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Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidat

Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with a zero-knowledge approach to customer privacy. We use Python, Django, web.py, WSGI, jQuery, PostgreSQL, nginx, and varnish, with some occasional heavy-lifting help from C and Erlang. SpiderOak is a distributed, virtual company - we all set our own work schedule and work from home, coffee shops, or anywhere that can provide a stable Internet connection. We coordinate via Wikis, IRC, email, telepathy, and even face-to-face when possible. We don't bother with time sheets or other types of wage accounting -- we're a tight enough group that it would be obvious if someone wasn't doing her or his job. We've noticed that some of the most accomplished people we know don't necessarily have polished or extensive resumes. As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender, geographic location, resume, etc. We like smart people who love what they do and do it really well. Period. The rest of the story is here: https://spideroak.com/blog/20101030125548-spideroak-is-growing-and-looking-for-remote-help-in-engineering-marketing-and-customer-service https://spideroak.com/blog/20101030125548-spideroak-is-growi...

StavrosK 16y ago
Having used SpiderOak for the past few months, I would like to express my interest in working with you guys. Your technologies are exactly my field of expertise, so, email me (my email is in my profile, I can't find yours, sadly)?
ia 16y ago
Quick typo--the last sentence on https://spideroak.com/userprofiles https://spideroak.com/userprofiles, at the bottom: "on top of the all that, they pay less money"
- colinprince 16y ago
  Woops, I read this as Spideroak pays less money :)
jemfinch 16y ago
> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.
- 3pt14159 16y ago
  There is an "etc" there. I mean it isn't like he wants to cloud the message with "transgenderism" or stuff that doesn't impact a large portion of the application base.
- WildUtah 16y ago
  Only some ages (40+) and genders (female, possibly male, but not trans or any minority orientations) are protected in all of the USA. Even those categories are not protected in the vast majority of the world. Plus, we need some kind of flourish to express the idea that a business is committed to equal opportunity. I like "equal opportunity employer" for that, but it's been watered down.
follower 16y ago
Looks like you have a bunch of spam comments on: https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-space-efficient-keyvalue-store-for-arbitrarily-large-values-now-in-beta https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-sp... (And an unanswered customer complaint. :) )

StavrosK 16y ago

Having used SpiderOak for the past few months, I would like to express my interest in working with you guys. Your technologies are exactly my field of expertise, so, email me (my email is in my profile, I can't find yours, sadly)?

ia 16y ago

Quick typo--the last sentence on https://spideroak.com/userprofiles https://spideroak.com/userprofiles, at the bottom: "on top of the all that, they pay less money"

colinprince 16y ago
Woops, I read this as Spideroak pays less money :)

jemfinch 16y ago

> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.

3pt14159 16y ago
There is an "etc" there. I mean it isn't like he wants to cloud the message with "transgenderism" or stuff that doesn't impact a large portion of the application base.
WildUtah 16y ago
Only some ages (40+) and genders (female, possibly male, but not trans or any minority orientations) are protected in all of the USA. Even those categories are not protected in the vast majority of the world. Plus, we need some kind of flourish to express the idea that a business is committed to equal opportunity. I like "equal opportunity employer" for that, but it's been watered down.

follower 16y ago

Looks like you have a bunch of spam comments on: https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-space-efficient-keyvalue-store-for-arbitrarily-large-values-now-in-beta https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-sp... (And an unanswered customer complaint. :) )