What&#39;s up devs? #8 — AI Brain Fry Is Real, and Devs Are Fighting Back

The Skills AI Stopped Teaching Junior Developers — Menelaos Vergis

An essay on how AI agents remove the "walking through code" that used to turn juniors into seniors: codebase navigation, debugging, test judgment and diff reading no longer arrive for free. The author proposes a strict 90/10 split — 90% AI-accelerated work, 10% hand-tooled — plus concrete drills to rebuild the missing muscles. A grounded take on a dev job that evolves rather than dies.

» Read the essay

You Should Self-Host Your Mail Server — Christian Haschek

A practical case for running your own mail server in 2026, even from home, if your ISP gives you a static IPv4, PTR control and open ports. The game-changer: a local LLM (Gemma 4 12B via llama.cpp) wired into rspamd's GPT plugin classifies spam so well that "spam is a solved problem" — without sending your private mail to external APIs.

How Fast Is C++26's std::hive? — Daniel Lemire

Benchmarks of the new std::hive container against std::vector and std::list. Hive costs about twice a vector to fill and iterates no faster than a list, but it stays steady at 10M elements where the list falls apart, and erases scattered entries faster than vector. Verdict: not a faster vector — a much better list, with stable references and far lower memory overhead. Jarred Sumner (Bun) weighed in on the thread.

What Happens to Your Engineering Platform When AI Raises the Baseline — HackerNoon

inDrive's platform team explains how AI moves the boundary between execution and judgment for engineers, and how they rebuilt around it: interviews where AI use is an explicit scored condition, autonomy earned workflow-by-workflow ("tail reliability"), MCP-first platforms and a "Knowledge Spine" for governed context. A concrete blueprint for redesigning engineering organizations around agents.

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Posts I found interesting this week across social networks.

iFixit — EU "repair instead of replace" law

https://bsky.app/profile/ifixit.com/post/3ms7czyphbc2c

The right-to-repair crowd is having a very good week: repair instead of replace now means an extra year of warranty in the EU. A nice contrast to the culture of throwing away perfectly repairable hardware.

dcg — a guardrail for destructive AI-agent commands

https://twitter.com/x/status/2075675460600467809

dcg intercepts destructive commands before an AI agent runs them — git reset --hard, rm -rf, DROP TABLE — and suggests a safer alternative for each. Install this before you let your agents loose.

Alexandre Daubois — CWE vs CVE, finally clarified

https://twitter.com/x/status/2083813825229226425

A CWE is a weakness class (OS command injection, XSS, SQLi…); a CVE is a concrete vulnerability with a version and a patch. One CWE sits at the root of thousands of CVEs. The fastest way to win a security conversation: don't confuse the two.

DEV PRACTICAL

Hands-on resources for every kind of developer.

📘 Web Dev

CPX 2.0 — The "npx for PHP," Now First-Party Laravel

cpx runs a command from any Composer package without installing it in your project — the npx of the PHP ecosystem. Version 2.0, now developed by the Laravel team and demoed by Taylor Otwell at Laracon US, prefers the binaries your project already pins, replaces hard-coded shortcuts with your own aliases, and even handles gists and a REPL (cpx tinker). The cherry on top: JSON output when an AI agent is driving the terminal.

The TALL Stack — Why It Makes Sense for Internal Products

Appventura makes a refreshing case: for a back-office or admin panel, reaching for a SPA + API split from day one is often paying for complexity too early. The TALL Stack (Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire) lets you build dynamic interfaces inside a single application, without duplicating business rules between server and client. A well-argued plea for simplicity — and the list of cases where a decoupled front end remains the right call.

🛠️ DevOps

dmr — Docker Model Runner, Standalone Edition

k33g walks through dmr, the standalone version of Docker Model Runner: a single binary that bundles the inference daemon and the full model-management CLI (run, pull, ls, rm, ps…), with no Docker Desktop and no Docker engine required. Just an HTTP process. It exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, serves your local models, and even exposes Prometheus metrics. Perfect for homelabbers and companies that ban Docker Desktop.

» Read the guide

🖥️ Electronics

TongDou — The Tiny Desktop Robot With Radar

Hackaday presents TongDou, an open-source "desktop gremlin" built by solitary dev. An ESP32-S3 brain inside a tasteful brass chassis, an OLED display for a face, two gearmotor wheels, and — the fun part — a 24 GHz radar + an IMU so it can perceive the space around it. The backstory is touching: it was built after a loss in the family, to make a workspace feel less dead. Design files are on GitHub for other makers to build their own.

