Kafka Jobs - November 2018

iHeartRadio | New York, NY USA | ONSITE | Full Time | Visa

iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital radio platform, is the fastest growing digital audio service in the U.S. and offers users thousands of live radio stations, personalized custom artist stations created by just one song or seed artist, and the top podcasts and personalities. iHeartRadio is a great environment for people who like to innovate and have the power to influence decisions. We have 120+ million registered users across over 200 different platforms, and outside the US, we are in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Mexico!

Scala Engineers - Our team develops the core APIs that power the client applications used by millions of users daily. We primarily use Scala (with a few legacy Java components) and deploy/run our code in Kubernetes. We also create and maintain some data pipelines to import/export data to other internal consumers. As part of our team, your responsibilities would include designing/building new features, maintaining high code quality via tests/code reviews/metrics, and keeping a focus on continuous improvement on all parts of the development process. Our team takes prides in having high quality code and developing in a principled fashion.

Mobile Engineers - Android and iOS - Come work on our flagship mobile applications, where all new code is written in Kotlin and Swift with UI testing in Espresso and XCodeUI. We are implementing a new design system which will modernize our UI, working on further global expansion for our app and continuing to broaden our reach via watch, TV, automotive and smart speaker extensions.

Web Engineers - Come and help us make a big bet on Cypress for testing and complete our journey to an isomorphic JS app. React, Redux, emotion, Node. Fully responsive, mobile first designs and implementing a new design system to further modernize our practices. PWA is in our future, some pieces already in place.

Data Engineer - Seeking engineers with a passion for solving large data problems. Our big data team owns the platform that delivers business insights and analytics, automates reporting, and powers data science data products - as well as many other data functions for the business. We rely on tooling in Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redshift, Airflow, and Spark, in Python and Scala.

Python Engineer - Work with our content and ingestion engineering teams to figure out how to manage millions of music tracks at scale. Working with our open source framework you will help build the backbone of our core ingestion infrastructure that manages all of our music, talk and podcast infrastructure, encoding infrastructure as well as search and advanced catalog heuristics.

Apply for openings here: http://jobs.iheart.com/jobs or recruitment@iheartradiocareers.com for more info!

YotaScale | Menlo Park | Software Engineers | All Levels | 100K - 200K + equity | FULLTIME, INTERNS, ONSITE | https://www.yotascale.com/ Yotascale combines deep infrastructure understanding with applied machine learning techniques to help our customers move to the cloud. We're VC-backed, our customers include some of the world's leading tech companies, and our leadership team includes industry veterans from PayPal and Google.

We are hiring for three positions (full stack developers feel free to apply to Frontend and Backend positions):

* Head of Machine Learning: https://jobs.lever.co/yotascale/919cd931-90cd-4add-bb66-ca0a...

* Senior Backend Engineer :Spark, Kafka, Scala, Java, Kubernetes, Docker- https://jobs.lever.co/yotascale/fbee06ba-66e7-4171-bf52-39f0...

* Junior to Senior Software Engineer: Angular, Python, Postgres - https://jobs.lever.co/yotascale/a33877ab-481c-4267-82f2-49da...

Hopper | Software Engineer (all levels) | Cambridge, MA / Montreal, QC | Full-time | Onsite

Hopper is the smart way to book travel on your phone. Combining petabytes of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper predicts and analyzes airfare and accommodations to save users money and enable them to travel more often.

Since its launch in 2015, Hopper has become one of the fastest growing travel apps ever with over 30 million installs to date. It is now the most downloaded flights booking app in North America and travelers have booked hundreds of millions of dollars in flights and hotels around the world using Hopper. We recently closed our Series D ($100MM) and are rapidly expanding our team.

