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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:06AM (#46857585)
Cloudflare | New York City, Austin, London, Lisbon, San Francisco, Seattle | Full Time

I’m hiring for some (IMHO) really fun product manager roles on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform (workers.cloudflare.com) - Workers Runtime - Set vision for our V8 isolate based runtime that lets people deploy JS, TS, Rust and Python to the globe in seconds with great dev ex. - Containers - Help build our new containers platform into the best place for both agent Sandboxes and stateless global apps. - AI Agents - Define what Agents on Cloudflare look like: from our AgentsSDK, to Sandboxes, to MCP Servers, “Code Mode” (see our blog) and more.

We’re a really technical group, and tend to like product managers that can straddle the line between engineer and PM. You should be able to set high-level vision, understand architectural constraints, and be technical enough to really deeply understand our users (developers).

email: <my-hn-username>@cloudflare.com - Please add “HackerNews” to the subject line.

Re:Why Kubernetes Is So Complex on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:07PM (#33283521)
Nomad does not seem much simpler to me (especially because you basically have to pair it with Consul and Vault)

Hi, Nomad PM here - We've gotten this feedback a lot and have been taking steps to respond to it. We added simple service discovery in Nomad 1.3 and health checks and load balancing shortly after. So you shouldn't need Consul until you want a full service mesh. And then in Nomad 1.4, which just launched, we added Nomad Variables. These can be used for basic secrets & config management. It isn't a full on replacement for Vault, but it should give people the basic functionality to get off the ground.

So going forward we won't have a de factor dependency on these other tools, and hopefully we can live up to the promise of simplicity.

I am generally an RCV fan, but I think you're writing off this critique a bit too quickly.

Even with multiple axes the critique is still correct right? And I think (far from an expert) that there's decent evidence to support hotelling's law and median voter theorem.

No, but only because I have been too lazy to update the code.

If I had more free time, I would probably add Star and Approval and then try to use Star with my group of friends. Maybe OP can save me the trouble by adding to his site ! :)

I'm not super familiar with score, but the advantage in this scenario is that voters call all input the same way and get borda + IRV + a potential condorcet winner.

If you allowed same scores then you can't do both simultaneously and/or the UX gets really funky.

Oh interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what is the tie breaking mechanism?

And totally agreed on the framing. Also, prepare yourself for the feedback of "we should have a runoff election with the top two" and then people completely rejecting the concept that you've already done the runoff. :)

Hi! I actually made a similar site for my own purposes - https://poller.io - and I've been using it with friends for a while.

One interesting finding. I was expecting that Instant Runoff would be the method we all preferred. I also included plurality winner, Borda Count and the Condorcet winner (if there was one) in the list of results. After using this with friends for decisions, I realized that a lot of choices that did very well in borda count were getting eliminated in the IRV. If you have a lot of options in the poll, there's a good chance that an option that will make the majority happy gets eliminated because it has very few first place votes. Academically, I knew this was a possibility, but in practice it happened a ton. This made us change to borda counts as our method of choice for things (and then we promised to not game the system). But... if there's a Condorcet Winner, we always go with that.

I also thought that having a borda count as the method of eliminating the "last place" choice in each IRV round would be kinda nifty. This still lets people game the system though, and is kind of a gross hack.

Just letting you know our experience in case it is helpful for future options on polls! Good luck!

Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:07PM (#32462468)
I made a website for using ranked choice voting for online polls - https://poller.io - It has been nice to be able to do a quick Ranked Choice Instant Runoff Vote or Borda Count when deciding on things with friends (i.e. where to go on a trip, or which board game to play).

I "marketed" it by posting on HN and Reddit, but that's about it.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:13PM (#32311467)
HashiCorp Nomad | Full time | Remote

https://www.nomadproject.io

Want to work on an alternative to Kubernetes made by the creators of Terraform, Consul, Vagrant, and Vault? Come work on Nomad at HashiCorp! Our team builds and maintains a highly-scalable, flexible distributed cluster orchestrator. Nomad helps teams run varied workloads including containers, VMs, and raw binaries. Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Roblox, Pandora, and many other large organizations run Nomad in production today.

We are currently looking for both backend and frontend engineers interested in solving hard problems in the DevOps space, tackling interesting distributed systems challenges, and/or working on open source software.

Our stack: Golang & Ember (experience in either is nice to have, but not a hard requirement)

Feel free to reach out to me, a PM on the team, at mnomitch (at) hashicorp (dot) com if you are interested!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @02:13PM (#31238711)
HashiCorp Nomad | Full time | Remote

https://www.nomadproject.io

Want to work on an alternative to Kubernetes made by the creators of Terraform, Consul, Vagrant, and Vault? Come work on Nomad at HashiCorp! Our team builds and maintains a highly-scalable, flexible distributed cluster orchestrator. Nomad helps teams run varied workloads including containers, VMs, and raw binaries. Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Roblox, Pandora, and many other large organizations run Nomad in production today.

We are currently looking for both backend and frontend engineers interested in solving hard problems in the DevOps space, tackling interesting distributed systems challenges, and/or working on open source software.

Our stack: Golang & Ember (experience in either is nice to have, but not a hard requirement)

Here’s a link to a full job posting: https://www.hashicorp.com/job/3990643

Also, feel free to reach out to me, a PM on the team, at mnomitch (at) hashicorp (dot) com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:14PM (#30883373)
HashiCorp Nomad | Full time | Remote

https://www.nomadproject.io

Want to work on an alternative to Kubernetes made by the creators of Terraform, Consul, Vagrant, and Vault? Come work on Nomad at HashiCorp! Our team builds and maintains a highly-scalable, flexible distributed cluster orchestrator. Nomad helps teams run varied workloads including containers, VMs, and raw binaries. Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Roblox, Pandora, and many other large organizations run Nomad in production today.

We are currently looking for both backend and frontend engineers interested in solving hard problems in the DevOps space, tackling interesting distributed systems challenges, and/or working on open source software.

Our stack: Golang & Ember (experience in either is nice to have, but not a hard requirement)

Here’s a link to a full job posting: https://www.hashicorp.com/job/3990643

Also, feel free to reach out to me, a PM on the team, at mnomitch (at) hashicorp (dot) com