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**Company**:** XXXXXX
**Company site:** XXXXX
**Position(s):** XXXXXX
**Location:** XXXXXX (please specify whether REMOTE, REMOTE(US) or ONSITE)
**Description:** XXXXXX
**Tech stack:** XXXXXX
**Compensation:** Salary, equity, vacation, major benefits.
**Contact:** XXXXXX
Company: Mozilla
Company site: https://www.mozilla.org
Positions: Staff Front-End Engineer (Firefox), Senior iOS Engineer (Firefox), Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (Firefox for Android), Staff Site Reliability Engineer, and many more
Location: REMOTE (US/Canada, some Remote EU)
Description: Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.
Tech stack: lots of legacy C++, to be honest. Firefox for iOS uses Swift. Android uses some Kotlin, C++ and Rust.
Compensation: See individual positions. You need to click on your region.
Contact: Apply directly on the jobs page. Feel free to list me as a reference. Don’t hesitate to email freddy (at) mozilla (dot) com for questions.
Company:** Antithesis
Company site: https://antithesis.com/
Position(s): Software Engineer, Ml Engineer, Fronted Engineer, and more
Location: Onsite in Northern Virginia
Description: Building an autonomous software testing suite. We built our own hypervisor to be able to test any software deterministically. See our blog for some more info
Tech stack: C++, Rust, Typescript, Nix, and some more
Contact: Jobs Page, feel free to dm for questions (not a hiring manager but happy to help)
Oh man, this is my dream job, but Northern Virginia is a tough call with a newborn and living in Spain
Yea we hear that a lot… Since we are working on hard problems being able to collaborate in person is very valuable. We do have a small office in the UK as well. Hopefully we expand more in the future!
Honest question: what do you do in person that you can’t do over video? And specifically have you tried and found video wanting?
Before I started they were remote during covid and from what I heard everyone just felt more productive in person. Not a great answer to that I know…
At least for me coming from a mostly remote job to in person has been great in terms of getting help when I’m stuck or talking through ideas/code reviews
Echoing the sentiment that this would be such an incredible line of work… but I don’t live in NVA nor am I especially interested in living anywhere near there.
We have the tools for remote teams to be productive - we have Git forges, we have Jitsi (or Zoom, or whatever), we have Zulip (or Mattermost, or whatever), we have whiteboarding and collaborative document/spreadsheet software, and heck, we have planes, trains, and automobiles to meet up once a quarter or biannually IRL somewhere, schedules allowing (because yeah, putting faces to names is awesome and helps build team comradery, I won’t dispute that).
(Bonus feedback: posting a comp range would also be appreciated)
Very cool seeing this here! Will pass along to some colleagues.
Company: ClickHouse
Company site: https://clickhouse.com/
Position(s): Senior/Staff/Principal Software Engineer
Location: Fully Remote. Team is Distributed across EMEA and AMER
Description: I’m hiring for the Auto-Scaling Team @ ClickHouse. Auto-Scaling is one of those areas where the Data driven insights collide with infrastructure problems. If you’re interested in building a serverless/elastic database on Kubernetes that scales seamlessly, please ping me.
Tech stack: Go and Kubernetes. Experience working on recommendation algorithms/time series data etc would be useful as well. C++ won’t hurt either since we occasionally have to dive deeper into the core database.
Contact: I don’t have a job posting up on the career page yet (coming soon). So please DM me/reach out on Twitter etc.
Update: Job Posting is up https://boards.greenhouse.io/clickhouse/jobs/5140132004
I hope it’s OK to hijack with a relevant question here. I don’t have a current LinkedIn, and I am wondering if that is going to be a hindrance at organizations across the board. I have some commits in various open source repos, and many thousands in closed-source repos, but even those are spread across various GitHub profiles, due to the way GitHub organizations and GitHub Apps work. I try to avoid much traffic with Microsoft, it’s subsidiaries LinkedIn and GitHub, and public places like Google and the more polarized of the Social Medias (X,thefacebook, etc). I have been a Senior Engineer at small startups writing go/lambdas/kube in AWS for the last decade or so. Am I making myself unhirable in the current environment? Am I being too picky?
I wouldn’t go as far as to say you’re unhireable, but I would say it’s a hindrance.
