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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, 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 . We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of a large-scale malware analysis and cybersecurity platform. This role will own the end-to-end technical architecture across Python-based analysis pipelines, message-driven job orchestration systems, Windows VM sandbox environments, and web-based interfaces. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in software engineering, malware analysis, and distributed systems, with a proven ability to take ownership of complex legacy platforms and drive modernization initiatives. You will lead the design and implementation of advanced detection capabilities, including behavioral analysis, malware sandboxing, machine learning-based classification, and support for new file types, while ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and performance. This position requires strong hands-on development skills in Python with Linux-based production environments, messaging architectures such as RabbitMQ, virtualization technologies, and cloud-native deployment practices. As the technical leader for the platform,

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📍 India· Full-time
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Location Details: India, Remote At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join Our Team The Network Security team is responsible for securing GoDaddy's global hybrid infrastructure across data centres, cloud, edge, and remote-access environments. We partner across Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions that support the business. As a Principal Network Security Engineer, you'll act as a senior technical leader, helping define network security strategy, influence architecture across teams, and drive security outcomes at enterprise scale through technical expertise, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership. What you'll get to do... Define and drive network security architecture across hybrid environments, including data centres, cloud, edge, and remote-access technologies Design trust boundaries, segmentation strategies, secure connectivity patterns, and network controls that reduce risk and improve security posture Lead complex technical initiatives, migrations, and architectural decisions while balancing security, reliability, performance, and operational requirements Establish scalable approaches for policy governance, automation, monitoring, telemetry, and security control validation Partner across engineering organizations to drive large-scale initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction through architecture reviews and technical leadership Your experience should include... 10+ years of experience in Network Security Engineering, Network Architecture, or Security Engineering, including ownership of enterprise-scale secu

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📍 India· Full-time
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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. Get to know Okta Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. The Engineering Opportunity We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to serve as a technical leader for reliability engineering within Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). This role extends beyond operating production systems. You will define technical strategy, influence platform architecture, establish reliability standards, and lead transformational initiatives that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence for one of Okta's fastest-growing product areas. Initially, you will partner closely with the Spera / Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) engineering organization to establish reliability strategy, operational excellence, and platform maturity. Over time, you will help drive broader reliability ini

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. Principal PM AI Governance - Runtime Governance About OneTrust OneTrust helps organizations operationalize trust through privacy, security, data governance, and responsible technology adoption. As AI governance becomes a board-level and regulatory priority, customers increasingly need structured ways to understand AI systems, assess risk, monitor behavior, and demonstrate compliance over time. The Challenge We are looking for a Principal PM to help shape the future of our AI Governance product with a specific focus on observability and enforcement across AI systems. This role is for a product manager who can connect strategy, execution, and technical depth to help us build the right platform capabilities for the next generation of governed AI. You will help run squad activities and drive clarity across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure we are building capabilities that are durable, differentiated, and ready for where AI governance is heading next. The ideal candidate brings a strong product mindset along with a background in cybersecurity, SIEM and

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📍 India· Full-time
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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. Position Description Okta is an enterprise grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta, organizations can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps organizations become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance. The Okta platform provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to work on our Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team with focus on enhancing and managing services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies i.e., users, groups, roles, entitlements, etc. These features allow customers the flexibility to link and enhance their business processes with Okta’s identity management product. We are looking for a seasoned Principal Engineer to join our team and help us build the future of identity and access management. Ideal candidate should be Hands-on expert developer in Java who is deeply technical with a passion for building

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time· Hybrid
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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. For over 20 years, Smartsheet has helped people and teams achieve–well, anything. As the Intelligent Work Management Platform, we are redefining the velocity of work by uniting people, data, and AI to move businesses forward. We don’t just automate tasks; we eliminate execution silos and turn strategic vision into measurable enterprise impact. We’re creating a space to think big and take action, because when challenge meets purpose and AI-powered execution meets human ingenuity, that’s magic at work. It’s what we show up for every day, helping organizations not just keep up with change, but thrive because of it. Our India Global Capability Center isn't just supporting global operations—we’re leading global innovation. After scaling rapidly into a best-in-class hub, we deliver the product innovation and enterprise capabilities that accelerate our global growth, profitability, and scale. As we expand Smartsheet India, we’re searching for a Principal AI Engineer, who craves variety and ownership. You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple teams and disciplines, building a versatile skillset while solving the complex challenges of a global platform. You Will: Own the target-state architecture for Smartsheet's AI platform, defining the standards that bind Data, Agents, Knowledge Graph, Context Graph into one coherent system. Set the architecture for the agent harness and sub-agent framework including orchestration, lifecycle, hand-off contracts, Evals (Offline and Online) and capability-tier classificati

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. Principal Software Engineer – Backend The Challenge We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for solving problems to join our agile Product Engineering team at OneTrust. Principal Software Engineers are responsible for developing, contributing to decisions related to design and architecture of new frontend and/or backend features while supporting existing development efforts for our industry-leading platform. Your Mission Development Support development of web and mobile interfaces for product module or new prototypes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript and/or the designing, development, and unit testing of applications deployed to MS Azure while assisting with cloud application architecture using Drupal, Python, Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem. Achieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team Collaboration Work closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessions and drive team’s discussions on system architecture and component design

