Lead Data Engineer

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the role Customer Experience Engineering is where customers, product, and engineering meet. As a CXE 2, you’ll be trusted to lead complex, ambiguous, high-risk, and enterprise customer problems end to end. You’ll design investigations where no playbook exists, connect behaviour across systems, make sound decisions under pressure, and hold the thread across customers, Engineering, Product, and GTM until the outcome is complete. This is not a traditional Support role. CXE 2s do not wait for ‘level-appropriate’ tickets or hand work away after identifying a bug. You’ll share responsibility for one CXE queue, lead the situations where experience matters most, and convert recurring problems into tooling, AI-enabled workflows, product action, and prevention. What you will do Lead complex, ambiguous, enterprise, solution-led, and escalated customer issues from investigation through resolution and trust-restoring closure. Design and execute investigations across web applications, APIs, integrations, authentication, data, logs, configurations, and system behaviour, even when no playbook exists. Resolve the majority of technical issues independently and engage Engineering only with clear evidence, reproduction steps, impact,

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the role Every day, millions of developers use HackerRank to prove their skills. We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Development Engineer who can drive the technical direction of critical backend systems and lead the delivery of high-impact, platform-level initiatives. You will own the architecture and evolution of core backend services, mentor engineers across teams, and be a key technical decision-maker ensuring our platform remains fast, reliable, and scalable as we grow our global user base. What you will do Architect, design, and lead the implementation of complex backend systems and services that power core product experiences at scale. Define and drive technical strategy for your domain, making key decisions on system design, technology choices, and long-term architectural direction. Own the end-to-end reliability and performance of critical backend services, establishing SLOs, monitoring, and incident response best practices. Design scalable API frameworks and data models that serve as foundations for multiple product teams and external integrations. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple teams, coordinating with frontend, infrastructure, product, and design stakeholders. Iden

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. The role HackerRank is hiring a Head of Design to define and own the experience for our platform and lead the organization responsible for delivering it. You will guide both traditional product experiences and emerging AI-native and agentic experiences, through a team of product designers and design managers. As a member of Product, Engineering, and Design Leadership, you will serve as a strategic leader in the company. This role requires executive range and practitioner instincts. You should be able to move from an organizational question to a product strategy discussion, then into a working prototype or detailed interaction review without losing the thread between them. All of our leaders are builders. What you will own Set experience strategy. Define the design vision for HackerRank’s platform and turn company strategy into a clear experience direction. Connect near-term product decisions to a coherent view of where technical hiring and developer skills are going. Keep the organization close to customers and developers, using research, product data, prototypes, and direct observation to shape the work. Drive AI and agentic fluency. Shape how people interact with AI across the platform, from embedded intelligence to au

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the role As an Engineering Manager on the Assessment Platform team, you will lead the technical vision and execution for the systems that power the assessments on HackerRank. This includes giving candidates the ability to work on a real world application running on dedicated VMs with an online ADE built by HackerRank. Doing this for concurrencies of up to 100K candidates is a very interesting technical challenge. You will also partner with product teams across HackerRank to embed these solutions into every product, drive the team's roadmap, and build a high-performing, growth-oriented team that delivers scalable, resilient systems. What you will do Own the vision and roadmap for assessment platform, working closely with Product to shape priorities. Architect systems that reliably handle 100k+ concurrent users. Own delivery commitments and run the team's day-to-day execution using agile practices. Ensure operational excellence: reliability, incident response, security and privacy. Hire, mentor and grow engineers, and set clear career paths for each team member. Define how the team uses AI tools in development to improve quality and speed. Partner with Product, infrastructure and Security teams. Who you are 8+ years

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the role HackerRank Interviews is a live technical interviewing platform designed to evaluate how candidates solve realistic engineering problems, not just whether they can pass an algorithm test. Candidates and interviewers collaborate in a shared workspace using coding tools, production-style repositories, and Plan-Build-Review tasks. The platform also supports observable AI-assisted development, letting teams assess how candidates prompt, review, and apply AI-generated work, with observation tools and post-interview reports giving hiring teams clearer, structured evidence for decisions. In this role, you'll help lead the Interviews product - an AI-native, pair-programming interview experience that gives interviewers the ability to collaborate with candidates on real-world problems and code repos. You'll shape how the platform evolves across richer ADE experiences (harnesses like Claude Code and Codex CLI), Chakra Assist for evaluation, richer session observation (screen sharing, A/V), and reporting across in-product, exports, APIs and MCP. You'll work closely with engineers as collaborators and as the product's core customer and user base including senior engineering leadership as stakeholders who care deeply ab

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the role You’ll be part of a high-performing DevOps team responsible for evolving our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks across environments. You’ll have the autonomy to design, build, and optimise our infrastructure systems while enabling developer productivity at scale. What you’ll do Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for all HackerRank environments from development to production. Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring scalability and reproducibility. Lead and evangelise DevOps best practices across engineering teams, CI/CD hygiene, observability, and cost-efficient architectures. Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems using tools like OpsGenie, New Relic, and ELK. Optimise the performance and utilisation of key systems such as Redis, RDS, Redshift, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. Partner with security and platform teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and threat protection across cloud environments. Contribute to cloud cost optimisation initiatives and infrastructure efficiency projects. Who you are Bring 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles. Deep ex