Interesting Data Gigs # 105: 7 Jobs, 7 Ideas

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Hi Data Geek.

This week, I’ve found this interesting open roles around the globe.

As always, I will share an idea with each role how to make a better job in the application:

• Staff Data Platform Engineer at Airwallex (Singapore, Singapore). IDEA: Read the Airwallex profile by Mario Gabriele of The Generalist

• Software Engineer, Generalist at Saronic (Austin, Texas, USA). IDEA: read the post on a16z why they invested in Saronic

• Data Scientist, R&D at Eight Sleep (Remote - US, CA or LATAM). IDEA: Read the Eight Sleep profile on the Not Boring newsletter by Packy McCormick

• Data Engineer, Buyer Fraud at Amazon (Seattle, WA, USA). IDEA: Chat with Santhana Lakshmi

• Senior Data Engineer at Vanta (Remote US). IDEA: Read this article on First Round Capital’s The Review, take notes and use that information to prepare yourself for a potential interview with them

• Senior Data Engineer at Stability AI (Berlin, Germany). IDEA: Read everything you can about the Stable Fast 3D model and the Stability AI news blog

• and Senior Software Engineer at SELECT (Fully Remote (Canada or UK +/- 1 hour). IDEA: Chat with Niall Woodward

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Quote of the week

Interesting resources

• Job hunting tips from Bonnie Dilber

• I quadrupled my Big Tech salary by changing jobs 8 times. I learned how to negotiate pay and when to walk away, by Jean Kang

• The true story -- as best I can remember -- of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape, by Marc Andreesseen and Ben Horowitz

• [The Aarthi and Sriram Show Episode # 80]: How to hire great people, by Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan

• Counting Billions of Content Usage at Canva, by ByteByteGo

• This is Marc Andreessen’s condensed guide to career planning, by Ben Lang

• Transformer Explainer by Elvis

• How to be more concise, by Wes Kao

• How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment), by Lenny Rachitsky

• Become The Go-To Expert As A Software Engineer, by Jordan Cutler

• The Rise of The Notebook Engineer, by Daniel Beach

• Running Apache Beam outside of GCP, by David Regalado

• incident.io Data stack 2024, by Jack Colsey

Happy job hacking

Marcos out