Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

San Francisco, CA

SwiftStack (http://swiftstack.com/jobs/) is hiring software developers at all levels of experience.

Why Join SwiftStack?

You’ll work on a product that touches millions of people’s lives even if they don’t know it. The number of businesses using OpenStack in general and Swift in particular grows and grows, and it includes big names that make products that are used by both your little brother and your grandmother. You’ll work on a product that makes core OpenStack technology accessible to businesses of all kinds.

You’ll get open-source experience in a big way. At SwiftStack, we’re committed to strong participation in the OpenStack ecosystem in general and to contribution to Swift in particular. You’ll be a contributor to one of the most important Open Source projects currently active.

You’ll confront interesting problems every day. Writing a system like Swift and building a software ecosystem to surround it is the road less traveled. We aren’t writing yet another glorified CMS or social app or phone game. Whether it’s figuring out better algorithms for data placement, confronting a firehose of monitoring data, or determining how to integrate most flexibly with customers’ systems, there are always new and unusual problems to solve.

Interested? Send us an email at jobs@swiftstack.com. Send us your github profile, your LinkedIn account, a link to your website – whatever will best display the work that you’ve done. Tell us in a few lines of text why you’re interested in SwiftStack, and why we’ll be interested in you. We’ll be back in touch shortly to get the conversation started.

San Mateo, CA. REMOTE ok.

## Position: DevOps Engineer

At Doximity, we've grown to a team of over a dozen engineers that cover the full stack. Until now, we've managed our environments and setup processes. It's time for you to take on this role and push us further.

## About Us

Doximity’s mission is to help physicians become more productive and successful. Physicians use Doximity to instantly connect with other healthcare professionals, grow their practices and discover new professional opportunities.

Doximity was launched by Jeff Tangney in 2010; Jeff previously founded and led mobile healthcare pioneer Epocrates. Nearly 20% of US physicians have already joined the network.

## Key Responsibilities

- Involved in all aspects of maintaining the development, QA and production infrastructure and services.

- Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for the infrastructure.

- Hands on maintenance on our Ruby on Rails and Sinatra applications.

- Collaborate closely with developers to resolve issues.

- Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack – hardware, software and network.

- Document current and future procedures, configuration and policies.

- Monitor and plan for capacity upgrades.

## Required Skills & Expertise

- 5+ years of solid Linux/UNIX systems engineer/administrator experience.

- Automation experience with tools such as Chef or Puppet and scripting skills in Bash.

- Experience deploying and managing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.

- Experience running infrastructure within Amazon Web Services.

- Proficient in Ruby, experience in running apps built in Ruby on Rails and Sinatra.

## Bonus points

- Experience with Java based app servers.

- Experience with distributed cache such as Redis or Memcached.

Interested? Contact info in my profile.

It's just base64..

Dallas, Texas (Will consider REMOTE): Core Engineer, Cloud Application

At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.

We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for engineers to shine. We work in Ruby and Java, building complex systems with high scalability in the cloud. We're looking for an engineer to work on our core technology and service infrastructure. We are a young, fast-moving startup where everyone has a voice and cane make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).

Some of our technical challenges include...

    • Architecting and building our next generation of web services
    • Scaling up our existing systems to handle growing traffic
    • Identifying and and building key new features to meet the needs of a growing customer base

Responsibilities:

    • Participate in the planning, analysis, design, development and deployment of product features and enhancements
    • Work as part of the development team to establish and apply the latest in engineering best practices
    • Build high-performance, scalable applications and APIs

You...

    • Have a desire to solve hard problems
    • Think that real-time analytics at web scale is a fun challenge
    • Want to work at a place where off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
    • Want to build something great
    • Are willing to dig into Java, NLP, and machine learning. And aren't afraid of Scala, Clojure, or

whatever it takes to make great things work at web scale.

Bonus points for...

    • Expertise in engineering world-class web applications
    • Experience with the AWS toolkit (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)
    • Familiarity and experience with modern architectures such as ???
    • Experience scaling from hundreds to thousands of users and beyond via load balancing, auto-

scaling server deployment, HTTP accelerator caching, reverse proxies, failover, etc. • Experience with worker queues and clustering. • Strong understanding of high availability best practices in and out of the cloud • oAuth experience • Experience with Twitter and Facebook APIs • Excellent typing ability in the presence of flying nerf darts and RC helicopters

You’ll help lead our core development side in our current, early stages through to first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

We offer...

    • A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
    • A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
    • Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
    • Generous vacation policy

Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continuing pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.

If this sounds interesting, drop me a line: jacob@purediscovery.com

Regarding US Citizenship requirement - any other reasons besides accounting/paperwork difficulties?