You will be directly responsible for many of the innovative features we’ll be working on, whether collaborating with our outstanding design and product team or helping our data science group work on the bleeding-edge to personalize travel for our ever expanding population of members. We're more interested in your willingness and ability to learn than what you currently know, but this is the stack we're currently using:

- Scala

- HBase

- Spark

- Kafka

- Tensorflow

- Swift / Kotlin for our mobile apps

Apply here and mention Hackernews on your application: https://www.hopper.com/careers/

SMX | Auckland, New Zealand | Clojure / Big Data Developer | Onsite | http://smxemail.com

We have a bespoke big data and analytics infrastructure built in Clojure and utilising Kafka and Cassandra that requires another senior developer. You will have verifiable experience in some or the above or related technologies, as well as in building secure, highly available systems.

SMX is New Zealand's leading cloud-based email hosting and security provider. A growing blue chip list of enterprise and government customers around the world trust their email security to SMX. We provide a fully-hosted, enterprise-grade email gateway with mail filtering, content control, data loss prevention and archiving.

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Griffin | Full-stack or Backend Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE | London, UK | https://griffin.sh

We're rapidly moving towards a world in which people get most of their financial services from non-bank fintechs than they do from banks. The problem is, most of those companies need to partner with a bank to actually hold their cash. We're building a purpose-built bank to do exactly that - power the global fintech revolution.

We're applying for full regulatory permissions and building a brand new platform bank, launching in the UK first. We've been working on this quietly for about 18 months and are now looking to hire our first engineer.

Tech stack: Clojure / Postgres / Kafka / AWS / Kubernetes

Email jobs+hn@griffin.sh

Decisio Health | Senior Engineer | Houston, Texas | Full-time | On site | https://www.decisiohealth.com/

Decisio is hiring a senior engineer to join the team responsible for building, validating, and operating the clinical data processing pipeline and API endpoints behind Decisio Insight. We need help right now with migrating our application to Kubernetes and scaling to meet the demands of larger and increasingly frequent deployments.

We're a Python 3 shop that makes heavy of use of technologies like Docker, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. We take devops seriously here, automating what we can and monitoring everything so we can make continuous improvements to our product. We're also active in the local Python community. We sponsor and host the monthly PyHou meetup group and are a past sponsor of the annual PyTexas conference.

More details and application at https://www.decisiohealth.com/sen-eng/

Gracenote|Emeryville, CA(SF)or Remote (must be able to work legally in the US)| Software Engineer, Test Automation Engineer | Full time

Tech-stack - Java, Kotlin, Kafka, Postgres

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world’s top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data.” Over the past 3 years, the company has grown to more than 2000 employees in 17 countries, including over 600 of the world’s top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology.

We are presently looking for Software Engineer & Test Automation Engineer (On-site or Remote) to become part of our agile video data delivery platform team. Apply directly at http://www.gracenote.com/company/careers/

Amplitude Analytics | San Francisco, CA (SOMA) | https://www.amplitude.com | ONSITE

We help companies build better products by providing analytics for understanding user behavior. We believe that the future of product development is in smart, easy-to-use analytics that helps you make good decisions and invest in the right areas. We're a 200-person company (30 engineers), and we raised our Series C last summer. We've gotten incredible traction helping customers like Square, Capital One, Dropbox, Twitter, Twitch, and Adidas change the way they build products. We were recognized in Wealthfront's Career-Launching Companies (https://blog.wealthfront.com/2018-wealthfront-career-launchi...) and Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups (https://www.forbes.com/next-billion-dollar-startups/).

We have many open positions that can be found here (we're growing fast!): https://jobs.lever.co/amplitude. In particular, we're looking to expand the engineering team with the following positions:

* Senior Product Engineer

* Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

* Senior Software Engineer, DevSecOps

* Senior Data Scientist - Causal Inference

Our tech stack consists of Java, Python, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, SaltStack on the backend and JavaScript, React, Flux, Highcharts, d3 on the frontend. We've got a number of challenging technical problems to solve thanks to being in the analytics space, and we're looking for people who are passionate about the intersection of technology and product to help us take the next step. You can find more examples of the work we do on our blog: https://amplitude.engineering/

Also, we don't do whiteboard interviews! Bring your laptop, and be prepared to write code the way you expect to on the job -- in a familiar working environment with access to the internet. If this sounds exciting to you, please reach out to us at careers@amplitude.com or apply directly through https://jobs.lever.co/amplitude.

