Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

488 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: Try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

Don't miss these other fine threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797592

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797593

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GitLab | Remote only | Full time

It’s an exciting time to join GitLab. As a fast-growing, all-remote company, GitLab is a place where you can contribute and make an impact from anywhere in the world. You’ll be part of an ambitious, productive team that values transparency and collaboration.

We’re hiring engineering managers, security engineers, solutions architects, product managers, support engineers, mid-market account executives, strategic account leaders, recruiters, and more roles in every department. Here’s our full list of vacancies: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

Read our 9 lessons for building an all-remote company: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/18/lessons-on-building-a-di...

Want to learn more about GitLab? Check out our company handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

In your engineering requirements you have a hard requirement for ruby and rails experience. As a senior engineer with 15+ years experience dealing with full stack from front end to writing Linux kernel drivers, but having not used ruby or rails, what level of expertise would be required to be considered at Gitlab? I use Gitlab professionally and have self hosted it for years now for my personal projects, love your company structure and culture. Professionally it’s quite difficult to acquire ruby experience from a place not already using ruby anywhere.
Hey There! I lead the Engineering Recruiting Team at GitLab. In addition to emilycook's reply, which I think summed up your question, I would say that we require aptitude in certain programming languages, which we measure with coding challenges, not years of experience. Many of us here are self-taught programmers (including the VPE of Engineering). You are welcome to apply and take the code challenge, or also start contributing to the open source project.
Will absolutely be applying for a Frontend Engineering Manager role - thank you for sharing!
I am just waiting like a hawk for any Technical Writer openings!
Are there any opportunities for bootcamp graduates in the pipeline?
Qwilr | Sydney | Full-stack Engineer Node/ React | Full-time Onsite | $80 - $150K

Create powerful, intelligent web documents that give you analytics for insights, and integrates your favourite tools from Slack, to Salesforce with Qwilr. Using Qwilr, your documents are no longer just static documents, but beautiful pages that harness the power of the web.

Evidence here: https://pages.qwilr.com/fAMk7PKRu2Bi

We're a Sydney-founded startup made up of ex-Google, Campaign Monitor, McKinsey and Microsoft folks, heading into Series A, with our global team of 30. Be part of our foundational team of engineers, thinkers, creators as we head into a year of growth in product, team and business.

Our tech stack: Node, React, Javascript (Typescript), MongoDB, AWS We have frequent Work-from-home days

https://qwilr.com/jobs or email careers@qwilr.com

Untether.ai | multiple developers | Toronto & Montreal, Canada | REMOTE | Full-Time | https://untether.ai

Our team is developing brand new hardware to do high-performance neural network and deep learning inference. We're remote-first, senior people trying to raise the bar on high-performance and low-energy AI hardware.

We have interesting problems in the domains of optimizing compilers, graph algorithms, computer architecture, and machine learning. Candidates with experience working with performance-sensitive systems preferred.

Please reach out directly at careers@untether.ai.

Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and possibly others, all ONSITE. Citizenship is a job requirement.

We do emulators, JIT, hypervisors, stuff similar to valgrind, debuggers, manual disassembly, binary static analysis, parsers, and assembly. We write our own low-level tools, frequently in C99 to run on Linux. We also use IDA Pro, qemu, Simics, JTAG debuggers, gdb, Coverity, KlocWork, LLVM, and so on. Easily transferable skills include those related to compilers, kernel drivers, embedded RTOSes, vectorizing, firmware, VxWorks BSP development, symbolic execution, boot loaders, software verification, concolic testing, abstract interpretation, satisfiability (SAT, SMT) solvers, and decompilers. We work with more than a dozen architectures including PowerPC/ppc, MIPS, ARM/Thumb/AArch64, x86/x64/Intel, DSPs, and microcontrollers. We hire from no-degree to PhD. Common degrees include Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics.

We don't normally work overtime, and we get paid more if we do. We're never expected to take work home or be on call. Because of the citizenship requirement, there is no chance that the work will be outsourced. Flex-time is fairly extreme; some do randomish hours.

