Diversify Tech #399

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,
💼 Perpay, Basta, ProPublica and more are hiring
📆 Dreamin' In Color Conference is this month
⭐️ Women in Security and Privacy is offering Scholarships to API World, CloudX and AI TechWorld.

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JOBS

✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process

From our job board

• ✅ Senior Manager, Data and Analytics, Basta, Remote - Remote eligible, NYC preferred. The ability to travel to NYC 4-6 times/year, required, $104,000-$130,000

• ✅ Mid-Level Software Engineer, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $110,000-$160,000

• ✅ Support Specialist, Enterprise Technology , ProPublica, Remote - Anywhere, $75,000-$90,000

• ✅ Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack/Frontend/Backend, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $160,000-$220,000

• Vice President, Engineering, Common Sense Media, San Francisco, CA, USA, $175,000-$205,000

From around the web

• Data Engineer, Swish Analytics, Remote - US

• Soccer Data Scientist, Swish Analytics, Remote - US

• Data Engineer, Tebra, United States - Remote

• Product UI/UX Designer, PerformYard , Remote - US

• Interface Design Web II, Taylor Corporation, IL-Remote, TX-Remote, GA-Remote, FL-Remote, NC-Remote

• Intermediate UX Designer (Remote), Zact , Remote - US

• Product UI/UX Designer Arlington, VA, PerformYard, Arlington, VA

• Full Stack Engineer, Roo, Remote - US

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EVENTS

• Aug 6 - 7 Civics of Technology Online Conference, Online

• Aug 8 Day of Data Albany 2026, Albany, NY

• Aug 13 MLflow 3.12 for Agentic AI: PromptOps, Observability & AI Evaluation, Online

• Aug 13 From Agent Traces to Scorecards: Review Loops for Production LLM Apps, Online 

• Aug 13 - 15 Dreamin' In Color 2026, Atlanta

• Aug 25 Context Is Everything: Building Agents in Copilot That Know Your Work Context, Online 

• Aug 27 - 28 DrupalCamp Colorado 2026, Denver, CO

• Aug 27 - 30 Ruby for Good, Mercersville, MD

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SPEAK

• Sep 19 RedacteCON 2026 in Grand Junction, CO. Apply by Aug 18.

• Sep 10 Conf42 Observability 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Aug 27.

• Sep 24  Conf42 AI Agents 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Sep 10.

• Oct 2 - 3 BSides Bloomington 2026 in Bloomington, IN. Apply by Sep 15.

• Oct 29 Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Sep 28.

• Sep 16 - 17 DC State of the Stack 2026 in Washington, DC.

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ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

• WISP Scholarships to API World, CloudX and AI TechWorld: Women in Security and Privacy is offering 3 PRO Pass scholarships to each of these conferences. Application Deadline is August 7th!

• SQL’s Order of Execution by Veni Kunche: SQL doesn't execute your query in the order you write it. This quick post walks through the actual execution order with a simple example.

• The Database Is Not the Data Model: Joe Reis talks about the differences between a data model and a schema even though most people confuse the two.

• The Fellowship application round for ICANN88 Community Forum is now open. Apply by August 21st.

• Eric Bailey made What Can’t I Press? which shows what keyboard shortcuts are already claimed by different screen readers and apps. This helps to prevent collisions when creating new keybindings.

• Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain: A partnership between AI experts, conflict specialists, and storytellers, this project visualises how AI is transforming every aspect of war.

• How OAuth 2.0 Works: A Practical Guide for Backend Developers: Ashutosh Krishna explains OAuth by starting from a real engineering problem and arriving at the protocol solutions.