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📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India· Full-time
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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 . As a Software Dev Senior Engineer , you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our Cloud-based services. You will define and enforce reliability standards, drive the adoption of SRE practices across engineering teams, and build the systems and tooling that keep our production infrastructure healthy. We follow a DevOps model: Development and Operations teams are integrated, and the SRE function acts as the reliability layer — setting Service Level Objectives, managing error budgets, and continuously reducing toil through engineering. Key Responsibilities: Define, publish, and continuously refine Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs ) for all critical services, partnering with product and engineering leadership. Own the error budget framework: track consumption, enforce error budget policies, and drive reliability investments when budgets are at risk. Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive observability platforms — metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing — to ensure full visibility into pro

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Role Overview You’ll be the Principal Software Engineer driving the next generation of a large-scale enterprise SaaS platform. In this role, you combine deep hands-on engineering with high-impact technical leadership, shaping how cloud-native and AI-enabled products are designed and built. You’ll design and deliver secure, scalable, serverless systems on AWS using TypeScript and Node.js, modernize critical platform components, and set the technical direction for multiple teams. You’ll also lead how AI capabilities are integrated across the product ecosystem, ensuring they are transparent, observable, and compliant. If you enjoy system-level thinking, complex distributed architectures, and mentoring senior engineers while still staying close to the code, this role gives you company-wide impact and the opportunity to define the long-term technical vision. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Lead the architecture and delivery of secure, scalable, serverless applications on AWS using TypeScript/Node.js. Define and evolve the platform architecture, driving modernization, performance, resilience, and maintainability. Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems using services like Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, and EventBridge. Shape and implement AI-enabled solutions, embedding governance, observability, and responsible AI practices into the platform. Own Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) to reliably provision and manage cloud infrastructure. Mentor senior engineers, influence technical decisions across teams, and clearly communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview Extensive experience (typically 12+ years) building secure, production-grade software systems. Proven track record architecting and delivering cloud-native, serverless applications on AWS. Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, REST API design, and at leas

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview: This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is experiencing rapid growth. You’ll play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance. As a Staff Engineer on the Application Engineering team, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader - responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, scalable software systems that power Cohere Health’s core platform. You’ll act as a multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, design , clinical and payment teams to deliver solutions that meet compliance, quality, and performance standards. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex problems in healthcare, have deep expertise in building distributed systems including data solutions, and want to influence architectural decisions for security and scale, drive cross-collaborations for alignment, establish technical standards for consistency and evolve both application and data engineering best practices at scale. What you’ll do: Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and drive the architecture of large-scale, distributed application systems across the Cohere platform. Ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and compliant with NCQA, CMS, and payer requirements. Champion platform engineering best practices in CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability. Hands-On Engineering Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in modern frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/React, Java/Kotlin). Lead the development of core features and APIs that directly impact providers, payers, and patients. Partner with DevOps and Data teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and operati

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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JOB TITLE Site Reliability Engineer A CAREER WITH POINT72’S TECHNOLOGY TEAM As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity. WHAT YOU’LL DO You will play a highly critical operational role where you will apply a combination of software and systems engineering skills to develop and maintain a complex set of distributed, real-time systems that serve critical stakeholders in Point72’s Global Macro business. You will focus on optimizing the operations of existing systems and infrastructure in an efficient manner, through a strict adherence to automation and tooling Specifically, you will: Build out foundational technical components of an extensive SRE program across multiple complex systems, both new and existing • Collaborate with our development and quant teams to ensure that ongoing change is consistent with a pre-determined, measurable set of SLOs spanning multiple complex user interactions with our systems • Monitor system capacity and performance, identifying and addressing potential future bottlenecks and sources of instability before they become impactful to our stakeholders • Review and provide feedback on automation code developed by peers to maintain high standards of code quality and efficiency • Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, analyzing their impact on infrastructure and service operations • Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders, evaluating and selecting the best technologies and automation strategies for our needs WHAT’S REQUIRED We are looking for highly motivated, proactive engineers

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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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

