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11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Felicis
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 28, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions · 106 points
May 23, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Making EC2 boot time faster · 275 points
Feb 6, 2024
On the Hacker News front page BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained · 174 points
Jan 2023
Went through Y Combinator
Sep 28, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds · 141 points
Sep 6, 2022
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds
2022
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Overview
Depot is a build infrastructure platform offering: (1) Depot container builds - remote Docker builds up to 40x faster with Intel and Arm support, (2) Depot GitHub Actions runners - managed CI infrastructure with 30% faster CPUs at half the cost, (3) Depot Cache - distributed caching for Bazel…
News
Home Depot Yields More Than 3x the S&P 500. Here's the Effect on a $10,000 Investment.
The dominant home improvement retailer can be a top choice for income investors.
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The evolution of the Depot Metal autoscaler
Depot Metal's autoscaler grew from a simple pressure loop into a topology-aware system for compute and storage. Next, it must predict demand and converge on desired capacity.
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How we load tested Depot Metal before scaling up
We built a production-shaped load test to find control-plane limits before moving more GitHub Actions traffic to Depot Metal. Each run made our scaling changes measurable.
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Depot CI now caches GitHub Actions
Depot CI now caches the source code for GitHub Actions in Depot Code, reducing repeat downloads from GitHub without requiring any workflow changes.
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The Home Depot Acquired
Fired from a hardware chain, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank teamed with financier Ken Langone to pioneer the big-box, do-it-yourself home-improvement store - building Home Depot into the world's largest home-improvement retailer and the best-performing S&
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GitHub Actions without GitHub
Depot CI runs GitHub Actions workflows without GitHub's control plane, keeping CI online during outages and making workflows portable to new forges like Origin.
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Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
Human feces isn't even the nastiest thing they've found in the backseat.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Depot over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
79/100
Languages
Go
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry
Databases
ClickHouse
MySQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Developer tools
Docker
gRPC
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$250k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Staff
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Staff Software Engineer
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$100k – $250k per year • Remote (United States, Canada, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
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TypeScript
MySQL
ClickHouse
DevOps
gRPC
GitHub Actions
OpenTelemetry
AWS
Docker
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