Location hints: Pick Arlington for a car-free life, subway included. Pick Florida or Texas to live in a place with solid gun rights and no state income tax. Pick Florida for almost no traffic or commute, surfing, and a median house price of about $150,000.

You can email me at users.sf.net, with account name albert.

Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails / Devops / Front End | REMOTE

Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to work on the Aha! product. We use Rails extensively, plus React for rich browser based experiences.

Aha! is also looking for Devops engineers, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure. All of our operations is done by writing code first, so it is fully reproducible.

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/ES6/React.

Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.

http://www.aha.io | email: engineering-jobs@aha.io

ProcedureFlow | Full Stack Developer | Saint John, NB, Canada | ONSITE | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com

ProcedureFlow allows you to turn your company's procedures and expert information into small, hyperlinked flowcharts that are easy to follow and maintain.

ProcedureFlow has a lot of great paying customers that consider us vital to their business. We're growing our development team as we start to scale. We've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year and are close to Series A funding.

Our technology stack includes: ASP.NET MVC, C#, Postgres, Redis, Node, Terraform, and AWS.

We're looking for someone who has:

  • A demonstrated mastery of building cloud-based web apps in ASP.NET MVC/C#.
  • Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it
    takes to solve problems and delight users.
  • Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of
    technologies and systems.
  • The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even
    if they have not worked with them before.
  • Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
  • Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
Interested? Email us your resume, GitHub profile, or anything you'd like to showcase: jobs-hackernews@procedureflow.com

I'm a co-founder and the VP of Product Development. Happy to answer any questions!

Secfi | Software engineer(s) | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | EUR 35-70k + equity

We're on a mission to increase employee’s private company ownership by helping them exercise their options - a complex and opaque process that typically comes with a lot of anxiety and unanswered questions. Our tools help you fully understand your stock options’ value and maximize their potential.

For example: one of the most complicated things for employees is figuring out how much taxes they need to pay when exercising their Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options. The tax planning tool inside our dashboard does just that: https://www.secfi.com/#gif-container

Complex challenges we’re working on next include: multiyear tax forecast analysis, recommendation engine based on various sources and fantastic UX and UI.

Things have been going very well here at Secfi, and consequently in 2019 we aspire to grow the team 3x. We’re looking for ten software engineers and two product managers to join us: https://www.secfi.com/careers

Interested? Please email careers@secfi.com to get in touch.

RunAsCloud is hiring for positions in Boston and Miami

This is a full-time position for a platform engineer assisting customers with their AWS environments. Looking for engineers with experience in Operations / DevOps with AWS environments. Linux and Windows engineers welcome.

Required Experience:

    Building medium to large environments, including provisioning, patching, monitoring, and backups.
    Experience streamlining application deployment and tasks (CI/CD, pipelines, etc)
    Developer support in building and configuring application and database platforms (e.g. Apache / nginx / IIS / etc, Tomcat / Python / node / etc, MySQL / MSSQL / etc)
Desired Experience:

    Supporting services for applications: load balancing, file sharing, DBs, ETL, etc
    Migrating applications or large groups of servers to AWS
    Security assessments or evaluations
    DB Server administration
    Scripting languages (bash, Powershell, Python, etc)
    Supporting Data Scientists and/or ML/AI workloads
    Other tech experience - tell me about what you're into!
Desired Personality:

    Strong customer focus - we bend over backward for our customers and you need to do the same
    Able to execute - when you say you'll get something done, you get it done
    Passionate about technology and eager to learn
Why work here:

As a Cloud Engineer for RunAsCloud, you'll have the opportunity to work with a wider variety of challenges and technology than you would in a "regular" job. However, unlike most consultancies, we encourage work-life balance and offer ample opportunity to learn and grow.