Project Rōnin | Software Engineer | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | https://www.projectronin.com/

We have an opportunity to truly impact the lives of millions of patients with our intelligent care system. To do that, we are building a team that is passionate about providing service to others in the best way we know how - creating life-altering software. With real-world data, real-time symptom management leveraging machine learning and a tool for clinicians to quickly and intuitively view and restructure patient information, our platform is allowing for truly individualized care for every patient.

As one of the first engineers to join the team, you’ll partner with our Director of Engineering to create the foundation of our product. We’re building a services-oriented architecture with Ruby on Rails, React, Python, MySQL, Kafka, Heroku, Oracle, Docker, Kubernetes (and React-Native). The API server will interact with the oncology interface, the patient facing mobile applications as well as our data science tier.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/projectronin/c2283169-9618-44a3-b2c9-8... or send us an email to hiring@projectronin.com

(We're also looking for a seasoned Product Manager, preferably with Healthcare experience, as well a Designer)

Segment | Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite Segment is building the customer data platform for everyone. We transform data and route to over 200 different integrations, adding new ones every day. We're processing billions of events daily and maintain the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Instacart, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn from how their users interact with the products to build even better products. We also like to share our work and what we learn, here are some recent examples:

- https://segment.com/blog/we-test-in-production-you-should-too - https://segment.com/blog/secure-access-to-100-aws-accounts - https://segment.com/blog/why-status-codes-matter-in-data-delivery - https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices - https://open.segment.com We have a modern stack consisting of Go (golang), AWS ECS, Docker, Javascript, React, GraphQL, Kafka, and others! If any of this sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you! Check out our open positions at https://segment.com/engineering#jobs If you have specific questions, feel free to reach out to me directly alan ⒜ segment.com (but please do apply on the site).

Gambit Research Ltd (http://gambitresearch.com) | London, UK | ONSITE | £40-85k + Bonus

Gambit Research specialises in creating and managing an automated betting service, via research, statistical analysis and the use of complex algorithms. We ingest and organise terabytes of market and event data from more than fifty sources and make the data available to our strategy teams in real time. We care deeply about speed, accuracy and availability.

Our flagship product, MollyBet.com, presents the odds offered by many of the world's largest bookmakers and betting exchanges, and enables clients to bet with multiple operators with a single mouse-click or API request. Molly is generally regarded as the best product in its class.

We're always looking for clever, pragmatic, and autonomous individuals to join our team. We have a unique culture, where hierarchy and fancy job titles don't matter. Instead our team is given the freedom to choose their own tools, work on projects they actually find interesting, and have totally flexible working hours. The technologies our team typically works with includes: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, C, C++, Java, Haskell, Julia, Go, JavaScript, ReactJS, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Sentry, Git, and GitLab.

We're currently recruiting for:

- Python developers - Erlang developers - JavaScript (ReactJS) developers - Linux infrastructure engineers / SREs - Data Engineer Visit https://www.gambitresearch.com/jobs.html or send your CV over to careers@gambitresearch.com for more information.

Permutive (YC S14) | Software Engineers | London, UK | Full-time, permanent, on-site, eligible to work in UK

Permutive is the simplest, most efficient way to integrate data-driven models into your product. We're a B2B SaaS company built on top of an innovative real-time data platform. We have product–market fit and customers that love us, and we're growing rapidly in Europe and the US. We raised a $10M Series A at the beginning of the year and have received funding from some of the world's best investors, including Y Combinator.

