Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

Halfpricesoft | Founding Engineer | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | $175k - $210k + Equity Halfpricesoft has quietly dominated the small business payroll and tax compliance space for 20 years. We are a profitable, bootstrapped company with thousands of customers and a massive track record of stability.

We are entering a new era and transitioning our proven legacy solutions into a modern, cloud-native suite. We are looking for a Founding Engineer to serve as our technical partner in this expansion. You will report directly to the Founder, own the technical roadmap, and help build the team.

The Role:

Architect & Build: Lead the transition from legacy systems to a modern cloud architecture.

Infrastructure: Manage and scale our Kubernetes deployment.

Leadership: Set hiring standards and mentor future engineers.

Tech Stack: Python (Django), React, Kubernetes, Cloud-native.

Why join?

Real Impact: You aren't a cog in the machine; you are building the machine.

Stability + Upside: Competitive salary plus a Phantom Stock Plan with a transparent, revenue-based valuation formula (no VC dilution).

Autonomy: High-level ownership over the tech stack and product direction.

Apply here: https://www.halfpricesoft.com/career/founding-engineer/

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ClickHouse | Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Distributed Systems / Cloud Databases / Kubernetes | Remote Hiring in the US right now. Seniors/Staff/Principal levels.

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

What we are looking for:

Distributed Systems / Cloud Engineers to build the AutoScaling Systems for a Cloud Database.

We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on auto-scaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.

    Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.

    You must be independent and self-organized.

    Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment) and Distributed Systems in general.

    SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)

    You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues

    If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.

If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying! Send me an email: manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com

PS: If you're a pure DevOps person or a pure Data Engineer who wrangles data tools, please read the above requirements carefully before firing off an email. This role is an intersection of a lot of sub-roles, not a particular specialization

Hey HN, this is Louis, co-founder at SightlineOS.

Yusha, Derrick, and I are building an AI-native supply chain operating system for restaurant chains. It’s a massive, overlooked space with deeply underutilized data, and we’re using modern data and ML systems to automate planning, inventory management, and spend optimization. We’re venture-backed, NYC-based, and are hiring our first senior engineers as we start to scale. These are high-ownership roles with real production impact from day one.

You’d work closely with founders, own core systems end to end, and help shape the technical foundation of the company. You’ll own and scale the data foundations that power our ML and customer insights along with client implementation.

Location: NYC (hybrid, 3 days/week in office) Salary: $135,000 - $185,000 + equity

Apply here: https://www.sightlineos.com/sr-data-engineer

SpruceID (YC W21) | REMOTE (US-Based Preferred) | Full-Time | spruceid.com

Spruce lets users control their data across the web. Instead of users logging into platforms, we believe platforms should request to access data vaults controlled by users.

The demand for trusted digital ID is accelerating as AI deepfakes begin to destroy most of the ways we use to verify identity today. How private or secure is it to hold your driver's license or passport up to a webcam to get a bank account? Was it ever private or secure? Stable diffusion can break so much of this already. Society will need trusted digital IDs and credentials. Our mission is to allow them to be controlled by individuals, with safeguards to prevent descents into surveillance states and checkpoint societies.

We are the main implementers of category-defining initiatives such as the digital ID program for the California DMV, and the verifiable digital credentials program in Utah. We are private sector participants in NIST's National Cyber Security of Excellence initiative for privacy-preserving digital ID.

We are hiring skilled engineers who care about making a real impact in improving public services, digital autonomy, and user privacy for the world. We work closely with public sector agencies, and have high regard for public servants. We have a strong engineering and customer-oriented culture, and are not simply a SaaS product or AI wrapper. Our roles are not for the faint of heart: you will be expected to work hard and learn a lot in this role.

Our engineers are ambitious to get outcomes for our customers and their constituents. On any given day, they may write great Rust/C#/TypeScript, deal with mainframe dumps, read policy documents, respond to technical RFIs/RFPs, manage on-prem environments, implement new NFC + Bluetooth protocols in Swift/Kotlin, create CI/CD processes that enforce W3C accessibility guidelines and i18n requirements, rewrite lost specs from disassembled binaries, figure out stablecoin payments, and design new protections for public key infrastructure. It is a team effort, and people with T-shirt shaped skills are able to collaborate and learn a ton from each other every day.

We are interested in candidates who want to be proud of the meaningful impact they make for society, even if it takes time to get right. This is not the right job for someone who wants to "join a cool new AI startup" that implodes or exits in under a year.

See our roles here: https://jobs.lever.co/sprucesystems/