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📍 Remote, France· Full-time· Remote
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Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly. We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services Who You Are You have exper

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📍 Bordeaux, France· Full-time· Remote
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Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly. We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services Who You Are You have experience with Go,

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📍 France; Sophia Antipolis, France· Full-time
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About Datadog We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale with trillions of data points per day, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams for tens of thousands of companies globally. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Team The Datadog Security Libraries team owns the customer-side integrations behind our run-time security products App & API Protection , Workload Protection , and Code Security . Our libraries let customers automatically manage application security risk with continuous, real-time monitoring of vulnerabilities and threats against their web applications, serverless applications, and APIs, in production. Automatically integrated with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) distributed tracing and code-level context, our software empowers development, operations, and security teams to build and run secure applications. As a polyglot team we ship and maintain the security capabilities of Datadog's tracing libraries across .NET , Java , Go , Node.js , Python , Ruby , and PHP , on top of a shared C++ core and a set of HTTP proxy integrations (primarily Envoy, NGINX, and HAProxy). Our code runs inside thousands of production applications around the world. Recent work spans exploit prevention (RASP) and WAF detections, API Security, code security (IAST and SCA), and AI-assisted ("agentic") onboarding, always measured by real product outcomes and operational telemetry. The Opportunity We're looking for a senior, polyglot engineer to contribute across several of our security libraries, with .NET or Java expertise. You'll design and build security integrations and detection features, take them from prototype to production-hardened, and own them operationally as they instrument thousands of applications. As a se

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📍 France· Full-time
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This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale. You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments. Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout. Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance. Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products. Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges. Who You Are: You have significant experience building software in Linux environments,

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📍 Paris, France, France· Full-time
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Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. The role... We are looking for a commercially sharp, consultative Solutions Consultant to drive technical validation and value realization for Synthesia across both prospects and customers. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Customer Success, and Product, and is responsible for ensuring that Synthesia is not only understood - but proven, adopted, and expanded based on clear business outcomes . You will own the technical win in deals, shape high-impact use cases, and ensure customers achieve first successful workflows that create the foundation for long-term adoption and growth. What You'll Do Lead discovery and qualification Run structured discovery with senior stakeholders to uncover business priorities, workflows, constraints, and success metrics Challenge vague requests and reframe them into clear, high-impact use cases Qualify rigorously: assess fit, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and path to value before committing support Surface adoption, technical, and organizational risks early, before they derail the deal or weaken rollout Own solution design and technical validation Translate business needs into clear solution approaches, validation plans, and customer-facing recommendations Design and run

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📍 France· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Contribute in and provide strong support for model training pipelines, ship state of the art models to production, and bridge the gap between research and production. We have one of the highest ratio of compute to engineers in the world. We do not delineate strongly between engineering and research. Everyone will contribute to writing production code and supporting our research effort depending on individual interest and organizational needs. We have all the compute, data, and talent available for you to do your best work. Please Note: We have offices in London, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco and New York but also embrace being remote-friendly! There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will: Design and write high-performant and scalable software for training. Improve our training setup from an infrastructure and codebase performance standpoint. Craft and implement tools to speed up our training cycles and improve the overall efficacy of our training infrastructure Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure

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📍 Spain; Paris, France· Full-time
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As a Senior Security Engineer focused on Datadog’s Cloud SIEM product, you will help shape the future of security operations by transforming real-world security expertise into scalable detection, investigation, and response capabilities. You will develop high-impact threat detection content, improve AI-assisted security workflows, and help defenders identify and respond to threats across cloud-native and enterprise environments. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and Security Research teams, you will influence the evolution of Datadog Security products while advancing detection coverage across emerging technologies and attack surfaces. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to open source initiatives, publish security research, and help define the next generation of agentic security operations capabilities. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Research attacker techniques, defensive strategies, and emerging threats, translating findings into scalable security capabilities that protect customers at cloud scale. Design and improve AI-powered investigation, threat hunting, and response workflows that support Datadog’s agentic SOC capabilities. Own the lifecycle of threat detections and automated security workflows, from research and design through deployment, measurement, and continuous improvement. Develop high-fidelity detection content across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, identity systems, endpoints, networks, and other modern attack surfaces. Partner with Product, Engineering, Security Research, and customers to influence roadmap decisions and improve security outcomes across the platform. Mentor security engineers and drive improvements through automation, tooling, rapid prototyping, and data-driven optimization. Who Yo

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📍 France· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a Commercial Solution Engineer for the French market (fluent/native French speaker) who can solve our customer’s most complex problems. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to best support them in their evaluation and ultimately help our customers choose Snowflake as their solution. As a Snowflake Commercial Solution Engineer you share our passion for solving complex data challenges and helping organizations to get the most out of their data assets. Our technical landscape is ever evolving and you are keen to learn new skills and put them into practice on real world challenges. You are able to translate features and functions into solutions that solve business problems, in conversations with technical or business teams, with end users or executives. In this role you will get to: Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals a