I think it’s worth it to at least set up a basic profile that lists jobs and education, and maybe an intro blurb that covers what languages / platforms / technologies / frameworks / etc. that you’re interested in working on.
IMHO this is one of those things where it depends a lot on where you want to work, and a bit on who you ask.
When I was holding interviews (embedded/systems development positions, pre-pandemic) I never looked at things like LinkedIn, there was nothing there that wasn’t in the CV (modulo the occasional LinkedIn Lunatics post and company-mandated likes and follows). But we had candidates who applied via Linkedin, and that definitely helped if only because that was just faster and more informal than traditional job boards, and our recruiting and HR people found it a lot easier to talk to them that way. So while I wouldn’t say it’s making you unhirable, it might mean you’re missing out on some opportunities, or at best you’re getting in late.
Talking about past projects was #1 on my todo list at an interview, because I think talking to people about things they’re comfortable and knowledgeable about is a much better way to see what they can do than grilling them about general principles and things they hadn’t touched since college. Whether these past projects were in the form of openly accessible Github projects or not made zero difference to me. There was always a chance candidates would lie about what they did and/or how well it worked (and convincingly enough that I couldn’t tell) but it’s not like I was going to review their Github repositories anyway.
The only thing that open code helped with was that people wouldn’t have to walk on eggshells on the time so as not to disclose sensitive information, or sound like they’re thrashing they wereprevious employer (for some reason it’s fine to say Github’s pull request workflow is shit, but it’s faux pas to say “we had a shit pull request workflow at $previous_employer”). It certainly took some of the pressure off for them.
My other colleagues who were holding interviews treated Github pretty much the same, they probably spent less time talking to people about past projects but didn’t give a rat’s ass about where they were hosted and how. It helped that almost all the code we wrote or used was closed-source anyway.
I never worked for one, but I have acquaintances working in companies which treated this very differently, and basically cared about only two types of prior code candidates wrote – code written at FAANGs or companies of similar status in the collective consciousness of their recruitment and middle management community, and FOSS projects, ideally on Github because that was the only platform said community was familiar with. If you ask me, it’s a load of bullshit, but if you want to work in one of those places, it’s a load of bullshit you’d have to put up with.
It’s also worth pointing out that, while some companies treat Github contributions as a proxy metric for “candidate is willing to do extra unpaid work”/“candidate is willing to learn things we need on their own time instead of ours”/“candidate can figure shit out on their own which is good because we’re clueless about onboarding”, or are just cargo culting things, there are companies that genuinely need that kind of exposure. They want to hire people who are involved in the development and/or maintenance of FOSS code they use in their products or services, or rely extensively on a base of developers with involvement in FOSS projects because their broad expertise is a competitive asset (this is especially the case for consulting/outsourcing shops). Same thing with LinkedIn. If you want to work in some of these places, yeah, you’re probably gonna have to be nice to Microsoft.
Company: Wellcome Trust
Company site: https://wellcome.org
Position(s): Senior ML Engineer
Location: London (ONSITE 3 days a week; some room for flexibility)
Description: You will join an agile interdisciplinary team of machine learning engineers, data scientists, analysts, software and data engineers, visualisation specialists, product managers, qualitative researchers, and designers. We all learn from each other and work together in supporting Wellcome’s mission to address worldwide health challenges.
Tech stack: More or less anything goes but we have a massive graph database, python pytorch, scikit-learn, and truckloads of data to play with
Compensation: 67,983 GBP / annum, really great benefits, annual bonus, great pension, great environment and a great focus!
Contact: Job ad here feel free to ask me about working at Wellcome in comments or DM.
Company: 10x Genomics
Company site: https://www.10xgenomics.com
Position(s):
Location: Remote (US) or Onsite (Pleasanton, CA))
Description: We make instruments and software that enable scientists to study biology at single-cell resolution. Our technology features in over 7,000 scientific publications, and is used across the world by top research institutions, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies to study cancer, immunology, developmental biology, and more.
Our user-facing applications - which include the public website, a web-based analysis platform, visualization apps, instrument UIs, and more - have React/Typescript frontends and Golang backends, with some Rust for algorithms.
Our instrument control software, which automates complicated microfluidics, motion, and imaging subsystems are written in C++, Python and Golang.
If you want to use your software skills to push forward the frontiers of biology, please check us out.