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📍 India· Full-time· Hybrid
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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. Our India Global Capability Center isn't just supporting global operations—we’re leading global innovation. After scaling rapidly into a best-in-class hub, we deliver the product innovation and enterprise capabilities that accelerate our global growth, profitability, and scale. As we expand Smartsheet India, we're searching for talented and motivated Principal Software Engineers with expertise in Identity and Access management who are passionate about continuous learning and eager to grow along with us in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You Will Lead the design and implementation of Smartsheet's next-generation architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and performance for millions of global users. Define and drive architecture strategy, making key technical decisions that shape the future of the platform. Architect and evolve Smartsheet's Identity and Access foundation — spanning authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle — ensuring it scales securely across enterprise, multi-entity, and regulated environments. Craft and drive the strategy for Agentic Identity, defining how AI agents authenticate, are authorized, and are audited across the platform, and establishing identity patterns for agent-to-service and agent-on-behalf-of-user flows. Review and guide technical project designs, providing feedback during design review presentations to ensure system resilience and scalability. Take ownership of cross-functional technical initiatives, aligning teams around common architectural goals while driv

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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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. Principal Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Our Customer Success team in Chennai serves as elite technical advisors for global enterprise teams. We bridge deep software architecture with business strategy, building scalable platform environments that leverage AI-Powered Process Automation to solve mission-critical operational challenges. As a Principal Technical Consultant , you will assume architectural leadership for multi-application platform design, execution, and performance optimization. Top engineering talent joins Appian in this role to move beyond basic application maintenance and ensure applications are resilient, scalable, and built to power mission-critical operations at enterprise scale . What You’ll Do Architect Platform Scalability: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema optimization, data modeling , system performance, and responsive UX/UI . Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, development, and code reviews using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly isolate performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, resource contention, and latency spikes across the entire web application stack. Performance Analysis & Profiling: Analyze database execution plans, JVM/memory utilization, and Locust load test outputs to resolve root-cause architectural bottlenecks. Technical Communication & Enablement: Translate complex system diagnostics in

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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! Job Description - Technical Support Engineer (Rotational Split Shift: Sat - Wed) We are looking for a Technical Support Engineer to assist our rapidly growing customer base. As part of our Technical Support team you will be the primary point of contact for Couchbase customers for all technical issues. NoSQL databases are the answer to the demand for high speed, highly available, extremely dynamic data storage and Couchbase is at the forefront of this technology. Working in Couchbase Technical Support you’ll acquire highly coveted skills, essential to this technology, by navigating the world of NoSQL databases. This includes working with Golang, learning about the principals and concepts of distributed systems, understanding what goes into good NoSQL database design, mobile data convergence, and becoming proficie

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📍 India· Full-time
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About Us: Paytm is India’s largest digital payments and financial services platform, leading the mobile QR revolution. We power millions of businesses and individuals, and we’re building scalable, resilient systems to serve half a billion Indians and beyond. Here at Paytm, technology isn't just about keeping up, it's about building the future. We believe the next generation of engineers must not only scale systems to billions but also leverage AI and GPT tools to accelerate innovation. Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Data Protection and Privacy Manager, who will be responsible for overseeing the organization's data protection strategy and ensuring compliance with Indian laws such as the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Personal Data Protection Bill. The DPPM will work closely with DPO and regulatory authorities to ensure that sensitive data is processed securely and ethically. This role is crucial in safeguarding our digital assets and maintaining compliance with industry standards and law. Key Responsibilities: 1. Legal Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection laws, including local DPDPA, IT Act and international regulations like GDPR. 2. Policy Development: Formulate and implement data protection policies and guidelines across the organization. 3. Data Classification & Security: Well versed in managing the DSPM, DLP and PET technologies. 4. Data Breach Management: Investigate and report data breaches to relevant authorities within the stipulated timeframe. 5. Training & Awareness: Conduct training sessions for employees on data protection practices and raise awareness about privacy policies. 6. Impact Assessments: Perform Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) to identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies. 7. Grievance Redressal: Act as the point of contact for data principals (individuals) for grievances related to data handling or privacy violations. 8. Recordkeeping: Maintain records of all data processing activities

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📍 India· Full-time
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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. Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate software security engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our frameworks & infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security software solutions that help run large-scale, mission-critical software. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards, enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Security engineering team has a niche skill-set that combines Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement and rollout security features and functionalities without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product. This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap and direction. You will focus on engineering security and privacy aspects of the systems used across our services while working on a weekly release cadence. You will be empowered to propose stimulating new

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📍 India· Full-time
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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. Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product. This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. Bring all the passion and dedicat

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📍 India· Full-time
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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. Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product. This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. As a Staff Engineer, you should be able

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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. People Technology - Principal Product Analyst & Delivery Lead: Growth and Talent The Enterprise Technology Team The Enterprise Technology team builds and delivers the secure, scalable systems that power how our business runs. Our People Technology Team sits at the heart of this work, overseeing the full Hire-to-Retire technical ecosystem—including core applications like Workday, Greenhouse, and Cornerstone—and ensuring these platforms evolve alongside the company's growth. We partner closely with HR, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Business Operations to bring data-driven, compliant, and innovative solutions to life. The Opportunity Reporting to the Director of People Technology, this role will serve as a Delivery Lead and Principal Product Analyst for Okta's People Technology portfolio, focused on the Growth & Talent pod. In this broad role, you will lead complex, multi-system initiatives spanning Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance, Learning, and Career Development. You will serve as the crucial conduit between Product Management, Recruiting/Talent Acquisition leadership, Talent Management, and People Operations, driving technical execution against a prioritized backlog to align with Okta's strategic workforce goals. What You'll Be Doing Strategic Leadership: Technically scope and lead the delivery of multi-quarter, high-visibility, executive-sponsored projects across the Growth & Talent ecosystem (e.g., Greenhouse AT

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