» See the project

GRAB YOUR POPCORN

Grab your seat, your popcorn, and enjoy some great videos.

The most interesting "hack" in history... — Fireship

Fireship breaks down the Hugging Face hack, one of the most-talked-about security stories of the week, in his usual fast-paced, code-splashed style. Who was behind it and what they were after — the AI model that reportedly escaped its sandbox and made its way inside the platform.

The Codeberg Situation — ThePrimeagen

ThePrimeagen and the Standup crew dive into Codeberg's decision to ban generative-AI projects from its forge. They weigh the platform's reasoning — hardware strain, infrastructure costs, breakdown of community trust, the "slop" of low-effort pull requests — and debate whether the ban protects human craftsmanship or leaves the platform behind in the AI revolution.

Recreating ITS — Computerphile

The DEC PDP computers from decades ago now run comfortably on a cheap board like the Raspberry Pi. Lars Brinkhoff and Oscar Vermeulen from Obsolescence Guaranteed explain the digital-archaeology work behind making these historic systems — including MIT's ITS timesharing OS — available for anyone to explore.

Did Anthropic just kill the indie hacker...? — Fireship

Fireship looks at Anthropic's new Opus 5 and what it means for solo developers shipping with AI. The video asks whether frontier coding models are killing the "indie hacker dream" — squarely inside the ongoing vibe-coding debate about whether you still need to understand code when AI writes it for you.

PUT ON YOUR HEADPHONES

English podcasts from our dev world.

Silver Bullet Security Podcast #159 — Melanie Mitchell

Gary McGraw (BIML) hosts AI researcher Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute) for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of AI: the surprising progress since the '90s, whether modern systems extrapolate or just interpolate, the brittleness hidden behind benchmark scores, and why evaluating LLMs like traditional software gives us a false sense of security.

Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents — Software Engineering Daily

Docker's President & COO Mark Cavage explains why coding agents break the immutability assumptions containers were built on. They cover Docker Sandboxes — isolated micro VMs that give each agent its own kernel for a stronger security boundary — and the unsolved challenge of giving agents scoped, trustworthy access to sensitive services and data. A timely listen after this week's sandbox-escape stories.

RELEASES OF THE WEEK

Software updates we use in our daily dev lives.

Firefox 153.0.1 — July 28, 2026

Fixed a startup crash on Windows after an incomplete update (Bug 2056926).
Fixed audio playing silently on some streaming sites after pause/resume (Bug 2053586).
Improved pointer lock (cursor stays in the window) for games and immersive content.
Fixed loading of "View Page Source" on blob: and srcdoc documents.

MySQL 9.7.2 — July 28, 2026

SOURCE_RETRY_COUNT=0 is now consistently treated as "unlimited reconnects" — the replica no longer stops after a transient outage.
The default of thread_pool_max_unused_threads goes from 2 to 32.
Optimizer: LEFT JOIN with OR conditions can now use a re-planned index range scan instead of a full scan.
Fixes for JSON_VALUE() with RETURNING DATETIME and memory leaks when upgrading from 8.x.

Node.js — Three security releases the same day (July 29, 2026)

All three branches (22.x LTS, 24.x LTS and 26.x Current) were patched together against the same batch of 11 vulnerabilities, including 3 rated "High":

CVE-2026-56846 / CVE-2026-56848 (http2): memory accounting of session headers, rst_stream handling.
CVE-2026-58043 (permission model): no more permission grants for "radix split" nodes.
CVE-2026-58045 (zlib): out-of-bounds write buffers are now rejected with an error.
HTTP dependencies updated (llhttp 9.4.3, undici 7.29.0 / 8.9.0 / 6.28.0 depending on branch).

» Node 24.18.1 (LTS) · Node 26.5.1 · Node 22.23.2 (LTS)

Visual Studio Code 1.131 — July 29, 2026

Running subagents: see the model in use, execution time and tool called, without opening their conversation.
Built-in dictation (experimental) in chat, editor and terminal via an offline Nemotron model — audio stays on your machine, no Speech extension needed.
New "hybrid" Markdown editor in the Agents view: visualize, edit and add actionable comments for the agent.
"Agent host" architecture (dedicated process, AHP protocol) aligned with the Copilot CLI.

