We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. The Infrastructure product organization develops New Relic infrastructure instrumentation agents, next generation data processing and management services, vulnerability management, and security testing capabilities for on-prem and cloud customers. We work with data at a scale using a diverse tech stack (Go, Java, JavaScript, React GraphQL, Kubernetes, many public cloud web services, and more). As a senior backend engineer, you will help us build and extend next generation solutions such as a control plane for customers to manage their data pipelines at scale. New Relic is looking for engineers who are interested in building a brand-new observability experience. This high-impact engineering position is a phenomenal opportunity to own and build a set of next generation services and capabilities for the company. We are searching for a motivated engineer who is ready for a career-defining role in their next opportunity. We look forward to talking with you! What you'll do ● Design, Build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools. ● Participate in architectural definitions with a high degr
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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. We’re redefining Privileged Access Management (PAM) from the ground up, purpose-built for Cloud, SaaS, Databases, Containers, and any virtualized environment. Our mission is to simplify and secure workforce access with seamless, secure-by-default workflows that adapt dynamically to modern infrastructure. We eliminate standing privileges, enforce least privilege, and embed Zero Trust principles into every access workflow by default. About the Role We are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer (P5) to serve as the technical leader and compass for our newly established engineering pod in India. Operating at the intersection of identity, networking, and security infrastructure , you will be responsible for tackling highly complex, vaguely specified problems without day-to-day oversight. In this role, you will champion the technical execution of your team. You will lead the design and implementation of secure database and network device connectors (routers, switches, firewalls) on top of our core Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) platform. You will work closely with our local Technical Team Lead to mentor mid-level engineers, while collaborating closely with global Tech Leads to ensure architectural alignment. What You’ll Be Doing Lead Technical Strategy & Execution: Turn high-level, complex PAM and network access problems into clear, modular technical designs that your team can execute. Own Connector Ecosystems: Design, architect, and optimize resilient connecto
We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. Database Observability is a critical pillar of New Relic's platform strategy. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (M3) to lead a senior, high-performing team building next-generation Database Observability products. Your team will own the entire lifecycle of critical telemetry data flows from lightweight database agents and high-throughput ingestion pipelines to intelligent DB recommendation engines and autonomous DB AI Agents. You will lead a team that includes senior and Lead-level engineers with deep domain expertise in distributed systems and AI. Your primary value will come from setting strategic technical direction, enabling their best work, and fostering a high-accountability culture while partnering closely with Product and Design to deliver features that directly drive New Relic's Database Observability. What you'll do Manage a full-stack engineering team (6–8 engineers) spanning backend systems, database telemetry, agent engineering, and UI workflows. Own end-to-end delivery sprint planning, roadmap execution, system quality, and operational excellence for critical database ingesti
We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. Service Levels is one of New Relic's most commercially critical products — it powers SLO compliance and reliability measurement for thousands of customers. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a senior, high-performing team building the next generation of service level management at scale. You'll lead a team that includes lead-level engineers with deep domain expertise, and your value will come from enabling their best work — not directing it. You'll own delivery, quality, and team health while partnering closely with product and design to ship features that directly impact New Relic's commercial momentum. What you'll do Lead a full-stack engineering team of 6-8 across backend (Java/Spring Boot) and frontend (React/TypeScript) Own end-to-end delivery — sprint planning, execution, quality, and release Set clear expectations, manage performance equitably, and develop engineers at every level Partner with Product Manager and XD to translate requirements into technically sound, deliverable plans Drive architectural discussions and hold the team to engineering excellence standards Identify
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. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack - Backend) Staff Software Engineer The Product Auth0 is a developer-friendly identity platform designed by developers, for developers, simplifying authentication and authorization for more than 100 million daily logins worldwide. Within this global platform, our team drives two of Auth0’s most critical, high-impact surfaces: The Manage Dashboard: The definitive front door for developers and enterprise administrators worldwide. It is the control center where our customers configure critical identity policies, manage complex organizations, and monitor active threat intelligence. The Auth0 Marketplace: Our rapidly expanding extensibility ecosystem. The Marketplace allows customers to seamlessly discover and install third-party integrations - such as security monitoring, consent management, and database connectors - to dynamically customize their identity pipeline. The Role As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will not just write code; you will own the technical strategy, architect highly resilient frameworks, design developer-friendly APIs, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. Your architectural ownership will span the entire stack - from the React-based frontend down through our Node.js/Go services, robust operational pipelines, and PostgreSQL databases. What You Will Do: Product Ownership: Lead the technical lifecycle of your team’s products, ensuring they are robust, secure, and performant from the frontend to
