Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Open Engineering Positions: Lead Data Platforms Engineer | New York, NY | http://grnh.se/rx3ovf1 Senior Scrum Master | New York, NY | http://grnh.se/kpg32i1 Senior Site Reliability Engineer | New York, NY | http://grnh.se/x2mu0b1

The Sailthru Customer Retention Cloud℠ helps modern marketers at leading retail and media companies build deeper, longer-lasting relationships with their customers. Sailthru personalizes individual customer experiences across digital communication channels—in email, on a brand’s website and in their mobile applications. Sailthru-powered 1:1 relationships with consumers help drive higher revenue, improve customer lifetime value and reduce churn.

As an engineer at Sailthru you'll be able to tackle complex challenges of scaling architecture, dive into leading edge technologies, and have strategic impact on architectural features in the product roadmap. For a bit more insight into the Engineering team at Sailthru, check out our blog, Code Carrier: https://medium.com/code-carrier

We are building a platform to help the pioneers of distributed energy generation replace fossil fuels with renewables. We need smart, motivated, and experienced developers and engineers willing to rethink the utility industry and scale our performance monitoring, high-volume billing procedures, and state-by-state regulatory compliance framework. We serve businesses, municipalities, schools, energy co-ops, hospitals, and solar/hydro/wind developers who want to bring on board customers to share in the benefits of renewable energy without the need for a large up-front investment. Our market opportunity is incredibly strong in the US and extends worldwide.

Currently our stack includes Rails, ElasticSearch, mySQL and Angular on AWS, but we are looking for developers eager to learn, with experience in any technology that will help us deliver amazing real-time data analysis and flexibility as we scale out to meet ever-growing demand. We are also looking for front-end developers and UI experts who can help us build out amazing data visualization and customer acquisition components, as well as mobile apps. We seek to create a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone can exercise their initiative and creativity.

Our office is in Back Bay, Boston, and we are looking for folks who can work on-site at least a few days a week. We offer competitive compensation and Health, Dental and 401K.

Contact: dev.jobs@ampion.net - please put "[HN]" in the subject

Do you like to use the word 'billions' a lot? Do you work in terabyte units? Are you interested in using machine learning to solve problems on some of the world's largest data sets? Amazon RDS is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Software Engineer in ML to help tackle some of the most complex, multi-dimensional performance optimization problems in the database industry.

We're looking for Senior software engineers with a background in industrialized ML, with strong systems design experience to lead a newly formed project that will make extensive use of probabilistic and statistical approaches to deliver a first-for-cloud capability for RDS customers. Leveraging a number of AWS services including Kinesis and EMR/Spark, our mandate is to provide actionable insights into underlying database performance and push the boundaries of product and technology innovation in this area. As the only big-data, analytics and ML focused team in RDS, our greenfield project is worked on by a tight knit DevOps team, owned, and operated entirely from the new Amazon office here in Vancouver, Canada. If you’re a snowbird in the winter, love long summers and beaches, and want to work on a very engaging, highly impactful product with extremely high customer demand, endless learning and collaboration in a world-class group then get in touch!

- Lead the design, build and operations of our ML application stacks – Deliver industry disruptive advancements driven from a customer focused technical product development approach in your work – Deliver aspects of critical path code - Ability to influence adoption of capabilities built by the team to AWS teams outside of RDS - Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development and operational efficiencies – Have a scope of influence in development practices, methods and approaches across the team and RDS organization

Requirements: - Post-graduate level Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics or a related quantitative field with up to 5 years of related work experience - 10+ years professional experience in software development - Excellent written and spoken communication - Deep and broad technical experience - Experienced technical leader - Ability to independently define and execute against a technical vision and roadmap – Recruitment, coaching and mentoring of other engineers – Strong will to adhere to best practices in OO development and a need to leave well–structured code in your tracks – Strong analytical and problem–solving skills – Experience developing for multiple platforms a plus

To apply: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/425454

Please feel free to directly contact me (I'm an engineer on the team) [MyHNUsername][AT]amazon.com, or my manager pimmel[AT]amazon.com for any questions that you might have.

We're reinventing trucking logistics by creating an on-demand marketplace for shippers and drivers. We're well funded (we raised $22M for our Series B) and the engineering team has been going through some really exciting growth!

Tech Stack: Aurelia.js, Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, AWS

We're looking for mid-senior (3+ yrs of exp.) engineers to build out RESTful services, improve parallelization with asynchronous services, create data visualization, and help transition us fully to a SaaS platform.

Interview process: Recruiter Screen (30m) > Tech Screen (1-1.5hrs) > On-site Interview (3hrs)

If interested, you can reach out to me directly at michelle@transfix.io