Prometheus 3.13.2 — July 29, 2026

Security fixes: golang.org/x/text bump (CVE-2026-56852) and google.golang.org/grpc (GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf).
PromQL fix: the "active query tracker" file is now pre-allocated to avoid SIGBUS crashes when the data disk is full.

PHP 8.5.9 — July 30, 2026 (security release)

CVE-2026-17544: out-of-bounds write in bccomp() (BCMath).
CVE-2026-17543: SQL injection in the PGSQL extension via the "backslash breakout" of the E'...' syntax.
CVE-2026-7260: Phar crash via recursive symlinks.
libgd bumped (CVE-2026-9672), timelib 2022.17, plus Tracing JIT and PDO_ODBC fixes.

» See the changelog

Also this week

Project	Version	Date	Note
PHP	8.4.24	July 30	Security release
PHP	8.3.33	July 30	Security release
PHP	8.2.33	July 30	Security release

(You can found these releases on PHP.net)

Guest of the week — The full interview

Cyril Beaufrere — Director of Infrastructures France at KION Group, creator of RudeOps

Interview by HappyToDev

1. Can you introduce yourself?

My name is Cyril Beaufrere and I've been working in IT for a little over 25 years. My beginnings were almost a stroke of luck: in the late 90s, I started as a hotliner — phone-based technical support — at an internet service provider (Easynet). Always passionate about computers, I gradually moved up to positions with more responsibility, until today, where I hold the role of Director of Infrastructures for France at KION Group. I owe much of this journey to the luck of having been surrounded by colleagues brighter than me, from whom I learned an enormous amount. Outside of work, I'm passionate about literature, video games and lots of other stuff!

2. What is your specialty? What is your favorite language?

I specialize in architectures, whether monolithic or microservices-based, and I have solid expertise in everything related to systems, CI/CD and, more broadly, everything that DevOps and GNU/Linux encompass. As for languages, I have to admit I've always been a very bad developer, but the one I love above all is Python: it lets me reach a correct result without too much effort, thanks to its enormous ecosystem of libraries.

3. Are you a career changer? (Did you work in a field other than IT before?)

Yes, I'm a career changer. I first worked a bit in hospitality before switching to IT, somewhat by chance, with that famous hotliner job at Easynet.

4. What studies did you pursue?

At the end of middle school, I was put on a dead-end track — I was directed toward a CAP/BEP in hospitality (which I earned). So I never sat the baccalauréat, which makes me what people call a self-taught person, like so many in IT. Looking back, I don't regret not having followed a traditional academic path: it forced me to learn in the field, through practice and curiosity, rather than through diplomas. In this job, it's often passion and the ability to learn fast that make the difference, far more than an academic background — and I believe it made me more resourceful and more curious than if I had followed a well-trodden path.

5. How did you start in the professional world? Internship, work-study, direct employment?

I started directly on a permanent contract, at Easynet. I will never thank the CTO of the time enough for hiring me and trusting me: I started on the hotline before structuring it and taking over its management. For context, it was 1998, at an internet service provider, one of the very first startups in the sector. It was the Wild West; we were witnessing the very beginnings of consumer internet live, everything was yet to be invented, and the energy was absolutely insane. Funny anecdote: when I arrived at Easynet, I told myself that at some point I'd have to find a "real" job — without imagining for a second that this company would be the trigger of my entire career.

6. And where are you now?

Today, I still don't have a career plan and I still feel like I'm 25 — above all, I have the feeling that all possibilities remain open. As usual, I have about fifty side projects going on, half of which will probably die along the way. I no longer overthink the job as such: what matters to me is being fulfilled in my personal life and everything that comes with it. In short, I operate on instinct, and I trust the rest will follow.

7. On your LinkedIn profile, one can read that you're the creator of the RudeOps newsletter.

As a fellow newsletter writer, I know it's not easy to grow and keep your audience interested. Can you tell us the story of RudeOps, the successes, the difficulties and possibly its future?

The story of RudeOps is really the meeting of two obvious facts: tech watch is part of my job, and I have an almost unhealthy curiosity. Add to that a taste for writing (my ultimate dream would be to publish a novel). In the beginning, there was just a simple desire: to share what I gathered in my watch. The rest followed on its own, as things do when you don't force them.

