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Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and infrastructure-minded Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications team within the Growth organization. Notifications is a full-stack team owning the platform and infrastructure that powers every notification Discord sends, the orchestration layer that optimizes notifications globally across types, the in-app notifications center, and the user-facing settings and client experience. You will lead a team of full-stack engineers operating business-critical systems that fan out to hundreds of millions of users while shipping the re-engagement surfaces that bring them back. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager of Growth. What You'll Be Doing Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating the notifications platform — Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and the Kubernetes infrastructure underneath them Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably as volume and complexity grow Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing to define and execute the notifications roadmap Use experimentation and metrics to drive continuous improvement in notification engagement, retention, and long-term user trust Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and instilling engineering best practices Partner with platform consumers across Discord to evolve the primitives other teams depend on to reach our users Partner with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement What you should have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with signifi

Scale is growing rapidly, and joining the Global Public Sector team is an opportunity to work on one of the most exciting and quickly expanding teams at Scale. This team is responsible for generating, executing, and fostering Scale’s work with governments and government-backed entities outside of the United States. We develop bespoke solutions that leverage our customers’ proprietary data and expertise to transform their organizations with AI. We work with them to understand their pain points and workflows and then forward deploy our team to build cutting-edge solutions. The applications we build are powered by the Scale GenAI Platform, a full stack product to build, test and deploy frontier AI systems. Developing custom AI applications Building custom LLMs Providing high-quality training data for research and government institutions building LLMs Developing partnerships to foster regional talent growth and AI adoption We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product leader to play a pivotal role in the ideation and development of transformative AI solutions. The ideal candidate has deep experience with AI/ML application development, can think strategically about how to solve a problem, is an excellent listener, is comfortable getting into the weeds operationally, and has a strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices. You will be responsible for owning large AI projects for one or many customers. You will lead a cross-functional team of engineers, MLEs, and operators to build a highly impactful solution for our customers that will drive millions in revenue for our business as well. Responsibilities: Lead design workshops with the client to define custom AI solutions Scope out new AI application use cases across various government entities Lead cross-functional development of AI applications and custom LLMs with diverse stakeholders (Engineering + Ops + Go-to-Market) Consistently engage with future end-us

About DevRev At DevRev, we're building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Unlike traditional tools, Computer unifies all your data sources, tools, and workflows into a single AI-ready platform, giving employees real-time insights, proactive suggestions, and powerful agentic actions. It extends your existing software with AI-native apps and agents that work alongside your teams and customers – updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and eliminating repetitive work. We call this Team Intelligence: human-AI collaboration that breaks down silos, brings people back together, and frees you to solve bigger problems. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield with $150M+ raised, DevRev is trusted by global companies across industries. About the role As the EMEA Lead – Sales Engineering, you'll lead and grow DevRev's Sales Engineering team across EMEA. It's a hands-on leadership role, you'll directly manage a distributed team of SEs across multiple markets and time zones, while personally partnering with Sales leadership on the region's most strategic opportunities. You'll set the bar for a high-quality technical experience across the customer journey — blending technical depth with storytelling across demos, evaluations, and proposals, in close collaboration with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. What you'll do Hire, coach, and grow a distributed team of Sales Engineers across multiple EMEA markets — owning recruiting, ramping, goal-setting, reviews, and career development. Manage team capacity and coverage — allocating SE resources across deals, markets, and time zones, and representing SE in regional Sales leadership and forecasting. Own SE strategy and execution across EMEA, partnering with Sales leadership on pipeline growth and revenue targets. Act as the senior technical leader on strategic, complex enterprise deals — from discovery through demos, PoCs, and proposals. Enable partners, resellers, and sales teams through workshops,

About DevRev At DevRev, we're building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Unlike traditional tools, Computer unifies all your data sources, tools, and workflows into a single AI-ready platform, giving employees real-time insights, proactive suggestions, and powerful agentic actions. It extends your existing software with AI-native apps and agents that work alongside your teams and customers – updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and eliminating repetitive work. We call this Team Intelligence: human-AI collaboration that breaks down silos, brings people back together, and frees you to solve bigger problems. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield with $150M+ raised, DevRev is trusted by global companies across industries. Role Overview The Partner Solutions Engineer (PSE) at DevRev is a customer-obsessed technical professional who plays a key role in driving partner-led growth and adoption. You will serve as the technical bridge between DevRev and our ecosystem of resellers, OEMs, system integrators, and strategic alliances. In this role, you will lead pre-sales discovery, design custom solutions, enable technical teams at partner organizations, and act as a trusted advisor across the full partner lifecycle. You’ll collaborate closely with DevRev’s Sales, Product, and GTM teams, empowering partners to independently position, implement, and scale DevRev solutions. Key Responsibilities Partner Enablement & Technical Leadership Articulate the features, benefits, and business value of the DevRev platform. Translate partner business models and objectives into DevRev-aligned solutions. Support partner solution discovery, architecture, and proposal creation during the sales cycle. Deliver technical enablement programs including: Tailored product and solution updates Hands-on bootcamps, SE shadowing, and technical workshops Joint solution and service co-creation Enable partners to deliver independent pre-sales motions and contribute to regional

