Open Engineering Roles and Developer Tools Roundup
Kinsta Is Hiring for Infrastructure and Development Roles
Kinsta, which builds managed hosting infrastructure, is looking for engineers in three areas. The DevOps Engineer role focuses on keeping infrastructure on the bleeding edge of technology while remaining stable and high-performing. The position requires Linux experience, a PHP background, and familiarity with technologies such as Ansible and LXC. The SysOps Engineer role centers on server health: preventing issues and responding immediately to mitigate problems in the infrastructure. That role calls for experience with hosting and the WordPress stack, Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and the same cutting-edge tooling. The JavaScript Developer role is for the team building effective solutions for customers and internal teams, with an emphasis on quality code and an ownership-embracing, relaxed culture where technical excellence matters.
Platforms for Interview Prep and Job Searches
InterviewCamp.io offers hours of system design content, including live system design discussions each week, breaking interview preparation down into fundamental building blocks. Triplebyte lets software engineers skip screening steps at top tech companies including Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. The service positions job searching as an O(1) operation rather than O(n). High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill, and Triplebyte's multiple-choice quiz covers system design and coding questions to help determine if the service can accelerate a career move.
Developer-Focused Products and Services
Bridgecrew is a cloud security platform designed for developers. It uses automation and security-as-code to help teams find, fix, and prevent misconfigurations both in deployed cloud resources and in infrastructure as code, and offers a free tier to start. IP2Location has provided IP address geolocation services since 2002. Its geolocation database or API detects location, proxy, and more than 20 other parameters, has been cited in over 700 research papers, and is trusted by many Fortune 500 companies.
Developers shipping secure applications face the challenge that AppSec products and processes have not kept up with software development advances. A new breed of tools enables developers to take the lead on application security. Engineering teams use products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. FaunaDB adds state to JavaScript apps, with a generous free tier available. Stream offers APIs for building, scaling, and personalizing news feeds and activity streams with a five-minute interactive tutorial. It is free up to 3 million feed updates; client libraries support Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. More than 400 companies rely on Stream's production feed infrastructure, including apps with 30 million users. Stream is also hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam.
System Design Learning Paths
Educative.io offers a 5-part learning path for developers who want to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. The path includes core material from the bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview along with content written by seasoned industry experts. More than 500,000 learners from top tech companies around the world have joined the platform.
