Hiring and Tech Tools Roundup
This week's roundup covers open positions, developer tools, and services for engineering teams.
Open Positions and Hiring Resources
Essilen Research offers a free video series on technical hiring. The series covers best practices for writing job specs, efficient and unbiased resume screening, training interviewers, and techniques for closing candidates and onboarding new hires. The content draws on decades of experience building and scaling engineering organizations.
Sisu Data is hiring machine learning engineers. The role involves delivering features end-to-end, from prototype in a Jupyter notebook through to production, with a focus on generating actionable insights from first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here.
Triplebyte is a platform for engineers looking to streamline their job search. It uses its own centralized technical assessment to let qualified candidates skip initial screening at companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. You can take their multiple-choice quiz covering system design and coding to see if you qualify.
Developer Tools and Services
FaunaDB offers a way to add state to JavaScript applications. It provides a generous free tier for getting started.
PA File Sight provides real-time monitoring of file access on servers. Its features include detecting file copy activity, protecting against ransomware, and auditing who is reading, moving, or deleting files. A key detail is that it does not rely on Windows Native Auditing, avoiding performance overhead. Audit records capture the user account, target file, and IP address. A 30-day fully functional trial is available with no sign-up required.
Etleap is an enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service platform designed for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. It is positioned as analyst-friendly, allowing data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code. Customer stories include Okta and PagerDuty.
Stream provides APIs for building and scaling news feeds and activity streams. It is free for up to 3 million feed updates and offers client libraries for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. Over 400 companies, including apps with 30 million users, rely on Stream for production feed infrastructure. The company is also hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam.
Educative.io offers courses on in-demand technologies and interview prep, including the popular Grokking the System Design Interview. For a limited time during the holiday period, a new subscription option provides unlimited access to all courses at a discounted rate, which is locked in for the duration of the subscription.
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