About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript,
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or co
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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. Join Our Team GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team operates one of the largest Ceph environments in the world, delivering the object, block, and file storage platforms that power GoDaddy's hosting infrastructure, internal services, OpenStack environments, and next-generation AI/HPC workloads. If you're passionate about distributed systems, storage architecture, and solving failure scenarios at massive scale, this is an opportunity to work on infrastructure few engineers will experience in their careers. Ceph is a strategic platform at GoDaddy — not an ancillary service. Our global footprint includes 80+ production clusters, 20,000+ OSDs, 1,830 storage nodes, 300 PB of raw capacity, and 69 billion objects spanning five datacenters across three continents. The platform supports RBD, RGW (S3/Swift), and CephFS workloads through more than 1,550 pools, 574,000 placement groups, and 900+ MDS daemons, creating engineering challenges that demand deep expertise in storage architecture, data durability, performance optimization, automation, and observability. As a Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll serve as one of the principal technical leaders for GoDaddy's Ceph platform. You'll design the next generation of storage clusters, lead major platform upgrades, drive capacity and hardware strategy, and establish the standards that govern how the platform scales. You'll be the engineer the team turns to for the most complex s
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We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your Opportunity Are you looking for a high-impact finance role that offers true flexibility? We are seeking a Lead Revenue Accountant to join our team in a fully remote capacity . In this pivotal role, you won’t just be managing spreadsheets; you will be a key partner to our Revenue Accounting Senior Manager, helping to shape and build our revenue processes from the ground up. This is your chance to apply your technical mastery in a fast-paced, modern environment where your contributions directly influence our financial reporting and growth. If you thrive on autonomy and want to skip the commute to focus on meaningful work, this is the role for you. What You'll Do: Lead the Process: Take full ownership of the revenue-related month-end close, ensuring our financial reporting is accurate, timely, and transparent. Technical Consultation: Review customer contracts and non-standard terms to determine the correct revenue treatment, providing clear and concise accounting documentation. Financial Integrity: Prepare and reconcile essential revenue schedules, including deferred revenue and contract assets/liabilities, maintaining a high standard of precision. Process Innovation: Drive continuous improvement by streamlining our Order-to-Cash processes and supporting vital SOX audit controls. Strategic Collaboration: Act as a subject matter expert on special projects and ad-hoc requests, providing the revenue accounting insights needed for senior management to make informed decisio
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Location Details: USA Remote At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely. This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation. 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 GoDaddy's Identity Platform powers authentication, authorization, and core identity infrastructure, which sits at the heart of how millions of small businesses securely access, manage, and grow their online presence, across our products. We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this critical platform into its next chapter — driving company-wide adoption of OAuth/OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OpenFGA, strengthening the reliability and security of core identity services, and crafting customer experiences that are flawless, scalable, and trusted. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and the execution rhythm for a 50+ person engineering organization. This organization spans the US and India. You will lead through multiple Senior Managers while staying close to the technology. This is a hands-on leadership role — we expect you to code, prototype, run technical experiments, and to lead by example in using AI-assisted development tools. What you’ll get to do Own and set the engin
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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 the Senior Director, People Business Partners, you'll serve as a strategic business partner to multiple C-level executives. You will lead a team of experienced global PBPs who support executive leadership. You'll report to the VP, People Business Partners and translate business priorities into talent strategies that help GitLab scale a high-performing, values-driven technical organization in a fully remote environment. You'll drive organizational transformation and change management, including designing organization structures, building leadership capability, and embedding scalable people practices.&nb
