MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries including Finance, Recruiting, Sales, Marketing, and Security.
We’re a fully-remote company with a global footprint in over 20 countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome.
We are looking for passionate individuals for whom programming is not just a job but it’s something they love to do. We're obsessed with computers, programming, big data, databases, compilers, hardware, math, data science, and the internet. Does this sound like you? Please apply to join our team.
Our code base is very friendly to new contributors. You'll have a fully-functional development environment within hours (fully automated) and be pushing commits on your first day. Deployments to production happen multiple times per day and finish in less than 2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript/TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git.
We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate two datacenters with high performance servers we've built that are capable of dealing with the volumes of data we process. We've implemented our own distributed file system. We do full-scale web crawls. We download and perform static analysis on the entire universe of Android APKs and iOS IPAs that are published. Unlike a typical startup where you'll spend half of your time in meetings, and the other half fixing bugs from Jira tickets— at MixRank you'll get to challenge yourself with difficult technical problems that will help you to grow as an individual.
We're hiring continuously for the positions below— they aren't singular positions that will close once filled. Our philosophy on hiring is that the candidate is more important than the position. For each new member of the team, we design a custom role and responsibilities that are specialized to their interests. Other companies will come up with a long list of specific requirements for a position with the expectation that you'll exactly replace someone from the team, or that you'll be the perfect tetris piece that satisfies the job requirements decided by a committee. MixRank is more pragmatic: we'll first get excited about having a unique individual on the team, then we'll figure out the best way to accommodate their specific talents.
We're looking for remote junior engineers that have 0-3 years of professional experience in software, and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. This is an open-ended entry role with mentorship and diverse opportunities to work on all areas of our product: databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more. To stand out, please highlight what makes you unique: passion for computing, curiosity and side projects, work ethic, niche research, etc.
Ideally you've already graduated, but if you still have one or more years left of school, please feel free to apply anyway, and if you're the right fit for the team we'll figure out a way to accommodate your schedule.
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Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time
We're hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, devops, and more. We'll cater the role to whatever subset of these areas match your interests.
Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, frontend/backend web development, and data mining.
We encourage founders in software engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, design, and product to reach out. If you don't see a relevant position open, reach out to jobs at mixrank.com. We care more about the person than the job position, and we're happy to craft the perfect position for anyone that joins our team. People with founder experience tend to be very successful at MixRank, and our leadership team is filled with founders.
You're spot on that all problems can be interpreted as a search problem. Similarly, all problems can be interpreted as a compression problem. Or parsing, boolean satisfiability, or halting, etc. It's helpful to keep them all in mind because sometimes a different problem domain has a tool that your preferred one doesn't, or just the mindset shift can be useful to unblock.
"Derivation" refers to the nix intermediate build artifact, a .drv file, which contains the instructions to perform the build itself. Basically a nix program compiles to a derivation file which gets run to produce the build outputs. The hash in the /nix/store for a dependency is the hash of the derivation. Conveniently if the hash is already in a build cache, you can download the cached build outputs instead of building it yourself.
Ah OK, then I'd actually never actually understood what a derivation is. But then again, the name "derivation" doesn't at all lead to guessing at such a definition, either.
My dream would be a database where Haskell is the query language. It's more expressive than SQL and more composable. Every time I see a new SQL feature that would be trivial in a modern language it feels like we're working harder instead of smarter.
> Unlike most database management systems (DBMS), Project:M36 is opinionated software which adheres strictly to the mathematics of the relational algebra. The purpose of this adherence is to prove that software which implements mathematically-sound design principles reaps benefits in the form of code clarity, consistency, performance, and future-proofing.
> Project:M36 can be used as an in-process or remote DBMS.
> Project:M36 is written entirely in the Haskell programming language.
I made something like this for Morgan Stanley some years ago, a structurally typed eager variant of Haskell with static elimination of type class constraints (so no runtime penalty for overloading) and uses LLVM for the back-end:
http://github.com/morgan-stanley/hobbes/
We used it for processing and analyzing billions of events per day. Using structural algebraic types let us encode market data (obviously) but also complex data structures inside trading systems that we could correlate with market data.
As you say, Haskell-ish expressions are much more compact and capable than SQL, which was one of the reasons I wanted to build it.
It also had a somewhat novel compression method (“types as probabilities” if you like the old Curry-Howard view), which was very important to manage billions of daily events.
As far as query languages go, you may want to look into prql, kusto or google's alternative (i forgot its name). They are composable, and more natural.
Sooooo if you use a SQL database and a Haskell access library, you kind of get this.
Like esqueleto for instance. With it, you basically use Haskell as a meta-programming language for SQL. It's really nice when it works.
But yeah..makes me think that a more first-class thing would be even better.
Tbh, maybe Haskell compiled to a lower-level query language would be better. A language that is about tables and btrees etc. Where there's no planner because the low-level language is the plan.
