platform. The primary difference in the roles is one of focus - the systems team builds the infrastructure and tooling to support the platform, and the software team builds the Aetion application platform.

Our distributed platform is hosted both in AWS and also on customer premises. This poses some challenges and part of the role is helping with application design to ensure suitability for all environments.

We use Chef for automation to ensure that a small team of operational staff can easily handle our large and growing estate and use Docker for containerization to ensure consistency across deployment environments.

With health data in our platform, security is paramount. Whilst our platform uses de-identified data, we still target technical compliance with HIPAA regulations, as a basis for our security polices

More detail here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/aetion/jobs/189540?t=6ngjm3#.V0...

Zenysis helps governments and international organizations analyze their data for insights that save lives.

Developing countries are using Zenysis right now to deliver emergency aid to millions of people in need, stop infectious disease outbreaks, deliver lifesaving vaccines to millions of children, and more.

As one of the first engineers, you'll be responsible for development of our data integration and analysis platform, working closely with the founders to grow the company. You will also travel around the world to connect with vastly underserved populations, understand their problems, and build software that will impact entire countries.

Email ian@zenysis.com if you're interested. Some more info here: http://www.zenysis.com/jobs.html

Rapidly growing Canadian IoT company with new products in the works. Plenty of interesting problems to work on, from crypto, performance tuning, to running infrastructure at scale. Currently building an SRE team, other openings in hardware engineering and front-end development available.

For the SRE role we’re looking for developers and automation experts with strong knowledge of Linux internals, TCP/IP protocol operation and theory, and security. Internally the SRE team uses a lot of Python and Golang. Familiarity with C and Java is a plus.

Friendly culture, generous work from home/remote policy. Opportunity to work alongside industry experts and thought leaders in Toronto. Email me directly, jari ecobee.com, or browse our other postings here, https://www.ecobee.com/careers/.