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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Strategy Zinnov’s Strategy practice is where you help leadership teams define and execute growth agendas using structured, data-backed problem solving—especially in technology services. In this practice, you’ll get: Work on high-impact topics like long-range strategy, positioning, org design, and growth theses. Hands-on GTM and revenue acceleration exposure—white space, offering design, account strategy (Zinnov’s KPA framework), channels, and leakage reduction. Transformation and performance work including profitability improvement and post-merger integration / 100-day plans. Market-facing thought leadership through conferences, leadership roundtables, and co-branded research. Role: Project Lead I– M&A Location : Bangalore Experience 3+ ye

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalisation Excellence (GE) Zinnov’s Globalisation Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end — from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run . In GE, you don’t work in silos. You: Own complex, end-to-end client journeys Work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models Influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies This is where strategy meets execution — and where talent plays a defining role. About the Role This role requires a recruiter who combines deep technical recruiting expertise with an AI-first mindset. You will partner with engineering leaders to hire niche and leade

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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. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Appian platform, your mission will be to ensure Appian is always fast, scalable and up to whatever tasks our customers configure it to do. You will be focused on designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems while providing technical leadership and mentorship and building a product capable of serving our customers in ways you never imagined. This role includes not just deep coding expertise, but also a focus on system orchestration, using AI Tools and AI integration (like RAG, agentic workflows, MCP), and aligning technical decisions with business strategy. Key Responsibilities The SSE isn't just "faster at coding"—they are responsible for the health of the entire codebase and the growth of the team. Code Quality & Standards: Set and enforce the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Architecture & Design: Leading high-level design sessions, choosing architectural patterns (Microservices, Serverless, Event-driven), and ensuring systems are scalable and secure. Developer Enablement: Create internal tooling and "Golden Paths" that abstract away the complexity of underlying infrastructure for feature teams. Technical Leadership: Mentoring junior engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, , setting the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Project Ownership: Driving features from requirement analysis through depl

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software, and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. 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. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers, and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary Reporting to the Validation leadership team, the Principal Execution and Quality Validation Engineer will be responsible for driving validation execution, automation, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform technologies. The role combines deep expertise in hardware validation, test automation, and quality engineering with a strong focus on execution excellence. Working closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams, the successful candidate will develop scalable validation methodologies, improve test coverage and execution efficiency, and ensure products meet the highest standards of functionality, reliability, and performance before customer deployment. As a recognized technical leader within the validation organisation, this role will influence validation strategies, automation roadmaps, and quality practices across multiple projects and engineering disciplines. The Team The Validation Execution and Quality team sits within the Validation organisation and is responsible for improving validation effectiveness, te

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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 growing quickly. You will 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. Role Overview: We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to serve as the technical backbone of our Engineering organization. You'll own the technical strategy, and delivery of our platform — spanning architecture, DevOps, SRE, security, Dev-ex. This is a hands-on staff level role: you'll set technical direction, drive cross-team alignment, and be the senior escalation point for platform challenges. What you’ll do: Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across all environments. Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership for platform components, Influence the technical strategy and architecture of our cloud platform, from CI/CD pipelines to observability and incident response. Design and implement platform components and reusable integration patterns that minimize custom development efforts, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure that integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems Partner closely with Architecture, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to deliver cohesive platform solutions Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, and solutions architects to understand integration needs and ensure the platform meets current and future business requirements. Serve as a senior escalation point for infrastructure and platform incidents Establish frameworks for: AI governance and compliance. Observability of systems. Traceability of decisions and outputs. Ensure enterprise readiness with security, auditability, and reliability in production environments. Security & Compliance : Ensure all p

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📍 India· Full-time
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Job Title: Test Manager - QA (BFSI) About Us “Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount . With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery. WHY JOIN CAPCO? You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry. MAKE AN IMPACT Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services. #BEYOURSELFATWORK Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity. CAREER ADVANCEMENT With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage. MAKE AN IMPACT Key Responsibilities: Define an approach and plan for incremental testing , ensuring early risk mitigation and de-risking a compressed final test window (5 weeks). Define and own the end-to-end testing strategy for a large, multi-market program, including UAT cycle design, reporting, and governance. Lead and coordinate multiple market test leads , ensuring structured defect management and transparent reporting to senior leadership. Define and enforce entry and exit criteria for UAT and production release. Ensure strong test governance, environment planning, and readiness across parall

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📍 India· Full-time
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Job Title: Test Manager - QA (BFSI) About Us “Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount . With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery. WHY JOIN CAPCO? You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry. MAKE AN IMPACT Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services. #BEYOURSELFATWORK Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity. CAREER ADVANCEMENT With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage. MAKE AN IMPACT Key Responsibilities: Define an approach and plan for incremental testing , ensuring early risk mitigation and de-risking a compressed final test window (5 weeks). Define and own the end-to-end testing strategy for a large, multi-market program, including UAT cycle design, reporting, and governance. Lead and coordinate multiple market test leads , ensuring structured defect management and transparent reporting to senior leadership. Define and enforce entry and exit criteria for UAT and production release. Ensure strong test governance, environment planning, and readiness across parall

