Real production experience gets you hired.

Fix broken systems in a live cloud workspace. Every fix lands on a portfolio hiring managers open.

Pick an engineering role. Fix the outage below

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Hands-on tickets. Live cloud workspaces. Real work you can show.
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The hard truth

AI killed the side-project portfolio.

A side project used to be proof you could build. Now AI builds one in seconds - so it proves nothing, and hiring managers know it. A HeyDevJob portfolio is real systems you debugged, fixed, and kept running - not something a model spun up in seconds.

Fix any ticket. Any role.

Production-style tickets across seven engineering roles. Pick any one, fix the broken system in a live cloud workspace, and prove it.

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The same stack you'll touch on day one
postgres kubernetes nginx redis docker terraform python go node.js fastapi bash linux spark airflow prometheus grafana
From first fix to callback

Engineers who got the call.

★★★★★

"Months of algorithm puzzles taught me nothing I could talk about in interviews. Three HeyDevJob tickets in and I had real outage stories for every behavioral question."

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Jamie K.
DevOps · landed SRE at a Series B
★★★★★

"The portfolio link alone got me three callbacks. Hiring managers could see exactly what I'd fixed - no need to take my word for it."

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Maria P.
Backend · now at a fintech
★★★★★

"Put my portfolio URL in my resume header. My interviewer had already looked at it before the call started. That's never happened before."

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Dev R.
Security · sysadmin → security engineer
FAQ

Questions before you start.

How is this different from algorithm sites or side-project portfolios?+
Algorithm sites test puzzle-solving on synthetic problems - useful for one interview round, not for the actual job. Side projects used to prove you could build, but AI builds one in seconds now, and hiring managers know it. HeyDevJob drops you into a real production environment with real broken systems: a postgres replica that won't catch up, an nginx config returning 502s, a JWT secret leaking into logs. The operational work AI can't fake - with a portfolio at the end to show for it.
What's actually in the workspace?+
A live cloud sandbox with a real terminal, real services (postgres, redis, nginx, docker, kubernetes - whatever the ticket needs), and a real broken state set up for you. Edit code, restart services, tail logs, run kubectl get pods. It's the same environment a backend engineer at a startup would touch on day one - minus the on-call.
Do I need experience already?+
Junior tickets assume you can read code and use a terminal - one bug, one fix. Mid tickets are multi-step investigations. Senior tickets are architecture-level. Start at Junior, move up when you're ready. Most users finish their first Junior ticket in under 30 minutes.
What does the portfolio actually look like?+
A public URL like heydevjob.com/u/yourname with every fix you've shipped: ticket title, role, difficulty, tags, the date you passed the check. Look at the example portfolios in the section above - that's what hiring managers see when they click the link in your resume header.
Do you have AWS tickets?+
Yes, and they're all free. Real AWS work spread across DevOps, Backend, and Security: locking down public S3 buckets, scoping IAM policies, draining stuck SQS queues, fixing broken Lambda triggers, authoring Terraform modules. The same work highly-paid AWS engineers ship every day - and proof you can do it lands on your portfolio.
Free or paid?+
Free forever to start - 5 Junior tickets a month across all seven roles, your portfolio, everything. Pro ($20/mo) unlocks Mid and Senior tickets and unlimited monthly fixes. No credit card to sign up.
How long until I have something to show?+
Your first passing check writes to your portfolio immediately. Most engineers ship their first ticket in their first session. Three fixes in is usually enough to put the URL in your resume and start linking it in cold outreach.

Stop prepping. Start proving.

Real tickets, every role, one portfolio - doing the talking before you say a word.

Start your portfolio Free to start. No card.