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE... In this role as an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers located in Bengaluru, India. You will focus on driving and shaping the direction of our observability software and enabling product engineers to deliver high-quality, reliable software to our customers. You will provide technical leadership and direction, mentor engineers on your team, and collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes. The successful candidate must understand the dynamics of global R&D, possess deep knowledge of local culture, and have the ability to champion Pure values and leadership attributes. This role requires the ability to lead and influence multiple stakeholders across cross-functional teams and drive alignment across complex, distributed engineering environments. The team will help build and evolve observability capabilities that provide actionable insights into the health, performance, capacity, and reliability of Pure's products and infrastructure. WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE... 12+ years of combined experience as a software developer and manager 3+ years of technical management experience while staying hands-on 7+ years of hands-on software development experience Strong exposure to one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, systems programming, observability/telemetry, data platforms, or solving prob

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. At Tenstorrent, we build open, state of the art compute for real workloads and real developers. You will lead our Bangalore-based CPU Core Design Verification team, driving both the technical strategy and the people leadership behind verification of our high-performance, out-of-order RISC-V CPUs. You will manage a team of core-level verification engineers, partner closely with our Santa Clara and Austin sites, and own delivery of core verification from architecture definition through tapeout readiness. This role is hybrid based out of Bangalore, India, with regular collaboration across our globally distributed CPU organization. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are 15+ years of CPU/DV experience, including 7+ years leading verification teams, with strong hands-on expertise in high-performance, out-of-order CPU verification. Deep microarchitecture & verification expertise, including ISA, RTL, UVM/CVM, testbench development, regressions, coverage, and complex debug. Strong people and technical leadership, with experience hiring, mentoring, developing engineers, and setting verification strategy and methodology across teams. Highly

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📍 Pune, India
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer (Java Backend Developer) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview Switching Gateway provides a single payment connection that supports Mastercard and non-Mastercard branded financial transactions. It is a streamlined interface that enables transaction originators and receivers (e.g., merchants, financial institutions, and processors) to connect to other players in the payment ecosystem. Our team of integrators, analysts, testers and subject matter experts work together to build four platforms that encompasses full lifecycle of payment processing. We are looking for a Lead Product Manager-Technical to drive our customer experien

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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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! Lead Software Engineer - Storage As a key contributing member of the storage development team, you will be responsible for enhancing the highly scalable and performant storage engines used by both Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella. You will be developing a highly-available and concurrent enterprise-grade system software. Most of all, you will be able to celebrate the wins by experiencing the direct result of your hard work from our customers’ success stories. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and proactive problem-solving skills. The innovative work storage team does has been widely recognized by the industry. The following publications in VLDB conferences reflect the storage work at Couchbase Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoS

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Envoy Global is a proven innovator in the global immigration space. Our mission combines our industry-leading tech platform with holistic service to streamline, simplify and expedite the immigration process for employers and individuals. We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable systems, provide technical direction to the team, and take ownership of end-to-end delivery. You will play a key role in building high-quality solutions across APIs, microservices, and integrations, while driving engineering excellence and best practices. As our Lead Engineer, you will be required to: Design, code, and unit test platform and integration components Develop frameworks for standardizing and enabling data flows via APIs, files, microservices, and message queues. Provide technical guidance to the team and take ownership of delivery Responsible to technically groom backlog items providing design, architecture, and implementation details Quality is the key driver to product engineering, ensure highly testable and quality deliverables To apply for this role, you should possess the following skills, experience and qualifications: Minimum 8+ years of strong programming experience on .NET platform, Microsoft Tech Stack Expertise in C#, ASP.NET Web API / Typescript / Angular (or any front-end framework or passion to learn Angular) Experience developing with containers, micro-services, and message queues Dedication to delivering high-performance, secure and scalable services Experience working with a wide variety of systems and integrating APIs from third parties Hands on experience with SQL and query optimization Analytical and troubleshooting skills to investigate and resolve issues Ability to dig through Memory, CPU and IO bottlenecks to improve performance and scalability Azure experience is a plus Knowledge and experience

