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

170 points| scorchin | 15 years ago

As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.

Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.

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[+] lkrubner|15 years ago|reply
In New York City there are a lot of jobs. I went to 3 job interviews and got offers from 2. All 3 had tests of my programming skill, though the 3rd was ruthless about minor syntax errors. For instance, the guy talking to me asked me how to find all of the Apache servers running on a server. He just wanted the number. I typed:

ps aux | grep apache | wc -l

but this wrongly included the command I was typing. We were working on their dev server and I was typing the commands into the terminal. I got back 12 when the real answer was 11. He eventually showed me what I should have typed:

ps aux | grep apache | grep -v grep | wc -l

The grep -v screens out the line I had just typed which had "grep apache" in it. Of course, there are other ways to do this, but this was the first thing I thought of. Of my error, I thought that was somewhat minor, but this guy had recently been hired to clean up a sloppy programming department, so he was looking for programmers who were flawless.

The other 2 tests at the other 2 jobs covered the usual questions (write a JOIN statement, write a sub-query, what is the difference between GET and POST?). On one of the interviews, 2 programmers came in to talk to me and they gave me a short PHP script which was working but which was badly written. They asked me how I would re-write it. Easy enough.

My sense is there is a lot of hiring going on in New York City. Possibly not enough local talent to fill all the jobs, but the businesses are here for other reasons (other than programming talent) so I think eventually programming talent from elsewhere will get drawn to New York City. There are some cities in the USA that are in deep economic decline, and will probably remain so for the next 5 years, so perhaps some of the programmers from those cities will migrate to New York City.

[+] ericb|15 years ago|reply
Email him this, which is more succinct and does the same:

ps aux | grep [a]pache | wc -l

(because you use the character class, it doesn't find itself as what it searches for is different than its text)

[+] tocomment|15 years ago|reply
I consider myself a good developer but that grep apache thing is something I would have to look up.

I only use grep once or twice a month on average. Why do employers expect you to have every possibly relevant thing memorized? I hate it. </rant>

[+] cd34|15 years ago|reply
ps ax|grep -Ei '(apache|httpd)'|grep Ss|wc -l

lsof|grep TCP|grep -Ei '(apache|httpd)|cut -f 1 -d ' '|sort|uniq|wc -l

apache -S 2>&1|grep server|wc -l

apache2ctl -S 2>&1|grep server|wc -l

are processes/threads really servers? His question was a bit ambiguous. I wouldn't have accepted that job position either. :)

[+] cperciva|15 years ago|reply
Completely off-topic, but...

  ps aux | grep apache | grep -v grep | wc -l
A more succinct, albeit less portable, alternative is 'pgrep apache | wc -l'. (Or 'pgrep httpd | wc -l', depending on your apache commandline.)
[+] tptacek|15 years ago|reply
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 growing company with a 5 year track record and nice offices†† in NYC, Chicago, and SFBA.

†web scale, big(ish) data, search, security; we're a Rails/Ruby/EventMachine shop. We don't care if you already know Ruby.

Full-time in-house non-consulting dev. Health, dental, 401k, commute, &c.

HN is one of our best hiring vectors (ask 'yan, 'wglb, and 'daeken). We hire two roles: vulnerability researchers and software developers. HN has killed for security researchers. Not so much for developers. Ironic!

Just mail me: tqbf at matasano dot com.

††here's Chicago, on top of one of the coolest buildings in the city, with Intelligentsia Coffee and a serviceable bar on the first floor: http://img228.imageshack.us/g/img0226yl.jpg/

[+] euroclydon|15 years ago|reply
Thomas, I've been curious about this for the past several "who's hiring" threads: What do your devs do? Specifically the web-ruby dev(s)? Are you building a web-based security product? Is it the classic transition from consulting to product type play? Does the product exist yet? Are customers using it? How much of your business does the product represent? If these are sensitive questions, pardon me, I'm really just interested as someone who follows you here on HN.
[+] wglb|15 years ago|reply
It is a beautiful building http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadnock_Building in a city with many beautiful buildings. Some say that the coffee shop http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/locations/view/Monadnock... is the best in chicago, and i hear that the NY staff likes it as well.

There are some particular mysteries of the building that Matasano is privy to. For example the "John Malkovich" door with its own office number: http://img228.imageshack.us/i/img0226yl.jpg/. And there is the fact that we are the only office on the 18th floor of a 16 story building. (And despite First Blood trying to get me with the swimming pool, that is not part of the deal.)

And the people here are absolutely awesome.

[+] tocomment|15 years ago|reply
I emailed you guys last time and never heard anything back :-(
[+] yan|15 years ago|reply
I will cosign 100%. NYC office is in a great location (located a block east from Union Sq) and has awesome people in it!
[+] jeffbarr|15 years ago|reply
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 still working on the styling.

The official AWS job site is at Our official job site is http://aws.amazon.com/jobs .

There are too many types of jobs to list here. We need developers, business developers, managers, solutions architects, trainers, and technical support.

