About the Role We are looking for a Director of Engineering – AI & Full-Stack SaaS to lead the engineering strategy and execution for a highly scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS platform. This role is ideal for a strong engineering leader who combines deep software engineering expertise, enterprise SaaS experience, cloud-native architecture, full-stack product development, and practical AI/GenAI adoption . The successful candidate will lead multiple engineering teams, drive architectural and technical decisions, improve engineering velocity and quality, and help embed AI across the software development lifecycle and product engineering ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams responsible for building and delivering enterprise SaaS products. Define and execute the engineering strategy, technical roadmap, architecture and development standards . Drive development of highly scalable, secure, reliable and cloud-native SaaS applications. Provide technical leadership across backend, frontend, APIs, microservices and distributed systems . Drive adoption of AI/GenAI tools and capabilities across the engineering lifecycle, including development, testing, code quality, productivity and automation. Partner closely with Product, Architecture, DevOps, Security and other cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical capabilities. Establish engineering best practices around design, coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, performance and reliability . Own engineering delivery, quality, scalability and operational excellence across multiple product areas. Identify and resolve complex technical and architectural challenges. Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on innovation, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement . Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and product capabilities. Drive technical modernization and evolution of existing
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. As the Director of Engineering at Smartsheet India, you will build capabilities to empower the world's largest companies to transform their approach to work. You will guide teams that own the grid ecosystem - defining how data linking, synchronization, and grid infrastructure evolve as a cohesive platform. You will ensure architectural decisions are coherent and avoid fragmentation. You will be willing to challenge technical choices. Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence: You will be accountable for the availability and performance of foundational services that other teams depend on. Drive a high bar for on-call health, incident response, and SLA/SLO definition across all the services. You will manage cross-pillar/cross-domain dependencies, negotiate API contracts, and prevent the grid ecosystem from becoming a delivery bottleneck. You will balance the needs of user-facing product features with infrastructural stability and operational health. You will ensure career growth paths are clear for engineers across that spectrum, and develop a strong sense of customer centricity and pillar identity for your teams. You will be comfortable accepting responsibility for impact, service availability, and the effectiveness of your teams. You will be comfortable being at the forefront of AI adoption for delivery and operations, leaning in and helping the team leverage AI for optimum delivery in their ways of working. You are passionate about continuous improvement and have built learning organizations that keep up w
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Director, Engineering, Platform Operations & Productivity, you'll own three functions that all require hands-on technical depth, not just people management. Platform Staff is a small, senior, AI-native team that moves to wherever the organization needs the most leverage, from standing up early scaffolding for an initiative, to taking on a high-impact customer request that doesn't fit any existing team's charter, to stepping directly into a production crisis until it's resolved. This role is for a technical engineering director who has personally built distributed systems, not only managed people wh
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Overview of the Role GitLab.com is being rebuilt as a horizontally scalable cluster. Two primitives make that possible: Organizations , the tenant boundary that makes a customer's data a single addressable, portable unit, and Cells , independent GitLab instances that host those Organizations and can be provisioned on demand across clouds and regions. The target is a 100x increase in headroom for GitLab.com, delivered without customers ever seeing a cell. Same domain, same URLs, same product — a substrate underneath that scales by adding capacity rather than by negotiating with a single database. The boundary we are building
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Identity is the foundation of trust on the internet, and at Okta, we are building a world where anyone can safely use any technology. We are looking for a driven, curious, and empathetic product-minded engineering leader to expand Okta’s market footprint by growing our global integration ecosystem. As the Director of Engineering for the Okta Integration Ecosystem in Bangalore, you will lead, scale, and inspire a talented organization of engineering managers and engineers dedicated to evolving Okta-built integrations across our entire product portfolio. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role. If you are passionate about customer security, obsessed with developer experience, and love engaging with a vibrant technology community, we want to hear from you. What You’ll Do Lead and Scale the Team: Mentor, inspire, and grow a world-class engineering organization in Bangalore, directly managing engineering managers and senior individual contributors while fostering a high-performance culture. Drive Integration Strategy: Own the technical roadmap and execution for Okta’s integrations across a massive gamut of applications—spanning traditional Enterprise systems, SaaS, On-prem infrastructure, Active Directory (AD), Azure, and next-generation AI agents. Advance Modern Infra & Governance: Drive the development, rollout, and governance of the official Okta MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server. Streamline and enable partner integrations through robust Terraform P