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📍 Pune, India
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview MasterCard is seeking talented individuals to join our Emerging Payments Technology team in Pune, India. MasterCard is researching and developing the next generation of products and services to enable consumers to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct transactions regardless of channel. Whether through traditional retail, mobile, or e-commerce, MasterCard innovation is leading the digital convergence of traditional and emerging payments technologies across a wide variety of new devices and services. Join our team and help shape the future of connected commerce! Role The Consultant, Software Engineering is a hands-on developer specializing in Java development with a particular focus producing software development kits (SDKs) and API services in support of MasterPass, our digital wallet solution. As a Consultant on the Digital Payments Technology team, you will be responsible for helping design and implement SDKs and API services across multiple products and services. You’ll work closely with other team technical leads and with our Product Management team, and other stakeholders. Working within an agile development methodology, you will collaborate with and mentor other engineers and with other technical delivery teams, implement solid, robust solutions f

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📍 Pune, India
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview Develops and leads software engineering projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the functional requirements and also follow coding best practices and non functional requirements. Role • Highly Motivated Technical Leader to Champion Software Development Projects and that can deliver results. • Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. • Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the required service levels. • Successfully develop and lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. • Develop innovative solutions that meet specific business needs. • Partner with scrum masters / project managers to lead day to day software development efforts. • Assist in day to day software development efforts including programming. • Create proof of concept applications • Collaborate with business and technical partners • Assist in the evaluation of 3rd parties and 3rd party products. • Ensure adherence to established quality control practices. • Create and maintain technology road-maps.

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. Rockstar is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Online Services team, who is passionate about games and will serve both as an individual contributor and as a leader for a skilled and diverse group of developers. This is a full-time, in-office position based in Rockstar’s large game development studio in Bangalore, India. WHAT WE DO The Rockstar Games Online Services Team is a development group, passionate about growing and maintaining the technology platform that powers Rockstar’s online titles and our ability to deliver outstanding player experiences. We build connected experiences that are found across our game franchises. We architect and maintain high-impact features to support the development of the Rockstar community and websites. We build services and tools that support our consumer-facing experiences and our internal business needs. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead a team of software engineers in maintaining and upgrading React and .NET systems. Define key results, set team objectives, provide technical expertise and mentorship. Conduct performance evaluations and regular check-ins to ensure team members are on track and aligned with goals. Develop and communicate technical roadmaps to leadership. Collaborate with Product Management and Production teams to scope and prioritize projects. Integrate systems with multi-functional teams. REQUIREMENTS 8+ years of professional software development experience at an enterprise level organization, with 3+ years of experience leading an engineering team of 4+. Efficiently facilitate communication with teams in various locations worldwide. Experience working in

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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About Eudia: Eudia is redefining the future of legal work with AI-powered Augmented Intelligence, enabling Fortune 500 legal teams to move faster, manage risk more effectively, and unlock new business value. Backed by $105M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst, we’re building a category-defining platform that blends AI-driven automation with human expertise, transforming legal from a cost center into a strategic growth driver. At Eudia, we move fast. Unlike traditional enterprise software, our teams ship solutions in days, not months—delivering real impact for some of the world’s largest companies, including Cargill, Coherent, DHL, and Duracell. We’re solving one of the most complex, unsolved challenges in AI: bringing trust, accuracy, and security to legal automation. We’re a team of builders, operators, and problem-solvers who are passionate about reshaping an industry that has long been resistant to change. If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be challenged, take ownership from day one, and work alongside some of the brightest minds in AI and legal —we’d love to meet you. About the Role: Are you interested in building a high-performance Agentic AI driven legal workflow system that supports our current and future scale of platforms? If so, we are looking for you to join our growing team in India. This person will work from our Bangalore office and actively collaborate with the Palo Alto team. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer that will help develop the most secure, enterprise-grade software using and innovating the latest in Generative AI. The opportunity to tackle challenges in creating cloud-agnostic solutions, maintaining stringent security and compliance standards, and building scalable, resilient platforms for enterprise applications, data, AI, and search also exist while you will be able to routinely innovate on behalf of our customers, collaborating with the world's top

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