Diversify Tech #309

Hi! Welcome to Diversify Tech's Professional Edition. This newsletter is for underrepresented people in tech; specifically curated for mid-senior level folks. Every Tuesday, we share jobs, events, and other career opportunities.

In this week's issue,
💼 Schoolhouse.world and Geocaching HQ are looking for Product Designers
🎉 Professor Ruha Benjamin was awarded the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship
📆 Personal branding for women in tech who hate personal branding
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JOBS

Opportunities from our hiring partners

• Product Designer / Design Lead, Schoolhouse.world, Remote-US, $120,000 - $160,000

• Lead Product Designer, Geocaching HQ, Seattle, WA, $118,340 - $191,710

• Senior Engineer, Web and Publishing Products, ProPublica, New York, New York, $120,000 - $145,000

• Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack, Audience Rewards, Broadway's Loyalty Program, New York, NY, $120,000 - $150,000

• Systems Analyst, Counter Tools, Remote-US, $85,000 - $100,000

Opportunities from our partner, Indeed

Please note that these roles have not been vetted by our team! Make sure to do your own research.

• Product Owner, TherapyNotes.com, Remote, , $75,000 - $125,000 a year

• Cloud Security Architect, ASML, San Diego, CA, $115,125 - $191,875 a year

• Senior Backend Java Developer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque, NM, $36.20 - $55.26 an hour

• Sr Cybersecurity Platform Operations Consultant - Broadcom Top Security, Health Care Service Corporation, Chicago, IL, $97,600 - $176,300 a year

• Senior Software Engineer - Java - Remote, Healthe systems, Tampa, FL, $101,000 - $139,040 a year

• Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Azure, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH, $105,000 - $150,000 a year

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EVENTS

• Oct 2 Illuminate Your Data: Shiny + Amazon Web Services Development Kit

• Oct 3 Personal Branding For Women In Tech Who Hate Personal Branding

• Oct 4 - 6 SASEhack Fall 2024

• Oct 5 GitOps with Terraform Minicamp

• Oct 7 Data work as a career? Professionalizing content moderation in Germany

• Oct 8 - 10 Techqueria Summit 2024

• Oct 8 Polars for Data Analysis in Python

• Oct 8 A free 60-min workshop about building your own brand in tech, whether it's to accelerate your career in tech or totally change course.

• Oct 9 - 10 Tech4Girls at Mobile World Congress 2024

• Oct 12 - 13 Circuit Breakers

• Oct 15 AWS Innovate: Migrate, Modernize, Build

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SPEAK

• Nov 21 - 21 HashiTalks: India-2024. Apply by Oct 9.

• Mar 26 - 28 Booster Conference-2025. Apply by Oct 10.

• Mar 13 - 13 AzureDay Poland-2025. Apply by Oct 14.

• Nov 14 Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2024. Apply by Oct 14.

• Nov 6 - 8 MLOps + Generative AI World 2024. Apply by Oct 18.

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CELEBRATE

• Danielle Lewis, an iOS & visionOS developer gave her first conference talk at Swift Connection.

• Professor Ruha Benjamin was awarded the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for “illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces social inequality and championing the role of imagination in social transformation.” She shared some thoughts on how she feels after receiving the award.

• Mala Kumar’s new novel What it Meant to Survive is out! Mala is the Director of Program Management, AI Safety at MLCommons. What It Meant to Survive is inspired by the true event, the Virginia Tech Massacre, and the author’s real experience navigating its long-term social and emotional impacts.

• Tae’lur Alexis got an offer for a GRC Analyst.

• Dr. Alex Hanna and Professor Emily M. Bender celebrate turning in their final copy of the book The AI Con.

• Nadia Odunayo, the founder of StoryGraph, was featured on the front page of Apple’s UK App Store.

RESOURCES

🤰 A student midwife, Ruby Jackson, creates an app to improve care for Black babies

👩‍💻 Danielle Leong: From self-taught developer to CTO and inspiring leader

📊 Learn how to create a standout project write-up with Christine Jiang

⭐️ Mangabo Kolawole talks about how to build your online presence as a Developer

😔 Work is meaningless, and it almost killed my husband by Salma Alam-Naylor