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📍 France· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Senior Solution Engineer dedicated to one of Snowflake's most strategically important financial services customers. This is a named-account role: your entire focus will be a single global financial institution across capital markets, banking, insurance, or asset management. You will own the full technical relationship, drive use case expansion across business units, and act as the go-to trusted advisor to CTO, CDO, and engineering leadership within the account. This is a senior-level, high-visibility role with global scope and direct exposure to Snowflake's leadership. AS A SENIOR SOLUTION ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Own the end-to-end technical relationship for a single strategic Global Account in financial services, from discovery and technical qualification through proof of concept, technical close, and ongoing expansion Build and deliver compelling demonstrations, solution architectures, and executive presentations that connect Snowflake's platform capabilities to the specific data and AI priorities of financial services buyers Design and lead proof of concept engagements covering risk analytics, regulatory data platforms, real-time fraud detection, customer intelligence, and AI/ML workloads in FSI environments Act as a subject matter expert on fina

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📍 France· Full-time
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About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

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📍 France· Full-time
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As Engineering Manager for Code Security, you'll lead a team of engineers building Infrastructure as Code and Secrets protection - one of the fastest-growing areas inside Datadog's security business, with a strong roadmap and real customer problems to solve. You'll partner closely with Product Management and User Experience to shape how the team delivers, stay hands-on with the technical work, and bring AI deeply into how your engineers build. The organization is still young, which means real room to shape its direction and grow into broader scope as it does. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead and grow a team of engineers building Datadog's Infrastructure as Code and Secrets security products Own the team's roadmap, staffing, and delivery, partnering closely with Product Management and User Experience Stay hands-on: contribute to code review, weigh in on design decisions, and participate in the on-call rotation Bring AI deeply into how the team builds, from adopting agentic coding tools to rethinking workflows around them Coach engineers at every level, giving direct feedback and helping them grow their scope and careers Keep the team's projects and programs organized as priorities shift across a fast-growing area Who You Are: You've managed software engineers for 2+ years, with a track record of shipping through your team You bring a strong technical background you can draw on in day-to-day roadmap and design conversations You're comfortable staying close to the work - reviewing code and unblocking technical decisions alongside your team You've integrated AI agents into how you and your team deliver code, not just experimented with them You keep projects and programs organized, even as priorities and scope shift &n

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📍 France· Full-time
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At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry. We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load. APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation. As a Product Manager II for APM, you will work with world-class engineers, designers, and partner product teams to shape the future of Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will help build advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers and make sophisticated observability workflows accessible to every engineer, from experts to beginners. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What you will Do: Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially age

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📍 France· Full-time
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We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Sensitive Data Scanner (SDS) Telemetry team. The SDS group’s mission is to be the world’s easiest-to-use tool to discover, classify, manage, and report sensitive data risks across cloud, on-premise, and code environments. This team builds and scales the detection capabilities that scan all telemetry data flowing into Datadog — logs, APM spans, and RUM events — operating in streaming, at processing time, and at very large scale. You’ll lead a small, close-knit team based in Paris, with the opportunity to shape how the team grows as SDS Telemetry’s scope expands. It’s a chance to combine hands-on technical leadership with direct customer and product impact in the security and observability space. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture — the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead and grow a team of engineers building real-time sensitive data detection across Datadog’s Logs, APM, and RUM telemetry pipelines Partner closely with the Logs, APM, and RUM teams, plus Datadog’s Trust & Safety team, to align on roadmap and integration priorities Shape product direction by working closely with Product, grounding decisions in customer needs and business impact Stay hands-on: contribute to design decisions and participate in the team’s on-call rotation Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the team grows beyond its initial size Help build a strong engineering culture as part of Datadog’s broader Sensitive Data Scanner group Who You Are: You have experience building and shipping revenue-generating products, with strong product acumen and a customer-first mindset You have hands-on experience with Go and/or Java, and a track record building distributed, streaming systems at scale You have experience managing engineers — or are

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📍 France· Full-time
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The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI , LLMObs and all our AI research . As an engineering manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: AI model evaluation both offline and online, designing tooling and processes around human annotation, and establishing the standard around synthetics and AI generated datasets. You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team, directly managing 4-6 engineers Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap. Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and data pipelines to our needs Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding Who You Are: A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the

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📍 France· Full-time
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The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI , LLMObs and all our AI research . As an engineering manager for the Training & Serving team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: distributed training of foundation models, serving at scale, designing the user experience. You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap. Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding Who You Are: Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader Excellent leader with strong

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