Boston, MA - <a href="http://www.crimsonhexagon.com" >http://www.crimsonhexagon.com</a>
Crimson Hexagon is one of few consumers of the full Twitter firehose, and we're looking for software engineers to help scale our infrastructure and support phenomenal growth.
With patented algorithms, we use machine learning to measure public opinion about major brands, politics, etc. using the social web as our datasource. Our clients include many household names. We've collected, indexed, and are constantly mining an archive of over 120 billion web and social media documents, adding another 1+ billion every three days.
I found my position here in a "Who is Hiring" thread[0], and the challenges, culture, and people here have been fantastic. We're a lively crew and are well funded. And we have plenty of perks and plenty of fun.
Drop me a line at REDACTED_EMAIL
[0] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832316" >http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832316</a>
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)