20 best software engineering podcasts for devs, founders & dev marketers

Every engineering or SaaS problem you face has been solved by someone somewhere. You only need to know where to tune in.

The software engineering industry is moving so fast these days that you’ll miss a lot if you blink twice. Podcasts are a convenient way to catch up with the latest industry trends, improve your skills, and hear directly from experts. They offer a mix of technical knowledge, entrepreneurial strategies, and personal stories that help you advance in your career and your business.

To make it easier to find what’s most relevant, I’ve grouped the list into three categories:

• Build and Ship: For engineers and technical leaders who want to get better at writing, deploying, and maintaining code.
• Grow and Scale: For founders, product managers, SaaS builders, and developer marketing pros focused on taking a product from launch to traction to scale.
• Stay Informed: For those who want to keep up with tech news, industry shifts, and cross-disciplinary trends that influence engineering and product decisions.

How we selected the best podcasts

To curate this list, I evaluated each podcast based on:

• Content quality: Does the podcast deliver actionable insights and cover topics in depth?
• Audience relevance: Is it tailored to developers, founders, and developer marketers?
• Guest expertise: Does it feature industry leaders and professionals with hands-on experience?
• Consistency: Are episodes released regularly and reliably?

TL;DR:

Here are the best engineering podcasts for developers, founders, and marketers:

Build and ship

• Software Engineering Radio: Long-form technical interviews that break down complex engineering topics.
• Software Engineering Daily: Daily conversations covering cloud, AI, tooling, and culture.
• Maintainable: Real talk on managing technical debt and sustaining software health.
• The Confident Commit: How great teams ship fast without sacrificing quality.
• ShopTalk Show: Front-end design, CSS, JS, accessibility, and performance insights.
• Developer Tea: Bite-sized episodes on better thinking and habits for developers.
• Coding Blocks: Archived treasure on clean code, performance, and architecture.
• The InfoQ Podcast: Briefings with senior engineers on modern software design and delivery.

Grow and scale

• Everything Outside Code: The messy middle of developer marketing, ops, and sales after launch.
• Developer Marketing Stories: Go-to-market lessons from dev-first products.
• Markepear: Campaign and positioning teardowns for developer tools.
• Plugin.fm: Growth and monetization tactics for indie devs and product makers.
• SaaS Club Podcast: Founder playbooks for SaaS traction, retention, and pricing.
• Open Source Startup Podcast: Building businesses around open source projects.
• Scaling DevTools: How devtool teams find product-market fit and scale.
• Dev Interrupted: Leadership insights on scaling teams and delivery pipelines.

Stay informed

• Techmeme Ride Home: Daily tech headlines with actionable context.
• The Changelog: Stories from open source maintainers and contributors.
• Command Line Heroes: Narrative seasons on pivotal tools, ideas, and movements.
• CoRecursive: Deep, story-driven looks at engineering challenges and decisions.
• Hanselminutes: Wide-ranging discussions linking software, culture, and practice.

1. Build and Ship

Covers software architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, and team workflows.

Software Engineering Radio (SE-Radio)

Think of SE‑Radio as the engineering conference you can attend weekly without the logistics or badge fees. Hosted by IEEE Software and the IEEE Computer Society, this show has been a reliable technical companion since 2006.

The aim is to build a lasting educational resource that speaks directly to professional software developers. Episodes land every week, and they don’t hold back. Recent conversations have covered a range of topics, from the privacy and security of AI coding assistants to Kubernetes security and API design.

Each episode dives deep into architecture, DevOps, testing frameworks, just about any core engineering topic you can think of. It’s the kind of content where you’ll press pause to take notes and come back later to revisit the nuance.

If your goal is to stay grounded in engineering fundamentals and ahead of emerging challenges, SE-Radio serves up both consistently.

Software Engineering Daily

If there’s a backbone to the engineering podcast world, Software Engineering Daily is it. Since 2015, Jeff Meyerson has released over 1,500 episodes covering just about every corner of software development, including cloud architecture and AI, to developer culture and career growth. It’s the kind of show where you can scroll the archives and find an episode on almost any tech topic you’re curious about.

The format is a deep one-on-one conversation with an engineer, founder, or researcher who’s living the topic day-to-day. While the technical depth varies depending on the guest, the best episodes feel like an in-progress masterclass, pulling apart decisions, trade-offs, and lessons learned. Whether you want to keep up with emerging trends or dive deep into a niche, there’s something here worth queuing up.