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📍 India· Full-time
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Job Title: Alteryx About Us “Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount . With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery. WHY JOIN CAPCO? You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry. MAKE AN IMPACT Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services. #BEYOURSELFATWORK Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity. CAREER ADVANCEMENT With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage. MAKE AN IMPACT Requirements: Job Title: ESG REPORTING Experience Over 7 years of solid experience in Finance at a major institution with hands-on experience in supporting or co-leading ESG/sustainability external disclosures or regulatory reporting, including data validation, stakeholder coordination, narrative drafting is preferred. Commercial outlook – able to connect numbers, performance drivers and ‘real world’ events. Deep knowledge of business strategy, operations and structure. Highly motivated, diligent, collaborative, personable and capable of working independently and exercising judgment. Project management skills, including creating lean pr

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. Senior Recruiter – Non-Tech & Tech Love finding great talent others can't? 🚀 We’re looking for a strong and hands-on Senior Recruiter to own mid-level to senior hiring across both Tech and Non-Tech functions. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to build high-quality talent pipelines, drive targeted sourcing, and close exceptional candidates. What You'll Do Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for mid to senior-level roles. Lead headhunting, niche sourcing, and passive candidate engagement across Tech and Non-Tech roles. Build strong talent pipelines through LinkedIn, referrals, networking, and creative sourcing strategies. Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand hiring needs and define candidate profiles. Manage candidate relationships, interviews, offer negotiations, and closures. Use ATS platforms, AI-powered sourcing tools, and recruitment data to improve hiring efficiency. Mentor junior recruiters or interns and help raise recruitment standards. What We're Looking For 4+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment. Strong track record of hiring mid-level to senior talent across Tech and Non-Tech roles. Experience in campus hiring, including building and managing relationships with colleges, universities, and placement teams. Strong campus engagement skills with the ability to develop long-term relationships with key institutions. Exceptional sourcing and headhunting skills with experience engaging passive candidates. Strong stake

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. The Mission Instawork is building the data engine for the future of Physical AI. We are looking for a Head of Partnerships to build and lead our India business partners. You will be responsible for identifying, developing, and onboarding thousands of small, medium and large businesses across India to help build the pipeline for Robotics data collection. The opportunity is to connect Instawork's technology, labor marketplace, and operational scale with the world's leading robotics companies and turn real-world work into the high-quality data required to train and improve the next generation of physical AI. This is a highly entrepreneurial role for a senior partnerships leader who wants to build something from the ground up and work directly with company leadership. What You'll Own Build the Partnerships Engine for Small, Medium and Large businesses in India Own the partnerships strategy across hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, retail, and other labor-intensive industries. Build and eventually lead the partnerships team, processes, systems, and operating cadence. Establish clear goals and metrics for pipeline generation and business acquisition Execute large business partnerships with industrial, co-operative and government bodies that work with multiple businesses Develop repeatable playbooks for partner identification, outreach, qualification, negotiation, and conversion. Work Directly with Leadership Partner closely with the CEO and Head of Robotics on the company's partnership s

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📍 Bengaluru, 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 is seeking a Staff Analyst – People Technology to join our Business Solutions Team. In this critical role, you will partner closely with the People Technology leadership and play a key role in our Workday transformation efforts. As part of a cross-functional team, you will collaborate with stakeholders across People, Payroll, IT, Finance, and international offices to optimize and scale our HR systems and processes. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about solving complex business challenges, driving innovation through automation, and delivering a best-in-class user experience. Job Duties and Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end architecture and technical design of Workday Extend applications, integrations, and supporting technology solutions. Define scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable application architecture, integration architecture, data flows, API strategies, and technical standards . Architect and lead the development of complex Workday Extend applications using TypeScript/JavaScript, Workday APIs, and Extend frameworks. Architect enterprise Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, REST APIs, SOAP Web Services, and Workday Web Services . Evaluate business requirements and determine the appropriate solution across Workday configuration, Extend, integrations, APIs, AI, cloud services, and third-party platforms . Establish architectural patterns and reusable frameworks fo

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📍 India· Full-time· Remote
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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

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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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

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India
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Android Framework Engineer Description - Job Summary • This role is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications that cater to specific user needs or business requirements. The role plans, executes, and monitors software development projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and according to quality standards. The role identifies potential risks and challenges in software projects and implement strategies to mitigate these risks for successful project outcomes. Responsibilities • Oversees the software application development projects and team of junior developers. • Allocates resources to complete programming projects, and designing detailed plans to ensure applications are functioning properly. • Provides technical support for the development and implementation of applications dealing with complex high-performance computing systems. • Defines and documents product requirements, user stories, and epics and works closely with the agile team to execute on the product backlog. • Leads multiple project teams of other software applications engineers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms, including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration. • Manages and expands relationships with internal and outsourced development partners on software applications design and development. • Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with applications design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk. • Provides domain-specific expertise and overall software applications leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities. • Drives inno

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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 Engineer on the GitLab Delivery - Upgrades team, you’ll guide the technical direction for GitLab’s self-managed deployment strategy so customers can deploy, upgrade, and run GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure with minimal disruption. You’ll serve as a technical anchor for the team, working closely with your engineering manager, product manager, and partners across Site Reliability Engineering, Release, Security, and Development to shape cloud-native, operator-driven deployment patterns that reduce operational complexity and upgrade friction. In your first year, you’ll help define the a

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