Location Details: United States, Remote At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely. This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. Join our team We are seeking a strategic and transformational leader to oversee GoDaddy's Commerce Support organization. This leader will define and execute the strategy for merchant activation, adoption, retention, and support while leading AI-enabled transformation that drives scalable growth across GoDaddy's Commerce business. The Director will lead teams supporting merchants across onboarding, activation, payment processing, product adoption and attach , issue resolution, and ongoing success. Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Risk, and Go-to-Market teams, this role will shape the future of merchant experiences through AI, automation, data-driven decision making, and operational innovation. What you'll get to do... Define & Drive Business Strategy Develop and drive the strategic roadmap for merchant activation, adoption, retention, and growth Establish organizational priorities aligned to business outcomes and customer success Partner with senior leaders across Commerce, Care, Sales, GTM, Risk, Product, and Engineering to influence strategy and execution Evaluate market trends, customer needs, and emerging opportunities to shape future capabilities Determine areas of opportunity and strategy to further growth with merchants across the GoDaddy portfolio (e.g., AAB, email ) , beyond the Commerce suite of products/services Drive AI & Support Transformation Establis
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The MongoDB Communications team is looking for a strategic and versatile communications professional to serve as our Product Communications Manager. This role is the connective tissue for product storytelling at MongoDB — surfacing the narratives, wins, and momentum happening across the business and turning them into external stories that build credibility with builders, customers, and the media. Reporting to the Product Communications Lead, you'll work in close partnership with Product Marketing and act as a conduit for cross-functional product storytelling, pulling threads from teams across the business — including Partner Marketing, Customer Marketing, Strategic Events, and Builder Relations — into a cohesive narrative. This is a hands-on role spanning story mining, executive thought leadership, and media relations, with scope across MongoDB's full product portfolio. This role is based in the U.S., with hybrid or remote options available. Occasional travel will be required. Position Expectations Own story mining across the business: proactively surface product narratives — customer wins, feature milestones, roadmap moments, and engineering deep-dives — worth pitching to media and other external audiences Build and execute an executive thought leadership program for product leaders, securing bylines, speaking opportunities, and other platforms that position MongoDB's product vision and technical point of view Manage day-to-day media relations for product-related stories: cultivate reporter relationships, lead briefings, respond to inbound press inquiries, and pitch proactively Serve as the connective tissue between Comms and Product Marketing, translating product roadmaps and positioning into external-facing narratives Partner cross-functionally with Partner Marketing, Customer Marketing, Strategic Events, and Builder Relations to identify and integrate storytelling opportunities across the business Rethink the PR playbook for the AI era: know how to win with buil
From $182K/yr
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 GoDaddy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help define and scale our Internal Developer Platform —a centralized system that powers how engineers across the company build, deploy, and operate software. This platform is used by 1,000+ engineers to manage everything from cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle to security, compliance, and cost transparency. In this role, you’ll operate as a technical leader at platform scale, shaping the architecture and direction of systems that directly impact engineering velocity across the company. You’ll work on high-impact initiatives such as AI-powered developer tooling, next-generation API platforms, and the evolution of a unified developer experience spanning APIs, CLI, and UI. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role where Staff Engineers drive decisions, influence product direction, and partner across infrastructure, security, and platform teams. If you’re motivated by building systems that improve how other engineers work—and want to have a measurable impact on developer productivity at scale—this team sits at the center of GoDaddy’s engineering ecosystem. What You’ll Get to Do... Design and build platform services that power GoDaddy’s internal developer ecosystem, used by 1,000+ engineers. Lead architecture and technical direction for high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration,
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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... We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Security Engineer to join our advanced Security Operations team. This role is focused on leading complex incident response and forensic investigations across Windows, macOS, Linux, and AWS environments while helping modernize security operations through automation and AI-driven capabilities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on security expert with deep AWS security expertise, strong threat detection and digital forensic skills, and experience leveraging AI and machine learning technologies to improve detection, response, and operational efficiency. You will play a key role in protecting critical assets, conducting high-impact investigations, mentoring team members, and driving the evolution of our security program against sophisticated and emerging threats. What You'll Get to Do... Lead high-priority incident response and forensic investigations, serving as the primary escalation point for advanced analysis, containment, recovery, root cause determination, and executive-level reporting. Drive threat detection and response across AWS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and endpoint security platforms, leveraging services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, Detective, CloudTrail, IAM, VPC Flow Logs, and SentinelOne. Conduct malware analysis, host and cloud forensics, evidence collection, and threat hunting activi
