This is truly a fantastic post-mortem: even an application-level developer like myself could follow it. Though I am in the middle of Rust in Action at the moment so I was primed for this type of content (:
And of course it’s always a pleasure seeing someone else who comments their code at such a high LoC ratio. Literate programming works!
We do ask for some overlap in working hours with the US, which does make it harder the further away you get, but that is the constraint, not “US only.”
I'll admit that to this day Github has been a bit of sore memory spot with how they publicly were all "we hire internationally and remote" but for a long time wouldn't publish that "internationally" meant "here's a small list of countries that applies to".
Now if only I believed I had a chance to pass the interviews :D
The other project I'd be interested in working on (likely as an open source, separate project) would be bringing the dx/ux and tooling to home lab level gear.
Is there a Canadian subsidiary or is it a contract employee kind of relationship (if you can comment!)?
Our console is written in TypeScript on the front end and Rust in the back end, as far as I know: I'm not aware of Go being a meaningful part of our stack (other than in dependencies, like CockroachDB).
> Is there a Canadian subsidiary or is it a contract employee kind of relationship (if you can comment!)?
I don't personally know the answer to this, being from the US :)
"Our own web console, CLI, and SDK consumers (e.g., oxide.rs, oxide.go)"
1. Employees (eg people who get a 1099(?)) would seem to require a green card or visa. 2. A contract employee is more of a business relationship but avoids the above requirements (if any, I am no expert which is why I asked :) 3. A Canadian entity would issue a T4 slip and also avoids any visa requirement and has none of the downsides of doing things as a contractor. But it requires the parent to have created and registered a company here.
I currently work for a US parent with the 3rd option (we were acquired). Engine Yard (not me, but I knew people there) used option #2.
“Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.”
It's true that means that this won't be a fit for a lot of people, but that's always the case with every job.
(This is also why our job descriptions tend to not say things like "must have X years of Rust experience" and instead say things like "you will thrive in this role if you appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause," because that's focusing on the direct need we have for the position.)