Posted by whoishiring 1/2/2026
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
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We began in 2017 as TimescaleDB, focused on making PostgreSQL the best database for time-series data. As our customers evolved, so did we.
Today, more than 2,000 companies use our technology to power real-time analytics, agentic applications, and high-ingest operational systems. What started as a time-series database has become the fastest PostgreSQL for modern workloads. To reflect that evolution, we’re now TigerData—a name that speaks to our speed, precision, and ambition. The tiger has long been part of our culture: fast, focused, powerful. From “Tiger Time” all-hands to welcoming new hires as “tiger cubs,” it’s how we build—decisively, fearlessly, and with purpose.
This is not a reinvention: it’s a reflection of how we already serve our customers today.
TigerData is growing! Check us out: https://www.tigerdata.com/careers
Software Engineering Manager - Database - https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/08ddff61-b67a-42c5-a799-2e...
Senior Test Tooling Engineer - https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/f50c226d-682e-40e9-8d2e-52...
Database Support Engineer - https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/0aca17c7-7222-4f75-9c8e-59... Customer Delivery Engineer - https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/3d060bc0-1abf-446b-881e-f4...
Senior/Staff Product Manager, AI - https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/542068ed-6f51-4994-9f58-0c...
We're building an in-app workflow builder that SaaS companies embed directly into their platforms—letting their users automate processes without leaving the app.
Looking for a Support Engineer (10-15 hrs/week) to help developers integrate our product, troubleshoot issues, and shape our documentation. Technical background required—you should be comfortable reading code and understanding APIs.
Competitive hourly rate, flexible hours, real product influence. 1-2 month trial with path to grow as we do.
Apply here by Jan 15: https://embedworkflow.com/careers/jobs/support_engineer
Looking to join a social-impact driven company? Are you a software developer ready to use your skills for good? Onja trains underprivileged youth into world-class software developers. We are on the lookout for Course Designers who can help our students go from ‘what is coding’ to working in Global tech teams.
Help build a scalable course that will help train Madagascar’s brightest young people, while working alongside a team of talented, fun colleagues from all over Madagascar and the world.
Please apply through the following links:
Full Stack Developer, Course Design: https://onja.org/careers/full-stack-developer-course-design
Back-End Developer, Course Design: https://onja.org/careers/back-end-developer-course-design
We've raised $137m from top-tier investors to pursue this vision. We're growing very quickly and have major, household-name financial institutions as clients and investors. We're working on hard, interesting problems and want to push the boundaries of what's possible for AI-driven products. We're hiring for many engineering roles in NYC, including:
- Full Stack Engineer, Senior + Staff ($190k-270k)
- Applied AI Engineer ($200k-275k)
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer ($175k-250k)
- Forward Deployed Engineer ($190k-250k)
We're also hiring for many non-technical roles. The best way to apply is online on our website (we review every application!). Full list here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/norm-ai?utm_source=7ow8wN5o3g.
Excited to see where Norm goes. Would also love to connect and learn more about the company!
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Hi! I’m Nicole (ex-Google AI), cofounder of Gambit Robotics with Eliot Horowitz (cofounder/CTO MongoDB).
We’re hiring for two founding engineering roles to work directly with us in our NYC office (in-person only):
1) Founding Principal / Staff Full-Stack Engineer - 8+ years experience shipping production systems - Strong backend and systems foundation - Experience owning architecture end-to-end (zero → production)
2) Founding Full-Stack Engineer - 4–6 years experience building and shipping production products - Strong product sense and ownership - Comfortable working across backend, client, and infrastructure
https://www.gambitrobotics.ai/careers
Gambit is an AI-powered kitchen assistant that mounts magnetically under most range hoods or microwaves. It uses computer vision, thermal imaging, and on-device AI to understand what’s happening in the pan in real time, and handles the hardest parts of cooking — heat, timing, and doneness — so people get better results with less stress.
We’re moving quickly from prototype to product and launching via Kickstarter later this month. It’s a seed-stage startup with high autonomy, real impact, and a very intense (and fun) next phase.