And over time it became a liturgy, because every Monday, without fail, I force myself to publish an issue. It takes discipline and consistency. But I don't write to please anyone; I write for the slightly guilty pleasure of regurgitating my watch with all the bad faith I'm capable of, and a humor and references that only make me laugh.

As for difficulties, the real constraint is time. My work and personal life already devour a lot of it, and you have to deal with that diffuse frustration of seeing others take up all the space with dozens of daily LinkedIn posts, carried by the algorithm more than by substance. On the flip side, nothing touches me as much as emails from readers who simply tell me they like what I do.

For the future, I have no particular pressure, except to keep enjoying it. I'm not trying to cultivate an image, nor to prove anything; I simply let RudeOps evolve at its own pace, little by little, without a precise goal and according to my whims.

Today you're infrastructure director. Can you tell us what this job consists of?

Concretely, I'm responsible for the group's infrastructure in France. I lead teams that manage LAN/WAN, servers and technical support. Nothing very sexy or glamorous there — it's fairly classic for a large group, with its constraints and advantages…

What's new for me, on the other hand, is the size of the structure: it's the first time I work in such a large group, around 40,000 people. It's stimulating to exchange with colleagues of all nationalities and work with them daily, but it's also frustrating, because a group of this size generates an insane amount of latency on just about everything.

For now, I'm having fun and I feel like I'm adding value. The day that's no longer the case, I'll go somewhere else.

You were a co-founder of FamiHero, which was acquired by O2 Care Service. Can you tell us a bit about the adventure as a Co-founder?

What did you take away from it that was positive?

What pitfalls to avoid?

The FamiHero adventure started from my living room, before we went through an incubator and then raised funds from a well-known Parisian investor, after knocking on quite a few doors. It was a family-services marketplace, with several verticals: babysitting, housekeeping, ironing, tutoring, among others. The story is long, full of ups and downs, all the time; mentally it's exhausting, and sometimes stressful, especially when you have TV ads running in the evening and you watch the load balancers hold up under the traffic while knowing you have very little margin.

What I take away as positive is first a rather rare pleasure: being able to decide everything, all the time, touch everything and choose your own direction while owning your mistakes as much as your successes. It also applies on the technical side: in a small structure, you can't hide behind a committee or a process; you have to decide fast on tooling, knowingly accept technical debt to move faster, and sometimes do yourself what you normally shouldn't have had to do for lack of budget to hire. It confirmed that this is what I love, that I'm far more comfortable when I'm not constrained. But above all, what I take away is that alone you do nothing — you need to be well surrounded.

On the pitfall side, it's not very glamorous to tell, but in B2C everything rests on acquisition costs. You really have to keep an eye on them and choose your business model carefully from the start. In hindsight, focusing only on B2C wasn't enough given those acquisition costs; we should have put as much effort into B2B, which offers longer sales cycles but more profitable and more loyal customers over time.

You've worked in different sectors (press, telecom, price comparison, advertising, insurance, etc.) — did that mean reinventing yourself every time, or not?

Yes, reinventing yourself, every time. The trap would be to arrive thinking "hey, I did that last time, I'll do the same again": it has happened to me, and it was a mistake. Each sector has its own logic, its own constraints, its own codes, and trying to apply a recipe that worked elsewhere often means missing what makes the specificity of the trade.

My method, if you can call it that, is to always start by understanding the business before moving on to the technical side. The technical side adapts, but the business itself must be grasped deeply to know what problems we're really trying to solve. And for that, you have to be curious, all the time, about everything — curious about the people around you, because they carry the business expertise you don't yet have, curious about the business and how it evolves, about market dynamics and competition. It's this permanent curiosity that allows you to reinvent yourself without starting from scratch each time: you keep a method, but you change the playing field.

You live near Paris (clarify if needed), what do you appreciate about this city?

I live in a charming town in the Yvelines. What do I appreciate? Honestly, I'd gladly trade it for a city in the south of France, with a pool. By the way, if you have a job offer in that direction, I'm quite ready to consider it.

8. Do you have other passions?

Huge fan of literature — impossible for me to fall asleep without my hour of reading, even when it's very late. Huge fan of video games too. The rest of the time is shared between photography, guitar, my friends and my family.

And I think it's important to say it: having a good balance is essential. If all you do is IT in your life, that's a real balance problem — even though, in my case, this job remains a passion in its own right.

