Senior Backend / Platform Engineer at Tower

Senior Backend / Platform Engineer at Tower

Company: Tower
Location: London or Berlin (Hybrid)
Type: Full-time
Source: Hacker News

About Tower

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 are no clusters to manage, no YAML to write, and 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 are a small, senior team split between London and Berlin. We have built a significant amount of technology, including a custom run dispatch service, multi-region routing, storage based on Apache Iceberg, and the runtime itself. This is deep systems work involving scheduling, distributed execution, and performance. We are not just gluing SaaS together.

Tech Stack

• Languages: Go and Rust for the platform; Python everywhere it matters
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS + Karpenter) on AWS
• Data & Storage: RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, S3/Iceberg
• Auth: WorkOS

Requirements

• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals
• Comfort owning a system end-to-end
• A taste for correctness under load

Bonus Skills

• Data-platform, query-engine, or Iceberg experience
• Async Rust
• Kubernetes internals

How to Apply

Please send your application or questions via email (see bio) and mention HN.