Tech stack: C++, Rust, Go, Python, Typescript, Bazel, etc
Compensation: See individual positions on the career pages for salary ranges, as a public company with growing revenues, we offer full benefits, competitive compensation including bonuses and stock grants, and a Netflix-style vacation policy.
Contact: Apply directly on our careers page, feel free to message me with any questions.
The careers page appears to be here: https://careers.10xgenomics.com/careers
The https://careers.10xgenomics.com/careers?department=Engineering%20-%20Software link above takes me to the main site, and the “careers” link from that takes me to https://10xgenomics.com/careers which is a 404. …it seems to be fixed now though.
Company: Smartleaf
Company site: https://www.smartleaf.com
Position(s): SRE, junior Systems Engineer (IT/Ops), junior Financial Engineer
Location: REMOTE(US) for two positions, Boston commuting range for the systems engineer (but mostly remote anyway)
Description: Smartleaf (est 1997) provides financial portfolio analysis services for banks, brokerages and investment advisors. We take what used to be the privilege of $5M accounts and make it accessible to people just starting out with $500 in investments. People describe our working environment as collegial. We are not a hedge fund and do not do real-time trading. Small company in Boston, MA. If you really want to work at HQ, you can, but most people are remote 90% or more.
Tech stack: We own and maintain our own hardware with datacenters in Boston and NoVA. Debian Linux, Apache, Postgresql, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, C++ (finance engine).
Compensation: Salary and equity, yes. 20 days of PTO ramping to 25, plus all NYSE market holidays. Fully paid medical and dental insurance premiums - zero monthly contribution. Simple 401k with matching.
Contact: future@smartleaf.com to apply, dsr-lobsters@smartleaf.com for questions about the systems engineer job – I would be your manager.
Company: Fullstory
Company site: https://www.fullstory.com/
Position(s): Senior Software Engineer, Staff Security Engineer, Staff Technical Program Manager (Cloud Costs), Technical Writer, more
Location: REMOTE(US) or Atlanta
Description: Fullstory provides analytics and session replay for websites and mobile apps.
Tech stack: Backend is in Go (golang) on Google Cloud, frontend is in TypeScript.
Compensation: I’m not sure what the pay range for any of these roles is, but I can say that as a Staff Software Engineer on the mobile team, I make a bit over $200k base, plus a bonus and some equity. All the usual benefits: healthcare, 401k matching, unlimited PTO (I take about 5 weeks a year), generous parental leave, fantastic remote work environment (the company is majority remote), etc.
Contact: Apply to any role your interested in at https://www.fullstory.com/careers/. Feel free to leave questions for me here or email nathan@[company site]
FYI @xoranth, there’s a typo in the template - there’s an extra pair of asterisks in the Company line.
Company: Belvedere Trading
Company site: https://www.belvederetrading.com/
Position(s): Senior Java Engineer - Automated Trading
Location: Hybrid (2-3 days per week in office), either Boulder, CO or Chicago, IL
Description: Full description here. This is a role in our research and development unit, reporting in to myself. We’re a tight knit group of ~25 developers and quant analysts working on greenfield, fully automated market making systems. The problems that we have to solve are among some of the most technically complex out there, to the point that we are often up against physical requirements in hardware and networking.
Tech stack: Java, Flink, Pulsar, GCP. C++, BigQuery, Bazel experience is a plus.
Compensation: Salary 140k-180k. Significant discretionary bonuses paid in Q1 and Q3 annually.
Contact: Contact information is in my profile, or apply through Lever (but let me know you’re from Lobste.rs!)
Company: Helsing
Company site: https://helsing.ai
Position(s): Software Engineer, AI Researcher, Deployed AI Engineer, IT Engineer, Product Manager, many more (see jobs board).
Location: Munich, Berlin, London, Paris, remote (some positions require European citizenship)
Description: Helsing is an ambitious European startup that builds AI to defend liberal democracies, see newsroom for some publications.
Tech stack: Rust, Python, ONNX, Nix, to name a few
Contact: Jobs board, message me for questions
It looks like the job board link is a tracked link. This is the direct link that avoids tracking: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/helsing
True, this link is specifically for lobsters. I tend to think that the people around here are quite skilled, so I give them my endorsement. If you don’t want to use a tracked link, you can also go to the website and look on the job board there.