January 9, 2026
Careers meet chaos
Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring
Replit’s big hiring push: AI dreams, office fights, and meme-fueled vibes
TLDR: Replit opened 44 roles with a hybrid office schedule, pitching an AI-powered platform where anyone can build apps. The community split: fans celebrate more access to tech, while critics worry about junior jobs, pay transparency, and the in-office policy—turning a hiring post into a full-blown culture clash.
Replit just dropped a monster jobs list—44 roles from brand leads to cloud security—and the comments immediately turned into a reality show. The company pitches itself as a platform where “anyone can build apps” using plain language and AI. Cue the split: Team Empowerment cheers the idea of opening software-making to everyone, while Team Panic warns it’s code for “AI replaces junior devs.” Early-career listings for 2026 sparked jokes about “apply now, ship later,” and the title “Senior Software Engineer, Money” became instant meme material—someone called it “the final boss of my bank account.”
The in-office rule (Monday, Wednesday, Friday in Foster City) lit the remote vs. office fuse. One camp says face time builds a real product; the other sees three commutes a week as three red flags. Several asked for salary ranges and grilled whether “Operating Principles” are just corporate poetry—yes, folks actually clicked the Operating Principles and debated the vibe. Security roles drew snarky love: “Hiring a PSIRT? Even your AI needs a babysitter.” Meanwhile, fans of Replit’s browser-based coding cheered a world where school kids and hobbyists can spin up apps in minutes, while cynics joked, “If anyone can code, anyone can get paged at 2 a.m.” It’s jobs meet culture war, with extra memes on top.
Key Points
- •Replit announced 44 open positions across Brand, Design, Early Career, and Engineering.
- •The company describes its product as an agentic software creation platform enabling natural-language app development.
- •Most roles are hybrid in Foster City, CA, with in-office days on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; at least one role is in the SF Bay Area.
- •Engineering openings include security, data, growth, platform, and software engineering roles (e.g., PSIRT, SRE, Distributed Systems).
- •Replit encourages candidates to review its Operating Principles before applying.