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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. Manager, Software Development Are you an elite technical leader who thrives as a hands-on contributor while simultaneously coaching, mentoring, and scaling a high-performance software engineering team? At Appian, engineering managers don’t just oversee. They build, shape, and grow the people and technology that power AI automation for the world’s largest enterprises and governments. Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: On-site (5 days/week) About the Team Our Engineering team is revolutionizing how Appian resolves customer issues by building AI-powered diagnostic tools and internal platforms that dramatically reduce resolution time. We combine deep technical expertise with AI innovation to empower support engineers to identify root causes faster, ensuring our customers experience uninterrupted business-critical operations. This team operates with high autonomy and directly impacts customer satisfaction and retention across Appian's enterprise client base The Opportunity Appian is at an inflection point where intelligent automation meets customer success, and we need a technical leader who can architect and ship the next generation of diagnostic platforms. This role exists because our growing enterprise customer base demands faster, smarter issue resolution, and AI agents are the key to unlocking that scale. You will shape both the technical direction and the team culture while delivering tools that become essential to how Appian supports thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of a scalable

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Frontier Security AI team. Snowflake's Frontier Security AI teams develop production-grade LLM applications, intelligent agents, AI infrastructure, and evaluation systems for enterprise customers — products that must meet a high bar for quality, security, reliability, and efficiency while operating over sensitive data at large scale. In this role, you will lead the design and development of our Agentic Harness and agent evaluation platform, working across product, infrastructure, applied AI, security, and modeling teams to take new capabilities from prototype to dependable customer value. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Architect and build the Agentic Harness that executes complex, multi-step AI workflows across models, tools, data, and services. Design stable interfaces for tool execution, context construction, state management, memory, permissions, retries, fallbacks, and human review. Own agent quality end to end by building evaluation harnesses, representative datasets, automated graders, experiment pipelines, and release gates. Convert ambiguous reports such as "the agent feels worse" into measurable failure modes, reproducible tests, and durable fixes. Analyze production agent trajectories to identif

About Appier Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.appier.com. About Ad Cloud Serving Services Team At Appier's Ad Cloud Team Serving Services Team, we build and maintain the critical systems that power the core of Appier's advertising technology. These systems handle massive, high-concurrency, real-time requests, and ensure the stability, low latency, and high performance of our ad delivery. Our SRE professionals are crucial in guaranteeing these services remain reliable under extreme loads, continuously enhancing product availability and performance through innovation and automation . Responsibilities Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance, and reliable backend services for real-time ad recommendation, data serving, and core ad tech infrastructure. Drive technical roadmap and ownership for sizable projects, ensuring the delivery of robust and efficient solutions within the Ad Cloud ecosystem. Optimize critical system components for latency, throughput, and resource utilization, including database interactions (e.g., MongoDB sharding, ClickHouse optimizations) and network architecture. Enhance system observability, incident management, and operational excellence by implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus), and refining production SOPs. Collaborate closely with product managers and scientists to translate business requirements into technical designs and ensure seamless integr

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure group builds the systems every Coinbase engineer relies on to write, validate, ship, and run code. We own the path from commit to production, including CI and build infrastructure, deployment platforms, and test systems that give engineers fast, trustworthy feedback. We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across several teams in the group, and you’ll be matched to the team that best fits your strengths and interests. Wherever you land, you’ll build and operate foundational platform services used across Coinbase engineering, where improvements in build speed, deploy safety, and test reliability scale across thousands of engineers. This is high-leverage systems work with a high bar for reliability and security. What you’ll do Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure. Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality. Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations. Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements. Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production. Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction

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. The Challenge As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the AI Governance Engineering team, you will play a critical role in shaping and building OneTrust's next-generation AI Governance platform. You will help transform complex AI governance, compliance, safety, and agent runtime governance requirements into scalable platform capabilities that enable organizations to confidently build, deploy, and operate AI systems. As a senior technical leader, you will influence architecture, engineering direction, and execution across multiple teams, helping translate product vision into durable, high-quality solutions with meaningful customer impact. Your Mission Serve as a deep technical expert across the AI Governance platform, capable of contributing to and troubleshooting any major component of the system. Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and platform evolution based on a strong understanding of AI Governance, distributed systems, and enterprise-scale software. Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders to translate long-term vision into actionable technical roadmaps. Lead the design and deliver

