Security Engineering is a small but mighty team (we went from 2 people this time last year to 14 today) securing systems at very high scale. Platform Security works at protecting the platform we're building these high-scale systems on top of. Looking for all sorts of backgrounds to apply; Security folks of course, but also SRE and backend devs with some security feelings.
Among the projects we'll be doing next year are:
- mTLS for S2S auth
- Expanding malware detection by leveraging VirusTotal and other platforms
- Building WebAuthN requirements and other security controls for Discord the app (we're the only enterprise customer of Discord!)
Can be in office in SF, fully remote, hybrid, whatever you feel. My team has people on 3/4 continental US timezones.
Stack: Python, Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Kubernetes, and more
Not the parent commenter, but there's a lot of features I like out of Pocket Casts that Spotify doesn't do as well.
- Queuing/auto-queuing to a next-up playlist (with features like add to start or add to end)
- Faster playback (e.g. listening at 2x speed)
- Alerts when new episodes drop to a given feed
It's very configurable and works well.
Also, I just dislike having to abandon my music queue when I listen to a podcast on Spotify. It's nice to have music playing at home, pause it, go for a walk listening to a podcast, finish the walk, then resume the same song/playlist at home.
I never understand this line of thought. We invest in infrastructure to enable people to move between places, commune with one another, and trade goods. We've invested a tremendous amount in roads. Why do we expect other things like the USPS, Amtrak, etc. to generate profits when they're an expenditure in infrastructure?
The argument goes that if nobody is willing to pay the price for something(passenger rail), and chooses another alternative(driving), then it means that the service is not worth having and subsiding it would just be a waste of taxpayer money.
Of course its not that simple, because driving is subsidized(I would prefer every road to be a toll road and get rid of the general taxes that used to go to roads)...but you get the point.
I mean, the issue is I can't choose to pay for quality rail service because it doesn't exist here. I can't take HSR from e.g., Boston to NYC, SF to LA, or Seattle to Portland/Vancouver. These are all trips I would have gladly made at 100-400 dollar ticket prices in the last year.
Yes but you're exceptionally rare, and might discover you're wrong about your preferences if someone were to take the big gamble of building such a service. Also the whole era of passenger rail may have been killed off by lockdowns.
Train services are basically always hugely subsidised by governments. They could not survive against cars, buses and trucks if they weren't. The subsidies in Switzerland are eye-wateringly high for example. It's effectively a form of government planning designed to boost city/worker density as governments and others believe offices full of workers yields large benefits, and trains are the highest density/capacity form of passenger transport by far. So if you want ultra-dense urban cores you need a lot of trains.
But do we actually need those? Governments sure haven't acted like it this year. Now big corps are eyeing their expensive city centre HQs and wondering if the real estate is worth it, the workers are seeing how much they save when they aren't being forced to pay for the very expensive rail tickets, the managers are seeing that many (but not all) workers are happier without the time sucking, cattle-car commutes ... and governments are basically having to give up on the fiction that rail companies were private in order to keep them from going completely bust. But how long can that be sustained, if travel patterns have been permanently altered? No dense urban cores = few commuters paying business rates for rush hour travel = even worse economics for trains.
> I would prefer every road to be a toll road and get rid of the general taxes that used to go to roads
Off-topic I know, but I'd only like to see this if the tolls were reasonable with respect to the maintenance of the affected stretches of road. $0.50 per car per mile more than pays off a typical 4-lane interstate in a year, yet tolls are often an order of magnitude larger and drawn out for 20+ years.
> Germany's LKW-Maut is a toll for goods vehicles based on the distance driven in kilometres, the emission category of the vehicle and the number of axles.
It's meant to compensate some of these damages caused by high weight. If I remember correctly, road damage scales at a power of four of axle weight. It's billed semi-automatically (wireless stations along the road + device in the truck) and you don't even notice it as a normal driver.
Legal side note: Germany also has a vehicle tax that roughly scales with the size of the vehicle. But this only applies to vehicles registered in Germany. Because of the European Single Market, a lot of trucks running on German highways are registered in foreign countries (esp. Eastern Europe since drivers from those countries draw smaller salaries). The toll was enacted specifically to ensure that those foreign trucks contribute towards road maintenance as well. It does apply to German trucks, too, because the EU has rules against laws that discriminate against foreign EU citizens.
It's incredibly easy for trucks; they're already licensed and weighed. Most trucks in the US already have something in the cab to handle signaling the driver to pull in to the weigh station, implying that adding tracking & billing wouldn't be too hard. We're also starting to see GPS & LTE in the trailers too, to fight theft, so that's an easy integration point.
It's a bit harder with cars, since there's a lot less infrastructure to track usage, and people would rightfully balk at the invasion of privacy.
It's hard to justify investing in rail. At best, in most parts of the US it is slower, more expensive, and less convenient. There are some edge cases that it makes real sense for, but everywhere else is better served by cars and airplanes.
