Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Are you a software engineer interested in astronomy? Want to work on technology directly related to the expanding wavefront of astronomical observation? Las Cumbres Observatory’s (LCO) global network of robotic telescopes is enabling astronomers to observe things that go bump in the night 24/7. Our stack spans from low level hardware control to web based interfaces for requesting observations. Our users study exoplanets, supernovae, near-earth asteroids and more.

LCO, based in sunny Santa Barbara, California, is deploying the world's largest network of geographically distributed optical telescopes for general scientific and educational use. We’re motivated by the desire to expand human knowledge, and to instill a passion for science in young people. Our organization has a fun-loving, dedicated staff, working in a casual but focused environment. Here you will find people passionate about what they do, and our overall mission.

As part of the model and data store team, you will help us tackle some of the core challenges of Quid. You will help implement and scale services that build our data models and algorithms enabling our clients to find insights in data. You will work on designing and implementing our persistence layer and caching layer which enables quick iteration on our models and provides an interactive experience for our users.

## The Opportunity

* Design and implement scalable service oriented software

* Design, implement and enhance our Graph, Machine Learning, and NLP algorithms

* Leverage technologies such as NumPy/SciPy, Spark, and NoSQL data stores

* Work closely with data science, product, UX, and the web teams to quickly prototype and iterate on new models and ideas

* Own the architecture design, and implementation of our models stack from prototype through development and into a reliable scalable production system

* Evangelize and facilitate best practices, code reviews, architecture and design reviews, tested code, and a great engineering culture

## Ideal Candidate

* At least 3 years of professional experience building large scale software

* Expert level knowledge in Python, we also use Java, Scala, C++ as needed (any combination of the above is ok)

* Solid computer science foundation; good understanding of data-structures, algorithms, memory and runtime complexity and distributed systems

* Good understanding of data stores

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Bonus points for familiarity with Numpy/Scipy

* Bonus points for familiarity with Graph databases or NoSQL stores

Cloudera is working on several challenging development projects to power Hive - the widely used SQL query engine at Hadoop scale - to the next level. We’re successful in the Cloud and are also opening up new use cases on Hadoop through Hive/Kudu. Hive is an Apache project, which means our developers get full and continuous visibility.

Cloudera is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with distributed computing experience to help bring Apache Hive to the level of functionality, performance, and robustness required to support high-demand workloads. Candidates must have a proven record of significant contributions to several successful releases of software products of high technical complexity and have demonstrated technical leadership skills.

Does this sound like you? Then let's chat!

More info and apply here http://app.jobvite.com/m?344Zliwf

https://tokbox.com/

TokBox makes it easy for developers to embed live video into their applications and websites. We build a WebRTC-powered platform and SDKs, and have great clients from individual developers to massive players in tech, entertainment, education, and many other industries (customers include the Minerva Project, Chegg, esurance, Major League Baseball, Double Robotics, and Fox Sports). We've been doing real-time communications for over 8 years - first with Flash, and now WebRTC. We were acquired by Telefonica 4 or so years ago. It hasn't changed the culture much, and has helped us reach more customers around the world.

The product is industry leading, but the atmosphere and people make this place where I work. It's an awesome group of 100 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Minimal politics. Good salary and benefits, relaxed, enjoyable environment!

We're looking for engineers and business development folks. If you know infrastructure, C++/media processing, or how to help individuals solve their WebRTC problems, click below. Or, if you you're in bd and want to work in London with technology companies, learn more below.

https://tokbox.com/careers

or

http://app.jobvite.com/m?3ZMiQhwF

Come join us!