Email for applicants - careers@runascloud.com

Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA / Boston, MA | Rust Engineer | Fulltime | ONSITE

We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medical care worse and more expensive for everyone. We are a group of previously successful engineers and entrepreneurs (MIT, Dartmouth, Stripe, Twitter, Salesforce, DataPower, etc) and senior doctors (Johns Hopkins, UCSF, etc) who are determined to finally fix this.

Compensation: market salary & equity -- we are well funded by top-tier VCs.

Stack: includes Rust, React and Kubernetes. In addition to building our back end in Rust, we are also solving some very interesting problems in the areas of data transformation, high-speed APIs, flexible UX frameworks and fine-grained authorization for healthcare data.

Please email jobs@commure.com and mention "[hnrust]" in the subject line.

Other positions available: - Senior Front End Engineer (React Native, React) - Senior Security Engineer (SAML, identity, OAuth, etc) (please use [hnfe] or [hnse] in subject line for the above).

Locations: San Francisco, Boston or Montreal; sorry, no distributed/remote option at the moment.

Why is this downvoted? It's a rust job in an important field.

(Disclaimer: I don't work there, but I've met a couple people who do.)

Greensea Systems | 2 UI Engineers & a Robotics Engineer (Nav and Control) | Richmond, Vermont | Onsite | Full Time

Greensea is a world leader in navigation and control technology for marine robotics. We develop software and hardware, revolutionizing the working relationship between people and machines, both on and under the sea. Our technology gives robotic systems the intelligence to work autonomously and operators the tools to effectively communicate with them. Greensea’s business includes commercial navigation and control products, research and development, and large custom developments for some of the most demanding and spectacular projects done beneath the ocean.

Some details:

- Mostly C++, some python and bash. UI uses QT framework.

- There are travel opportunities to exotic locales in support of our customers (though travelling is not required)

- There are fun/interesting/unsolved problems in this space

- Great proximity to skiing, hiking, mountain biking, etc.

- Generous vacation

Apply here: https://greensea.com/join-our-team

Feel free to reach out, I'm a robotics engineer on staff

simplesurance GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time https://www.simplesurance.com/

We are building one of the world’s leading platforms to make insurance accessible.

Since 2012, we are proudly “Made in Berlin”: we are very international with 150+ people from over 30+ countries working daily in our central Berlin office. Our internationalism is reflected also in our business since we are active in over 28 countries.

InsurTech is just taking off https://blog.ycombinator.com/thoughts-on-insurance/ and we’ve been there from the beginning.

What we are looking for:

  - Golang Software Engineer (f/m): For hardcore gophers.
  - Language-agnostic Software Engineer (f/m): For pragmatic developers always looking to learn new things.
  - Full-stack Software Engineer (f/m): For allrounders.
  - QA/Test Engineer (f/m)
PS: We are just starting operations in Japan, so if you speak Japanese that's a strong plus!

Email: jobs@simplesurance.com | https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/

Atlas // Fulcrum | Full Stack Developer | MSP, NYC | $80-$130k + benefits | Full-time, REMOTE or ONSITE | U.S. only | http://atlas-x.com/careers

Atlas Website: http://www.atlas-x.com Fulcrum Website: http://www.fulcrumpro.com

Small businesses have come to expect intuitive, fast, and beautiful software in their personal lives yet deal with old, slow, and clunky software in their business lives. We are changing that.

We've built a three stage rocket to get us to where we want to go:

First Stage (COMPLETE): consulting to gain deep experiences in a complicated domain filled with old legacy incumbants.

Second Stage (IN FLIGHT): scalable configurable enterprise product for manufacturers and construction companies utilizing new technologies and frameworks for hard problems like scheduling and forecasting.

Third Stage (FORTHCOMING): connecting millions of small businesses to their big business counterparts and automating the tedious work that exists at the seams between organizations.

We need talented full stack developers who have empathy for users and love making thoughtful and simple solutions to complex problems; developers who want to see their software used daily. About 70% of our work is currently focused on building software for short run manufacturing companies. We're looking for developers to help us transition and build our experiences and codebase into an increasingly scalable product platform.