Role: Manager, Software Engineering Location: Hyderabad, India (Hybrid) Department: Product Development Reports to: Director of Engineering About GHX: GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange) is a leading healthcare technology company on a mission to simplify the business of healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Founded in 2000, GHX has built the GHX Global Network — the world’s largest cloud-based supply chain community connecting healthcare providers, suppliers, distributors, and partners to automate key processes, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency. Its solutions span electronic trading, procurement automation, inventory and contract management, business intelligence, and data synchronization, helping healthcare organizations improve productivity and focus more on patient care. Over the years, GHX has enabled significant cost savings for the industry and continues to innovate with intelligent automation and AI-driven capabilities. Website: https://www.ghx.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ghx/ About the Role GHX is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager with expertise in software engineering, release management, artificial intelligence and cross-functional collaboration. The work blends modern software practices with pragmatic AI to reduce manual exceptions, improve matching accuracy, and enhance the invoice processing end-to-end. Responsibilities Engineering Leadership Provide technical and people leadership for an engineering team. Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability. Partner with other engineering and cross‑functional leads to align priorities and ensure cohesive execution. Coordinate incident response for the team, including coverage and technical response to issue. Hands‑on Technical Leader Contribute to high‑impact coding when it adds meaningful value (foundational components, prototypes, critica
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Role Overview: We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and global scale-out of our Security Service Edge (SSE) platform. This role is responsible for building and evolving our cloud-native security platform that delivers comprehensive protection across users, devices, applications, data, and network traffic — spanning branch, hybrid, multi-cloud, and internet environments. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise security platforms. You will shape the long-term technical strategy, drive execution excellence, and build a high-performing engineering organization in India that supports a globally deployed SaaS platform. Key Responsibilities: • Define and execute the long-term engineering roadmap for the SSE platform aligned with business objectives. • Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams. • Establish strong architectural governance, engineering best practices, and quality standar
A BOUT TIDE At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 2 million members across UK and India Over $300 million raised in funding Over 2,800 Tideans globally Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg ABOUT THE TEAM: The Platform Engineering team builds the tools, infrastructure and ‘golden paths’ that let Tide’s engineers ship safely and quickly. We own everything from CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to Tide’s service catalogue, including the Developer Productivity function, and our mission is to make the right way the easy way for every engineer at Tide — human or AI agent. ABOUT THE ROLE: As Head of Developer Experience, you will report directly to the Director of Platform Engineering and be responsible for how every engineer at Tide builds, tests and ships software. You will: Own the Developer Experience strategy for Tide, setting the vision and roadmap for developer tooling, CI/CD and the internal plat
₹50L – ₹70L/yr
Are you looking for an opportunity to help solve one of today's biggest business challenges? AI is changing the pace of business, and organizations everywhere are struggling to help their workforce, partners, and customers keep up. At Litmos, we're building the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build human capability faster—and we're looking for people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for customers while growing alongside a collaborative, people-first team. Litmos is the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build capability faster, adapt at the speed business changes, and scale learning to anyone, anywhere. Combining an intuitive platform, AI-powered capabilities, trusted content, expert services, and a broad ecosystem of integrations, Litmos helps organizations accelerate workforce productivity, improve customer adoption and retention, enable high-performing partners, and reduce organizational risk through continuous learning. Organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Graco, Sabre, and Russell Mineral Equipment trust Litmos to accelerate learning across their workforce, partners, and customers. Today, more than 11K customers with 30 million learners across 150 countries and 37 languages use Litmos to build the capabilities their organizations need to succeed. Backed by Francisco Partners, one of the world's leading technology investment firms, we're investing in the future of learning—and the people who are building it. Learn more at www.litmos.com . Location: India (Pune / Hybrid) Type: Full-time Reports To: VP Engineering The Role This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who started their career as an engineer and has grown into an inspiring, delivery-focused leader. You will build, grow, and lead our India engineering team from the ground up — hiring great people, establishing strong engineering culture, and ensuring the India team&n
₹50L – ₹70L/yr
Are you looking for an opportunity to help solve one of today's biggest business challenges? AI is changing the pace of business, and organizations everywhere are struggling to help their workforce, partners, and customers keep up. At Litmos, we're building the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build human capability faster—and we're looking for people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for customers while growing alongside a collaborative, people-first team. Litmos is the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build capability faster, adapt at the speed business changes, and scale learning to anyone, anywhere. Combining an intuitive platform, AI-powered capabilities, trusted content, expert services, and a broad ecosystem of integrations, Litmos helps organizations accelerate workforce productivity, improve customer adoption and retention, enable high-performing partners, and reduce organizational risk through continuous learning. Organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Graco, Sabre, and Russell Mineral Equipment trust Litmos to accelerate learning across their workforce, partners, and customers. Today, more than 11K customers with 30 million learners across 150 countries and 37 languages use Litmos to build the capabilities their organizations need to succeed. Backed by Francisco Partners, one of the world's leading technology investment firms, we're investing in the future of learning—and the people who are building it. Learn more at www.litmos.com . Location: India (Pune / Hybrid) Type: Full-time Reports To: VP Engineering The Role This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who started their career as an engineer and has grown into an inspiring, delivery-focused leader. You will build, grow, and lead our India engineering team from the ground up — hiring great people, establishing strong engineering culture, and ensuring the India team&n
Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. This role is open to people who are currently in a product leadership role or someone in an engineering leadership role that is interested to make the switch into product. This role combines experienced product management leadership with the pivotal responsibilities of a Group Product Lead, offering an opportunity to shape the product strategy and the missions of several teams. You will oversee the product management execution working closely with the product managers for several cross-functional software engineering teams around the world. This position reports to the Head of Product for the Platform Engineering Strategic Business Unit, which is responsible for Appian Cloud offering. An excellent candidate will come with a wide range of experience in a product leadership role in the cloud infrastructure domain at a software-as-a-service firm. The product portfolio owned by this position will cover a wide range of cloud native infrastructure and services – from the highly available, resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure components on which all Appian Cloud services operate to the the scalable, enterprise-grade managed services that power the backend data persistence and event streams for customer sites in Appian Cloud. You will provide product management leadership for initiatives that deliver efficient and scalable infrastructure, core compute capacity, and managed data planes as multi-tenant services to accelerate the innovations of Engineering teams throughout the department. Your portfolio will include aspects that intersect with AWS accou
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Director of Recruiting, Engineering and Information Technology, you’ll lead GitLab’s India-based recruiting efforts for Engineering and IT while helping shape technical hiring across the broader Asia-Pacific region. You’ll lead recruiting managers and their teams, set the regional talent strategy, and maintain direct ownership of senior and executive-level searches. Reporting to the Vice President of Talent Acquisition or an equivalent senior Talent Acquisition leader, you’ll help GitLab build exceptional technical teams in high-growth markets and create a scalable, well-documented recruiting model. Yo
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput, and 99.999 availability. We're looking for a technical leader to help us to continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost-effective and efficient infrastructure, processes and tooling. As the Director of Site Reliability Engineering you will oversee the SRE organization focused on Okta platform, Databases, Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, FinOps, and automation platform & tooling. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Build and lead a high-caliber India-based SRE organization supporting Okta’s production fleet. Partner with global engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure services. Define and execute the India SRE strategy in alignment with global reliability goals. Lead post-incident reviews, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure long-term corrective actions. Participate in incident management, on-call rotations, and blameless RCAs. Implement automation and observability to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency. Drive adoption of modern infrastructure practices: infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and AI within Infrastructure org. H
Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways. Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads. Built to replace legacy infrastructure and fragmented data services, Couchbase empowers enterprises with a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale. With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond. Couchbase’s AI‑ready technology and enterprise partnership model eliminate complexity and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling teams to stay agile, innovative and secure. Couchbase believes data should never slow you down, but act as the foundation for your next breakthrough. Discover why Couchbase is trusted to help the world’s biggest players scale, move fast and stay resilient, no matter what’s next on their roadmap. Visit couchbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. Want to be part of our story? Apply today! AI Platform Engineering Location: Bangalore (Hybrid - in office at least 3 days/week) About the Role We are seeking an experienced and visionary technology leader to lead the development and scaling of our Operational AI platform capabilities. This role will own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of Couchbase AI Cloud Platform capabilities. This is a strategic leadership role at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and AI. You will lead a large, multi-layered engineering organization responsible for delivering The Operational Data Platform for AI, while partnering closely with Product, Design, SRE, and Go-To-Market teams. Your leadership will directly influence company growth, customer adoption, platform reliability, and Couchbase’s competitive pos
Graphcore Senior Principal AI SoC Validation (Bring-up lead) Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. We are developing the next generation of AI compute, a large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designed to power future high-performance AI systems. As the SoC Validation Lead, you will be responsible for enabling pre-production software to run reliably on new silicon quickly and efficiently, before showing that the silicon meets the highest standards of quality, reliability and functionality, ready for production deployment. You will lead a team delivering post-silicon validation across the full AI SoC, working across silicon, firmware, and platform levels. The role requires a deep technical understanding, strong hands-on debug experience, and the ability to collaborate effectively with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams. Key responsibilities Define and lead post-silicon validation strategy Develop and refine the overall post-silicon validation approach for our AI SoCs, ensuring reliable and timely delivery of validated silicon, architectural correctness, feature robustness, and at-scale system reliability. Drive cross-domain debug and issue resolution Lead investigation and resolution of complex issues spanning silicon, firmware, operating systems, and platform interactions. Ensure that fixes are effective and sustainable. Promote collaboration and shared understanding Work closely with
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