Golang News

Event: FOSDEM 2016 call for proposals

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:32:00 +0000

5 points posted by gopher

Golang Wiki Wrapup 2015-10-09

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:07:00 +0000

5 points posted by lolly

Hiring: R&D engineer at Kubity in Paris #paris

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:46:00 +0000

4 points posted by gopher

Hiring: Systems Engineer at CodePen.io #remote

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:36:00 +0000

Hello Friend! We’re looking for a strong systems programmer to help push CodePen’s editor capabilities forward. The applicant must be talented, dedicated and have a strong background in Docker and Ruby, with Golang as a plus. The candidate must be willing to work remotely (or on-site in Bend, Oregon) with a small team. Is that you?

CodePen offers a lot in terms of team, product, flexibility, relaxed work environment, benefits, and interesting technical problems to solve.

Team

We’re a small team with a big love for our community. The 7 of us support and push each other forward. We’re proud of the work we do and we’re close-knit and happy. Politics are non-existent and our team is diverse in experience and background.

Product

We support 1.5m CodePen users who’ve created over 15m Pens. Our users are creative, excited and supportive. No trolls here.

Relaxed Work Environment

While we take our role seriously, we’re not building banking software, so the pressure is pretty low. Our investors are proud that we’ve reached profitability, and we’re not pushed to raise another round, so 40-45 hours a week are the norm. As parents, we accommodate and understand family situations and are flexible to allow you to work in a way that supports your life. In other words, 60 hour weeks are not happening.

Location Flexibility

We all work remotely and in the time zone we choose. Our team is in Australia, Oregon, Illinois, Florida, and Virginia. We build the organization around a “remote-first” culture and have worked this way for the last 5 years. We recently built a sweet office in Bend, Oregon if you’d like to work in a mountain town with great snowboarding! But, with only two of us here, this is not a power center or central office. Your location is your choice.

Benefits

We have great insurance, unlimited vacation, and a gym benefit so you stay healthy. We’re in this for the experience of working on our own terms. As a member of the early team, you’ll get a significant amount of equity.

Interesting Tech Problems

This is where you, the systems programmer, would truly shine. We have tons of ideas for where you’d fit in.

The Pen Editor

The Pen Editor is the heart of what we do at CodePen. We have a dream of making it much better and could use your help. Right now, users write HTML/CSS/JS in the browser, and our back-end systems run preprocessors like Sass/Babel/Typescript/Markdown on Ruby/Node/Lambda. You would help us design a system that would allow CodePen to process back-end languages as well.

The Project Editor

The Project Editor is another area we’d love to vastly improve. Right now the editor fakes a file system in the browser, and on the back end each user gets a Docker container which mounts an Amazon EFS volume inside of it. We write to EFS and run gulp/webpack over the files to produce static output, which we serve via nginx on different hosts also mounting EFS.

We’re hitting performance bottlenecks with EFS and we’d love to blue-sky another way to handle this because EFS is simply too slow. Your job would be to investigate other disk solutions like NFS, Gluster, or others to handle our current editor problems.

But that’s not all. Just like the Pen Editor, we also want to allow users to run a Node server alongside their front-end code. This comes with a set of challenges around running untrusted code that you’ll be prepared to secure.

A Local Editor

We have dreams of making an offline, Electron version of CodePen. It’d be amazing to allow our users to have trouble-free editing experience on their desktop with the option to push their web assets to the CodePen community. Can we embed a container solution inside a desktop app? We’d like you to investigate and find out.

Modernize our Current Stack

The CodePen stack runs about 80 nodes right now. All services are in Docker, but because CodePen has been around longer than orchestration frameworks, some services still start using traditional docker run commands, some are on Docker Swarm Classic, and some on 17.05 new-style swarms. You would design the system from scratch, moving everything into Swarm or Kubernetes. Although our domain knowledge is in Swarm, we’re open to strong arguments for the best system, not the one we’re on because it was the front-runner we started. Maybe if we perfect this in our current AWS VPC, we could forklift the system to GCP?

Summary

We’re looking for someone who’s smart, fun, and capable to join our team. You’d have tons of autonomy and huge levers to pull. If you’re interested, please reach out to tim@codepen.io

4 points posted by norbertfuhs

Hiring: CTO position in Copenhagen

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:40:00 +0000

4 points posted by norbertfuhs

Hiring: Industrial IoT Pioneers seeking Golang CTO in Copenhagen!

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:12:00 +0000

A Copenhagen based pioneering IoT start up specialising in the Industrial sector are seeking a senior developer/CTO level Golang professional to join their team!

They’ve been active for a year already and are winning projects constantly, resulting in this urgent request to find a technical lead to build and run the development team!

They’ve already won projects with the likes of Siemens and SAP, and have an impressive pipeline of other customers waiting to bring them on too.

You’ll join at the beginning of the journey, as they aim to transform the Industrial sector and align it with their IoT ideas.

Ideally the right candidate lives in Denmark already and is Danish, but exceptions can be made for the perfect person.

Get in touch for more info!

3 points posted by norbertfuhs

Hiring: Software Engineer - hardware security and cryptocurrency at Cosmos #berlin #sf #toronto

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:47:00 +0000

This role is a great match for applicants looking to work at the intersection of cryptography, systems programming, hardware security modules and cryptocurrencies.

Chorus builds validators and network nodes for modern Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrencies. Our infrastructure shall receive, check accounting in and process financial transactions for cryptocurrency users.

The successful candidate will build codebases powering digital signature and other network infrastructure. Hardware Security Modules will be used to harden security against key theft, physical attacks and network attacks. Prior experience with system programming languages, cryptographic libraries and Hardware Security Modules is desired.

3 points posted by gopher

Hiring: Senior Web Developer at thoughtbot #sf

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:43:00 +0000

Hello! I write Go code at thoughtbot (@croaky and @thoughtbot on GitHub) and am looking for more Gophers to join me and my teammates in San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Austin. The "catch" is that you should be willing to take on Rails projects if we don't have active Go projects at a given time. We're seeing a good flow of Go projects, though, so I'm hoping we'll get to a point where folks can do Go-only projects if they want to! 3 points posted by gopher

What's so bad about the stdlibs log package?

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:39:00 +0000

3 points posted by gopher

Concurrent web requests

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 18:52:00 +0000

3 points posted by kenny

Using interface types as map keys

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:41:00 +0000

3 points posted by kenny

Hiring: Go developers at Jexia #apeldoorn #sao-paulo

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:02:00 +0000

Jexia is hiring Gophers that are ready to work on the next best thing in development and wants to become a kickass Foosball players. So, what are we (and hopefully you) working on? We are developing a development ecosystem (BaaS + more) which developers can use to quickly build and prototype web & mobile applications and assist them even further (disclosed but happy to tell you more). As a Software Developer at Jexia you will lead the way in solving problems in high-performance, distributed computing. And which developer doesn’t love solving problems! And imagine you will be solving problems for millions of developers worldwide by creating Jexia! Jexia’s principles are giving, sharing and helping each other. We organize and host meetups and would love for our devs to be evangelists and speakers at meetups. Opportunity to go to meetups or conferences will be provided. But having fun and pride in your work comes first! 2 points posted by gopher