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Observed mentions: 2018-03-01 17:36:31 UTC to 2020-07-01 21:55:18 UTC.

0122018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2020

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Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

10 sources
skayli·Jul 1, 2020
Nylas | San Francisco, New York, Denver, or Toronto | U.S. Remote-OK | https://www.nylas.com Our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. The Nylas Cloud APIs powers email, calendar, and contacts features in SaaS products ranging from CRM and marketing automation to recruiting tools, scheduling assistants, legal and real estate platforms, and more. The Nylas email API integrates with 100% of email service providers, allowing bidirectional email sync between SaaS apps and your email client. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Employee Handbook: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Here are some of our open roles. To view all open roles, click the first link below: * All open roles: https://boards.greenhouse.io/nylas?gh_src=3c109cd52 * Se
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nior Frontend/Full Stack Engineer - Developer Experience (Toronto): https://grnh.se/205da68c2us * Senior Backend Engineer (Toronto): https://grnh.se/f35e23e22us * Senior Frontend/Full Stack Engineer - Data Science (Toronto): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Senior Software Engineer (SF): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Staff Engineer (SF): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Toronto): https://grnh.se/7ce2bd522us * Technical Account Manager (SF, NYC, or Denver): https://grnh.se/0589a7a62 * Lead Sales Engineer (NYC): https://grnh.se/8ecdda602us Tech Stack: Python, MySQL, Redis, Kinesis, HAProxy, Linux, Javascript, React, Redux, Flux, Flow, Elasticsearch, AWS, Jenkins, MyPy, nginx
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
junedotai·Jun 1, 2020
Nylas | NYC SF Toronto | Full-time | ONSITE (remote until next year, onsite when safe to return) At Nylas, our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. Our hosted sync platform and APIs enable developers to quickly integrate their apps with email, contacts, and calendar across all providers(including Exchange). We are changing the way companies and developers innovate with e-mail and messaging. Customers like Pipedrive, Hyundai, and Lever use our cloud messaging APIs to power their products and accelerate their ability to innovate. Nylas has raised over $30M from ScaleUP, Spark Capital, 8VC, Data Collective, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and more. We have offices in San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and several of us work remotely. Our HQ is in San Francisco and members have previously worked at Dropbox, Googl
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e, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and VMware. Senior ML Engineer: https://grnh.se/4cd6b9d42us Senior Backend Engineer: https://grnh.se/2f2263742us Senior Frontend/Fullstack Engineer: https://grnh.se/48ae62772us Frontend Engineer: https://grnh.se/d99bf9982us Senior Site Reliability Engineer: https://grnh.se/1c25d0b52us See All Open Positions: https://grnh.se/a9d284042us Our interview process involves a 30-minute phone screen, a 60-minute coding interview using CoderPad over Google Hangouts, and a virtual final round interview with three 30-60-minute whiteboard/technical interviews and 30-minute chat with an Engineering manager. The virtual onsite is also over Zoom, using CoderPad and Draw.io/Miro for our coding and system architecture interviews. If you want to get a feel for who we are and what we're about: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Feel free to email me directly at john.j@nylas.com, thanks!
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
skayli·Jun 1, 2020
Nylas | New York, San Francisco, Toronto, or Denver | U.S. Remote-OK | https://www.nylas.com Our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. The Nylas Cloud APIs powers email, calendar, and contacts features in SaaS products ranging from CRM and marketing automation to recruiting tools, scheduling assistants, legal and real estate platforms, and more. The Nylas email API integrates with 100% of email service providers, allowing bidirectional email sync between SaaS apps and your email client. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Employee Handbook: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Here are some of our open roles. To view all open roles, click the first link below: * All open roles: https://boards.greenhouse.io/nylas?gh_src=3c109cd52 * Se
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nior Frontend/Full Stack Engineer - Developer Experience (Toronto): https://grnh.se/205da68c2us * Frontend/Full Stack Engineer - Developer Experience (Toronto): https://grnh.se/20f570722us * Senior Backend Engineer (SF, Toronto): https://grnh.se/f35e23e22us * Senior Frontend/Full Stack Engineer - Data Science (SF, Toronto): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Senior Software Engineer (SF): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Staff Engineer (SF): https://grnh.se/a46aac712us * Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Toronto): https://grnh.se/7ce2bd522us * Technical Account Manager (SF, NYC, or Denver): https://grnh.se/0589a7a62 Tech Stack: Python, MySQL, Redis, Kinesis, HAProxy, Linux, Javascript, React, Redux, Flux, Flow, Elasticsearch, AWS, Jenkins, MyPy, nginx
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
catinka13·Jul 1, 2019
Nylas | New York, NY and San Francisco, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.nylas.com Our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. The Nylas Cloud APIs powers email, calendar, and contacts features in SaaS products ranging from CRM and marketing automation to recruiting tools, scheduling assistants, legal and real estate platforms, and more. The Nylas email API integrates with 100% of email service providers, allowing bidirectional email sync between SaaS apps and your email client. We are currently a team of 22 engineers (50% women/non-binary) and proud of our culture and process.If you're interested in learning more, check out our key values page (https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas.), our open-source (https://github.com/nylas/handbook) company handbook and website (www.nylas.com). Our open positions: * Softw
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are Engineer (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/1c18d507-657e-40cf-a331-0533d645... * Software Engineer (NYC): https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/129be974-7575-47f3-a3e3-a62967b6... * Staff Engineer (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/7f6b0dad-7867-4bf9-9697-3e16babb... Site Reliability Engineer (NYC or Remote preferred): https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/904a7af3-1734-47f6-8896-5d9e5b07... Front End Engineer (NYC or SF): https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/9e2f47e1-38f2-46ac-bdf9-b2a05d77... Tech Stack: Python, MySQL, Redis, Kinesis, HAProxy, Linux, Javascript, React, Redux, Flux, Flow, Elasticsearch, AWS, Jenkins, MyPy, nginx
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
karim·Mar 1, 2019