We value hard work and perseverance. We have never once given up on a single customer and have worked tirelessly through endless challenges to ensure that we are delivering value and that each and every company we touch is better after using our software.

We value proactive work, open-mindedness, self-sufficiency, and subscribe to the idea that knowledge and continuous learning is valuable even it is not directly applicable. Our favorite tools include C#, TypeScript, NodeJS, Angular, and Kendo. If you have at least 2 years of professional experience building all parts of modern webapps, value autonomy over routine, and are interested in helping us develop the next generation of software for small and medium businesses, reach out to us through the contact info below.

Currently Nine Developers.

5% Matching 401(k) after 90 days through Vanguard with immediate vesting. Health, dental, and vision benefits. Remote and flexible work. Equity plan in place and negotiable. Outside investment in motion.

Process: culture screen - tech screen - tech interview - offer.

To get in touch: careers@atlas-x.com Atlas Solutions

Dyalog Ltd. | Programming Language Implementor | Bramley, U.K. | ONSITE

We are the vendor for Dyalog APL, the most actively developed commercial APL implementation. APL comes up from time to time on HN (for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952045), but we don't require any knowledge of the language. We are looking for a junior C programmer interested in practical interpreter development, with a focus on the details and willingness to take the time to get things right.

Our company is small (about 20 employees) and the work environment is flexible and laid back. We strongly prefer local applicants but will consider candidates willing to relocate.

See a longer listing at https://www.dyalog.com/careers.htm and contact us at careers@dyalog.com.

EDITED | Engineering Positions | London, UK | Onsite | Full-Time

We’re currently hiring for front-end, back-end, data scientists and DevOps Engineers. Our stack is primarily Python & JavaScript, with frameworks like Django/Flask and react.js/d3. We aren’t afraid to integrate new tech and like to keep exploring what’s out there.

We're an established startup, focused on doing important things for retail, the fourth biggest industry in the world, helping them reduce waste and be more efficient. We have a beautiful web app, used everyday by hundreds of people at Topshop, Saks Fifth Avenue, GAP and more.

Our engineering team is a group of smart people from really varied backgrounds. We’re solving diverse and interesting problems on a daily basis, like image analysis, big data visualisation and a load of other fun things that come with having a rapidly growing data set. We love good practices like extensive testing and continuous integration, and enjoy giving back to the community, so open source contributions are highly encouraged.

Our office is large and sociable; people eat lunch together every day and we have drinks and snacks in the office every Friday, as well as team days out and all expenses paid trips abroad. There’s a video on our jobs page of our most recent one: http://edited.com/jobs/

Half of the team has actually found and joined us through “Who’s hiring”, so don't hesitate to get in touch, we're always happy to meet new people!

See here for more details about current vacancies and to apply directly online: https://edited.com/jobs/engineering/

CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 15 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.

We are hiring multiple for multiple onsite full-time positions on our web frontend, IOS and Android teams. We collaborate closely with product managers, designers and the newsroom to build products that help manage CNBC's content and make it accessible to our web sites, apps, developers and other experiences. We offer competitive salaries, great benefits.

Our roles:

- Senior Web Frontend Engineer (react/redux): https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

- Web Frontend Software Engineer (react/redux)r: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

- Android Engineer: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

- IOS Engineer: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

You can see all open roles here: https://www.nbcunicareers.com/search-results?search_type=adv...

If you have questions about these roles please feel free to email us at tech.recruiting@nbcuni.com

Divisions Maintenance Group | Software Engineer | Cincinnati, OH | ONSITE | Full Time

We provide a managed marketplace for facility maintenance. Our team builds a platform that brings the latest technology to solve the problems faced by companies trying to manange maintenance at their facilities.

We innovate and move quickly and are growing rapidly. We are looking for experienced developers in our area (Cincinnati, OH) who take pride in what they do, want to build a great product, and love to learn and experiment with new things and new ideas.

Our platform is a suite of native mobile apps and real-time web applications. Our backend is an event-sourced kappa architecture. Our stack is mainly React, node.js, Kafka, .NET, and RocksDb and always evolving.

