Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Rust, Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, event-driven architectures, data lakes (iceberg & friends)

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/mknaw Email: m@mknaw.biz

Platform engineer / systems architect. I design cross-service architecture and build event-driven systems, optimize slow/expensive things, and care about observability. Recently: Kafka streaming platforms, data lakehouses, LLM / agentic automation of dev tooling.

Interested in distributed systems, performance-critical work, finance domain.

Role: Back-end engineer

Technologies:

    Programming: Python, JavaScript, Network Programming, Go, Erlang
    Platforms: GCP, Kubernetes, Temporal, Pulumi
    Databases: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, PL/pgSQL
    Monitoring: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, GCP Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic
    Data: Spark, Druid, Kafka, PubSub, BigQuery

GitHub: https://github.com/reith

Hi, I'm Amir. I've worn many hats during my career, from front-end development to data engineering, and I've built software in languages with different paradigms. I'm mostly interested in building platforms and products that empower software engineers, but also interested in products that might be less tech-oriented and more human-oriented.

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Next.js, Node, Rails, Ruby, Python, AI, LangChain, Tensorflow

Résumé/CV (a bit out-of-date): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QQ4NjqVpOXUpDqeSfhdsiOfSPwJ...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-mcneil/

Email: caseymcneil@gmail.com

I'm a software engineering manager with a bottom-up, collaborative style, focused on building and supporting resilient, empathetic, business-aware engineering teams who love what they do. I've worked in software since ~2011 and have worked with many tech stacks during that time- from PHP to Scala and Next.js to Rails. I've been fully remote since 2016 and have hired and managed globally remote team members at multiple companies.

I've spent the majority of my career in venture-funded b2b SaaS, but I'm highly-interested in working with any companies-- both bootstrapped and funded-- who are serious about their engineering teams communicating directly with their customers. If you're looking for a bit more siloed engineering processes where the engineers don't talk to customers directly, I'm probably not the right fit.

On the dev side, I generally prefer buying over building, readable over concise, fast over perfect, and empathy over all.

On the management side, I encourage ownership and an extreme level of connection and understanding of customer problems. I'm big on transparent retros and fostering a deep understanding of the business purpose behind the work we do. This last year, I worked with leadership to arrange for all of my development team (a few per visit) to travel to customer on-sites with me and our design counterpart to do technical discovery and ask questions in order to find product/market fit around an important AI initiative. The results were so effective and the learning so valuable that the CEO ended up rolling out the program across the entire company.

If this sounds like the type of culture that you have or wish to build, I'd love to hear from you.

  Location: 1 hr~ near London, UK | Remote
  Remote: Preferrable, but can do hybrid.
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Previously involved in product based microservices and REST APIs using Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, MySQL + more on AWS using Docker. Comfortable with Git, CI/CD, DevOps workflows. 10 years+ professional experience.
  Résumé/CV: Please DM or email.
  Email: vaanir@outlook.com