Do you consider non US candidates? Wihout extensive data analysis experience?
On Saturday, January 18, 2014 7:34:38 AM UTC+7, Zach Tellman wrote: > > It's been six months since I last announced this, so: Factual is > perpetually hiring smart, driven engineers to solve deep problems in data > analysis and systems engineering. We have offices in both SF and LA, and > remote candidates with a strong background in analysis will be considered. > > Factual provides an index of things in the world (businesses, places, and > products). You can either use this directly via our API [1] to ask > questions like "what are the three coffee shops nearest to me", or > indirectly by giving us your own real world data to enrich and refine [2] > [3]. Factual uses Clojure extensively [4], both for realtime systems and > batch data analysis. Systems written purely in Clojure handle the > following: > > * realtime intake of 70k datapoints/sec from our partners > * batch processing of 7 billion new datapoints every day, comprising > terabytes of compressed textual data > * generating, storing, and serving 150 million records, refreshed daily > > Both of these numbers have at least doubled in the last six months, and > could very easily do so again. There are also other projects that use > Clojure alongside Java to work at similar scales. > > Libraries developed in the course of working on these projects include: > > https://github.com/factual/skuld > https://github.com/factual/clj-leveldb > https://github.com/aphyr/merkle > https://github.com/ztellman/clj-tuple > https://github.com/ztellman/narrator > > Several other libraries are on the cusp of being open sourced, when we get > a chance. > > We need people who enjoy using technology as a lever to accomplish amazing > things (wasn't it Archimedes who said "give me a large enough data > center..."), who want to work alongside people they can continuously learn > from, and who want to be just a little uncomfortable with the scale and > scope of their responsibilities. > > If this sounds interesting, contact me at zach at factual.com. I'm > heading up the small but growing SF office, and am happy to talk in person > with anyone in the Bay Area who'd like to know more. > > [1] http://developer.factual.com/working-with-factual-places/ > [2] http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience > [3] http://www.factual.com/products/resolve > [4] http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