Email us at turing@divisionsinc.com for more info if you're interested.

CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Beijing Software Engineer

CodeCombat (https://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 25 people in SF and 4 in Beijing, funded by a16z and YC, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add to our engineering team in China.

More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat/623b1bba-5686-4112-86ff-f99...

ViewRay | Sofia, Bulgaria | Full-Time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineers and Computational Scientists

Description: We're currently seeking senior C++ software engineers and computational scientists for our world class Science team who will share our passion for conquering cancer and help us develop our ground breaking MRI guided Radiation Therapy system. You can find more info about the product on this link: https://viewray.com

We're creating the next generation software for our MR-guided radiation therapy system. This is a greenfield project in its early stages of development, thus anyone who joins now will have the prospect of making key contributions to the architecture and design.

The job includes:

- Creating advanced image processing and optimization algorithms

- Working on data processing frameworks and pipelines that execute these algorithms as needed and maintains a coherent system state

- Creating powerful visualizations for the users: graphs, charts, volumetric imaging renders, and more

We don't have any specific requirements other than 5 or more years of professional experience with C++. The project covers many fields and we feel that any C++ expert can find their place in it.

Stack: C++17. Windows and Linux. The project also includes:

- Custom high-performance algorithms running on multiple threads

- Networking and network communications between nodes

- Databases storing patient data

- UI with complex graphical presentation and editing capabilities

Contact: For questions and applications you can email me: ggerganov@viewray.com or apply at https://viewray.com/careers/

United States Digital Service | Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, Senior Designers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/

The best of technology. The best of government. And we want you. We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are, immigration, veterans service, students, health care, and more. We're especially looking for talented senior engineers to join us to help shift move government tech in the right direction.

See one of our Reports to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:

https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/

Apply here:

https://www.usds.gov/apply

If anyone has questions about the US Digital Service, I'll keep an eye on this thread. Here's a few things that we did in the last month or two:

- a federal computer system that took six years to build was flaky, crashing, and slow. It's 3.75M lines of Java code, and some engineers went in to get the system back up, then helped add monitoring, then made changes based on that monitoring which significantly sped up the system (80% faster, I think?). This is a system that handles important processes for the government with 1,000 daily users and ~70,000 weekly users.

- we consulted on how to make it easier for farmers to hire seasonal workers. Most of the work was done by contractors, but we offered some product management help and some content strategy. The new tool makes it simpler for farmers to navigate a process that involves dealing with multiple federal agencies. You can see the new tool/site at https://www.farmers.gov/manage/h2a

- we're running pilots on how to improve hiring in the US government. It's harder than it should be to hire folks into government, and we're working to improve that. This involves the Office of Personnel Management and several other federal agencies. In fact, you can preview one of those job postings at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/532244000 and apply for that soon. But again, the main place to learn about us (and apply!) is https://www.usds.gov/ .

Let me know if you have any questions!

I'm curious do you only hire people with US citizenship?
It's in the apply link: "All U.S. Digital Service positions require U.S. citizenship."
I looked around the "Hiring FAQ" and it doesn't state if a degree is required, is it?

Also, I saw the salary range had a maximum range of $160,000, is this a hard cap? I'm already making this in base salary not including overtime and bonuses and it does not seem that bonuses or overtime are mentioned in the FAQ.

I took a look at the housing situation near the office and to get something close to comparable to my situation is nearly double the price of my current living situation, yet I would make less with no upward potential, if given a lateral transfer which would be the maximum.

I'm critical about this because I'm always interested in this position (company/job?) when the hiring thread comes around. I look at this hiring post every time this thread goes up, but never post anything because it doesn't seem like it would work out due to quality of life loss and loss of upward potential.

