Ask HN: Newish developer, no college, what to apply for?

A little background, I'm an aspiring developer in his late 20's. I first started programming by teaching myself C at age 13 to tweak a CircleMUD game. That lasted until i learned about women. I didn't do any more programming until about 21 when i taught myself AutoIT and wrote a bot to play the boring parts of EVE online. Fast forward a couple more years to 2008 and i taught myself PHP to write a program that reads in torrent RSS feeds and parses out TV episode name/season/episode. Once it has this in its database it applies user defined favorites to auto-forward specific titles/seasons/etc .torrent files to a download client. This was downloaded by a few thousand users while i was maintaining it, and is now being maintained by another developer as I have moved on.

I haven't been to college. Up until early last year i was working general customer service jobs. When the place i was working for went under i opened up my search and ended up working online for a small company doing PHP Development. In that time i have helped build the a penny auction system utilizing Redis for live auctions, various generic utilities to speed up our development of admin interfaces to e-commerce sites, and more. I love to dig through API code to understand what it does and I have become the go-to person for understanding framework issues on all of our companies sites.

Moving forward i'm very interested in dealing with bigger data. I've been learning about hadoop/cascading/storm and am very curious about Nathan Marz method for beating the CAP theorem( http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html )

tl;dr: no college, some self-taught programming experience, almost 1 year employed as php developer. Interested in branching to python/ruby/<insert something interesting>. Naturally curious.

So this finally leads to my question, what am i qualified for? I live in silicon valley and would like to find a local job where i can work with smart people and learn more than i possibly could on my own. Whenever i look at job posting(ex. stack overflow) most postings say 'Must have BS from elite school' or something to the equivalent. I don't really feel that my one year of programming even matches the 'BS degree or equivalent work experience' that seems to be the minimum for local development jobs.

Should i be looking for Intern jobs? Should i be applying to average developer jobs instead of intern? Every time i browse the job boards i just leave feeling completely un-qualified.

EDIT: Also thought i should add i've been using linux on the desktop since the late 90s and also fill a Systems Administrator role in the company setting up/maintaining apache, nginx, varnish, mysql, elasticsearch, redis, etc. daemon configurations.