Posted by whoishiring 1/2/2026
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
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Northstar is a seed-stage cybersecurity startup building an agentic platform to help security teams understand and defend the complex environments they're responsible for. Our semantic layer integrates data from the fragmented security and IT tools that teams have to deal with and allows for an AI-native approach to reasoning over a company's security posture.
We're looking for someone with hands on experience building modern AI systems who wants to join an early startup (<5 engineers) and everything that comes with it: working closely with design partners, solving hard technical problems, working in a fast-paced environment and figuring out how to apply agentic AI in practical, novel ways.
Contact me if you're interested - alex@northstar.security
Firetiger is building self-driving software operations. We believe the future of DevOps isn't better dashboards (like Datadog), but autonomous agents that monitor, investigate, and remediate issues based on high-level business goals. We are backed by Sequoia Capital and founded by Rustam and Achille, former leaders from Cloudflare and Segment.
We are looking for a Product Engineer to build the interfaces between humans and AI agents running software on behalf of those humans. More here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firetiger/f5d4ba4b-29c8-4f77-bae8-8...
Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.
-Senior Backend Engineer (Remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)
-Enterprise Account Executive (Remote, USA - ET, CT, MT)
-Senior Product Marketing Manager (Remote, UTC-4 to UTC+2)
See the full descriptions and apply here (and mention HN): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/checkly?utm_source=hn
The physical world needs a digital voice. Chorus launched from Alphabet's Moonshot Factory last year with a mission to change how the worlds goods are made, moved, and managed. Our team is a collection of experts spanning hardware, firmware, software, data and ML/AI. We're building the world's first hyper-scalable asset orchestration platform. We have a solid strategy, investors, customers, partners, and many exciting things to build!
Roles:
Lead Full Stack Engineer: build beautiful, intuitive UX from database to browser.
Sr. Backend Engineer: build the platform that will help us 1000x, TWICE.
Sr. Data Engineer: build platforms that make data valuable, fast, and efficient.
Sr. Data Scientist: build data-intensive apps that unleash the story in the data.
Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.
Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.
Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us
$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.
Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard @ rockbot dot com
We build cool products, solve tough problems, and help grow companies.
We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer that is well-versed in Altium Designer. Must have several years of experience designing analog and digital circuitry. High speed and impedance controlled routing experience preferred.
Website: ringtaillabs.com Email me (Partner) at bailey@ringtaillabs.com. Please include resume/CV.
Architect recently raised a $35M series A and is looking to fill a number of software engineering roles.
As a key member of our growing team, you will help build out our advanced exchange which is the world's first centralized and regulated exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets (FX, stocks, metals, interest rates, energy, compute, and other commodities).
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with Rust
- Experience working in the finance industry, or a strong interest in electronic trading
- Knowledge of architecture, testing, and deployment of distributed systems
- Live in Chicago
Full-stack development experience with Typescript and React a plus
If you’re interested, please send a resume and brief intro to jobs@architect.co or reach out to me with any questions about the role
We also run a founder foundry that helps scientists and engineers start startups: https://www.fiftyyears.com/5050
We're hiring for many roles:
1/ Engineers for our product team, which builds tools to help us better support founders.
2/ A Head of Marketing, to help us help our founders better tell their stories.
3/ Former founders for the partnerships team, to help mentor our portfolio founders.
4/ Opportunistically for other roles as well.
ONSITE in San Francisco and London.
Email join AT 50y DOT com
Chroma is the open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications. It supports dense vector, sparse vector, regex, and full-text search. We support local, single-node, and cloud hosting.
We're a team of 14, all engineers today. We work in Rust, Python, Typescript, and Go.
We're hiring for these areas:
- Product design
- Production engineering
- Platform engineering (Rust)
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trychroma/9ed3aee8-07dd-44e3-9ca1-d...
More details at: https://careers.trychroma.com