Consider acquiring the vendor. Give them a heads up that you're considering building in house and you'll at least get better service in the meantime. Make sure their leadership gets the message.
If your business is growing and this is an important part of the business, then you'll eventually regret not building in-house. Of course, you may regret poor execution on the in-house solution, but the response to that is to start small and incrementally grow scope instead of trying to switch over a big mission-critical system. All big functional systems start as small functional systems and grow incrementally. It's easy to imagine the system you'd like to end up with, it's hard to imagine a series of small changes to get there from where you are. But if you want it to be successful, you have to take the longer path that is in production the whole way through.
Consider having the new development focus on features you don't have in the current vendor solution instead of replacing features you already have. These will be more impactful and give the new team some positive inertia.
MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries including Finance, Recruiting, Sales, Marketing, and Security.
We’re a fully-remote company with a global footprint in over 20 countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome.
We are looking for passionate individuals for whom programming is not just a job but it’s something they love to do. We're obsessed with computers, programming, big data, databases, compilers, hardware, math, data science, and the internet. Does this sound like you? Please apply to join our team.
Our code base is very friendly to new contributors. You'll have a fully-functional development environment within hours (fully automated) and be pushing commits on your first day. Deployments to production happen multiple times per day and finish in less than 2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript/TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git.
We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate two datacenters with high performance servers we've built that are capable of dealing with the volumes of data we process. We've implemented our own distributed file system. We do full-scale web crawls. We download and perform static analysis on the entire universe of Android APKs and iOS IPAs that are published. Unlike a typical startup where you'll spend half of your time in meetings, and the other half fixing bugs from Jira tickets— at MixRank you'll get to challenge yourself with difficult technical problems that will help you to grow as an individual.
We're hiring continuously for the positions below— they aren't singular positions that will close once filled. Our philosophy on hiring is that the candidate is more important than the position. For each new member of the team, we design a custom role and responsibilities that are specialized to their interests. Other companies will come up with a long list of specific requirements for a position with the expectation that you'll exactly replace someone from the team, or that you'll be the perfect tetris piece that satisfies the job requirements decided by a committee. MixRank is more pragmatic: we'll first get excited about having a unique individual on the team, then we'll figure out the best way to accommodate their specific talents.
We're looking for remote junior engineers that have 0-3 years of professional experience in software, and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. This is an open-ended entry role with mentorship and diverse opportunities to work on all areas of our product: databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more. To stand out, please highlight what makes you unique: passion for computing, curiosity and side projects, work ethic, niche research, etc.
Ideally you've already graduated, but if you still have one or more years left of school, please feel free to apply anyway, and if you're the right fit for the team we'll figure out a way to accommodate your schedule.
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Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time
We're hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, devops, and more. We'll cater the role to whatever subset of these areas match your interests.
Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, frontend/backend web development, and data mining.
We encourage founders in software engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, design, and product to reach out. If you don't see a relevant position open, reach out to jobs at mixrank.com. We care more about the person than the job position, and we're happy to craft the perfect position for anyone that joins our team. People with founder experience tend to be very successful at MixRank, and our leadership team is filled with founders.
I assure you that I am not a bot (it feels absurd having to respond to that accusation). I also assure you that we are hiring and filling positions. Someone joined the team yesterday, another is joining on Monday, and an offer is going out today.
I'm open to constructive feedback (email in profile), but otherwise I'm at a loss of how to respond to this.
> Team is 41 full-time, full-remote from 20+ countries.
as your headcount.
At the very least, it also shows (and not just with those numbers, but the entire text) that your entire post is just copy pasted every single time, the same two positions, "Jr Software Engineer" and "Software Engineer" (although you did add "Ex Founders" this time).
> but otherwise I'm at a loss of how to respond to this.
This comes across a little naive. You've honestly no idea how someone might come to the conclusion that posting the exact same post several times with the exact same positions and headcount might find something a little "off" about the posts, at best?
There's a listing for "Junior Software Engineer", but I don't see anything for "Software Engineer" or "Ex-founder" on the page you linked. And the salary ranges seem implausibly low, at least for Americans.
The low-end salary on most of those positions is below the US federal minimum wage. I realize the company is hiring "global" candidates, but if what you really mean is "candidates from outside the US, Canada, or Europe", that's unusual enough that you should be calling it out.
It's even worse. Let's assume good faith and assume the below is a typo that will be immediately rectified:
> Dallas, TX, US $10K - $30K
In the USA, this is below the poverty line, and less than what you make wiping down floors in a fast food burger place off the highway in a shady part of town with no health insurance.
This is a part-time position, expected to be concurrent with full-time employment or higher education. It's paid hourly and the salary range was defined based on expected number of hours, estimated about 1/10 to 1/5 of a full-time position (there's no way to define hourly compensation in that form field, and the number of hours isn't known exactly ahead of time).
