Engineering Roles and Platforms in Focus
Several companies are currently looking for senior engineering talent, with a particular emphasis on backend, big data, and machine learning roles.
Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on Big Data and AI. The role involves designing and implementing distributed systems, including a large-scale web crawling platform, integrating deep learning-based web data extraction components, and working on queue algorithms and large datasets. Responsibilities also include creating a development platform for other company departments. Applications are being accepted here.
Sisu Data is seeking machine learning engineers to deliver features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebooks to production. The work focuses on providing actionable insights to businesses based on first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Interested candidates can apply here.
Triplebyte offers a centralized technical assessment process that allows recommended engineers to skip screening steps at companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Their pitch is to make your job search O(1) rather than O(n). They note that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. A multiple-choice quiz covering system design and coding is available to assess fit.
Stream is hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam. The company provides APIs for building news feeds and activity streams, with client libraries for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. Stream's service is free up to 3 million feed updates, and they report that more than 400 companies rely on their production feed infrastructure, including apps with 30 million users. Job listings are available on AngelList.
Products for Scalability and Data Management
For developers looking to improve their skills or toolchain, several products are highlighted.
Educative.io offers a four-course learning track called Scalability and System Design for Developers, designed to teach architecture trade-offs and scalable enterprise-level software design. More than 265,000 learners have joined the platform.
FaunaDB targets JavaScript developers seeking to add state to their applications. It offers a generous free tier for getting started.
Etleap provides an enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. The platform allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and aims to give analysts access to data in minutes rather than months. Customer stories are available from companies like Okta and PagerDuty.
File Access Monitoring and Ransomware Protection
PA File Sight is a real-time server monitoring tool that tracks who is accessing specific files. It can detect file copying, help stop ransomware attacks, and record file activity for auditing purposes. The audit records include the user account, target file, and the user's IP address. The solution does not require Windows Native Auditing, thereby avoiding performance impact on the server. A 30-day fully functional trial is available without needing to sign up.
Technical Hiring Best Practices
Essilen Research has released a free video series on technical hiring. The content walks through the entire hiring lifecycle, offering guidance on writing job specs, screening candidates efficiently and without bias, training interviewers, making offers, and onboarding new hires. The lessons are drawn from decades of experience building and scaling tech organizations, including conducting thousands of interviews as hiring managers.
