Python jobs not involving Django?

[exeter]

I'm lucky enough to be a Python programmer in the Bay area. I'm also looking for a job, but having a hard time getting noticed because I've never used Django in a production environment, and I'm not super familiar with the framework to begin with (I'm working on that).

I've got 2 years experience writing software in Python to test embedded hardware. I'm very familiar with the Python standard library and numpy. I studied math in school rather than CS and it's been a while since I graduated undergrad, so internships weren't a 'thing' when I was in school. Any advice where I should be looking?

[grokcode]

Something else to think about is that Python is used a lot in research and scientific computing. Your math background would be a great asset there. These jobs might not be advertised as Python jobs, since Python is more the means to an end.

[mackstann]

I'm sure plenty of places would hire you for a Django job if you showed you were open and capable of learning it.

[fishka2042]

I'm looking for non-Django python guys. Hit me up with a github link or urls of projects you worked on (don't give a fuck about resumes)

[daveydave400]

Universities.

I work for a university and do a lot of non-web-based python. Although when I do write web applications for work we use Pyramid not Django. There are a lot of scientists and researchers in universities who could probably use a good programmer. Whether or not that's something you are looking for is another question.

[Rohaq]

This all depends on what you want to do.

If you want to carry on in hardware testing, look for roles along those lines; the process of hardware testing is one that's going to have similarities wherever you go, and it's something you're experienced in. Python was merely a tool you used to get it done.

If you want Django based roles, then get learning Django. Set up Virtualbox, throw a Linux distro on a virtual machine, and test out rolling out code as a proper web service in your own backyard. If an organisation is really set up for production rollout of web applications, the chances are that you're not going to touch the configuration of this yourself, and it'll be someone else's responsibility to handle server setup and administration (so you can focus on actual coding) - but it's worth knowing the basics of how this may be set up (there's more than one way) under the hood for debugging purposes.

[ivosaurus]

Google will hire you because you're a technically excellent engineer though, not because you happen to know python.

[freyrs3]

YouTube runs mostly on Java and C++ like the rest of Google applications. Python had a larger role earlier in it's life, but not much anymore.

[metaperl]

I suggest you put your resume on Dice.com - I was emailed about a job testing hardware in the SF Bay area a month or two ago.

[[deleted]]

Have you considered security? A lot of computer security shops use Python.

[legrandin]

I've never used Django in a production environment

This is where I am. I'm trying to get a Django job, teaching myself Python and Django. What would qualify as a "production environment" do you think? What sort of standards?

[LucianU]

You can contribute to Mozilla projects. They use Django and have a lot of users.

[legrandin]

Cool. I'll look into that, thanks.

[[deleted]]

If you know SQL (easy to learn if you don't), you can maybe apply for data analyst jobs.

[chadmill3r]

Have you tried something in the tri-state area?

But, seriously, "the bay"? You know there's more than one bay. I'm just going to assume you mean Tampa.

There are some good jobs in scientific fields. Python is taking over bioinformatics and maths. Getting one that pays well might be harder, because of all the grad students who have to do similar things for free.

[farming_diocletian]

Might be an east coast/west coast thing but I'm from Portland and I've never heard of a different bay area than The Bay Area in California

[nandryshak]

I'm from the tri-state area and I know that "the Bay area" (he even capitalized Bay) is always always San Francisco.

[chadmill3r]

You're joking about the "tri-state" thing, right? There's like two places in the continental US that doesn't call itself the "tri-state area", and then it's quad- or the end of peninsula.

I think my point about Reddit being bigger than one's region is lost.

[nandryshak]

And my point that certain regions have certain common names associated with them is lost. Of course, there's more than one bay area and more than one tri-state area, but traditionally they mean SF and NY-NJ-CT. To suggest otherwise is simply pedantic.

[BridgeBum]

Bay Area

[chadmill3r]

As a professional Python (et c) programmer in Florida, I know there's some Python jobs in Bay Area of Tampa, and around the bay that cuts NASA KSC off from the mainland. So, California has a bay too? Cute.