You should just state the hours (4-8 hours a week apparently) and hourly rate (still no idea based on this vague math) in the job req then. Especially when listed next to other offshore jobs with such low wages, it's a confusing and bad look.
If multiple unrelated people are so mislead that you have to answer questions about it, it's a good sign the issue is your communication, not their understanding of it.
My optimistic hope when reading their salaries is that they posted a monthly value instead of annual. If the values are in fact annual then the execs are completely delusional.
Can't be. Nobody would ever pay n entry level data center technician in Dallas $30k per month either. It's bizarre. You'd have to hire exclusively felons without high school degrees to be able to command such a low wage.
We get some good candidates when the low end isn't too high because some people are just starting their career, are looking for internships, or are humble. We've hired some very talented people that come in with low expectations, and then we're able to calibrate them upwards.
Salaries vary widely around the world, as you know, and we hire in almost all countries. We have team members in 22+ countries, including US and EU. If you tried hiring globally I expect you'll find many talented people won't apply for your positions if the salary range is too far out of their expectations.
I am interested in the role of Junior Software Engineer, and have a skill-set of junior full-stack developer with good experience in React, Next.js and with back-end as well (lambda functions, node.js), and solid personal projects to show, and particularly in front-end development.
What do you say, I am a good match for this role ?
Yes, there was the Minnesota Coronary Survey which was an RCT on polyunsaturated fats vs saturated fats. It was launched intending to prove the opposite conclusion, but ended up proving that polyunsaturated fats cause significantly higher mortality rates than saturated fats. It's hard to do better than this as a study because it's an RCT that did not rely on self-reported data (it was conducted in hospitals and nursing homes), and it measured a variable that's challenging to fake and relevant to health (death).
A [meta-analysis of all RCTs](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28526025/) seems to suggest there's no real difference between these kinds of fats. Is there a particular reason you are using only one study to draw strong conclusions?
This is exactly the right way to think about it. One should be happy when the network works, and not expect any packet to make it somewhere on any particular schedule. Ideally. In practice it's too expensive to plan this way for most systems, so we compensate by pretending the failure modes don't exist.
MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries including Finance, Recruiting, Sales, Marketing, and Security.
We’re a fully-remote company with a global footprint in over 20 countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome.
We are looking for passionate individuals for whom programming is not just a job but it’s something they love to do. We're obsessed with computers, programming, big data, databases, compilers, hardware, math, data science, and the internet. Does this sound like you? Please apply to join our team.
Our code base is very friendly to new contributors. You'll have a fully-functional development environment within hours (fully automated) and be pushing commits on your first day. Deployments to production happen multiple times per day and finish in less than 2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript/TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git.
We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate two datacenters with high performance servers we've built that are capable of dealing with the volumes of data we process. We've implemented our own distributed file system. We do full-scale web crawls. We download and perform static analysis on the entire universe of Android APKs and iOS IPAs that are published. Unlike a typical startup where you'll spend half of your time in meetings, and the other half fixing bugs from Jira tickets— at MixRank you'll get to challenge yourself with difficult technical problems that will help you to grow as an individual.
We're hiring continuously for the positions below— they aren't singular positions that will close once filled. Our philosophy on hiring is that the candidate is more important than the position. For each new member of the team, we design a custom role and responsibilities that are specialized to their interests. Other companies will come up with a long list of specific requirements for a position with the expectation that you'll exactly replace someone from the team, or that you'll be the perfect tetris piece that satisfies the job requirements decided by a committee. MixRank is more pragmatic: we'll first get excited about having a unique individual on the team, then we'll figure out the best way to accommodate their specific talents.
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Junior Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time
We're looking for remote junior engineers that have 0-3 years of professional experience in software, and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. This is an open-ended entry role with mentorship and diverse opportunities to work on all areas of our product: databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more. To stand out, please highlight what makes you unique: passion for computing, curiosity and side projects, work ethic, niche research, etc.
Ideally you've already graduated, but if you still have one or more years left of school, please feel free to apply anyway, and if you're the right fit for the team we'll figure out a way to accommodate your schedule.
--
Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time
We're hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, devops, and more. We'll cater the role to whatever subset of these areas match your interests.
Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, frontend/backend web development, and data mining.
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Ex-Founders (all roles) - Remote (Global), Full-Time
We encourage founders in software engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, design, and product to reach out. If you don't see a relevant position open, reach out to jobs at mixrank.com. We care more about the person than the job position, and we're happy to craft the perfect position for anyone that joins our team. People with founder experience tend to be very successful at MixRank, and our leadership team is filled with founders.
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I'm Scott, Founder/CEO/CTO. Please apply here: https://app.dover.com/jobs/mixrank
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