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
Open roles: - Engineering Manager - (Brazil)
- Sr./Staff Java Backend Engineer (Brazil/North America/Europe)
- Sr./Staff Infrastructure Engineer (North America/Europe)
- Staff GenAI Engineer
- Staff SDK Engineers - Web, Android & iOS
- Sr./Staff Data Scientist and Data Engineer
- Full-Stack Engineer - AI Agent Platform
- Product Manager for AI & RiskOps/Case Management
Apply at: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oscilar?utm_source=HackerNews
Eleshop is a supplier of test, measurement and soldering equipment run by engineers.
Interesting projects with a code base which is easy to understand, well-maintained and uses state-of-art technologies.
For more information, visit: https://www.eleshop.nl/vacatures.html (English)
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
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.
Kinelo manages the new type of hybrid team that will emerge in the future: humans+AI working shoulder-to-“shoulder”.
Our first product helps human software engineering teams deliver more efficiently and more reliably by assisting in coordination and engineering management. But it’s built on a foundational layer that ingests data, knowledge, and process across communications and systems, exposing that to humans and AI alike.
Eventually, Kinelo will become a proper human+AI orchestration layer, managing entire companies, and our goal is to have Kinelo run Kinelo (we already dogfood it today).
We’re looking for high ownership individuals to join our small team and shape its direction. We also just opened a new SF office and new hires will have the ability to help shape company culture, engineering practices, architecture, and roadmap.
We’re well-funded (just raised another round), founded by a serial founder, anti-bureaucratic, and highly technical.
We’re looking for:
- Those who want to go 0 to 1 with high ownership: moving features and products from idea on a napkin, to prototype, to engineering UI, to shipped and polished product
- ~8 years professional experience, including the pre-LLM days with strong CS fundamentals
- A balance of wisdom from experience and optimism about the future
- Strong TypeScript and Postgres (or other RDBMS) experience at scale and with high reliability (SaaS apps, APIs, etc)
- Experience with a variety of technologies, including containerization, distributed systems, and at least one strongly typed programming language (Go, C++, Java, etc)
- Ideally experience with ML and AI systems (though expertise in ML, data science, etc is not needed for this role)
We can’t sponsor visas but relocation assistance to SF is possible.
Please apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kinelo/jobs/4088659009 and also email jobs@kinelo.com, mentioning this post.
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