Everything we build operates at scale: our platform processes billions of requests a day across hundreds of millions of monthly end-users. We're developing a next generation data platform for a world with a trillion devices, and we think applying functional programming techniques like compositionality and type-safety is the best way to build these massive distributed systems.

You would be joining our core backend team on-site in London, working mostly with Scala and 'big data' ecosystem technologies (our full stack is below). We're happy to talk to people with a wide range of experience—from straight out of university to those with decades of experience—but you should have a genuine interest and preferably experience in FP, distributed systems, and stream processing.

Languages: Scala, Haskell, Elm

Libraries: Cats, Cats Effect, FS2, http4s, Shapeless, Circe, PureConfig, pipes, Servant

Technologies: Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bigtable, BigQuery, Beam, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform

If you're interested and eligible to work in the UK, please email me (co-founder and CTO) directly at tim@permutive.com

Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time

Engineers! Amperity is hiring SDEs across all levels, including technical leadership positions.

Interesting problems: - Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events - Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph - Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage - Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data - Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

Tech stack: - React/Reframe - Clojure/Clojurescript - Aurora/Mesos - Accumulo/Hadoop - Spark - Kafka - SaltStack/Terraform - Riemann/InfluxDB/Grafana

For a full listing of positions, see https://amperity.com/careers/ -- apply there or reach out to me directly with questions. dave at amperity dot com. Hope to meet you.

New Knowledge | Multiple Positions | Austin, TX | Full-time | Onsite | https://newknowledge.com/

New Knowledge is on a mission to defend public discourse. We build products that repair online communities, identify manipulation, and help them communicate more authentically. In a world where social media is being manipulated on a massive scale, this is no small task. We care about protecting communities, brands, and companies from being targeted by the spreading of disinformation. The right fit for us is someone who is passionate about that challenge and mission. We just closed an $11M Series A in August 2018 (https://tcrn.ch/2Pfuw6X) and we are on the fast track to grow a powerful, mission driven team!

Our tech stack: Python, Flask, Javascript, Node, React, Postgres, Kafka, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible

Our current technical openings: Data Engineer, Automation Engineer, Strategic Operations Director, Product Designer, Lead Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Sr. Data Engineer, Jr. Machine Learning Engineer, Computational Disinformation Analyst, Sr. Software Engineer, Technical Project Manager

Our non-technical positions: Head of Sales, Head of People, PR Lead, Sales Operations Analyst, Content Writer, and Business Development Directors.

You can view more information and apply to these roles at https://grnh.se/43037c332

If you have any questions about a position, the company, or the hiring process you can email me here: jeff (at) newknowledge (dot) com and mention "Hacker News" in the subject line.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals | SLC, Utah | Onsite, full-time | We have raised over $80M to apply machine learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - tens of millions of images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical perturbations, generated in our own labs - in order to find treatments for hundreds of diseases. Our long term mission is to decode biology to radically improve lives - we want to understand biology so well that we can fix most things that go wrong in our bodies. Among other awesome folks, Yoshua Bengio is one of our advisors, and helps our ML team come up with novel ways of tackling these problems.

We’re looking for:

* ML researchers: Looking for a highly experienced senior/principal-level machine learning researcher who wants a challenging problem, lots of rich data, and knowledge that their breakthroughs will seriously help people. No bio background needed.

http://www.recursionpharma.com/careers for more details and to apply.

Logistics: Salt Lake City, Utah. Hiking/running/biking is literally out our back door, and it's half an hour to 5 ski resorts. Great pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance (onsite is required), equity, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive impact.

Happy to sponsor/extend visas, but you need to already be authorized to work in the US--we can’t handle the lottery at this stage.

Tech: Data science: pydata stack (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, bokeh, tensorflow w/keras, etc), a cluster of GPUs for all your research ideas

Software engineering: python, clojure[script], javascript, go, react.js, kafka, kubernetes (GKE), GCE, AWS Our team of 104 so far: http://www.recursionpharma.com/team