Location Details: 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. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC. Join Our Team... At GoDaddy, we're building the next generation of AI and machine learning capabilities that power experiences for millions of entrepreneurs worldwide. Our Machine Learning Engineering team bridges the gap between research and production, transforming cutting-edge models into scalable, reliable, and observable services that operate at global scale. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and evolution of the infrastructure, platforms, and services that enable machine learning models to run in production. This is a highly technical, hands-on role where you'll work closely with ML Scientists, Data Engineers, and Product teams to deliver robust ML-powered solutions while helping shape the future of our machine learning platform. As a senior technical leader, you'll influence architecture, drive engineering excellence, and mentor engineers across a globally distributed team. What you'll get to do... Experience deploying and operating machine learning or generative AI workloads using technologies such as vLLM, Triton, TorchServe, SageMaker Endpoints, or similar serving frameworks. Familiarity with modern observability practices and tools including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch. Experience with vector databases, feature stores, caching technologies (Valkey/Redis), and infrastructure-as-code solutions

About the Team The mission of the Applied AI Engineering team is to enable the secure and impactful implementation of GenAI solutions. We serve as technical thought partners and trusted advisors to our clients, ideating high-value use cases and providing the hands-on guidance necessary to drive projects into production. In this role within the Government team, you will empower agencies to evolve their operations through automated content synthesis, advanced search capabilities, and bespoke applications leveraging our latest foundational technologies and models. About the Role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will pair with government agencies (federal, state, and local), policymakers, and other public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Global Affairs, Applied Research, and Product teams. This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with our most sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI foundational technologies like Codex. Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap. Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strate

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. Job Description: ABOUT THE TEAM Our Engineering team is revolutionizing how Appian resolves customer issues by building AI-powered diagnostic tools and internal platforms that dramatically reduce resolution time. We combine deep technical expertise with AI innovation to empower support engineers to identify root causes faster, ensuring our customers experience uninterrupted business-critical operations. This team operates with high autonomy and directly impacts customer satisfaction and retention across Appian's enterprise client base. THE OPPORTUNITY Appian is at an inflection point where intelligent automation meets customer success, and we need a technical leader who can architect and ship the next generation of diagnostic platforms. This role exists because our growing enterprise customer base demands faster, smarter issue resolution, and AI agents are the key to unlocking that scale. You will shape both the technical direction and the team culture while delivering tools that become essential to how Appian supports thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the design and delivery of a scalable AI-powered triage platform that reduces mean time to resolution by leveraging AI agents, LangChain frameworks, and intelligent diagnostics Lead the engineering team building AI-powered diagnostic tools that cut customer issue resolution time in half while scaling a platform that empowers support engineers across the globe. Architect quarterly releases of diagnostic tools on AWS infrastructure, balancing innovation velocity with pro

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Exchange team, you'll set the architectural direction for the matching engine, order management, market data, and unified trading systems that clear billions of dollars in daily volume. You'll operate as the most senior technical voice across multiple teams, making the calls on latency, correctness, and resilience that everything else depends on. It's a rare chance to shape a trading platform from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. What you'll do: Own the technical strategy and architecture for a core Exchange domain, driving multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguity through incremental milestones to delivery. Lead the design of ultra-low-latency, event-sourced trading systems spanning matching, risk, and market data across cloud and colocated environments. Drive cross-team technical alignment across Exchange, Prime, and Derivatives, securing commitment from senior engineering and product leadership. Set and inspect the quality bar across teams - deterministic testing, failover design, incident leadership, and operational standards for 24/7 markets. Maintain si

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Sharing team, you will build the foundation that powers how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox Moments. You will work across the stack to deliver high-performance experiences, from client-side user flows to the backend systems that serve billions of contents each day. You will partner closely with product and other engineering teams to define architecture, improve reliability, and drive measurable impact on engagement and content growth. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on building scalable, developer facing and user-facing products that blend technical depth with creative impact. You Will: Design and build engaging, high-performance content creation/sharing and consumption experiences across Roblox Moments Own projects end to end, from design and architecture to launch and iteration, driving measurable impact on user engagement and content quality. Collaborate with engineers across product, safety, and infrastructure teams to define best practices and align on scalable solutions. Identify gaps in performance, testing, and experimentation workflows, and lead improvements that make the team mo