>> It's hard to justify investing in rail. At best, in most parts of the US it is slower, more expensive, and less convenient
But that's because we haven't invested in it! Before the 1960s most roads in the US were also terrible, so by that logic we shouldn't have invested in the Highway/Freeway Interstate system.
Evidence from Europe and Asia shows that this is probably wrong. People in those areas strongly prefer high speed rail for trips that are less than 3-4 hours long, and begin to switch over to airplanes beyond that.
We're right back to "remember how big and sparsely populated the US is." 150mph in three hours is good for inter-city transportation in the Northeast, but a lot of other places would have trouble justifying the cost.
And that's nothing compared with what a truly high speed train would cost to implement here.
Again, that's a great reason not to build HSR in Iowa or the Dakotas. But if you look where the population centers of America, this excuse begins to fall down. A huge percentage of America lives on the coasts in fairly dense pockets, far denser than many countries with existing HSR.
High speed rail generally goes a bit faster than 300km/h. At that speed a lot of things are less than 4 hours away. Chicago is a bit less than 4 hours from NYC at that speed, as is Seattle from San Francisco. San Francisco to Seattle is obviously not a great candidate for a high speed rail line because it doesn't pass through much of interest, but it gives a good sense of the scale.
There's tons of routes in the US that could make sense if there wasn't so much NIMBYism, corruption and the oil and auto lobby, let's be honest.
SF-Sacramento, SF-LA, LA-San Diego, LA-Vegas, Seattle-Portland, the whole Northeast Corridor (a better truly high speed Acela), Houston-Dallas, Orlando-Miami, Pittsburg-DC and and and. There's lots of large cities in the US in the high speed rail sweetspot of 400-800 miles (2-4h travel time) apart
You seem to be presenting this as a false dichotomy. The road network can't go away even if we have excellent rail travel. If you look at the incremental costs of additional traffic capacity, road transport is pretty competitive.
Alto Pharmacy | San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO | Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite | https://www.alto.com
At Alto we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. We recently announced our series D funding and our plans to expand nationwide.
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, Orange County, Nevada, and Denver, and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
Hiring for: frontend engineers, backend engineers, fullstack engineers, early career engineers, software security engineers, security incident detection and response engineers, infrastructure engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, pharmacists, and many more-- come one, come all, we're hiring!
Alto Pharmacy | San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO | Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite | https://www.alto.com
At Alto we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. We recently announced our series D funding and our plans to expand nationwide. (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/alto-pharmac...)
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, Orange County, Nevada, and Denver, and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
Hiring for: frontend engineers, backend engineers, fullstack engineers, early career engineers, software security engineers, security incident detection and response engineers, infrastructure engineers, engineering managers-- come one, come all, we're hiring!
I interviewed at Alto a couple of years back. Even though I went to take another offer (it was more closely related to the area I wanted to focus on) their interview process was great and their product/engineering team seemed fantastic.
Alto (formerly ScriptDash) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite | https://www.alto.com
At Alto we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. We recently announced our series B funding fueling our nationwide expansion. (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/12/pill-delivery-startup-scri...)
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded ($23 million series B) technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
Alto (formerly ScriptDash) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite | https://www.alto.com
At Alto we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. We recently announced our series B funding fueling our nationwide expansion. (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/12/pill-delivery-startup-scri...)
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded ($23 million series B) technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
Alto (formerly ScriptDash) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite | https://www.alto.com
At Alto we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. We recently announced our series B funding fueling our nationwide expansion. (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/12/pill-delivery-startup-scri...)
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded ($23 million series B) technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
At ScriptDash we are using technology to re-design and re-build the pharmacy from the ground up to offer better patient care and improve people's lives. Justin Kan recently named us one of his 3 favorite recent startups (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618741).
We believe that the status quo in the pharmacy industry is broken and we’re doing something about it. We’re a VC funded ($6 million series A) technology startup based in San Francisco made up of ex-Facebook engineers. We offer free medication delivery in the Bay Area and we’re building an advanced technology platform to help patients manage and understand their medication therapy. We allow patients to text, call or email their pharmacists with any question and strive to provide an amazing patient experience. The pharmacy experience is completely broken, and we have a huge opportunity to use technology to improve the lives of millions of patients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, and Go. We’re offering a competitive salary and a generous equity package.
https://discord.com/jobs/6472567002
Security Engineering is a small but mighty team (we went from 2 people this time last year to 14 today) securing systems at very high scale. Platform Security works at protecting the platform we're building these high-scale systems on top of. Looking for all sorts of backgrounds to apply; Security folks of course, but also SRE and backend devs with some security feelings.
Among the projects we'll be doing next year are:
- mTLS for S2S auth
- Expanding malware detection by leveraging VirusTotal and other platforms
- Building WebAuthN requirements and other security controls for Discord the app (we're the only enterprise customer of Discord!)
Can be in office in SF, fully remote, hybrid, whatever you feel. My team has people on 3/4 continental US timezones.
Stack: Python, Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Kubernetes, and more