[+] euroclydon|15 years ago|reply
AWS seems to have more open positions than I would imagine they should. What are the turnover/pay/working conditions like there?
[+] jerdfelt|15 years ago|reply
I've actually been looking at Amazon recently and found the number of positions available overwhelming. I think I would do well in dozens of the positions posted.

I don't know if I should be applying to a bunch of positions to get a better feel of which one is "best" or if I should approach it differently.

How would you suggest proceeding when so many positions seem to be relevant?

[+] cperciva|15 years ago|reply
There's a bug in your tag cloud: You're splitting on whitespace. The tag "venture capitalists", for example, really isn't the same as the tag "venture" plus the tag "capitalists"...
[+] tocomment|15 years ago|reply
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?
[+] akalsey|15 years ago|reply
We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/

Bay Area preferred, but we'd also love to talk to you if you're located near any other large US city or technology hub (Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philly, etc). We're already a distributed team (China, London, Orlando, Philly, Phoenix, and Bay Area) so we're adept at working remotely.

Job description at http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...

We're also looking for a NOC engineer in Las Vegas. http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...

[+] xlpz|15 years ago|reply
We are looking for good hackers with experience in free software. We work on WebKit (maintainers of the GTK+ port), networking, multimedia, javascript, etc. Working remotely is perfectly possible.

The company is Igalia (http://www.igalia.com), and we have a sort of cooperative structure (no bosses, all major decisions taken democratically).

If it sounds like your kind of thing, the email is in my profile.

[+] oscardelben|15 years ago|reply
Your email is not visible to other users. Please put it in your about section.
[+] ccheever|15 years ago|reply
Quora is hiring in Palo Alto, CA.

Quora is a question and answer site focused on really high quality, authoritative content. The service has a lot of traction and is growing very quickly, especially recently. We are hiring software engineers and product designers.

http://www.quora.com/about/jobs

For software engineers, we are mostly looking for generalists--who will work on scaling the service as we grow, including work on our real time web framework LiveNode, building and improving rich web application itself, and building new tools and features.

Product designers design and implement the interactions and visuals for the site.

We are also planning on building out our mobile experience more, so anyone interested in iOS or Android should apply.

The company is well funded by Benchmark.

E-mail [email protected] or if you want to get in touch with me directly [email protected]

[+] ahuibers|15 years ago|reply
Bump is hiring in Mountain View, CA (soon maybe SF/SOMA as well), mostly local.

Our immediate needs are: Operations, HTML5 development, Android development, Design, R&D including someone who knows both CS and prob/stats.

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT BUMP? We have enormous traction (25M), a breathtaking pipeline, and a clean codebase. We may already have and are definitely building one of the best mobile shops in the bay area. Our senior founder (me) has 10 years of startup experience and is an engineer obsessed with making Bump the best place for engineers and designers to produce great things: this includes compelling work in a professional yet very informal environment, above-market pay/equity/benefits, minimizing meetings, high quality food and special events, company-wide carte blanche Amazon prime account, surf team. We are 15 people growing to 30 and now is a great time to join us.

http://bu.mp/jobs, mail hackernews@ourdomain to get special treatment. Tech is iOS/ObjC, Android, Python, Scala, C, Haskell, Redis, MongoDB. Funding is YC, Sequoia. We are near Caltrain (Castro).

[+] kodeshpa|15 years ago|reply
Being android developer,I tried it but never heard +ve or -ve response back from team. Any suggestion?
[+] bretpiatt|15 years ago|reply
San Francisco Bay Area, CA / Austin, TX / San Antonio, TX

I'm hiring devops integration consultants that want to work on OpenStack helping enterprises and service providers deploy solutions based on it (it is posted as only San Antonio on the job listing but all 3 locations are great, Bay Area would actually be ideal).

http://jobs.rackspace.com/job/San-Antonio-Linux-Cloud-Integr...

Rackspace is also hiring for many positions: http://jobs.rackspace.com/content/map/

[+] btipling|15 years ago|reply
These listings include positions at Cloudkick. So please apply! We need good JavaScript and Django developers. :)
[+] stanleydrew|15 years ago|reply
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 [email protected].
[+] jamii|15 years ago|reply
JobScore requires details such as an address and a US landline number. This is fairly unnecessary and also annoying if, like me, you have neither. Even selecting a country is problematic.
[+] dmor|15 years ago|reply
We're also hiring for a developer evangelist and marketing manager to join my team, I can be reached directly at [email protected]
[+] lethain|15 years ago|reply
Digg is hiring on-site in San Francisco (Potrero hill) for frontend and backend developers, with a preference for people who work all the way up and down the stack. We're willing to take chances on newer developers who seem like a good fit, and also want veteran engineers who will to come in and challenge our assumptions and shake things up.

