You're not the only one. My company is desperate for good low level hackers. We can find people who know Python and Java for days, but people with the skill set we need are very hard to find.
Well, sort of. It's forgetting taxes, house prices, and more.
Places where you can buy decent stand-alone homes for $50,000 and/or have no state taxes are rather different from Mountain View and Manhatten.
It's funny how people in the pricey places look at a $100,000 salary and not see how it is, all by itself, plenty to support a large family in a home with a big yard. People living that life look back at the city folk and can't imagine how they could ever afford the same thing in a city -- it'd be roughly $2 million (a factor of 40) in San Francisco.
Maybe! We are located near Orlando, FL with offices all over the country. If you are comfortable with low level hacking, assembly, C, etc. then it might be a good fit.
The only hard requirement is you must be a US citizen.
This goes both ways - where do C people look for job. As you know most competent people have one job or another, so it's equally important to be recognizable for the employed bunch. I do a fair bit of blog posts / outreach to good looking github profiles / conferences (smaller and larger).