Maintainable Software Podcast

Every developer says they care about clean code, but few podcasts spend most of their time on what happens after the first release. Maintainable, hosted by Robby Russell, is all about the art and discipline of keeping software healthy over time. Guests, from senior engineers to CTOs, share how they deal with technical debt, legacy systems, and the complex realities of scaling codebases.

The conversations are practical and grounded. You’ll hear about the tools, processes, and cultural shifts that make maintenance sustainable, as well as the mistakes teams make when they treat it as an afterthought. For anyone who’s inherited a project that felt like a ticking time bomb, this podcast is both therapy and a playbook.

The Confident Commit

The Confident Commit, hosted by CircleCI’s CTO Rob Zuber, takes you inside those systems that keep delivery fast, reliable, and adaptable. This biweekly podcast is a candid exploration of the cultural and technical decisions that allow teams to ship at speed without losing quality.

Rob’s guests are engineering leaders, DevOps experts, and product strategists who’ve all wrestled with the challenges of scaling delivery. Together, they unpack topics like tightening feedback loops in CI/CD pipelines, designing observability into both tooling and team habits, and creating a developer experience that sustains productivity over the long haul.

It’s a podcast for anyone who knows that engineering excellence comes from pairing technical precision with the discipline of shipping consistently, confidently, and without burning out the people who make it happen.

ShopTalk Show

For front-end developers and web designers, ShopTalk Show is like dropping into an ongoing conversation between two pros who live and breathe the craft. Hosted by Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks) and Dave Rupert, the show covers everything from CSS and JavaScript to accessibility, performance, and workflow tips... all delivered in a casual, approachable tone.

The format is a mix of guest interviews, listener Q&A, and “rapid-fire” episodes where they tackle multiple front-end questions in one go. They don’t shy away from the nitty-gritty, but they keep the vibe light, making it easy to follow even when diving deep into browser quirks or framework debates. If your work touches the web, this one earns a permanent spot in your feed.

Developer Tea

If most tech podcasts are a full-course meal, Developer Tea is the strong, focused espresso shot. Hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, it delivers short, thoughtful episodes, usually under 15 minutes, designed to give programmers something to chew on between coding sessions.

The topics range from career growth and problem-solving frameworks to mindset shifts that make you a better teammate and leader. Each episode gets straight to the point, offering a clear takeaway you can apply that day. For busy engineers seeking consistent, bite-sized wisdom without the commitment of hour-long listens, Developer Tea offers an easy daily habit.

The InfoQ Podcast

Do you like your engineering podcasts to feel like a private briefing from experts at the top of their field? The InfoQ Podcast delivers. Produced by the team behind the well-known software development news site, it features senior engineers, architects, and technology leaders breaking down trends in AI, DevOps, architecture, cloud, and more.

Episodes are concise (usually under 30 minutes), but dense with insight. The questions go beyond surface commentary, digging into trade-offs, implementation details, and the reasoning behind big technical decisions. Whether you’re a tech lead keeping your team ahead of the curve or an engineer trying to understand where the industry is moving, this podcast gives you direct access to the kind of conversations that happen at high-level meetups and conferences.

And here's a BONUS I love so much!

Coding Blocks (Archived, but worth exploring)

For over a decade, Coding Blocks was the go-to for developers who wanted to sharpen their craft without sitting through a dry lecture. Hosts Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw, and Joe Zack tackled everything from clean code principles and design patterns to cloud architecture and performance tuning, always with enough humor and banter to keep it engaging.

The show officially wrapped in 2024 with a farewell episode, When to Log Out, but the 300+ episode backlog is a goldmine. Topics like GitHub Actions, Apache Kafka, and data modeling remain just as relevant today, making it one of the most binge-worthy archives in engineering podcast history.

If you’re looking for evergreen technical discussions and a bit of personality in the mix, this is still worth adding to your rotation, even if the conversation has ended.

2. Grow and Scale

Covers growth strategies, product-market fit, revenue models, and scaling teams.

Developer Marketing Stories

Some shows tell you about developer marketing. This one puts you in the room with the people doing it. Hosted by Matthew Revell and Adam DuVander (Remember the author of Developer Marketing Doesn't Exist?), Developer Marketing Stories strips away the gloss and digs into what it takes to bring developer-focused products to market.

The format blends thoughtful interviews with case study-style storytelling, so every episode feels like a peek inside someone’s post-mortem notes, including what worked, what bombed, and what they’d change if they had the chance.