Degrees are not required. The salary is a hard ceiling, based on federal law pay scales (and is currently $166,500). A lot of people who have come through USDS are motivated that a tour of duty can truly make a difference on the lives of millions of Americans. It isn't easy work, but it's exceptionally rewarding.
While the total compensation may be less then your total income now, I can tell you its 100% possible to live in the DC area on that salary, without a significant drop in quality of life. That includes if you have a family. The Metro lines go out into the Virginia and Maryland suburbs and you can find nice places to live with some of the nations top school districts.

Additionally while you will take a temporary hit to income, you will be working on projects that have real impact on the lives of every american in the country. You will be empowered to make changes and do what is right at the highest level of the government. You will be heartbroken at the amount of need, and the amount of pain that is caused by things you can fix. You will be exposed to all the failures of the government, and you will be right at the center of some of its greatest successes. At the end of your tour of duty you will be sad that there wasn't more you could do, but you will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have served and to have made the country better. You will probably leave not even looking for the most money at your next job, but just trying to figure out how you can continue to have purpose anywhere near the same level you just experienced.

If you are on the fence do it.

An upvote doesn't seem sufficient here. That was inspiring and heartfelt. Bravo!
I'm definitely near the fence.

Everytime the job posting comes up I pop up Zillow and try to do the math, but quite literally a comparable house to mine is $700k-$800k where mine is only $300k-$400k in TX near Dallas. I don't believe I would be able to support and provide anyway near the same quality of life for my family, especially without jeopardizing future savings I am currently able to make now.

You say after the tour of duty like you aren't able to stay employed, is this true?

If I was single and had no dependents, I think I would have already applied, because money wouldn't matter nearly as much.

I feel it is extremely unfortunate USDS doesn't offer remote work because they could pull talent across the nation given the lower pay and higher CoL.

I know this would be a much more rewarding position than working for another mortgage company or consultancy..

So you can't stay employed with the USDS after your tour of duty, after a maximum of four years you have to leave ( and that is a good thing ). However if you are able to be hired by the USDS you won't have a hard time finding a job in the DC area after your tour of duty is over. The tech scene there is very strong and they pay well even for the high cost of living. When I had to factor in my dependents the thing that put me over the top is I thought it would be better to show them by example the kind of life I wanted them to live, rather then just provide them money.
Why do you say that's a good thing?
Not OP but from my experience with government workers in the UK, who routinely work the same job from leaving school until retirement, their time spent there seems to be inversely proportional to the quality and quantity of their work. If I need something done right I'll try and find some starry-eyed graduate or recent ex private-sector worker to ask. I suppose public work has a habit of being both fulfilling and frustrating, and when that frustration>fulfilment, productivity drops.
For two reasons, first the work wears on you. It can lead to being cynical and it can be flat out unhealthy to continue to work at that level of government for a long period of time. The stress and pressure can be overwhelming. Secondly its good to get back out into the commercial field and have first hand experience with the state of the art. It means when you are talking to people about what it comes from a deep knowledge of what has been done and what was successful. Taking a break every half decade to refresh those skills is valuable.

Also that time limit really lights a fire under you to get stuff done. The people who are trying to use government services don't have years to wait for things to get better, their lives depend on things getting better today.

The DC area is pretty suburbanized. It's not uncommon for people who work in DC to have hour-long commutes - when I lived there, I met people who commuted to DC from as far out as Frederick and Mt Airy - but the MARC is (in my experience) reliable and some of the suburbs aren't bad. Zillow has $300k-$400k houses in Germantown.
God bless you, your patriotism and concern for the American people is an inspiration.
I hate to crush this romanticism in the crib, but this comment is overemphasizing the impact a lone engineer working on a government project will have, which will just disillusion and frustrate applicants once they start the job.

The parent's concerns about quality of life with pay topping out at 160k is real and shouldn't be waved away with "it's worth it". Doubly so if you have kids. Take a look at this recent living wage page: http://livingwage.mit.edu/. Can you make it work? Sure. But going into this with eyes wide open is better than looking at this with rose-tinted glasses.

