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Disqus Is Looking for SRE, UI, Ads Infrastructure Engineers in SF

We've got 3 open roles in Engineering -- is one of these you or someone you know?UI Engineer + What we're looking for: A junior engineer with strong HTML/CSS skills. Great opportunity for a recent grad, or someone making the transition to engineering from a different specialty. + What you'll do: Translate design mockups into fully interactive and polished end user experiences within our Ads...

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Re:SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1B on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @06:37PM (#8920483)
Let me borrow your valuation calculator for a sec...

Oh it says here that my dream to solve world hunger is worth north of a gazillion dollars.

Re:Teehan+Lax joins Facebook on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:48PM (#8901598)
Why is so hard to believe that some people would be excited to continue what they love doing, but potentially supercharged at Facebook? Clearly it's not for you, but it doesn't seem far-fetched. And like everything else in life, I'm sure there were multiple dimensions to this -- including a good dollar offer.

Oh right, they should be tacky and talk about money instead.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014) on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:15PM (#8397407)
Disqus (http://www.disqus.com) is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (full time) - San Francisco (SOMA), CA or New York, NY

APPLY HERE: http://grnh.se/xd5jkt

We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to play an integral role on our DevOps team at Disqus. The ideal person is obsessed with uptime and site speed and has years of experience with server hardware and Linux systems. At the same time, you are passionate about working with development engineers to get more done faster with less trouble. You'll be working at our office in San Francisco. Disqus reaches over 1 billion unique visitors a month. You'll be working on large scale challenges immediately as well as make a huge, lasting impact on all technical decisions.

What You'll Do

- Work with our server-side infrastructure, including configuring Linux systems (e.g. packaging) and dealing with hardware - Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong) Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network - Work with engineers on product decisions and troubleshooting, but primarily work independently - Help improve the development organization’s ability to rapidly and safely deploy code - Architect and build our systems for maximum productivity and scalability

What We're Looking For

- Proven ability to build large, reliable, scalable infrastructure (you've directly contributed to scaling a highly-trafficked website or web application) - Extensive knowledge of Linux (we use Ubuntu and Debian) and 5+ years of system administrator experience PostgreSQL, Slony, pgbouncer; also non-relational such as Cassandra - Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, Memcached - Knowledge of shell scripting and Python (familiarity with Django is a plus) - Able to join the team onsite at San Francisco HQ or NY office

Nice-to-Haves

- A relevant university degree is great, but we care more about industry experience and knowledge - Programming experience (Python, Django, JavaScript). You'll work directly with engineers and assist in debugging/optimizing on the application-side - Previous work experience in a startup environment - Previous experience with a development focused operations team

Work Perks

- Competitive salaries and stock options - Daily catered lunch and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and beer - Weekly in-office yoga and massage - Apple computers and a bountiful equipment policy - Flexible hours, so you can be at your most productive - Generous out-of-office time for holidays, vacation, sick leave, and personal or family needs - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options - Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, babies - you name it, we celebrate it! - 401(k) plan, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee assistance program and flex spending accounts - Convenient office location in SOMA near public transit (blocks from BART, Muni, Caltrain) and parking - Friendly, casual office environment with plenty of toys (foosball, ping pong, video games, and more)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) on Monday August 04, 2014 @11:22PM (#8135358)
Disqus is hiring: * Dev Ops Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer * Data Engineer * Algorithm Engineer * Backend Engineer * Frontend Engineer * Product/UX Designer

Apply here: http://grnh.se/7po6vh

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About Disqus

What is Disqus? Disqus is a free service that enables great online communities. As the web’s most popular discussion system, Disqus is used by 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff worth talking about.

Who are we? Disqus is a fast-growing team making a big impact. We’re a group of hackers and tech geeks who love the web and believe that better communities will make an even better web. We believe in amazing user experiences, well-designed code, and fast, iterative development.

We go above and beyond when it comes to thinking outside of the box to solve problems creatively. We're driven to learn and implement new technologies, and figure how to scale them to accommodate our massive scale. Are you up for the challenge of building an application that supports 50,000+ requests per second, and 4MM active concurrent connections to our realtime stream? Then join us.

We love what we do, and we love the team we’ve built: http://disqus.com/about.

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Work Perks

We're a small team that gets a lot done and has a lot of fun along the way. All full-time employees of Disqus receive the same great benefits:

* Competitive salaries and stock options * Daily catered lunch and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and beer * Weekly in-office yoga and massage * Apple computers and a bountiful equipment policy * Flexible hours, so you can be at your most productive * Generous out-of-office time for holidays, vacation, sick leave, and personal or family needs * Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options * Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, babies - you name it, we celebrate it! * 401(k) plan, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee assistance program and flex spending accounts * Convenient office location in SOMA near public transit (blocks from BART, Muni, Caltrain) and parking * Friendly, casual office environment with plenty of toys (foosball, ping pong, video games, and more)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014) on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:56PM (#7974478)
Disqus - http://disqus.com - San Francisco, CA

We're actively hiring for Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Data Infrastructure, Data Mining, and Data Analyst.

APPLY HERE: http://grnh.se/0vy62q

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WHAT IS DISQUS?

Disqus is a free service that enables great online communities. As the web’s most popular discussion system, Disqus is used by 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff worth talking about.

WHO WE ARE

Disqus is a fast-growing team making a big impact. We’re a group of hackers and tech geeks who love the web and believe that better communities will make an even better web. We believe in amazing user experiences, well-designed code, and fast, iterative development.

We go above and beyond when it comes to thinking outside of the box to solve problems creatively. We're driven to learn and implement new technologies, and figure out how to build them to accommodate our massive scale.

Are you up for the challenge of building an application that supports over 1 billion unique visits per month, 50,000+ requests per second, and 4MM active concurrent connections to our realtime stream? Then join us.

We love what we do, and we love the team we’ve built: http://disqus.com/about.

They'd be raising $250mm in the IPO. That wouldn't be the valuation of the company. Presumably, it'd be >$2B which was the value of their last private round.

Your point stands in that 4% of that isn't too bad either.

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