Product Engineer
Hatchet · NYC or SF or(US and EU) · posted Aug 3, 2026
What this role actually asks for
Extracted by RemoteHuntMust have
- •Experience building engineering primitives
- •Experience with queues and background tasks
- •Experience with durable execution
- •Familiarity with open-source platforms
- •Interest in building for startups
Nice to have
- •Experience with AI workloads
- •Thoughts on the Hatchet codebase
Tools and technologies
The full posting
About the Role
Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We're hiring product engineers who are excited to build the next class of engineering primitives, starting with queues, background tasks and durable execution.
We started in early 2024 after launching our distributed task queue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136). Hatchet is currently used by thousands of engineers for all kinds of workloads: log ingestion pipelines, code review agents, video encoding, GPU scheduling, etc.
Our target customer is fast-growing startups who have a strong need for background jobs system. These days, that tends to be AI companies, though we're general-purpose and not exclusively targeted for AI workloads.
Stack
Postgres, Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes
Applying
I'm trying something different this time. ssh hatchet-jobs.com
Note that we're fully open-source, which you can check out here: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet (and if you have thoughts / opinions / questions about the codebase, please include those in your note!)
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