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== Systems Engineer at Prismatic, San Francisco ==
Prismatic is a great place to be an engineer – we analyze millions of shared
web pages every day, automatically classify them into tens of thousands of
topics, and serve up personalized feeds in real-time using our homegrown,
lightning fast, machine learning-based relevance engine.  We are looking to
grow our top-notch team, with both junior and senior-level positions available.
We are looking for engineers with deep interest and knowledge in at least one
area core to our business (i.e., distributed systems, ops and tooling, machine
learning, designing and building new product features). We’re a small team, so
you will have the opportunity to have a lot of impact, and to learn from peers
who are extremely talented engineers, computer scientists, and data experts.
Our backend is written entirely in Clojure, a JVM-based LISP that is a dream to
work in. Almost none of us knew it before we joined, and we don’t expect you to
either. We are looking for engineers who will fit well within our engineering
culture: You live and die by good abstractions. You know that they can make the
difference between easily understandable and maintainable code, and a spaghetti
mess.  You think about edge cases and performance implications, and anticipate
future needs.  You read and understand existing code before diving in and
adding your own. You re-use existing code whenever possible, cleaning it up as
needed to be more generally useful.  You know when to do it fast, when to do it
right, and how to find the best compromise between the two.  You recognize that
we are all stewards of the codebase, not owners. You leave code better than you
found it, and you fix bugs without grumbling about whose they are.  You are a
team player who enjoys discussing ideas and implementations with other
engineers.
Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as systems engineer on the Prismatic team:
- Making our crawlers and document analysis better and more comprehensive
- Building out new product features in our API
- Solving tough systems problems to help us scale reliably and robustly
- Building and improving Machine Learning systems for ranking, document analysis, and more
- Creating tools to assist development and ops
- Shipping some of the best open-source Clojure libraries out there, and working with the community to make them better
== Engineering Manager at Prismatic, San Francisco ==
Managers will be responsible for supporting a sizable engineering team, and applicants can expect to be working on the following problems:
- Writing and reviewing code in Clojure, Objective C and Android. You should have great technical depth and a passion for great code.
- Helping to manage the development roadmap for large portions of the product, and working with engineers, tech leads, designers and product managers to efficiently prioritize and execute.
- Recruiting top candidates for both generalist and specialized engineering roles
- Evangelizing our technical brand through external communication, press and speaking at events
- Understanding the growth needs of each person you manage, and helping them continually expand scope and impact within the team.
== Relevance Engineering at Prismatic, San Francisco ==
Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as a relevance engineer on the Prismatic team:
- Feature engineering for improving the quality of news feeds through iterative experiments
- Building and optimizing recommendations for topics for users to follow
- Extending and improving the set of topics available to users
- Systems for quickly training, deploying and testing machine learning models in production
- Creating tools to evaluate the performance of existing machine learning systems
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