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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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Post by igravious »

philikon wrote: post #90
shaver wrote: post #86

tl;dr: Mozilla is hiring, and we have many different kinds of positions open. Main offices are in Mountain View, Toronto, Auckland, Paris; remote work very much a possibility, esp for people with experience doing it. I know most about engineering, but the fullish list is off http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/careers Platform engineers: the native-code guts of Firefox, you could work on things ranging from network protocol…

Mozilla will also be expanding its Services efforts in 2011. Firefox Sync will be integrated into Firefox 4 and ship to millions of users. Help us make it scale on desktop, mobile and the server. Help us design new and exciting services at the same scale for the next generation browsers.

You know I wish I could. I completely believe in your mission but I just do not have the coding chops. It makes me so sad every time I realize the gulf that exists between my ambition and my ability :(

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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tptacek wrote: post #69

Chicago (or remote) Matasano Security LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER YOU BRING: experience in a key role shipping a web-based product, systems programming chops, comfort with performant network code. Interest, but not not necessarily expertise, in web security. WE BRING: deep and commanding mastery of software security, a fun product†, a customer list, a small team with a minimal viable working offering, a profitable and gr…

I emailed you guys last time and never heard anything back :-(

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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jeffbarr wrote: post #17

The Amazon Web Services team is hiring for on-site positions in Seattle (WA), Luxembourg, Tokyo, Herndon (VA), and Cape Town (South Africa), Dublin (Ireland), and Slough (UK). We don't offer remote work, but some of the positions do include relocation assistance. I've scraped our official job site and used the data to create a tag cloud of the jobs at http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/jobs/all_aws_jobs.html . I'm stil…

I'd be interested to apply to the Herndon, VA location but are the interviews really bad? Would I have to study my data structures book before coming in?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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cheriot wrote: post #52

OPOWER is hiring in DC and SF: opowerjobs.com/engineering (we're a Java shop) Feel free to send me questions.

What's the policy on working from home one or two days a week? I only ask because the commute looks do-able, but unpleasant for 5 days/week.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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Post by x5315 »

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this.

Twitter is hiring in San Francisco. I just started there.

Here's a list of the positions available: http://twitter.com/positions.html.

I wasn't originally going to post this, but i saw this http://mashable.com/2011/01/01/twitter-jobs-2/ and thought it might be worth adding.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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Post by tptacek »

tocomment wrote: post #102
tptacek wrote: post #69

Chicago (or remote) Matasano Security LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER YOU BRING: experience in a key role shipping a web-based product, systems programming chops, comfort with performant network code. Interest, but not not necessarily expertise, in web security. WE BRING: deep and commanding mastery of software security, a fun product†, a customer list, a small team with a minimal viable working offering, a profitable and gr…

I emailed you guys last time and never heard anything back :-(

That is because I suck. You asked a pretty interesting question about our business, I put the message aside to write a long response to it, and dropped the ball. You're one of a couple people in my "Drafts" folder. Cold comfort, I know, but I apologize.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

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Post by rdoherty »

igravious wrote: post #101
philikon wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla will also be expanding its Services efforts in 2011. Firefox Sync will be integrated into Firefox 4 and ship to millions of users. Help us make it scale on desktop, mobile and the server. Help us design new and exciting services at the same scale for the next generation browsers.

You know I wish I could. I completely believe in your mission but I just do not have the coding chops. It makes me so sad every time I realize the gulf that exists between my ambition and my ability :(

You can start writing patches now, there are tons of resources to get started. Pick a small bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (even fixing a typo) and fix it. It may take a week, but who cares? You can get help via patch reviews and asking questions on IRC (irc.mozilla.org)

There is also a lot of resources on wiki.mozilla.org about all our projects and how to get started.

Don't let your inexperience stop you. It will certainly take a while to improve. All great programmers have years, even decades of experience.

There are also lots of other ways to help: QA (http://quality.mozilla.org/), Support (http://support.mozilla.com/), Review personas (http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/), and marketing (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/)

More info: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

#109

Post by dmor »

stanleydrew wrote: post #20

Twilio is hiring. We've got a lot of interesting problems to solve and are looking for senior/junior/intern software engineers. We use php, python, java, nginx, twisted, mysql, redis, appengine, and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. Check out http://www.twilio.com/jobs or email me at andrew@twilio.com.

We're also hiring for a developer evangelist and marketing manager to join my team, I can be reached directly at danielle@twilio.com
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