We're working at a scale where performance and data storage decisions start to matter. We're working with a modern stack (Redis, Python, PHP, RabbitMQ, gevent, Hive, etc), and the team we've put together is truly fantastic. 2010 was a topsy turvy year for us, but setbacks build character, and there are many reasons to be excited about where we are going. :)

Job specs are at jobs.digg.com , and feel free to send questions/resumes my way at [email protected] . If you're interested but concerned about the press or trajectory of Digg, definitely send an email my way, and I will send some of my optimism your way!

[+] pchristensen|15 years ago|reply
Groupon (Chicago or Palo Alto) wants to hire 25 devs in January 2011.

Great developers. We develop in Rails but we'd rather hire a smart, motivated, skilled developer and teach them Rails than hire any Rails dev and hope they turn out to be awesome. Lots of problems to solve in data mining, personalization, scaling, business support tools, etc. My first month here I released code supported millions of dollars of deals.

Good coding practices, weekly releases, code reviews, pair programming as needed, MacBook Pros + Cinema monitor for all devs, etc. Full benefits, real (not startup-sized) salaries.

Contact [email protected] with any questions and I can connect you to the right people.

[+] jobsatraptr|15 years ago|reply
Location: Mountain View, CA (a couple blocks from 101)

Remote: Sorry, no remote work

Raptr is hiring for frontend web, backend web, and desktop client application software engineer positions.

http://raptr.com/

We help people get more out of their (video) games. (Finding games, tracking playtime & achievements across multiple platforms, etc.)

We're looking for folks with a solid CS background, and a good top to bottom understanding of large scale web applications.

Backend web positions work on scaling, data, and providing apis to the frontend team (80% PHP, some Python, a tiny bit of legacy Perl). Frontend web team writes html, javascript, and view layer php code using backend apis. Client Application team writes a python + QT application for chat + friends + gameplay tracking.

Take a look at the job descriptions at http://raptr.com/info/jobs, and email me ([email protected]) with resume for quick consideration if you're interested.

[+] kristoffer|15 years ago|reply
Gothenburg, Sweden (I wonder what hitrate that will get on HN?)

At Aeroflex Gaisler we are looking for a talented embedded hacker that will create software for our system-on-chips based on our own LEON (SPARC32) processor. Previous experience with real time operating systems (e.g. VxWorks, RTEMS), device drivers, and other low level hacking is necessary.

We are also looking for someone interested in developing simulators for our systems. Computer architecture and C/C++ skills needed. Qt a plus.

Toolchain wizardry (GCC, Clang/LLVM) is always a bonus!

Drop me a line at [email protected] if above sounds interesting.

[+] spitfire|15 years ago|reply
I'm not looking for work but I'd /much/ rather work on gothemburg than san francisco or chicago, or pretty much anywhere in the US for that matter. And hay Leon processor means it might be interesting work too! Not just another webapp. Good luck guys.

Monocle did a nice piece on the city too: http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Magazine-Articles/T...

[+] tocomment|15 years ago|reply
Gaithersburg, MD - A payment processing software company I used to work for is hiring an internal applications developer. You'd be working with Python, SQL Server, IIS and other technologies to automate internal processes.

They'd prefer someone local but working remotely might be ok.

Email me (in profile)

[+] dlo|15 years ago|reply
Do you hack on a programming language after work? Do you read Lambda the Ultimate religiously? This job opening will appeal to the many programming languages enthusiasts here on Hacker News, particularly to the subset that has an accompanying interest in secure code.

Fortify Sofware has an opening on its static analysis team. Our products help companies write secure code. Please email me at [email protected] to make inquiries.

We are based in San Mateo. But we will consider outstanding remote workers.

[+] troels|15 years ago|reply
Copenhagen, Denmark. Remote not possible and we can't help with relocation.

I've just been hired as CTO for a well-funded startup, Greenwire. We recycle used consumer electronics (Primarily mobile phones) and send them for refurbishment and resale.

I'm looking for a developer to help me build the IT infrastructure. We'll be working on LAMP technology, probably PHP.

Have a read at http://greenwiregroup.com/

[+] softbuilder|15 years ago|reply
Just a bit of feedback here: When you can't help with relocation (which definitely can be costly, don't get me wrong) you contradict the notion that you're a well-funded startup.
[+] nigelk|15 years ago|reply
Puppet Labs is trying to rock the DevOps/Sysadmin world with our model-driven approach to config management.

We're based in Portland, OR, and aren't looking for remote workers as yet.

We're looking for both Core Developers and Pro Services Engineers, and no matter what, you'll be working with open source software and a highly engaged user community, as well as on a project that is included in most of the major *nix distributions in one way or another.

Puppet itself is written entirely in Ruby, so strong experience in Ruby is great, but experience in an equivalently flexible language is fine too.

We've recently moved into our new offices: http://twitpic.com/3ckay1 http://twitpic.com/3cksg3 (things are more organized than that now :)

Portland is freaking awesome.

I moved up here recently after working for Google in the Bay Area, and I couldn't be happier. Cheap rent, amazing food and beer, huge bike culture and a city full of incredibly friendly and nice people.

http://www.puppetlabs.com/company/jobs/