Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to 40 million users. We are strong believers in engineering teams taking operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them in this. We work closely with engineers to advocate sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues. We are looking for an SRE Engineering Manager in NYC and SREs in Boston and NYC.
IT Security Engineering. At Gusto we are on a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. As Gusto's IT Security Engineer you'll shape the future of IT security and compliance. We're looking for a strong IT technical lead to manage security audits and write and implement controls. You'll also focus on our employee, network, and endpoint posture. As Gusto's first IT Security Engineer, you will be able to build the security organization with direct impact to protecting PII and ePHI. Read more and apply here.
On the Citizens of Tech Podcast #43, we interviewed Dr. Patrick McCarthy of the Giant Magellan Telescope project, currently under construction in Chile.
The GMT is in a new class of “extremely large telescopes.” Featuring a custom glass formulation, seven asymmetric mirrors being polished in Arizona, and software that will correct in real-time for atmospheric distortion and physical alignment, the GMT will gather images too dim for us to have ever seen before.
Among the anticipated advances is the ability to see planets orbiting distant stars, allowing us to get that planet’s spectrographic signature. That data will help us find planets with the chemical signatures of life. We’ll also be able to look ever further back in time as we observe across light years, clarifying our understanding of the universe’s opening moments.
Pat was an outstanding spokesman for the GMT, clearly explaining the project’s worth to science, construction challenges, and relation to other extremely large telescope projects. He also helped us understand the pros and cons of terrestrial vs. space-based telescopes.
This is a guest post by Jason Bosco, the Dollar Shave Club’s Director of Engineering, Core Platform & Infrastructure, on the infrastructure of its ecommerce technology.
With more than 3 million members, Dollar Shave Club will do over $200 million in revenue this year. Although most are familiar with the company’s marketing, this immense growth in just a few years since launch is largely due to its team of 45 engineers.
Dollar Shave Club engineering by the numbers:
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In case you missed it, we recently launched Dockercast, the official Docker Podcast including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.
In this podcast I catch up with Nirmal Mehta at Booz Allen Hamilton. Nirmal has been a big part of the Docker community and is also a Docker Captain.
Nirmal works with some large government organizations and we discussed why these types of institutions seemed to be early adopters of Docker. As most would answer, speed was an obvious driver, however, we discuss that security was also an early driver. Turns out due to tighter boundaries of Docker containers some of these organizations felt that the potential security opportunities stretched better than virtualization. We discuss these ideas as well as what is it like to be a Docker Captain.
You can find the latest #Dockercast episodes on the Itunes Store or via the SoundCloud RSS feed.
New #dockercast episode w/ host @botchagalupe & @normafaults from @BoozAllen as a guest!
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Solarwinds ThwackCamp 2016 begins tomorrow, Wednesday September 14th.
I’m sharing this information in case it’s of interest, so here are some questions and answers in case you are curious.
ThwackCamp is an annual, online, free training event offered by Solarwinds. It is organized into two streams, a “How-To” track which is more technical, and an “IT Industry” track which offers training with a slightly more holistic twist to it. There are 10 sessions offered over two days, and although my registrations are mostly How-To sessions, I did find an IT Industry session slipping in there; you can mix and match as you please.
Register on the Solarwinds ThwackCamp home page. Disclosure: I get 25% commission on every dollar you spend on ThwackCamp registrations using this link. You need to register for a free Solarwinds account if you don’t already have one, and you have to be logged in before you can register for the sessions you want to attend. Emails will arrive shortly thereafter with meeting invites attached so you can populate your calendar easily with session reminders. Remember: there are no travel costs involved, no registration cost and no hotel required. I mean, if you want to fly somewhere Continue reading