Nylas | Staff Software Engineer | Full-time | SF, NYC or REMOTE The Nylas Cloud API makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work. We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team in San Francisco or New York. This person will work directly with a broad team of engineers to architect, advise, mentor, and be hands on to grow the Nylas API and internal systems. You’ll be responsible for the design, development, and operations of large-scale systems that power inbox sync for all of our customers. Right now, our open-source Python sync engine regularly archives terabytes of data across a massive SQL cluster, and ou
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r Flask APIs handle tens of millions of requests a day. We aim to scale that several times over in the next year. Full job posting: https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/a70ace09-c1af-4022-a586-ffedd18e... Benefits and Perks: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Our team is roughly equal by identified gender (including engineering) and focuses on creating an inclusive environment for all people. We welcome people from all different backgrounds and currently employ startup founders, college graduates from all over the country and the world, and coding academy graduates. We are actively and regularly working with the entire team to shape our culture in a conscious way to our ideal of empowerment, transparency, and kindness. To apply, send me an email with your resumé to karim@nylas.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
karim·Feb 4, 2019
The Nylas Cloud APIs makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work. Our team is roughly equal by identified gender (including engineering) and focuses on creating an inclusive environment for all people. We welcome people from all different backgrounds and currently employ startup founders, college graduates from all over the country and the world, coding academy graduates, and even a professional dancer from the San Francisco Ballet. We are actively and regularly working with the entire team to shape our culture in a conscious way to our ideal of empowerment, transparency, and kindness. We're looking for an experienced engineering man
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ager to manage our San Francisco based engineering team. This person will manage a team of engineers split across multiple domains including but not limited to Product, Platform, and Customers. In this role, you will manage a team of 7-9 engineers. The Engineering manager will report directly to the VP of Engineering. You will work alongside engineering managers responsible for our New York office and Technical Operations. Responsibilities * Communicate priorities clearly to engineers, and act as a liaison with business org to set clear and realistic expectations, and allow engineers to come up with ways to meet priorities * Should provide support to engineers in terms of making sure they have what they need to be productive and successful. * Hiring, disciplinary actions, and budget planning * Always looking for ways to optimize and improve individual and team processes * Not a project manager role Requirements * Previous experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams * Excellent communicator * Agile development experience * Previously worked as an IC in a startup environment * Experience debugging production systems * Experience building high-performance distributed systems Benefits and Perks * https://github.com/nylas/handbook To apply, send me an email at karim@nylas.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
karim·Oct 1, 2018
Nylas – San Francisco, NYC or remote | Site Reliability Engineer | AWS, Ansible, Terraform | Full-time The Nylas Cloud APIs (https://nylas.com) makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work. We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join our team to help build and scale the infrastructure our platform runs on and the tools our developers need to get work done. Our SRE team is responsible for the infrastructure layer of our API platform—the base operating system (including security), CI/CD & deployment tools, monitoring and observability tools, and our horizontally sharded data storage layer which stores tens of terabytes of data.
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At Nylas, “DevOps” is a part of our engineering culture, not a role we’re looking to fill. Our development team shares the pager with operations and makes their own deploys. Our stack: Python, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Debian About you: - You have 3 - 5 years of production engineering experience - You are located anywhere in US timezones - we have offices in San Francisco and NYC and this team contains remote members - You value communication and empathy as much as technical prowess - You have experience automating systems using any modern configuration management system (Chef, Ansible, Puppet) - You have experience running services on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) - You can write reliable code in at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript etc.), though this won’t be a focus of our interview process - You’re excited to create a modern, scalable infrastructure and automate away drudgery We wrote about our values, benefits, perks, and published them in our open-source handbook (https://github.com/nylas/handbook). You can also find more details at: https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas If you're interested in applying, please send me an email at karim@nylas.com!
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
pfista·Aug 1, 2018
Nylas | San Francisco, CA + NYC | Full-time + Remote | https://nylas.com | Developer Success Engineer $80-110k Hey folks! I'm hiring another developer success engineer to join our team of 3 here at Nylas. We're a fast growing company with 34 awesome people. DSE: https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/96a06eac-35df-40c8-9f33-635f7251... We take our culture seriously: https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas See our handbook: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Email me: mike@nylas.com and apply at the link above
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
pfista·Aug 1, 2018
Nylas | San Francisco, CA + NYC | Full-time + Remote | https://nylas.com | Developer Success Engineer $80-110k Hey folks! I'm hiring another developer success engineer to join our team of 3 here at Nylas. We're a fast growing company with 34 awesome people. DSE: https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/96a06eac-35df-40c8-9f33-635f7251... We take our culture seriously: https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas See our handbook: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Email me: mike@nylas.com and apply at the link above
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
pfista·Mar 1, 2018
Nylas | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Onsite | https://nylas.com | Developer Success Engineer $80-110k | Partner Engineer $105-130k Hey folks! I'm hiring for two positions on our customer success team here at Nylas. We're a business communications API that helps developers integrate email, calendar, and contact data into their apps. DSE: https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/9715c82f-2e4f-4b3f-9a8d-d65f8023... Partner Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/nylas/9715c82f-2e4f-4b3f-9a8d-d65f8023... We take our culture seriously: https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas See our handbook: https://github.com/nylas/handbook Email me: mike@nylas.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

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