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 a Staff Software Engineer, you'll help lead two important areas for GitLab Security: the data layer behind our vulnerability and dependency management capabilities, and our move toward services outside the GitLab monolith. You'll design and develop systems that ingest, store, index, and query security report data, including integrations with key third-party systems. With a strong focus on PostgreSQL and scalable backend design, your work will support security features delivered by teams across GitLab. You'll take ownership of large deliverables from early ideas through implementation, working directly
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. About the role As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area. You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive our modular architecture strategy, and define the standards that let teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability. This is a technical leadership role that combines deep backend expertise, systems judgment, product judgment, and influence across organizational boundaries. You will work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engine
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. Senior Backend Engineer - Database Change Management An overview of this role As a Senior Backend Engineer, Database Upgrades, you'll help replace GitLab's sequential database migration system with a dependency graph model that makes upgrades faster and safer for GitLab.com and self-managed customers. You'll lead the design and delivery of a migration validation and test framework, including versioned fixture data across about 1,000 tables, a continuous integration (CI)-integrated test runner, and required correctness checks. You'll also serve as the senior technical anchor for our India-based engineering group, using clear writt
About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who you are We're looking for an innovative and passionate Machine Learning Engineers to join our team. You are someone who loves solving complex problems, enjoys the challenges of working with huge data sets, and has a knack for turning theoretical concepts into practical, scalable solutions. You are a strong team player but also thrive in autonomous environments where your ideas can make a significant impact. You love utilizing machine learning techniques to push the boundaries of what is possible within the realm of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and related Machine Learning technologies. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Conceptualize, develop, and deploy machine learning models that underpin our NLP, retrieval, ranking, reasoning, dialog and code-generation systems. Implement advanced machine learning algorithms, such as Transformer-based models, reinforcement learning, ensemble learning, and agent-based systems to continually improve the performance of our AI systems. Lead the processing and analysis of large, complex datasets (structured, semi-structured, and
About Us Blueshift is the Intelligent Customer Engagement Platform (CEP), headquartered in San Francisco, that empowers leading B2C brands to drive truly personalized, 1:1 marketing across every channel. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado (acquired by Groupon) and were part of the early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), Blueshift leverages AI, including Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI, to automate customer engagement for clients like ClearScore, LendingTree, Udacity, and U.S. News. Backed by top-tier VCs including Nexus Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, and SoftBank Venture Asia, the company has raised a total of $65 million in venture funding and is consistently recognized as a market leader and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award recipient. Blueshift is actively scaling its development center in Pune, India. As part of our team, you will drive innovation in cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and large-scale distributed data systems. This is an exciting career path for motivated individuals looking to build complex, impactful solutions that define the future of customer engagement. AI Solutions Engineer II As a Software Engineer in the AI Solutions team , you occupy a unique techno-functional position. You are not a researcher; you are an implementation specialist and problem-solver . You bridge the gap between our core AI infrastructure and real-world customer impact. You aren't just writing code; you are applying data engineering, analysis, and AI knowledge to help global brands realize the full potential of AI-driven marketing. Responsibilities End-to-End Solution Delivery: Lead the full lifecycle of custom AI projects—from initial customer design and technical architecture to testing and production implementation. Production Stewardship: Take ownership of the "last mile" of delivery. This includes triaging technical tickets, analyzing logs (Datadog/Kibana), and deb
Technical Lead - Backend About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the role: As a Technical Lead, you will be developing the detailed design structure, implementing the best practices and coding standards, leading a team of developers for successful delivery of the project. You will be working on design, architecture and hands-on coding. Requirements: ● 6+ years of server-side application development experience with Java, Spring boot, Microservices, AWS Demonstrated experience delivering highly scalable products Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery. ● An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and product management skills. Proven success in building, motivating and retaining teams. ● Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs. ● Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills. Excellent design and architecture knowledge. Preferred Qualification : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Skills that will help you succeed in this role: ● Tech Stack: Lang: Java/Golang DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS. ● Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers. ● Hands-on leader, and problem solver with a passion for excellence. Why join us: ● Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that ● You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve ● You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology
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Technical Lead - Backend About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the role: We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Gold Tech team to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Paytm Digital Gold — a high-scale bullion platform serving consumer and merchant use cases at lakhs+ rpm. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership — you will architect solutions, unblock the team, own critical money-path reliability, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap and execution. We are building reliable, high-availability financial products and need a Tech Lead who can own modules end-to-end, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor junior engineers. Key Responsibilities: ● Define and evolve technical architecture for Gold services — scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. ● Lead design and implementation of high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. ● Own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives — breakdown, estimation, risk management, and production rollout. ● Set engineering standards: code quality, review practices, testing strategy, observability, and incident response. ● Drive cross-service integration design. ● Guide the team on Kafka event design, scheduler orchestration, CDC pipelines, and data consistency patterns. ● Mentor and grow engineers (SSE and below); conduct reviews, pair on complex problems, and build team capability. ● Contribute hands-on to critical modules; unblock the team on complex bugs, performance issues, and production fires. ● Represent Gold Tech in architecture reviews, tech debt prioritization, and platform-wide initiatives. Skills Required: ●
About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. Job Summary: Build systems for collection & transformation of complex data sets for use in production systems Collaborate with engineers on building & maintaining back-end services Implement data schema and data management improvements for scale and performance Provide insights into key performance indicators for the product and customer usage Serve as team's authority on data infrastructure, privacy controls and data security Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to understand user requirements Support efforts for continuous improvement, metrics and test automation Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis Verify whether data architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations .Should be able to fast learn and quickly adapt at rapid pace. java/scala, SQL, Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent Experience 6+ years of progressive experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming and engineering skills. Firm grasp of data structures, algorithms with fluency in programming languages like Java, Python, Scala. Strong SQL language and should be able to write complex queries. Strong Airflow like orchestration tools. Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering organizations Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink. Backend experience including Apache Cassandra, MongoDB and relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL AWS/GCP Solid hands on with 4+ years of experience. St
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. Staff Backend Engineer We’re redefining Privileged Access Management (PAM) from the ground up, purpose-built for Cloud, SaaS, Databases, Containers, and any virtualized environment. Our mission is to simplify and secure workforce access with seamless, secure-by-default workflows that adapt dynamically to modern infrastructure. We eliminate standing privileges, enforce least privilege, and embed Zero Trust principles into every access workflow by default. About the Role We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as the core technical anchor and senior Individual Contributor (IC) for our newly established engineering pod in India. At the P4 level, your primary sphere of influence will be at the team level —taking ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and defining how to solve them cleanly, securely, and efficiently. In this role, you will lead by example through hands-on architecture, high-velocity coding, and end-to-end execution. You will drive the implementation of secure database and network device connectors (routers, switches, firewalls) on top of our core Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) platform. You will work closely with our local Technical Team Lead to elevate the pod’s engineering craft, acting as a technical multiplier for mid-level developers while ensuring tight architectural alignment with our global team. What You’ll Be Doing Execution & Technical Impact End-to-End Ownership: Consistently design, code, debug, test, moni
To lead the Generative AI engineering initiatives at Adani AI Labs, focusing on developing intelligent agents and sovereign cloud AI solutions. This role drives the architectural design, implementation, and scaling of Generative AI applications that optimize operations across Adani’s industrial sectors, aligning with the vision to deliver secure, scalable, and intelligent digital transformation. The Engineering Manager will oversee a team of backend engineers while remaining actively involved in technical execution. This is an exciting opportunity to lead mission-critical product engineering initiatives and build state-of-the-art AI-driven systems within a dynamic and innovative environment at Adani. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 44640
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