Guests range from GitHub and Postman to Major League Hacking, each bringing their hard-earned perspective. It’s not a huge back catalogue yet, but the hit rate is high, making it one of those series you can binge without sifting through filler. And if you want to go deeper, the hosts also share DevRel-specific content on YouTube, including talks from their DevRelCon conference.

Everything outside Code

If Developer Marketing Stories is about the mechanics of getting a product to market, Everything Outside Code is about everything else you need to keep it alive once it’s out there. Hosted by Hackmamba founder William Imoh, this live show is like sitting down with a fellow builder who’s willing to talk about the messy middle. That is, the marketing that doesn’t feel natural, sales conversations that stall, operations that keep you up at night.

Across 40+ guest episodes, William brings on founders, marketers, and operators to have unfiltered conversations about the challenges technical people rarely discuss in public. You’ll hear discussions on developer relations strategy, SaaS growth pains, cross-functional hiring, PLG vs. sales-led tension, and the reality of sustaining momentum post-launch.

Think of it as the Stack Overflow for your business brain. You'll get answers for the questions you already have and the ones you didn’t know to ask. With a 4.8-star rating and 10K+ listeners, this one’s as much about perspective as it is about tactics, and you’ll come away thinking, "Why didn’t I try that already?"

Marketpear (a.k.a. Going Deepear Into Dev Marketing)

Developer marketing often feels like speaking in a different language, until someone finally decodes it for you. That’s exactly what Marketpear delivers. Hosted by developer marketer Jakub Czakon (PS: If Jakub has 10 fans, I'm one of them!), this podcast offers a mix of solo teardowns, teardown interviews, and examples that go beneath the surface of campaigns, landing pages, and strategies.

Episodes land every 10 days on average, and they run around 50 minutes, long enough to unpack a campaign or teardown with precision. From dissecting clever LinkedIn ads to breaking down homepage effectiveness, every show delivers something actionable.

If you're in DevRel, growth, or marketing for dev tools, this is the only teardown-based audio content worth bookmarking.

Scaling DevTools

Building a developer tool is one thing. Turning it into something people can’t live without is another. Scaling DevTools, hosted by Jack Bridger, focuses on that second part. Each biweekly episode brings in a founder or early team member from a DevTool company to unpack how they’ve grown, from the features they’ve shipped, to the storytelling, community building, and market positioning that made them stick.

Since launching in 2022, the show has stacked up over 140 episodes, each running 40–70 minutes, long enough to dig into the details, short enough to listen on a commute. The guests are refreshingly transparent, sharing both the wins and the times they shipped something that fell flat. If you’re working on a tool for developers, this is like shadowing a dozen different growth teams without having to leave your desk.

SaaS Club Podcast

Building a SaaS business (or dreaming of one)? Think of The SaaS Podcast as your weekly mentor. Hosted by Omer Khan, a former Microsoft product leader, the show has been delivering sharp, no-nonsense conversations with SaaS founders since 2014. 

With over 450 episodes and counting, each interview dives into the playbook of founders, covering topics like retention-first growth, building AI tools, and scrappy MVP pivots that landed major traction.

Omer is well-prepped, gets to the hard questions, and leaves guests no choice but to share the strategies and missteps they rarely put on stage. With a solid 4.8 rating from founder listeners, the podcast earns its place in any SaaS playlist. 

Plugin.fm

Built by Freemius, Plugin.fm is designed for indie devs, solo makers, and software product creators trying to do it all. Hosts Patrick Rauland and now Freemius CMO Goran Mirkovic sit down with industry experts to unpack practical tactics for growing a digital product.

Episodes arrive weekly and land right on the money, covering topics from influencer marketing to user-generated content to building niche authority. Whether it’s Meg Scarborough breaking down dev marketing or Aaron Francis showing how to make screencasts that land, every episode offers ideas you can test before lunch.

If your roadmap looks like code first, growth second, plugin.fm will help you reverse that so you’re building with strategy in every line.

Open Source Startup Podcast

Some founders chase venture capital, others chase GitHub stars. Open Source Startup Podcast, hosted by Robby and Tim, is where the latter go to tell their stories. It’s a weekly sit-down with the people behind open-source companies that became real businesses, from Vercel and MongoDB to DBT, MetalBear, and mobile.dev.

With over 175 episodes, the show has built an archive that doubles as a playbook for anyone navigating the unique mix of community building, product growth, and monetization in open source. The conversations are candid and detail-heavy, often revealing the pivots, experiments, and lucky breaks that don’t make it into conference talks.

Even if you’re not running an open-source project, the thinking here on growth and developer trust is worth borrowing.

