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A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you. I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

Some specific areas where we're looking to hire:

Frontend engineer - Splunk is doing some awesome frontend development, so if you're interested in the intersection of presenting big data in a human-usable manner, this is a great position. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=okO3VfwQ

Sys Admin: we recently launched Storm, our Splunk in the Cloud offering. We're looking for a sysadmin to help us manage that undertaking. This is a product that just launched, so you could have a big impact here. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=ou6XVfwc

Sr Developer for Hadoop: Splunk is doing more and more work with Hadoop, and it's a completely new offering for the company and product. We're looking to add more people to the team who are excited about the space and want to improve the Hadoop landscape. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAGK3?jvi=o792VfwX

Also, check out our new dev portal which we launched recently: http://dev.splunk.com

Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA and more - Splunk (full-time, H1B, interns)

A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people. Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you.

I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

Also, check out our new dev portal which we launched recently: http://dev.splunk.com

I hit a similar thing in some code I was writing, and ended up debugging it for about 5 hours. Couldn't figure out why when some tests ran, one of them would just die.

Turns out I forgot to use 'var' in a library function, and the tests were running concurrently, and so one clobbered the other. It was not fun.

Been using JSHint ever since.

Search seems a bit whacked, at the moment. If I search for 'redis', for example, I'll get many results multiple times (right after each).

Otherwise, looks pretty useful.

Just as another note, that picture was used on the front page of the biggest newspaper in Israel regarding the news story.

Splunk, Seattle, San Francisco, Cupertino (H1B)

Splunk is hiring. You can see available positions here: http://www.splunk.com/view/careers/SP-CAAAAGG

We're generally hiring for everything, including core server engineers, dev platform engineers, dev marketing, product management, QA, performance, UI, etc. It's a big space with a lot of opportunity, and we're doing our best to capture it.

I work on the Dev Platform team in Seattle, and it's a blast. We're a small team (3 devs, including my manager, VP of Dev Platform), in a great space (across the street from Whole Foods in SLU), and everybody at Splunk is great. Feel free to reach out to me (my email is in my profile) with any questions.

We do H-1B, pre-IPO stock, benefits, etc.

Splunk, Seattle, San Francisco, Cupertino (H-1B)

Splunk is hiring. You can see available positions here: http://www.splunk.com/view/careers/SP-CAAAAGG

We're generally hiring for everything, including core server engineers, dev platform engineers, dev marketing, product management, QA, performance, UI, etc. It's a big space with a lot of opportunity, and we're doing our best to capture it.

I work on the Dev Platform team in Seattle, and it's a blast. We're a small team (3 devs, including my manager, VP of Dev Platform), in a great space (across the street from Whole Foods in SLU), and everybody at Splunk is great. Feel free to reach out to me (my email is in my profile) with any questions.

We do H-1B, pre-IPO stock, benefits, etc.

I've used browserify to "compile" node.js files to a single, browser-includeable JS file. It has worked remarkably well.

Also, James (@substack) is a rockstar. He's continuously made the library better and better.

You realize this is from April, right? The review period is nearly done, and most employees should be seeing the results by September 15th.

(disclaimer: I used to work at MS until very recently)

It's funny, I clicked on the link to read this, and suddenly he mentions Katrin. I worked with her on a small project, and was hugely impressed by her skill and her in general. Whoever gets to work with her is quite lucky!

Best of luck to Katrin and Bart - too bad I can't relocate to Sydney :D

Congrats Sriram - great work!

We launched WikiPanda, what we believe to be the best Wikipedia browser for the Windows Phone:

http://wiki.pandabits.com

I'm subscribed to the RSS feed, and I click through the comments to each article I find interesting. If the comments are interesting, I'll click through to the article as well.

I've never submitted a link, but did a couple of "Ask HN" threads.

You bring up two interesting points.

Regarding the first (partnering), I definitely think that's a great way to learn and I'm definitely open to those possibilities if someone is interested. Though the question still stands regarding how to find such a person, and also how to make them want to let you work with them when you're admitting upfront that you're not a superstar? :)

Regarding the second (difficulties of being external), I'm not sure I agree. Say for example I wanted to make a HN-like website. I'd talk to this person about it, and say that I was planning on having one table for posts, and one table for comments, and then I'd scan the comments to rebuild the threaded discussion tree. "Mentor" might respond by saying "that's an OK start, but you're going to hit some bottlenecks pretty quick. Here's another way to do it/think about it/etc".

I think that in reality, when you bring projects down to their architecture and design, they become manageable even for an external person, as long as they've been involved from the beginning. As such, I definitely think they have an opportunity to make an impact.

Regarding your desire to find a strategy/business mentor, maybe this post is helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098994

I have a 30" monitor (with dual DVI) at home, and not being able to use it with my mini-DP MBP is a tragedy, let alone being able to connect a single laptop to two monitors...

I've seen offers from 75k to 95k (though the 95k was an outlier). Most were in the 80-85k for first tier companies.

Things I am curious about:

1. What made you first think that starting a company is right for you?

2. Was there anyone/anything who inspired you to manage the company the way you do, and to define the culture the company has?

3. Was it obvious that the company needed to be in place X? If X is not in Silicon Valley, why not? Do you think it was the right decision?

4. Where is the best source of good people for you? What characteristics are important for them to possess (good schools, lots of experience, dedication, etc).

That's it for now. I'll add more if I think of any.

You could also try Israel - anywhere between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Living costs are much lower, it is easier to get work visas, and the entire tech sector is based around a startup mentality. It also has a vibrant VC community.

I think we agree more than we disagree, and I'm sorry for doing a bad job of getting my point across.

I agree that if you set out to "beat Wufoo", then you are not going about it the right way, and you'll probably lose. What I worry about is that if you set out to "make the best product for your customers", and you don't believe Wufoo is it, then in some way, you have an implicit goal of "beating Wufoo", but one which I find acceptable.

I also entirely agree that a market which has a "good" product (both in terms of the product, and in terms of the intentions) might be the wrong market to enter (Google and search is also an example). However, I think we both agree that it is a market that you CAN enter, and you CAN win, even though it might be harder.

Hopefully that makes more sense.

I have some reservations about your claim that "having "beat Wufoo" as one of your guiding principles you would have already lost.". Namely, it scares me that we're so willing to just assign the high ground to one group, and say that they trying to dislodge them is not "being good".

I realize that what you are saying is that your goal should be to "be good", and that if your goal is to beat Wufoo, then your goal isn't to be good. But that's a slippery slope. My goal might be to make the best product in this market, and that implicitly means that I want to beat Wufoo by the simple virtue of being better than them.

(Disclaimer: I have nothing against Wufoo. I haven't really used their product either).

My guess is because your competitor having "benevolence" does not exclude you from having it. It is not a scarce resource that only n parties can use.

Just a specific comment on whether or not I'd pay for GMail: I would pay for any service for which I depend on if it gave me a higher service guarantee and would also include support.