Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

Loft Orbital | Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) | Golden, CO or San Francisco, CA | $180k–$240k + equity | https://loftorbital.com

Loft builds and operates shareable satellites so customers can fly a payload without building a spacecraft. We integrate, launch, and operate the mission end to end: Earth observation, IoT, on-orbit AI, national security. 30+ missions flown since 2017, fleet on track for 30 satellites by 2027, offices in SF, Golden, and Toulouse.

Our Cloud Infrastructure team runs the ground segment that talks to the fleet. This is an SRE role with a twist: we apply DevOps practices to spacecraft control (we call it SatDevOps), and we'll train you to operate the satellites.

What you'd own: - Hybrid cloud infra on GCP + Kubernetes: provisioning (IaC), CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux) - The observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, tracing) across ground and flight systems - Reliability: RCAs, fault tolerance, performance tuning, long-term fixes over patches - Software-defined networking between ground stations, cloud, and mission ops - Developer experience: tooling and environments for the flight software and ops teams

Looking for: strong public cloud (ideally GCP), deep Kubernetes, one backend language (Go/Python/Rust/C++/Java), IaC + CI/CD in anger, and someone who can design HA systems and then run them. Nice to have: FinOps, security tooling, orchestration in resource-constrained environments.

Benefits: 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision for you and dependents, 401(k) + equity, flexible PTO + 12 holidays, 14/10 weeks paid parental leave, daily catered lunch, relocation assistance, and time with the team in France.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/3ae5c3e3-c1e0-4311-83b5-0b... and mention HN in your application.

AREO | Remote (EU) / on-site in Bremen, Germany | Full-Time | Equity | Roles: [Engineering Manager (Ruby on Rails), Lead Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails), Robotics Lead] My name is Marius and I am the CTO at AREO (https://goareo.com/).

AREO, founded in January 2023 by a team with 20+ years of combined experience in retail and startups, is a young startup specializing in developing innovative solutions for supermarkets and grocery retail stores.

Our cutting-edge B2B SaaS platform optimizes workflows for employees by providing real-time access to inventory, product information, and customer inquiries. We serve large supermarket chains in Germany and across the EU.

We already hired two backend developers through "HN - Who is hiring" and are now seeking a Lead Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails) / Engineering Manager (Ruby on Rails) with a minimum of 8 years of experience (preferably in startups), as we recently closed another large contract with a major retail chain and are growing quickly.

For both the Lead Product Engineer and Engineering Manager roles, professional knowledge of German is required, and you need to be based in the EU.

If you're passionate about building innovative retail products from scratch, these roles are for you.

Backend Stack: Ruby / Rails (8.x), StimulusJS / Hotwire / Turbo, AlpineJS, Postgres, Docker, DigitalOcean, OpenAPI, LLMs

We are also seeking a Robotics Lead to help us set up and run our new robotics lab in Bremen, Germany. We are building a retail robot, initially focusing on teleoperation and later on autonomous model development. You should have at least 3 years of experience with humanoid robots, VLAs, teleoperation, and other relevant robotics systems. Professional knowledge of German is required, and you must live in or be ready to move to Bremen.

Perks: Fully remote roles in Europe for the Engineering Manager and Lead Product Engineer, work where you are most productive, sizeable equity in a rapidly growing company, flat hierarchies, no-ego work environment, work in a lean but highly experienced team.

Apply here: marius[at]goareo.com and mention "HN - Who is hiring?" and the role you are applying for in the subject.

Jawa.gg | Software Engineer | Boulder, CO or remote | Contract or Full Time

Jawa is the marketplace for gamers - think gaming PCs, GPUs, consoles, and the like. We're a small, VC-funded team with a big business, and have been operating since 2021.

We're are looking for full-stack software engineers to build and maintain our peer-to-peer marketplace. The tech stack is mostly Typescript, with Next.js, Node.js, Postgres, and other fairly standard web-tools / infra.

Learn more at https://jawagg.notion.site/Full-Stack-Software-Engineer-412c...

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Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (aiuc.com) | Member of Technical Staff (full-stack + AI evals) | Full-time | Onsite (San Francisco) | $200K - $400K + equity

We're a team of frontier AI (including ex-Anthropic, METR, OpenAI), insurance, and governance people building incentive infrastructure to help ASI go well. We red-team, certify, and insure AI agents - working with AI category leaders like Cursor, ElevenLabs, Fin, Harvey, Lovable, and UiPath; auditors like Schellman and KPMG; insurance partners at Lloyd's of London; and the AIUC-1 Consortium https://www.aiuc-1.com/consortium.

We've raised $55m from investors including Ribbit, First Harmonic, and Nat Friedman, and we're hiring across the board in San Francisco.

Apply to our MTS role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/2816bb05-2a1f-4600-8780-deb152...

Browse all of our open roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc