We will consider candidates from outside the US if they're willing to relocate here. I'm happy to talk in more detail if you like, just email me at the above address.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Petr <petrg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/8bPIEnNpfyQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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.
