Hiring and Career Moves in Tech
For engineers looking to streamline their job search, Triplebyte operates a centralized technical assessment run by engineers. Candidates who perform well are recommended directly to partner companies — including Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart — bypassing their standard screening processes. The evaluation covers system design and coding through a multiple-choice quiz. Notably, High Scalability readers are reported to be roughly 80% more likely to land in the top skill bracket, making this a potentially efficient path for senior talent.
Sisu Data is also expanding its machine learning team. They are seeking ML engineers comfortable owning a feature end-to-end, from initial prototyping in a Jupyter notebook through to production deployment. The role focuses on generating actionable business insights from first-party, streaming, and structured relational data.
Tools and Services for Modern Infrastructure
Several products are positioning themselves to address recurring infrastructure challenges, from data pipelines to application state management.
FaunaDB is targeting JavaScript developers who need to add state to their applications without the operational overhead. The service offers a generous free tier for those looking to get started.
Etleap provides an enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service designed for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses, as well as S3 and Glue data lakes. Its analyst-friendly approach allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and the company claims it enables analysts to access data in minutes rather than months. Customer stories are available from companies such as Okta and PagerDuty.
PA File Sight focuses on server file activity monitoring. It tracks real-time access to files, identifying who is reading, moving, or deleting them. This capability supports three primary use cases: detecting and stopping ransomware attacks in real-time, identifying potential information leaks through file copying, and maintaining historical audit records. Crucially, it does not rely on Windows Native Auditing, so there is no associated server performance penalty. A fully functional 30-day trial is available without requiring a sign-up.
Stream offers an API for building and scaling news feeds and activity streams. The service is free for up to 3 million feed updates, and client libraries are available for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. With over 400 production customers — including apps serving 30 million users — Stream is currently hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam to support further growth.
Learning and Interview Preparation
For those focused on skill development, Educative.io is running a promotional subscription offer for the holiday period. For the first time, users can sign up for unrestricted access to the entire course catalog at a discounted rate, which is then locked in for the duration of their subscription. The platform’s catalog includes the popular Grokking the System Design Interview, a bestselling resource for interview preparation.
For hiring managers, Essilen Research offers a free video series on technical hiring. The content covers the complete hiring lifecycle for modern tech organizations, including writing effective job specs, conducting unbiased and efficient candidate screening, training interviewers for consistency, closing offers without losing candidates, and onboarding new hires for immediate productivity.
