We Have Fun with Hard Problems

We Hack on Hard Problems

It's not easy finding the most relevant information in under 50ms for millions of users globally, but we definitely have fun doing it. The world's public interest graph is our sandbox and our laboratory.

At 140 Proof, we believe that the futures of media and data are both increasingly stream-based, and that the team who can deliver the most relevant information the fastest to the most people will #win.

Think you'd like to help? First you must…

Using The Best Tools Matters.

Joel on Software, 12 Steps to Better Code:

Step #9: "Do you use the best tools money can buy?" We do.

  • GitHub for collaboration + source control
  • Hudson for builds
  • Memcache for speed
  • NewRelic for performance monitoring
  • Nginx for simplicity and speed
  • Rails for great justice
  • Redis for fast, cluster-wide updates
  • Resque for queuing
  • Unicorn for rolling restarts

Without The Fat. We squash unnecessary meetings like bugs and manage our own work in Pivotal Tracker.

9 20k+ 75 4,295 50ms 25 8 39 1.0
repos requests
per minute
tier-1 API consumers private github
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response time
Pivotal Tracker velocity consec growth quarters active ec2 instances ruby ice cream
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We ♥ Heart Open Source

A sampling of our hacking goodwill:

Have a cool open-source project? We want to hear about it! 140 Proof engineering is hiring, you can check out the current job openings.

Nice People. Sweet Location.

The family

Sup dog. Yeah you. Like burritos? Playing Rock band? How about a real equity stake in a company running ahead of revenue goals seven consecutive quarters in a row?

  • Basketball hoop in office? Check.
  • Central South Park location? Totally.
  • Team dinners? Yup.
  • Funded by the backers of Facebook and PayPal? Yeah.
  • Next door to SF's best micro-brewery, 21st Amendment? Check and check.

The Job Your Job Could Smell Like

Always join the best team you can find.

140 Proof is currently hiring for:

Think you Have What it Takes?