Its impossible for me to overemphasize the impact the USDS can have, the question is never "will somoene let us do this" its always do we have the resources to do what needs to be done. What will crush you is the burden of service, and knowing the only thing limiting the impact you have is the amount of work you can physically put into it.

In terms of pay, I have kids and was a single income during my tour of duty. Its a better life then most Americans will live, so while your quality of life will not be as high as it may be on a private sector job, you won't be lacking anything you need.

> this comment is overemphasizing the impact a lone engineer working on a government project will have, which will just disillusion and frustrate applicants once they start the job.

Very reasonable assumption! However, that's not the USDS model. The work can certainly be frustrating but people aren't dropped in alone. We maximize the impact of our work.

Does USDS hire non-senior positions? I'm finishing my MS at UIUC this month and would love to work on such projects. My post in the 'Who wants to be hired?' thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19801907
We hire by competencies, not age/seniority. We hired an 18 year old security hacker for the summer between high school and when he started at Stanford, for example: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/10/tech/17-year-old-hack...

That said, most of the engineers we hire have done things like stand up large web-scale services, deploy things to the cloud, and often have some good scars/stories/experience as a result.

Whether it's a good fit now or down the road, I really like that you're using mobile app interaction traces to look for UX insights that can improve things!

Kudos to you, this is really badass to see and speaking honestly, once I’ve built up enough of a nest egg the idea of working in the public sector is exciting (outside of trying to find affordable housing in DC lol)
I recently had a great conversation with USDS, they are an impressive organization and are doing a ton of good.

There were a few things that were deal killers for me:

* on site, relocation to DC. I don't mind flying out for meetings, and being onsite for a few weeks to get spun up, but commuting and sitting in an office every day is unproductive.

* mandatory drug testing. I'm not a big marijuana user, it's not really my thing, but being forced to pee in a cup is dehumanizing and humiliating. Until the federal government is able to find a way around mandatory drug testing, I think that they are going to miss out on a lot of top tech talent.

* disorganized 'tours'. This may have just been a mistaken impression on my part, but during my conversation there didn't seem to be a lot of clarity about what I'd actually be doing, or if it was a project I'd be interested in. It seemed more like "come on board, then we'll put you where we need you". As a highly technical CTO, founder and developer, there are specific problems (especially in healthcare) that I'm interested in helping with. I don't mind taking a pay cut to do good work, but the last thing I want to do is sign up for a "tour" and end up being assigned to something that doesn't fully utilize my capabilities.

Just wanted to give some direct feedback related to my experience with USDS, if others don't have the same concerns / restrictions that I do, I highly recommend giving it a shot.

Thanks for the feedback; it's helpful to hear about what your experience was like.

On the last point, when we see that someone has health experience, we're very likely to place them at CMS/HHS because they would benefit from that background.

But we have had situations in the past where we promised someone "You can work on project X when you start" and then over the course of a few months while that person was onboarding, project X got into a bad spot. That's a bad experience if someone shows up and can't work on what they thought they would.

Thanks for posting how things looked from your side of the conversation--I appreciate it.

Does one need to be US citizen to apply here? Do you sponsor Visa? It would be exciting working for US govt.
You do need to be a US citizen. My understanding is that some other groups in government, like 18F and the Technology Transformation Service, don't require you to be a citizen. More info: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/
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I don't believe we are set up to handle the legal requirements around student visas, but check out the job postings in case it looks like you are able to match one.
Serious question - Can you talk a bit about how you support emotional / mental health for your employees?
Hey, yep! I'd say it's a combination of several things:

- team / coworker support

- we have access to group wellness sessions with therapists

- we have access to individual wellness sessions with therapists

- we bake limited exposure into our products / dev environments

- overall attitude of wellness and self-care through the entire org from top to bottom (for instance, we have "unlimited" style PTO that everybody actually uses and is encouraged to use for wellness, _in addition_ to three weeks that the entire org shuts down over the holidays)

