Diversify Tech #403

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

In this week's issue,
💼 Seminar is looking for Staff Software Engineer
📆 Black Women in Data Summit is coming up soon!
⭐️ What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test with Heidy Khlaaf

Cheers,
Veni Kunche

JOBS

✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process

From our job board

• ✅ Staff Software Engineer, Seminar, Remote - US, $150,000-$210,000

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

• Customer Success Manager, Informed K12, Remote - CA, TX,  AZ, or in/near Phoenix, Denver,  Seattle, Portland, or Las Vegas, $156,000-$185,000

• Software Architect, Informed K12, Remote - US, $180,000-$226,000

• Senior Software Engineer, Informed K12, Remote - US, $198,000-$216,000

• ✅ Technical Lead, TXI, Remote - Anywhere, $150,000-$195,000

• ✅ Senior Director of Engineering, New York City Campaign Finance Board, New York, NY, USA, $215,000-$235,000

From around the web

• Data Engineer, Guild Mortgage Company, Remote - US

• Data Scientist , Imagine Pediatrics, Remote - US

• Data Engineer (Fully Remote), PadSplit , Remote - Atlanta, GA

• Data Analyst, Scale, Remote - US

• Analytics Engineer II - Regulatory Reporting, Underdog, Remote - US

• Software Engineer, Data Quality, Archera, Remote - US

• Frontend Software Engineer, Atlassian, San Francisco - Remote; Remote

• Backend Engineer, Core APIs, Fingerprint , Remote - US

• Software Engineer: Back-End, LogicGate, Remote USA | Chicago Preferred

• Software Engineer II, Omada Health, Remote, USA

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EVENTS

• Sep 11 - 13 HackRice 16, Houston, TX

• Sep 12 Day of Data Detroit 2026 (#1164), Detroit, MI

• Sep 12 - 13 HackWesTX 2026, Lubbock, TX

• Sep 14 - 18 DjangoCon US 2026, Chicago, Illinois

• Sep 15 - 16 LDX3 New York 2026, New York

• Sep 16 - 17 The Next Wave: AI & Emerging Tech Shaping Tomorrow, Online

• Sep 18 - 20 Black Women in Data Summit 2026, Atlanta, GA 

• Sep 21 - 26 Tulsa Tech Week, Tulsa, OK

• Sep 23 Code Jam: Build Something Gloriously Useless, Alpharetta, GA

• Sep 23 RightsXTech: Tech, Data & the Fight for Power, Online

• Sep 25 Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Atlanta, GA

• Sep 27 - Oct 3 Oakland Tech Week, Oakland, CA

• Sep 30 - Oct 1 Agile Cambridge 2026, Cambridge

• Oct 6 - 7 Community, Care, and Joy in Remaking, Resisting, and Reimagining EdTech, Online

• Oct 6 - Sep 12 MLH Global Hack week, Online

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SPEAK

• 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.

• Nov 24 - 27 BIG DATA CONFERENCE EUROPE 2026 in Online & Lithuana.

• Dec 7 - 10 ARCHCONF '26 in Clearwater, FL.

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RESOURCES & ARTICLES

• What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? When OpenAI set out to test how well its product could hack, hundreds of AI agents broke out of their test environment and infiltrated the AI platform Hugging Face. Headlines warned that the machines had gone rogue. But Heidy Khlaaf of the AI Now Institute, herself a former OpenAI safety engineer, tells the show it's the wrong story and a distraction from the real problem. You can also read Eryk Salvaggio’s Models Don't Go Rogue about the topic.

• 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe by Andrew Lilley Brinker: Omarchy is a Linux distribution created and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, usually known as DHH. Among other racist things, DHH has called for the ethnic cleansing of Europe. 1Password has committed $300,000 to them over the next three years.

• Intern to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer in 11 Promotions (Career Story): David Fowler went from an intern to a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. That’s 11 different promotions all at the same company. The talk covers his career story and go over general advice he has for software engineers.

• AWS Cloud Cost Monitoring, Alerting, and Optimization: A Guide for Devs by Ayobami Adejumo: A guide to know exactly what you're spending, why you're spending it, catching problems before they become invoices, and reducing costs without guesswork.