9. Can we see you at conferences or meetups? Otherwise, where can we follow you?

Definitely not, no — I lack the talent (and the time) for that. I might try one day; I probably have two or three things to say, but it's not my focus for now. The simplest way to follow me is via RudeOps, or on LinkedIn.

10. Does your job ultimately match your expectations, your dreams?

The job in general, yes, it matches my expectations. Then, on a more nuanced level, I ask myself quite a few questions. Does what I do really serve something, society — and here I mean civil society, not the company? Is it a "real job," deep down? These kinds of questions regularly cross my mind, without a definitive answer.

11. What advice would you give to those starting out in the IT professions, and more specifically in dev?

Curiosity, above all, and the desire to build things: seeing a project emerge and take shape through code is the most rewarding thing in the world. You also need grit to keep going when things resist. In 2026, absolutely everything is within reach to feed that curiosity and grow. If you're not curious, you'll be a bad dev — it's as simple as that.

12. New 2026 question — AI

Do you use AI in your work?

Yes, clearly — and even at home on my homelab.

Which ones do you use, and which is currently your favorite?

I've tested quite a few models like Codex, ChatGPT, some open source models (Llama, Mistral...). But for the past few months, I've mostly been on Claude Code, which matches exactly what I'm looking for — whether it's pure development integrated directly into my IDE, or personal projects on my homelab; it's become my daily tool.

What do you mainly entrust to it?

It goes from a simple prompt to summarize my emails, to agents that alert me when logs behave weirdly.

How do you see AI evolving in 5 years?

As something exciting and terrifying at the same time. Exciting, because the barriers to entry keep falling one after another, and it enormously facilitates tests and POCs, fast iterations, learning. Frightening, because everything ends up revolving around it, and it raises real questions about resources, intellectual property and verification of information.

13. What are your 3 most used tools in your daily dev life? (it can be anything as long as it's related to your dev routine: book, website, mug, software, etc.)?

Well, I'm not really a "real" dev, but I use GitLab, Neovim and/or VSCode a lot. And otherwise, my terminal of choice is Ghostty.

14. Another topic you'd like to highlight?

I've talked a lot about curiosity and I sincerely believe it's the number one quality to become a good dev. But if there's one thing our professions often lack, it's not taking ourselves too seriously. In IT, we tend to look at our own belly button, to idolize our tools, our methodologies, our tribal debates (tabs vs spaces, vim vs the rest of the world...). A bit of self-deprecation wouldn't hurt, and it would probably make our professions more alive and more accessible.

15. Final word?

For the final word, I'd like to turn toward Kavinsky, who left us much too soon. We didn't really know him, and that's precisely the most beautiful thing: he never sought the spotlight, always hiding behind his black glasses, letting his music speak for him. "Nightcall" took nearly a decade to become the anthem we know, without him ever forcing it or chasing the buzz. There's a real lesson in humility and patience here: do things well, without worrying about immediate recognition, and let time do its work. That's a bit what I try to do on my scale, with RudeOps as with the rest of my projects: build quietly, without calculation, and find your balance along the way.

Bonus questions

Your best anecdote at work:

An rm -rf on /etc, on a central system, during my very first real admin job — it paralyzed my whole company. I learned to use tar in 24 hours. Let's say it builds character.

Your favorite book: I have too many to name just one, but this time I'll say "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.

Your favorite video game: Same, too many, but my heart leans toward DCS (Digital Combat Simulator).

Your favorite film or series: The Office, obviously.

Your favorite tech book: "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. It's a novel that tells the story of Bill, an IT manager thrust against his will at the helm of a software project on the brink of collapse, who discovers along the way the great principles of DevOps (flow, feedback, continuous improvement, etc.). I love this book because it turns concepts usually considered dry into a story you follow with pleasure, and because I recognized myself in it more than once in my own everyday infrastructure work.

And that’s it – the interview’s over for this week.

To follow Cyril on social media:

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrilbeaufrere/

THE TOOLBOX

Tools to help you in your daily dev life.

Murmure

An AI speech-to-text tool that runs 100% on your machine: built on a tuned NVIDIA Parakeet v3 model, it transcribes your voice locally — your audio and transcripts never leave your device. 25 European languages, no tracking, no account, no GPU required. Over 28,000 downloads, and billed as 3× faster than typing.