Dev Interrupted

Hosted by Andrew Zigler, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Dan Lines, Dev Interrupted has, since 2020, become the go-to for software engineering leadership. Each week, they sit down with seasoned leaders to unpack everything from team dynamics and productivity to AI-driven workflows and managing impact under pressure.

The pace is weekly podcast episodes averaging around 39 minutes, with over 230 installments so far.

You'll hear topics like redefining developer experience metrics, leading with foresight over firefighting, and architecting agent-driven workflows. These conversations are tactical, strategic, and rooted in engineering reality. 

If you're steering an engineering team through complexity, or want to, this is the podcast that listens back.

3. Stay Informed

Covers industry news, emerging trends, and the stories shaping the future of software.

Techmeme Ride Home

Techmeme Ride Home is your daily 15-minute tech briefing you can’t afford to miss. Hosted by Brian McCullough and powered by Techmeme’s news engine, Techmeme Ride Home delivers the day’s tech headlines with sharp context and just enough commentary to feel like "what happened today and why it matters."

Over 2,136 episodes and counting (yes, that many podcast episodes!), this show pings your feed every evening like clockwork. Each episode runs briskly between 15 and 22 minutes, perfect for commutes or dinner prep.

One analysis shows Techmeme Ride Home averages more than 32 episodes per subscriber, higher than heavy hitters like The Daily. That speaks not just to discovery, but to real listener loyalty. If you want to stay sharp on AI breakthroughs, layoffs, secret pivots, and whatever else Silicon Valley is whispering about today, this podcast delivers predictably.

The Changelog

Some podcasts chase trends. The Changelog has been documenting them for over a decade. Hosted by Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo, it’s a long-running weekly show that explores what’s fresh and what’s next in software development, with an eye on the open-source projects and people driving it forward.

With more than 500 episodes, the format is relaxed but focused, often running over an hour to give guests room to dig in. Conversations range from technical deep dives to broader discussions about culture, community, and the future of software. The archive alone is a time capsule of how engineering has evolved, making it just as valuable for historical context as for today’s insights.

CoRecursive

Most engineering podcasts tell you what someone built. CoRecursive tells you why and what it cost them to get there. Hosted by Adam Bell, the show dives into the human side of software through long-form, story-driven interviews. Guests walk through a single project or turning point in their career, unpacking the challenges, breakthroughs, and personal stakes behind the code.

Episodes often feel more like documentaries than interviews, with careful pacing and thoughtful narration. You’ll hear from engineers who’ve debugged billion-row datasets, designed critical infrastructure, or wrestled with systems that refused to behave. It’s the kind of podcast you queue up when you want to understand not just the solution, but the journey, complete with wrong turns and hard-won lessons.

The Hanselminutes Podcast

Few podcasts have managed to stay relevant across as many shifts in technology as Hanselminutes. Hosted by Scott Hanselman since 2006, it’s a show that treats software development as part of a bigger conversation, one that includes culture, diversity, accessibility, and the human side of tech alongside deep technical topics.

The guest list is always eclectic with veteran engineers, startup founders, open-source maintainers, educators, and innovators from outside the traditional tech bubble. Episodes are tight (often under 30 minutes) but carry the feel of an ongoing, thoughtful dialogue. Whether it’s exploring the future of programming languages or discussing burnout in engineering teams, Hanselminutes has a way of making complex ideas approachable without dumbing them down.

Command Line Heroes

Some tech stories deserve more than a quick headline, and Command Line Heroes treats them like the epics they are. Produced by Red Hat and hosted by Saron Yitbarek, the show blends narrative storytelling with sound design to explore the people, projects, and ideas that shaped software history and the movements still shaping it today.

Each season takes on a central theme, from the rise of open source to the evolution of programming languages. Episodes mix interviews, archival clips, and narration to create something closer to an audio documentary than a typical tech chat. It’s part history lesson, part inspiration, and part call to action for developers who want to understand the shoulders they’re standing on.

…And that’s a wrap!

Do you want to sharpen your technical edge, grow your product, or keep a pulse on the industry? There’s a podcast in this list that can guide your next move. Pick one or two or three or... that fits your current challenges and make them part of your routine.

But if you want conversations that blend engineering, marketing, and founder perspectives, start with Everything Outside Code (EOC), it’s our own space for the kinds of talks that rarely happen in public. Your next insight could be just one episode away.

P.S: If you find new shows worth adding, drop me a message on LinkedIn or Discord. You'll need to join our community to do this, so we can keep this list updated.