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ten technical practices

The technology roles where we run permanent searches.

Outside this list, ask. The technical-sourcing playbook works across most engineering and product disciplines.

Software Engineers

Frontend, backend and full-stack engineers across React, TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, Java and Node. IC2 through Staff and Principal levels.

DevOps & Cloud

Site reliability engineers, platform engineers, DevOps and cloud specialists across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform and observability tooling.

Data Engineers

Data engineers, analytics engineers and ML engineers across Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark and modern-data-stack tooling.

Cybersecurity

Application security engineers, security operations analysts, GRC leads, penetration testers and CISO-track candidates. CISSP, OSCP, CISA where relevant.

IT Support

Help desk technicians, desktop support engineers, M365 admins, SaaS operations specialists and IT operations leads for technology employers.

Systems Admins

Linux and Windows sysadmins, infrastructure engineers, hybrid-cloud admins and SRE-adjacent operations specialists.

Network Engineers

Network engineers, network architects and SD-WAN specialists. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto and modern cloud-networking certifications.

Solutions Architects

Solutions architects, enterprise architects and pre-sales technical leads. Cloud, integration, data and security architecture specialisms.

Product Managers

Product managers, senior PMs, group PMs and product directors across SaaS, fintech, healthtech, devtools and consumer technology.

Technical PMs

Technical project managers, program managers and engineering managers. PMP, PMI-ACP and Scrum-credentialed candidates with hands-on technical history.

How a Lake Tech search runs

Different practices have different paperwork stacks, but the search runs the same four-stage pipeline. Whether the role is a senior Go services engineer for a fintech, a security engineer for a healthtech compliance team, or a Staff data engineer for a SaaS analytics platform, we follow the same technical process.

1. Practice-specific brief

If it is a backend role, we read the system-design context. If it is a security role, we read the threat-model context. If it is a product role, we read the discovery-and-delivery context. We come prepared, technically.

2. Talent map

Within 72 hours we deliver a map of engineers and product staff matching the spec - by stack, by current employer, by seniority, by likely move motivation by cohort.

3. Technical screen

Pre-introduction technical screen run by a consultant who can read the code. Take-home or system-design review where relevant. References on past technical leads.

4. Place

Offer coordination, counter-offer management, equity-conversation support, start-date logistics and a 90-day replacement guarantee from the start date.

Brief us on the role.

One call to lock the stack. Talent map within 72 hours.

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