If you or someone you know might be a fit, email me: nicole@gambitrobotics.com
We're building business-in-a-box software for landscaping companies, with mobile applications and an offline-capable web app. We're also doing custom AI (_not_ LLMs) to produce measurements from satellite imagery.
Our frontend is in React and React.Native, backend is in Go and Python. We're looking for someone who can lead the backend development and help us manage the data processing pipelines for AI training.
Job posting: https://jobs.lever.co/getduranta/50af551a-9a5c-498c-9729-6f2...
Contact: alex@getduranta.com (please put "HN" in the subject)
Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle.
Coder’s self-hosted Cloud Development Environment (CDE) is the foundation for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. It provides a secure, standardized, and governed workspace to deploy autonomous coding agents alongside human developers, accelerating innovation while maintaining control and compliance. Coder's isolated, policy-driven environments improve productivity, cut cloud costs, and reduce data risks. Developers transition to AI at their own pace using their own tools. Platform and security teams can govern, audit, and manage a great developer experience at scale.
We passed 100k stars on GitHub! https://github.com/coder
All positions are fully remote in the countries listed unless otherwise specified.
[1] Software Engineer, AI tools (US/Canada)
[2] Senior Software Engineer, AI Tools (US/Canada)
[3] Staff Software Engineer, Front-end (US/Canada)
And more! Apply here + job descriptions, salary bands: https://coder.com/careers?utm_source=O2n5Ew72WD
Not all of our jobs are listed here. Please note that you must submit an application to be considered for any of our positions. If you have any questions, please reach out to jobs@coder.com.
Steel is building open-source browser infrastructure for AI agents & apps. We make it easy for AI engineers to ship products that interact with the web using our Sessions API - An API that controls fleets of browser sessions in the cloud while we handle everything from scaling to antibot and more.
Our tech stack:
- Frontend: Vanilla React + TailwindCSS + Shadcn, built with Vite, deployed on Vercel
- Backend: Fastify, Node.js, Zod, NATs, Drizzle with Redis, PostgreSQL, and S3
- Infrastructure: Pulumi, Go, Firecracker VMs, Docker
- Languages: Mostly Typescript, Rust, Go
With over 6,000 GitHub stars, dozens of paying customers, and millions of sessions served, we grew our platform 50x in 2025 purely through word-of-mouth and our open-source community. Backed by world-class investors, we're building a small, talent-dense team that's shaping the future of how humans & agents interact with the internet.
Current roles (all roles include competitive comp + equity):
- Infrastructure Engineer: Design, optimize, and scale our browser VM infrastructure
- Applied AI Engineer: Build on agent frameworks, integrations, and real-world AI use cases
- Founding Growth Lead: Own the growth machine to turn insane organic traction into a category-defining brand
- Founding GTM Lead: Be our first sales hire, closing deals with AI startups transforming entire industries
To learn more & apply (Mention HN): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/steel
P.S. If you're feeling spicy, try our optional hiring challenge and submit the flag with your application once you reach the final step → https://challenge.steel.dev
We're building the AI-powered workflow automation platform that ops and finance teams at Lyft, Flexport, WHOOP, 1000+ other companies use to turn their business logic into executable workflows. They're dealing with messy reality: PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, APIs scattered across systems. We let non-technical teams build production-grade automation by describing what they need in plain English.
Senior SRE: Join our platform team keeping the foundation solid as we scale. Own reliability, security, and developer experience for a multi-tenant system handling 100+ integrations. You'll be on-call, but working on genuinely interesting problems: making deploys boring, keeping customer workflows running, building infrastructure that compounds. Best fit if you care about enabling teams, not just managing pipes.
Senior Full Stack Product Engineer: Own entire features from idea to production. Build interfaces that make complex automation accessible to people who've never written code. Current problems: LLM-powered workflow generation, extracting structure from chaos (PDFs, emails, weird APIs), real-time collaboration on live data pipelines. The companies winning with AI in 2026 are the ones who made their business logic explicit and their context connected. We're building the layer that makes that possible.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/parabola-io or email cj@parabola.io