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . Coinbase is building the future of regulated derivatives as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange, and Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) is our CFTC-regulated Futures Commission Merchant - the entity that lets retail and institutional clients trade and clear US futures and options. As a Staff Software Engineer on the FCM team, you'll be a hands-on technical anchor across the entire FCM lifecycle: market data, order entry and routing, settlement and money movement, back office reporting, and our in-house risk and liquidation system. You'll help lead a major replatforming onto next-gen architecture and reduce legacy vendor dependencies, a rare chance to re-architect a regulated trading platform from the inside, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. What you’ll do: Own design and architecture across the FCM core, from market data and order routing through settlement, reporting, and risk. Drive the next-gen replatforming and reduce legacy vendor dependencies while raising stability and reliability. Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most. Partner across pods (execution, risk, lifecycle) and cross-functionally with Product, CFM Risk and Ops, Finance, and Compliance to deliver correct, auditable systems and turn strategy into a roadmap. Mentor engineers acro

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: We are looking for a Network Security Engineer with deep Zscaler expertise and a well rounded background in cloud and enterprise networking. This role centers on the deployment, administration, and optimization of Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), while also supporting broader network security initiatives, including Cisco Meraki infrastructure and AWS cloud networking. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with strong security instincts, a problem solving mindset, and experience managing both on-prem and cloud-based networking environments. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Zscaler ZIA and ZPA across the enterprise. Manage Zscaler policies, including SSL inspection, URL filtering, access control, and zero trust configuration. Serve as the subject matter expert for Zscaler, owning integrations, troubleshooting, and escalations. Configure and support Cisco Meraki networking hardware, including firewalls, switches, and wireless infrastructure. Architect and manage AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, NACLs, Security Groups, and routing. Develop and implement network segmentation and secure access strategies using both cloud and on-prem tools. Create and maintain detailed network documentation, runbooks, and security standards. Automate and streamline network ma

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Department overview: We are establishing and growing a new engineering team in Dublin that contributes to the client technologies powering PlayStation experiences used by millions of players worldwide. Our team develops SDKs, middleware, and platform technologies that enable scalable and reliable experiences across the PlayStation ecosystem. While our primary focus today is SDK and platform development, the team is expected to evolve alongside business and product needs, creating opportunities to work across multiple technical domains. As an early member of the team, you will help shape the technologies we build, the engineering practices we follow, and the future direction of a growing organization while collaborating closely with teams in Tokyo and across the globe. What you’ll be doing: Design, develop, test, and maintain client-side SDKs, middleware, and system software primarily using C/C++ Lead technical design discussions and drive architecture decisions for SDK and platform capabilities Design clean, scalable, and maintainable APIs that simplify integration and improve developer experience Analyze product requirements and translate them into robust technical designs and implementation plans Own complex features from design through delivery, ensuring qualit

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Work Lead system-level requirements definition, architecture design, integration strategy, and validation in one of the platform areas — autonomy sensors, AV compute, motion control, pose/localization, or end-to-end latency. Characterize and quantify system performance for that area: define nominal targets, minimum performance, and acceptance criteria across all ODDs, and defend those numbers with data rather than convention. Recommend operating constraints for current and future ODDs on different vehicle platforms — for example trajectory constraints for a given virtual driver, or sensor performance envelopes. Define and quantify test coverage for your area, including the realism and relevance of proposed tests across simulation, SIL/HIL, closed course, and on-road. Partner with software teams to define interfaces, performance metrics, failure modes, and validation strategies; validate platform modules against ground truth whe

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The BizTech team at Airbnb is crucial to the company's operations, handling critical data related to compliance with Tax, Payments, and Legal regulations. We also manage application data for tools such as CRM, Jira, and Workday, which are essential for Airbnb’s business. Joining this team means working with cross-functional stakeholders, designing scalable solutions, and contributing to a world-class data engineering environment with an emphasis on quality, scalability, and robust engineering practices. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a hands-on expert to provide technical leadership in addressing BizTech’s diverse data engineering needs and driving long-term strategies and best practices. This key leadership role requires strong collaboration and influence across teams. You'll play a crucial role in understanding business needs, identifying the right data sources, designing efficient data models, and building reliable, scalable data pipelines. As technology continues to evolve, you'll help shape and maintain significant parts of BizTech’s critical data ecosystem. Your contributions will not only address complex business challenges but also help refine and advance Airbnb’s Data Engineering Paved Path, benefiting the entire data community at Airbnb. We believe in solving problems and contributing back to our data community to continuously improve. A Typical Day /Responsibilities: Lead the design, implementation, and testing of data systems, from architecture to production. Build batch and real-time data systems that support business needs and critical products. Ensur