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New comment by bradhe in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

bradhe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:03:00 +0000

Tower (tower.dev) | Senior Backend / Platform Engineer | London or Berlin | HYBRID | Full-time

Tower is a Python-native serverless data platform. Data teams write plain Python, and we handle packaging, dependency resolution, scheduling, and execution across a serverless runtime built on Apache Iceberg. There's no clusters to manage, no YAML to write, no pipelines to rewrite to fit someone else's engine. If you've ever wanted your local Python script to just run in production at scale without a Databricks detour, that's the product.

We're a small, senior team split between London and Berlin. We've built a lot of tech: Custom run dispatch service, multi-region routing, storage based on Apache Iceberg, and the runtime itself, to name a few. This is deep systems work--things like scheduling, distributed execution, and performance. We're not gluing SaaS together.

Stack: Go and Rust for the platform, Python everywhere it matters, Kubernetes (EKS + Karpenter) on AWS, RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, S3/Iceberg, WorkOS for auth.

Looking for:

* strong distributed-systems fundamentals

* comfort owning a system end to end

* taste for correctness under load

Bonus: data-platform, query-engine, or Iceberg experience; async Rust; Kubernetes internals.

Apply / questions: Email in bio — mention HN.

New comment by bradhe in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

bradhe — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:27:30 +0000

Wild to me that this is on the Snowflake blog. I understand why, but...what a sign of the times.

New comment by bradhe in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

bradhe — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:22:14 +0000

Okay fair point

New comment by bradhe in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

bradhe — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:20:44 +0000

Got it, so every country should focus on having a mediocre-at-best AI strategy by refusing to work together? Surely this will create a better future instead of pooling resources.

This vaguely-nationalist world view around tech that’s emerging in Europe is dangerous, man.

On the brain drain problem in particular, one way to ensure talent sticks around is to create a good environment for people to do their best work. In much of Europe, getting bureaucracy out of the way and encouraging real investment would go a long way. People leave because they can make more money and they want to be surrounded by the best people. People would trade some of that off to stick around their home countries, however if you go to California and talk to folks from e.g. NL or DE working on this stuff, they have a lot to say about innovation and working culture back home.

New comment by bradhe in "Show HN: Modafinil - Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed"

bradhe — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:06:54 +0000

God the name was very triggering as someone who worked in the valley 2011-2018 time frame…

New comment by bradhe in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

bradhe — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:11:18 +0000

When you're successful and rich (enough, at least), this is a nice whimsical thing to say. When you're suffering in the trenches, this isn't very helpful.

New comment by bradhe in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

bradhe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:58:39 +0000

I have a really hard time telling if this is despite the current administration’s best efforts, because the current administration’s policies, or just an artifact of government inertia.

Top level: Super excited to witness this in my lifetime.

Edit: Also, my 40 years of life leads me towards the latter category.

New comment by bradhe in "Ghidra by NSA"

bradhe — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:59:35 +0000

I've actually been experimenting with using Ghidra and Opus to create human-consumable, reverse-engineered software. My ultimate dream would be a buildable EverQuest client. Opus does a decent job of pulling out various subsystems and understanding how it works. I was able to get a pretty much working networking layer for instance with less than an hour's work.

New comment by bradhe in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

bradhe — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:00:54 +0000

Tower | Senior/Principal Software Engineers | London, UK / Berlin, DE | https://jobs.tower.dev

Data teams waste countless hours wrestling with infrastructure instead of solving their businesses’ most critical problem: How to get more value from their data. The problem gets even worse with the AI revolution in flight. Tower changes that.

We're a Python-native serverless platform built on Apache Iceberg with powerful ETL and Lakehouse management tools. We integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems and make companies more nimble by letting them choose the best engine for each job while maintaining full data ownership.

We're focused on hiring developers that love the data ecosystem, are interested in really hard distributed systems problems, and working on dev tools.

Send a message to me, the CTO, at brad (at) tower.dev

New comment by bradhe in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

bradhe — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:31:19 +0000

Except when "gambling adicts" end up as a cover for money laundering and funneling cash to people to buy influence.

New comment by bradhe in "How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart"

bradhe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:11:33 +0000

Cue outrage from the conservative administration for checks notes quality journalism.

Dash0: Otel-Native Observability, Simplified

bradhe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:47:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dash0.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841438

Points: 2

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New comment by bradhe in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

bradhe — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:23:44 +0000

> political violence being much more common historically than racial or other forms of violence

This is true if you take a very loose definition of "political violence" lol and probably just disingenuous at best.

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:56:19 +0000

us-east-1 is actually dozens of physical buildings distributed over a massive area. It's not like a single data center somewhere...

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:52:19 +0000

Thanks...probably an issue with Framer during the outage.

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:34:38 +0000

Hetzner users are like the Linux users for cloud.

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:19:22 +0000

Yeah I think there are a number of "hidden" dependencies on different regions, especially us-east-1. It's an artifact of it being AWS' largest region, etc.

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:17:52 +0000

Seems the underlying issue is with DynamoDB, according to the status page, which will have a big blast radius in other services. AWS' services form a really complicated graph and there's likely some dependency, potentially hidden, on us-east-1 in there.

New comment by bradhe in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bradhe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:15:30 +0000

us-east-1 was, probably still is, AWS' most massive deployment. Huge percentage of traffic goes through that region. Also, lots of services backhaul to that region, especially S3 and CloudFront. So even if your compute is in a different region (at Tower.dev we use eu-central-1 mostly), outages in us-east-1 can have some halo effect.

This outage seems really to be DynamoDB related, so the blast radius in services affected is going to be big. Seems they're still triaging.

New comment by bradhe in "MAML – A new configuration language"

bradhe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:05:00 +0000

Configuration is a spectrum and this is close to JSON.