Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs and create a service that people love to use. We believe music should be easily accessible and that listening to music will make people live richer lives. We want to create a win-win situation for people who love listening to music and people who love creating music. e primary mission of the operations team is to make sure that the music never stops streaming.

Our work environment is exciting, informal, friendly, fun, and very demanding. As an operations engineer you are part of the operations team working on the development and maintenance of the Spotify production environment. Working at Spotify you get an unique chance to work with very large scale systems, millions of users and an incredibly fast-growing environment. Key areas of focus are: automation, a structured approach to system development and a sense for building scalable systems.

The system which feeds all these streams is a diverse and technically challenging environment. The service we operate is comprised of a large number of applications running on hundreds of servers in multiple locations around the world. Our platform is built with a special focus on scalability, using mostly Free/Libre Open Source Software.

=== Responsibilities:

* Making sure Spotify works.

* Development and design of the systems used to operate Spotify, with a focus on automation and maintainability at large scale.

* Deployment of hardware and software in the production environment.

* Troubleshooting and analysing applications, networks and hardware.

* Collaboration with the development team on operations-related issues, providing support and acting as stakeholder.

=== Requirements:

* The ideal candidate is hardworking, motivated and responsible. A university education is a plus but not required- most important is the desire and motivation to learn, strong sense of ownership and drive.

* Very good understanding of Linux/Unix based server systems.

* Experience with configuration management tools for example: Puppet, Chef, cfengine or FAI.

* Deep knowledge of IP-networking.

* Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting complex and critical IT-systems.

* Very sharp analytical skills.

* Excellent written and spoken English skills.

* Knowledge of at least one scripting language (bash, perl, python, etc)

* Debian GNU/Linux knowledge a plus.

* Experience with revision control systems a plus.

Please feel free to contact Alexandra at acohen@spotify.com if you are interested.

And we have other positions available, all around the world: http://www.spotify.com/jobs/vacancies/

Sociable Labs is looking for one or two more Software Engineers, either front/back end or full stack.

Our product brings social features such as commenting, passive and active sharing, and top "x" lists onto media and e-commerce sites. We have a solid system that handles millions of monthly visitors and a rapidly growing base of customers who love our product.

We have a fun team, great benefits, and an enjoyable workplace. Our approach is analytics-driven and we're working towards Continuous Integration.

I do primarily JavaScript, so I can mention a couple of the recent changes: we now use a node.js powered build system for our JS files, pre-compiled handlebars templates for client-side rendering, and we use feature detection to only load on browsers with localStorage and CORS support. (This works out to IE 8 Standards Mode and newer on the MS side.)

See more info at http://www.sociablelabs.com/careers/ or email nathan @ [company site] if you're curious about anything.

Sociable Labs also hosts the Tipp JS meetup, so if you're in the Dayton OH area, please stop by even if you're not interested in working with us! http://www.meetup.com/tipp-js

Python Developer (Toronto) Chango is seeking an energetic, motivated and intelligent software developer to join our engineering team. You will be working on an exciting product, contributing to different aspects of the system as required with room for growth into more senior positions. You will gain exposure to a high transaction “cloud scale” application that processes over 350,000 requests / second

Tech: Mainly Python: Tornado, Kyoto Cabinet, Django

Electricity industry is ripe for a disruption.

A developer designing, coding, testing and troubleshooting software, firmware and hardware.

You earned your Degree in engineering.

* You have a project coded by you from start to finish and it was not your school assignment.

* You programmed for at least one of: RS-232, SPI, MODBUS or CAN

* You can probe a device using undocumented protocol in a matter of hours, not days

* You feel comfortable with electrical hardware, both analog and digital

✰ You are familiar with feedback control, Matlab. Not required, but a huge advantage.

What is your favorite programming language? Why? ASCII text, please.

We offer a fast-paced startup environment, a company of fun, passionate and sharp pros, competitive compensation and, initially, a place to stay in the SF Bay Area.

http://www.automatiks.net/jobs/