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Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA)

If you are looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you through it. Compose hosts production grade MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, etcd, RethinkDB and more to come.

The Compose family has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, collaborate with spirited peers, and to unleash your creative personality.
Some great things about Compose:

* Work from anywhere! (As long as you're legally able to work in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom).

* Many neat conundrums to solve.

* Self-managing, distributed decision making. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.

* Ruby/Go.

* Fantastic salary and benefits - MacBook Pro.

* Join a thriving and respectful international team.

* Fizz: https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us-work-remotely/

* Fair and objective 'blind-hiring'.

Our hiring process is nifty. We request a work-sample upfront that closely resembles the work you'd be doing within your role.

Once you submit, your answers are anonymized then graded by 3 different people following pre-defined criteria.
We want to know, objectively, who is going to both enjoy and crush the work. We have several positions open for candidates:

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Compose | Remote (Canada, US, UK)

What: Databases-as-a-service. We offer production grade, auto-scaling, automatically backed-up, add-on compatible MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more.

Hiring Process: Blind hiring! First, a light application. Second, all candidates who complete the application receive a work-sample resembling the work one would do in the role. No deadline. Final step is a paid work day ($500).

Compose has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, collaborate with spirited peers, and to unleash your creative and talented personality.

* Work from anywhere!

* Many neat conundrums to solve.

* Self-managing, distributed decision making. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.

* Hardly any meetings.

* Ruby/Go.

* Fizz: https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us....

Roles:

* Platform Engineer / Application Developer

* Support Engineer

* Technical Content Creator ('Developer Advocacy' type of role)

To begin: https://compose.interviewed.com

We (Compose, YC s11, now part of IBM) are hiring for a bunch of positions. Notably —

* Platform engineers (https://www.compose.io/jobs/#platform-engineer): if you like working on distributed systems, containers, and tremendous database problems in the real world, this is for you.

* Designer who speaks HTML/CSS and possibly javascript (https://www.compose.io/jobs#designer): work on a wide variety of projects, from stunning print materials to cutting edge web applications. If can draw on a strong foundation in color theory, layout, and typography you'd probably like this role.

* Support Engineer (https://www.compose.io/jobs#support-engineer): we have thousands of paying customers, almost all developers. If you like helping people solve problems and want to learn more about different databases along the way, this is for you. This is a good role for a developer with great written communication skills.

We are remote friendly, but can currently only hire in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, and Israel.

I think his hostility comes from the fact that if you google just "postgresql json" the second hit is the official documentation that goes over jsonb right in the second paragraph.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.html

You can also see that the very first link outside of the official documentation:

https://www.compose.io/articles/is-postgresql-your-next-json-database/

Explains the benefits of jsonb and how to use indexes.

If you're going to include a database, at the very least do 20 minutes of research on it. If that can't be given, then just don't include something.

That's like saying "I've just installed MongoDB and read the intro documentation page, I'm now going to benchmark it against a MySQL cluster, which I have years of experience with, and that I helped develop." (E.g.: they developed ArangoDB, so they should be experts in at least that, right?)

I think wallflower is right: Technical writers generally get paid less than what developers make. But every company is different. At Compose.io, for example, I think it could be more of a blended position, which is to say that you could be writing documentation and contributing to the codebase [1]. There may not be much of a pay gap at companies like that.

There are also other benefits. Technical writing positions are generally extremely low stress jobs where you have ample time to finish your work, learn new technologies, etc. And as I mentioned before, many of these positions are remote, so you have the opportunity to live in places with low costs of living.

[1] https://compose.io/jobs/#technical-content-creator

Here is one third party link I found which still shows old pricing: https://www.g2crowd.com/products/firebase/pricing

If this link is correct the new plans have a changed a bit, but pricing per GB seems to be more or less the same. A few dollars here and there. But this shows that the plans can and will change.

Smaller services like Compose.io (https://www.compose.io/pricing/) and mLab (https://mlab.com/plans/pricing/) seem to be charging around USD 15-18 per GB of DB for MongoDB. So either Firebase is less resource hungry for Google or Google's scale is allowing them to reap better efficiency or Google is subsidising Firebase and giving it almost at cost.