You have more power than you think — Disclaimer: Opinions are my own. In hindsight, I was highly fortunate: not only was I satisfied with my job at the time, but I had also received offers from multiple other employers. “But why would you interview if you’re satisfied?” you might ask. Well, there were two for me: Several…

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com Also called cybersecurity engineers, these are people with specialized knowledge about security practices. Every part of the entire application stack requires securing, so…

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com The concept of Site Reliability Engineering originated at Google in the early 2000s when they realized they needed to make their already massive…

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com Cloud engineering, like DevOps, is an umbrella term encompassing potentially many concepts and scopes of responsibility related to the cloud. …

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com The operations engineer is primarily concerned about the “operation” of the application — this includes everything about the deployment, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, infrastructure…

Painful, I don’t know why it had to be this way — All I wanted to do was have unique usernames for people who signed up on my website. At first glance, it seemed like there’s an out-of-box solution. In the database connection, there’s a convenient little feature Requires Username that I thought would be the answer to my problems:

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com Also called by a few other names like Release Engineers or Build Engineers, these are people who are in charge of the build…

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com The QA/Test engineer has traditionally been responsible for the testing and quality assurance of an application. Software Engineers in Test or Software Test…

Part of the All Tech Positions series — This story is one story in a series on all the various tech positions in the industry. To see the Directory/Table of Contents, visit this story here: The Definitive Tech Job List Information to fuel your next career movemedium.com A software or solutions architect is a promoted software engineer whose primary responsibility is crafting and designing software architecture. …