[darkwater]

To do that you need a mixture of elements: work in a somehow "exotic" language [1] and the company can afford to pay top-talent salary [2]

[1] all those examples check that box, but please let's not start a language war over this statement.

[2] for Jane Street I hear they do, DDG pays pretty well especially because it pay the same rate regardless where you are in the world, so it's a top-talent salary for many places outside SV.

[sjamaan]

Sounds like the best type of place to work for me. Instead of being a replaceable cog in a meat grinder that doesn't even pay well, working with boring tech, you get to work with talented people in an actually interesting language and get decently paid.

And best of all, you don't feel the need to keep chasing after the latest hype just to keep your CV relevant.