» See the site

SketchForge

A 3D modeling program that runs locally in your browser, with no account and no external services. WYSIWYG assembly from primitive shapes, a 2D sketch mode (extrude/revolve), and STEP export to move your creations into any other CAD tool. Tinkercad's spirit, but 100% local.

» See the project

DBStan

A Laravel package providing detailed analysis and insights into your database schema: tables, indexes, relations, potential redundancy. Handy for auditing a database that keeps growing without anyone knowing exactly why.

» See on MadeWithLaravel

uPlot

A tiny (~50 KB min), fast charting library for time series, lines, areas, OHLC and bars. Canvas 2D-based, MIT licensed, 10.4k stars. From a cold start it renders an interactive chart of 166,650 points in ~25ms, then scales at about 100,000 points/ms. If you need to stream data at 60fps without dragging in a 1 MB charting framework, this is the one.

» See on GitHub

UPCOMING CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Conferences coming up over the next months.

RustConf 2026 — Sep 8-11 — Montreal, Canada + Online

The Rust Foundation's flagship annual conference, turning 10 this year. Keynotes, hands-on workshops and lightning talks from the people driving Rust forward, plus community-led unconference sessions.

Rails World 2026 — Sep 23-24 — Austin, TX (USA)

The two-day, two-track community conference for Rails developers, now in the US for the first time. 1,200+ devs, talks on the latest Rails features and best practices, with DHH and Aaron Patterson on stage at the Palmer Center.

GOTO Copenhagen 2026 — Sep 28 - Oct 2 — Copenhagen (Denmark)

GOTO's flagship European event under the theme "Engineering for Reality." Kent Beck, Sam Newman, Troy Hunt and others on software design, AI-assisted delivery and security, plus hands-on masterclasses.

Open Source Summit Europe 2026 — Oct 7-9 — Prague (Czechia)

The Linux Foundation's premier vendor-neutral open source event in Europe, co-located with the Embedded Linux Conference Europe. Tracks span Linux, cloud & orchestration, open AI + data, packages & containers, and safety-critical software.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — Oct 13-15 — San Francisco, CA (USA)

TechCrunch's flagship startup conference. 10,000+ attendees, the Startup Battlefield competition, and keynotes from leaders across stages focused on AI, digital finance and building & scaling startups.

AWS re:Invent 2026 — Nov 30 - Dec 4 — Las Vegas, NV (USA)

AWS's annual customer conference. 2,200+ sessions (70% interactive) across AI, security, migration and developer productivity, including launch sessions where new services are announced the same day.

Thank you to Aurélie Vache for maintaining the amazing developers-conferences-agenda — the go-to resource for tracking developer events worldwide, also available at developers.events.

JOB OFFERS

Employers looking for developers. Sourced and recent.

1. DevOps Engineer — Thales — Crawley, UK

Thales (Cyber Security & Digital Identity, UK Digital Competence Centre) is building cloud-based infrastructure on Azure with DevSecOps, Terraform/Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines for a cloud-native estate. Open to multiple levels; UK SC security clearance required.

2. Site Reliability Engineer — EarnIn — Mountain View, CA (hybrid)

EarnIn (earned-wage access fintech, backed by a16z). $189K–$232K + equity. Python/Go, SLOs/SLIs, observability (Datadog, CloudWatch), incident response, and AI-assisted infrastructure workflows. 3+ years experience.

3. Rust Backend Engineer — Svix — San Francisco, CA

Svix (webhook infrastructure; they wrote the Standard Webhooks spec adopted by OpenAI/Anthropic; a16z + YC backed) is building performant message-delivery services at scale in Rust. Entry-level accepted; OSS contributors welcome.

4. Data Engineer, Analytics — Discord — San Francisco Bay Area

Discord. $180K–$200K + equity. Own the transformation/semantic layer powering metrics and dashboards: SQL, Python, dbt, BigQuery, Looker/Tableau. 3+ years in data/analytics engineering.

5. Software Engineer, New Grad — Deliveroo — London, UK (hybrid)

Deliveroo (now part of DoorDash) is hiring for a global three-sided marketplace in Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala or Rust, with PostgreSQL/MySQL. Graduates within the last year; right to work in the UK required.

6. Low-Level Senior Software Engineer, Xet Storage — Hugging Face — US Remote

Hugging Face. 8+ years building storage/distributed systems; Rust strongly preferred (also Python, TS, Go, C++). Work on xet-core (open source) and the backend storing 200PB+ of ML assets. Fully remote, async.