About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence. Job Summary We are looking for an experienced System Level Test Engineer to join our Product Test and Diagnosis Department (PTD). In this role, you will lead the development and deployment of System Level Test (SLT) solutions for next-generation AI processors. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to the design and implementation of SLT hardware, software, automation, and characterization solutions that support silicon bring-up, yield learning, manufacturing readiness, and production deployment. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical depth in semiconductor test and validation, a passion for solving complex engineering challenges, and a strong focus on product quality and manufacturability. The Team The Product Test and Diagnostics team’s role is to detect and manage hardware defects that arise from the manufacture and use of our products. This covers chips, boards and finished systems and takes place both in the manufacturing sites and in the field. Responsibilities and Duties Lead development and deployment of SLT hardware and software solutions supporting silicon bring-up, charac

At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the Role Anyscale's need to detect and respond to security events across its production and corporate environments is growing as the company scales. We're looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to own detection engineering and to lead incident response when it counts, coordinating the response and driving it to resolution. This is a high-ownership role with real room to shape how detection and response works at Anyscale. You will own the detection pipeline, the response runbooks, and incident response, reporting to the Head of Security and partnering with engineering. This role is based in India. In your first year, success looks like strong detection coverage across our cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry, a working correlation and alerting pipeline, and incident response runbooks that have been exercised in practice. What You'll Do Own and build detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, and runtime telemetry. Own a centralized correlation and alerting capability that turns telemetry into actionable detections. Own incident response: runbooks, escalation paths, and coordination during an incident, across corporate and production environments. Drive detection of anomalous activity across the environments

About Anyscale: At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the role Anyscale is looking for an experienced and hands-on engineering leader to lead our Customer Engineering team. This is a critical leadership role within our Go-To-Market organization, responsible for delivering exceptional technical support while helping ensure customer experiences directly influence the evolution of our platform. You will lead a highly technical team responsible for supporting customers running production AI workloads on Anyscale. Your team will resolve complex technical issues, manage customer escalations, and partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure customer feedback is translated into meaningful product improvements. Success in this role requires balancing operational excellence with strong technical leadership. Beyond resolving individual customer issues, you will help the team identify recurring patterns, improve support workflows, expand customer self-service, and leverage automation, diagnostics, and engineering best practices to improve both the customer experience and the product over time. As opportunities arise, your team may also contribute tooling, documentation, automation, or occasional product fixes that help eliminate recurring sources of customer fri

At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the role: As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Anyscale, you will partner directly with our most strategic customers, including Spanish-speaking customers across Latin America and other regions, to ensure they achieve meaningful business outcomes with Ray and the Anyscale platform. Embedded within customer teams, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, aligning technical solutions with customer priorities, accelerating time-to-value, and driving adoption at scale. You’ll work across customer organizations — from technical leadership to individual contributors — to scope and deliver impactful solutions. By connecting insights from the field back to our product and engineering teams, you’ll help shape Anyscale’s roadmap and ensure we remain focused on solving our customers’ most critical challenges. In this role, you will: Work onsite with key customers to lead proof-of-value engagements, deployments, and enterprise adoption Translate business objectives into technical solutions that demonstrate clear ROI and strategic impact Build and deliver high-impact demos, reference architectures, and enablement programs tailored to customer needs Act as a trusted advisor across all levels of the organization, ensuring confidence in Anyscale and

Anyscale Platform Engineering Leader About Anyscale: At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the role: Anyscale is looking for an experienced Engineering leader to lead our Infrastructure, SRE and Enterprise Governance Engineering teams. Anyscale aims to provide the next generation of tools and infrastructure to make developing and running distributed AI applications in the cloud using Ray - the popular open source platform used by companies like Netflix, Uber, Instacart and others - seamless. In this position, you will guide the vision, technical direction of the team, and recruit, enable a high-performing engineering team that delivers critical values to developers and Anyscale customers by solving complex distributed systems challenges. You will oversee and drive the strategy and execution of components which includes cluster launcher, cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure/etc.), Kubernetes support, cluster autoscaling, control plane, data plane, reliability, billing stack, production database and related components. You will closely work with our customers and our field engineering team to solve their problems, understand their challenges and make sure they are successful. We'd love to hear from you if you have: Solid engineering management experience leading produ

