Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • serratus

    Ultra-deep search for novel viruses

    The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | University of Toronto | Full-Time | ONSITE

    We're a research computational biology lab at the forefront of RNA virus and virus-like agent discovery. Our goal is to help prevent the next pandemic by building the technical infrastructure to assist global virology research and public-health responses.

    Seeking a full-stack developer who is creative, passionate, and willing to learn. No biology experience neccesary, but are a plus. Key assets: Python/R, AWS/HPC, postgres, javascript. See full job posting: http://rrna.ca/id0002

    See: Serratus (https://serratus.io)

  • oil

    Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

    Oil Shell | C++ / Python Language Engineer | Remote (e.g. Canada, Europe), Flexible, Open Source | https://oilshell.org

    I have a slightly unusual job funded by a grant under https://nlnet.nl ! Everything is flexible -- think of it as an open source project where you happen to get paid.

    We started in June, and there are currently 2 part-time contributors. We can use more help!

    The job is to work on a C++/Python shell interpreter with a garbage-collected runtime. Depending on your interest, you can work on:

    (1) Data-structure heavy, performance-sensitive C++ code -- e.g. mark bitmaps for the GC, small value optimization, lazy sweeping, hash tables, and more. We have an objective goal that enables creativity: make the shell as fast as bash. Currently it's 1.6x slower on a long batch workload.

    This runtime will let us add real data structures and JSON to a shell! ( http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html )

    (2) Semi-automatically translating code from typed Python to C++. This can be simple (adding MyPy types) or involved (compiling Python's yield to state machines)

    (3) Benchmarks, builds, testing -- I like automating everything, and shell works great here :)

    We've made great progress lately -- here's a screencast of our custom ~6000 line garbage-collected runtime working on real code (note GC debug output):

    https://asciinema.org/a/547312?t=30 (this worked as of 11 days ago, detailed blog post upcoming)

    Some background: A Garbage-Collected Heap in C++, Shaped Like Typed Python

    https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/05/gc-heap.html (and more on the blog)

    Everything about the project is open, so please take a look and contact me at andy@oilshell.org if interested. We can chat online or do a video call (I'm based in the USA). We can also arrange a code walkthrough or PAID "trial period". We want people who will have fun working on these problems.

    Compensation: First grant was for 50K euros, and a potential second grant would be for 50K, to be split up among contributors.

    https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Where-Contributors-Have... -- We now have a fast and flexible Ninja build, as well as a comprehensive CI that keeps the master branch green

    Contact: andy@oilshell.org

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • QuestDB

    An open source time-series database for fast ingest and SQL queries

    QuestDB | Developer Relations engineer & Growth engineer| Remote | https://questdb.io/

    We're building an open source time-series database focused on performance and simplicity.

    Developers rely on QuestDB as the analytic backbone of real-time systems ranging from FinTech to machine learning, IoT, and application monitoring. Fortune 500 companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems, some of which serve close to a billion users.

    Our open source repo has reached 10k GitHub stars and we have raised $15m in capital to date from YC and leading venture capital funds.

    We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.

    We're looking for a developer relation engineer and growth engineer:

    - Our career page: https://questdb.io/careers/

    You can send an email directly to careers@questdb.io

  • material-ui-docs

    ⚠️ Please don't submit PRs here as they will be closed. To edit the docs or source code, please use the main repository:

    MUI | Remote UTC-6 to +5 | Multiple roles | Full time | https://mui.com/

    I'm a co-founder and the CEO of MUI. Our objective in the short term is to become the UI toolkit for React. In the longer term, our goal is to make building great web UIs quicker, simpler, and accessible to more people through a low-code platform for developers.

    Some things we’re proud of:

    - 25% of the downloads that React receives.

    - 1M developers on our documentation every month.

    - Solid financials: profitable

    If that sounds interesting to you, we are hiring for: React Engineer, Designer, Developer Advocate: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUI?utm_source=Xnzy3Q3MGR.

  • Medusa

    Building blocks for digital commerce

  • atproto

    Social networking technology created by Bluesky

    Bluesky | Web Developer | Remote, PST overlap required | https://twitter.com/bluesky

    Bluesky is building social network protocols. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications, and we’re applying it to create a federated social network where users have more control.

    • Open source protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

  • bun

    Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

    Oven (YCS19) | https://bun.sh | Software Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (worldwide) | Full-time or Contract

    Oven is on a mission to make JavaScript faster and simpler. That's why we launched Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, and package manager. We're looking for people to help us build the future of JavaScript and infrastructure on the Internet.

    * Runtime Engineer (Zig or C/C++): https://oven.rippling-ats.com/job/535740/runtime-engineer-zi...

    * Software Engineer (JavaScript, part-time): https://oven.rippling-ats.com/job/535800/software-engineer-j...

    We've raised $7M from Kleiner Perkins, YCombinator (S19), and Guillermo Rauch to make JavaScript faster and simpler. Bun is just the start for Oven. Oven will offer a serverless platform that makes it refreshingly easy for developers to deploy applications with Bun.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • tidb

    TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial

    PingCAP | https://www.pingcap.com | Database Engineer, Product Manager, Developer Advocate and more | Remote in California | Full-time

    We work on a MySQL compatible distributed database called TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/ and key-value store called TiKV.

    TiDB is written in Go and TiKV is written in Rust.

    More roles and locations are available on https://www.pingcap.com/careers/

  • Zulip

    Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

    Zulip | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE or San Francisco | Full-time or part-time | https://zulip.com/

    At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for businesses, open-source projects, educators and communities around the world.

    We’re looking for a senior frontend engineer to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. In this role, you will work closely with Zulip’s product and design leads to drive work on a major initiative to redesign Zulip’s core surfaces.

    Check out https://zulip.com/jobs/ to learn more, and apply at jobs@zulip.com.

  • qdrant

    Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

    Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech) is an open-source vector similarity search engine. It deploys as an API service providing search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more.

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