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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:20PM (#45094653)
Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Remote: Yes (EU / US-friendly time zones, async preferred)

Willing to relocate: No (hybrid in Zürich area possible)

Technologies: Go, Python, C++, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, DNS/TLS/PKI, BGP, large-scale data pipelines

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: [email protected]

Ex-Google & ex-Booking.com engineer with 15+ years building scalable web services, data pipelines, and internet infrastructure.

Highlights:

– Built and maintained high-performance data processing pipelines handling *illions of datapoints.

– Optimized latency & throughput in large-scale web services.

– Engineered advanced online map services and resilient DNS/TLS systems.

– Known for reducing complexity, improving reliability, and delivering measurable impact in production environments.

Looking for a senior/principal engineering role where I can own impactful systems, ideally in backend/data infrastructure, internet infrastructure or applied internet services. Prefer smaller to mid-sized companies (not mega-corps) with competitive Swiss-level or US-remote compensation.

Comfortable with async/global collaboration, strong communicator across engineering and product, and motivated by solving hard problems with real users in mind.

They just added a new service to my account without my wish.
Re:Pay $35 once and get a VPS for life: too good to be true? on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:11AM (#11196252)
Don't be surprised when you get the bill for the service you've never ordered: You currently have a balance of $1,568.00 due on your account with Cloud At Cost.

Invoice Description:

#40761 - CloudPRO / CloudPRO - 1 Month (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $0.00 #40761 - CloudPRO - CPU's: 100 Cores (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $300.00 #40761 - CloudPRO - RAM: 512 GB (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $768.00 #40761 - CloudPRO - Storage: 2000 GB (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $500.00

Total Due: $1,568.00 Paid: $0.00 Balance Due: $1,568.00

And don't be surprised that nobody at that company is going to answer your questions (support, billing, etc).

Re:Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by recruiters? on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:17PM (#7171938)
twice a week