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flxflxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

Edgeless Systems | (Senior) Software Engineer - Confidential AI | REMOTE (EU) - Offices in Berlin & Bochum | Full-time

We are a team of ~20 people, building cutting-edge open-source tools for confidential computing and a "confidential GenAI" service on top of those.

You can find the GenAI service here: https://www.privatemode.ai/ and most of our code here: https://github.com/edgelesssys/

Our products span unusually far across the tech stack, starting at measured boot, through Kubernetes operators, finishing somewhere in our JavaScript frontend. We don't expect you to do all of it - these are just possibilities.

Tech stack: Go (mostly), Rust (some), JavaScript (some), Nix / NixOS, Kubernetes, Terraform, vLLM, AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX.

Website: https://www.edgeless.systems/ Contact: Apply via the posting on our careers page. Feel free to email me (founder) via fs [at] edgeless.systems.

flxflxon CTOs of Azure, AMD, and Intel Discussing "Confidential AI" at OC3 Conference

Ian Buck, VP Hyperscale at Nvidia, also participates. There's also a keynote by Phil Venables, CISO Google Cloud, on the same topic.

flxflxon Confidential Computing at Scale with Open-Source Confidential Kubernetes

This is the corresponding repo: https://github.com/edgelesssys/constellation

flxflxon Show HN: Constellation – An always encrypted Kubernetes engine

Thanks! There is some performance impact. How much depends on the workload. The impact comes from network, storage, and memory encryption. For most workloads the overhead should be rather small. We have a performance comparison with AKS and GKE: https://docs.edgeless.systems/constellation/overview/perform...

flxflxon Show HN: Constellation – An always encrypted Kubernetes engine

Thanks! Target audiences are: people running sensitive clusters on-prem for security reasons and wanting to move to the cloud. There's also regulation in Europe in the eHealth space that requires runtime encryption. Ultimately, I believe that keeping workloads always encrypted and verifiable can be valuable in many scenarios.

flxflxon Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961

"I remember as a kid looking at the images on the back of video game cases and wishing I could explore these worlds". Same here. Love the idea and execution.

flxflxon Open Confidential Computing Conference 2021 (free and online)

Just saw that this was posted and updated the site with a preliminary agenda. There will be talks from most of the relevant confidential computing projects.