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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#111

We're a distributed database startup in Seattle, WA. We make a database that can handle queries and fulltext searches on "Big Data". It's an elegant architecture, and a lot of fun to work on. We're about to be in a position to hire a few folks: 1. Distributed systems hackers 2. Infrastructure automation engineers (think Chef, Google SREs) 3. Customer Development fans (think Steve Blank's book). Check out our very spa…

Oh -- we're also in San Francisco.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#112
post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We work in a lot of different application domains; the common denominator is "low level". So: * If you're interested in web security, you'd want to be conversant in protocol-level HTTP; a good acid test might be "could quickly implement chunked encoding". * If you're interested in OS security, you'd want to be conversant in virtual memory management and system call interfaces; a good acid test might be "could impleme…

This does sound interesting, unfortunately I fall just short of being able to implement chunked encoding, so maybe in the future! EDIT: I am no longer unable to implement chunked encoding. That wasn't complicated at all. I have no idea why I'm telling you all.

You may find this is the case with a lot of topics commonly considered 'black magic' - the real determinant IMO is whether you enjoy work that requires a high attention to detail! :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does sound interesting, unfortunately I fall just short of being able to implement chunked encoding, so maybe in the future! EDIT: I am no longer unable to implement chunked encoding. That wasn't complicated at all. I have no idea why I'm telling you all.

You may find this is the case with a lot of topics commonly considered 'black magic' - the real determinant IMO is whether you enjoy work that requires a high attention to detail! :)

That's true, I just thought the protocol would be more esoteric and with more corner cases than that :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#115
litl is hiring: http://litl.com

We're a Boston-based startup (but with many remote employees) building simple, maintenance-free and internet-focused computers. Our first product is called the webbook and we're currently working on our second device, a TV-centric computer.

Our software team has built a new, Linux-based user interface.

Our main offices are in Boston and London, but we have many people around the world who work out of their homes. The teams are loosely organized around tasks in each release, and as there isn't a lot of over-the-shoulder management -- in fact, the software team management is remote -- people are expected to be self-motivating. Most meetings happen over video conference, and the others are by phone. A couple of times a year we may have people come to Boston.

We're looking for:

* Build/release/tools engineers. These people will develop and shape our software release processes. There are actually two positions available. One for our operating system and one for our "Channels" (our analog to apps). These positions would also entail building tools to make development life easier.

* QA engineers. In particular we're looking for people with some programming experience to improve our testing tools and automation.

* Software developers. We have a few areas in which we're looking for specialization, but the main thing we care about is that you're really good. Some things we're interested in:

  - OpenGL
  - X
  - Linux kernel
  - Linux desktop technologies (GObject, GTK, etc.)
  - Google Chromium codebase
  - User-space audio/video stacks
  - Embedded and microcontroller developers
  - JavaScript runtimes
  - Software rasterization

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#117
post #47

Meetup.com in New York City. No remote. We're looking for an API engineer, a Senior Sys Admin, a QA person and product people on both the frontend and backend. http://www.meetup.com/jobs We just celebrated another profitable quarter, had an awesome halloween costume party and have lots of perks that make working at Meetup incredible! Have a look at "Working at Meetup vs. Working at Google" for a more humorous look: h…

I'm starting at Meetup in a couple of weeks! To anyone considering sending in their resume, I highly recommend it. Everyone I met during my interviews seemed like very intelligent people. :)

Are you the guy we hired from a previous HN post? If so, welcome! If not, welcome anyway!

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#118
Portland, OR

AboutUs is hiring.

http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

We're a good team looking for at least one new member. We're a Rails shop but you'll have to bring a lot more than Rails chops to make the cut.

AboutUs is a startup, but it's a very stable startup. The company has been around for four years and is venture backed. Many of us have families and all of us have lives outside of work.

We write a lot of code. We pair. We test. We deploy to a live site many times each day. We also wrestle daily against a tough legacy codebase and awkward (but improving!) infrastructure. Greenfield hackers won't dig it; refactoring hackers will.

The job is onsite (no telecommute) in Portland, Oregon. Many of us bike to work. There is weekly yoga. Daily ping pong. I think we have a vegan around here somewhere. And sometimes beer mysteriously appears in the fridge.

http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#120
post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We work in a lot of different application domains; the common denominator is "low level". So: * If you're interested in web security, you'd want to be conversant in protocol-level HTTP; a good acid test might be "could quickly implement chunked encoding". * If you're interested in OS security, you'd want to be conversant in virtual memory management and system call interfaces; a good acid test might be "could impleme…

This does sound interesting, unfortunately I fall just short of being able to implement chunked encoding, so maybe in the future! EDIT: I am no longer unable to implement chunked encoding. That wasn't complicated at all. I have no idea why I'm telling you all.

Did you enjoy figuring that out and making it work? That's pretty much the whole job, except, replace "chunked encoding" with "every warped undocumented proprietary protocol anyone has ever built", and replace the payoff of "now I know how chunked coding works" to "now I can make withdrawals from other people's bank accounts".
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