About DevRev At DevRev, we're building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Unlike traditional tools, Computer unifies all your data sources, tools, and workflows into a single AI-ready platform, giving employees real-time insights, proactive suggestions, and powerful agentic actions. It extends your existing software with AI-native apps and agents that work alongside your teams and customers – updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and eliminating repetitive work. We call this Team Intelligence: human-AI collaboration that breaks down silos, brings people back together, and frees you to solve bigger problems. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield with $150M+ raised, DevRev is trusted by global companies across industries. About the role We are looking for a Quality Architect/Lead with hands-on experience building quality systems and has deep expertise in building and scaling test automation frameworks.The role requires an individual who applies systems thinking to solving complex problems. They should be able to understand the product from various perspectives and be able to effectively create testing programs that validate not just functionality but performance, reliability and user experience.DevRev is building a next generation AI native product that requires us to build novel test systems for the Agent AI platform. The role is mult-faceted and is going to continuously evolve with time. What you'll do Test Case Design and Documentation Actively use AI and intelligent agents to accelerate test generation, test maintenance, and coverage expansion. Leverage LLMs to convert requirements, user stories, and production incidents into high-quality automated test cases. Reduce reliance on manual test case creation by introducing AI-assisted automation workflows, with human review and ownership. Apply AI to optimize test selection, prioritization, and execution based on risk, code changes, and historical failures. Use AI to assist in identi

About DevRev At DevRev, we're building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Unlike traditional tools, Computer unifies all your data sources, tools, and workflows into a single AI-ready platform, giving employees real-time insights, proactive suggestions, and powerful agentic actions. It extends your existing software with AI-native apps and agents that work alongside your teams and customers – updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and eliminating repetitive work. We call this Team Intelligence: human-AI collaboration that breaks down silos, brings people back together, and frees you to solve bigger problems. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield with $150M+ raised, DevRev is trusted by global companies across industries. About the role The Customer Engineer sits inside our Customer Experience (CX) team and is a customer-facing engineer who resolves the platform customer bugs that need an actual code change and builds important customer-facing features. Our CX model pairs two roles — Customer Outcomes (relationship and account ownership) and Customer Engineer (code and incidents) — both powered by Computer, our AI engine that handles L1–L4 diagnosis instantly, 24/7. You are not a back-room ticket-closer. You are the subject-matter expert for a specific product area, lead the technical response when things break, and ship real fixes and features. Every fix you ship feeds back into Computer, so the next identical issue resolves automatically. Responsibilities Product-area specialist Own deep expertise in one area of the product (e.g. integrations, workflows, search/AI, platform). Be the go-to escalation point for issues in that area, across accounts. Keep Computer's knowledge sharp for your area — feed in fixes, edge cases, and known issues. Spot recurring problems and drive them to a permanent fix or product change, partnering with the core Engineering team that owns the area. Translate customer technical needs into clear product feedback fo

Join VTS as an Engineering Manager. As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major features in web and mobile. You’ll play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering a healthy and collaborative culture, guiding the team's execution and delivery, and mentoring engineers to grow their careers and capabilities. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. ** To thrive in this role, you have: Proven experience leading software teams using agile development methodologies. A strong technical background with a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications, services, and third-party integrations. Experience working on high-impact, business-critical domains, where reliability, performance, and operational stability are essential. Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop talent, strengthening the team's capabilities through effective coaching and mentorship. The ability to engage in strategic technical discussions, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals, especially in environments involving multiple systems and external partners. A sense of empathy for the customer and a relentless focus on shipping high-quality products. Excellent communication skills that empower you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others. A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool. What you'll do: Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team : Foster a healthy, collaborative, and diverse culture that reflects our company and engineering values. Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and hi

Identity has become a critical to an organizations security posture. This is true across their entire digital landscape include cloud, traditional on prem and emerging technologies like agentic ai. Britive is at the forefront of a modern approach to delivering identity security with the only modern privileged access management platform that provides unified Privileged Access Visibility, Dynamic Privilege Management and Secrets Governance across infrastructure, platforms & SaaS. Our patent-pending technology is deployed at companies of all sizes around the world, including Fortune 500 companies. We have repeatedly ranked among the hottest Cloud Security startups. Britive is founded by CyberSecurity industry veterans with a successful prior exit and is backed by top-tier VCs. About You Lead team(s) that operate in Kanban, Scrum or Scrumban model. Build positive and collaborative relationships globally with key stakeholders Monitor and oversee daily activities of the delivery teams, removing impediments and providing guidance as needed. Perform resource and workload allocations as required to achieve delivery timelines with quality. Reporting team productivity and output. Managing team dynamics and create an inclusive culture of innovation while working across product lines.. Your Impact Key Responsibilities: We are looking for a dynamic and experienced engineering leader with Agile exposure. You have prior experience delivering SaaS, PaaS, IaaS products / services. You come from a technical software development background and are able to effectively manage features and roadmap execution. You are an engineering leader but come from strong individual contributor background as a technical lead or architect. You are experienced at building highly available services in a cloud environment. You are proficient in programming (Java) , Microservices and cloud technologies. You have experience with production operations and good

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? Principal Engineers at Intercom have the opportunity to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives. You will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering What will I be doing? As an experienced engineer you will: Have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects. Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership to help guide resource allocation and prioritisation. Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all ou

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? Principal Engineers at Fin have the opportunity to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives. You will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering What will I be doing? As an experienced engineer you will: Have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects. Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to engineering leadership to help guide resource allocation and prioritisation. Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all our cus