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Hi Do you require work experience for the SE roles? I am looking for a junior/entry level SE position, you think I should apply to them?
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Really cool to see the US Government posting roles here. Kudos.
This job posting is part of a pilot that the US Digital Service is running, and we read Hacker News. :)
I am excited to hear USDS is piloting a project with DOI! I hope it's a success and fellow agencies see the benefits of changing the current hiring system. USAJOBS/the federal hiring system is so broken!
How much more red tape if any do you have to cut through to infuse new tech in a government setting over say a similarly sized private company (measuring size by headcount)?
This is a great question. Some laws make it harder to share data between parts of the federal government, for example. That might make spotting fraud, spam, or improper payments harder. At the same time, many folks might not want the government combining data across silos without a strong vetting process.

Or to take another example, there's a misconception that the Paperwork Reduction Act makes it illegal to talk to users: https://medium.com/@ErieMeyer/user-research-is-not-illegal-u... . In that case, the law might be reasonable, but you might have to tackle misconceptions or lore to make forward progress. A favorite hack to make forward progress is to ask "Show me where exactly in the law (or regulation or policy) it says that we can't do this?"

Going back to your question, the U.S. government is one of the largest organizations on the planet: millions of people. Veterans Affairs has about 380,000 employees alone. Meanwhile, Google just passed 100,000 employees.

Is it harder to infuse tech in government compared to a private company? Absolutely. But you also have to grade on the curve that the government is really big. And the flip side of that is that if you make a change in government, the scale means that you can affect millions or tens of millions of people with your change.

I don't think the problem in the government is ever the need for "New Tech", its normally just better application of really well understood tech, that being said for a company of similar headcount ( of which there are few to none ) the amount of tape is similar, but its different in that the government has a few specific rules like Trusted Internet Connections, and Paperwork Reduction mandates that private companies don't deal with. Also the other big difference is everything is done via a contract which brings in a few more stakeholders and often adds in a few restrictions to what can be done ( i.e. sometimes contracts say a specific technology must be used ).

If you have ever worked on a contract with a Fortune-100 company its about the same level of tape

Does the USDS hire 100% remote?
Sadly for USDS we need people to come to DC for the work we do.
When you say remote and onsite, do you mean there is the option to do either, or that the job entails both? Because if you're offering fully remote positions for that pay with federal benefits/pension... damn
We (the USDS) are posting on behalf of the NPS as part of a new hiring pilot. We clarified with the team there -- unfortunately fully remote positions are not currently available. You would need to be in one of those three cities, but telework is often supported by supervisors.
Might I ask that you edit the original post to remove 'remote' as I think that might mislead under the common definition in this thread.
The editing window had closed by the time we got clarification, so wasn't able to make the adjustment. Apologies for the confusion.
Working for the federal government in the current climate would be a recipe for financial ruin. Which is a shame, because working for the betterment of the NPS is something I can get behind otherwise.
Why because of shutdowns? That's fair but most of us up here at this salary level can weather a month or two without pay so long as it finally arrives. I'd be more worried about working for a fascist, even indirectly.
The apply button is now active -- sorry for the delay!
Wow, my dad worked for DOI for 30 years as a research scientist and topped-out at a GS-13. And you're starting sysads there?
There are lower and higher grade levels for Sys Admins. This particular role is for a GS-13, which should be reflected by the required experienced.
Sorry if I was misunderstood. glup's reply to my comment nailed it.

He started in DOI as a seasonal post-doc for USFW at a GS-5. My point is merely that the work he was doing then, much less at the end of his career, was both much more specialized and much more intrinsically valuable than a sysad working on this project. And I say that as a recovering sysadmin who's overqualified for this role.

As glup pointed out, y'all have to be competitive though, so this was much more of a comment about the priorities of labor markets than this particular posting.

Regardless, appreciate y'all posting roles like this here.

This is a problem I have seen trying to staff up technical projects on NIH grants -- even barely-competitive compensation for entry-level developers exceeds that of the senior staff evaluating the grants. Makes everyone feel weird.
Do you think your dad's sysadmin had access to (relatively) more damaging stuff than this person will?
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