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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. As Senior Technical Program Manager for the Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Operations , you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Roblox's AI data labeling and model evaluation ecosystem. This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role at the intersection of Research, Engineering, and Operations. You will scale our data operations that is handling million of items evaluated annually today with projection of 4x the current volume by 2030, managing a multi-million annual budget and a distributed workforce of 100+ remote contractors — all while driving the platform evolution from manual workflows to AI-assisted, LLM-accelerated operations. This is a rare opportunity to build the data infrastructure that directly determines the quality of Roblox's AI models across creator tools, content discovery, in-experience AI, and 3D generative content — at the exact moment when human judgment is the critical ingredient for getting these models right. You Will Lead data programs end-to-end. Own the full lifecycle of labeling and model evaluation workflows across Roblox's AI teams — from translating ambiguous ML requirements into structured annotation tasks, to overseeing contractor execution, quality review, a
$4.2M – $5M/yr
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are looking for a Key Account Director to lead growth within a set of Postman’s most important enterprise accounts. This role is part of a new strategic go-to-market motion designed to deepen our engagement with large enterprises, expand our footprint, and deliver the full value of the Postman platform. You will be paired with a pod that includes a Principal Solutions Engineer and a Field CTO, forming a high-caliber account team focused on building long-term, value-based relationships. Together, you’ll engage senior technology leaders, uncover complex challenges, and drive adoption of Postman’s enterprise and platform solutions at scale. This is not a traditional “low-hanging fruit” sales role—this is about strategic account expansion, multi-threaded enterprise engagement, and solution selling. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts (e.g., Fortune 500, cloud-first companies, large-scale developer organizations). Deeply engage with senior buyers—CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Platform, Security, and Collaboration—to position Postman as
$4.2M – $5M/yr
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are looking for a Key Account Director to lead growth within a set of Postman’s most important enterprise accounts. This role is part of a new strategic go-to-market motion designed to deepen our engagement with large enterprises, expand our footprint, and deliver the full value of the Postman platform. You will be paired with a pod that includes a Principal Solutions Engineer and a Field CTO, forming a high-caliber account team focused on building long-term, value-based relationships. Together, you’ll engage senior technology leaders, uncover complex challenges, and drive adoption of Postman’s enterprise and platform solutions at scale. This is not a traditional “low-hanging fruit” sales role—this is about strategic account expansion, multi-threaded enterprise engagement, and solution selling. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts (e.g., Fortune 500, cloud-first companies, large-scale developer organizations). Deeply engage with senior buyers—CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Platform, Security, and Collaboration—to position Postman as
$4.4M – $5M/yr
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are looking for a Key Account Director to lead growth within a set of Postman’s most important enterprise accounts. This role is part of a new strategic go-to-market motion designed to deepen our engagement with large enterprises, expand our footprint, and deliver the full value of the Postman platform. You will be paired with a pod that includes a Principal Solutions Engineer and a Field CTO, forming a high-caliber account team focused on building long-term, value-based relationships. Together, you’ll engage senior technology leaders, uncover complex challenges, and drive adoption of Postman’s enterprise and platform solutions at scale. This is not a traditional “low-hanging fruit” sales role—this is about strategic account expansion, multi-threaded enterprise engagement, and solution selling. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts (e.g., Fortune 500, cloud-first companies, large-scale developer organizations). Deeply engage with senior buyers—CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Platform, Security, and Collaboration—to position Postman as
$3.8M – $5M/yr
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are looking for a Key Account Director to lead growth within a set of Postman’s most important enterprise accounts. This role is part of a new strategic go-to-market motion designed to deepen our engagement with large enterprises, expand our footprint, and deliver the full value of the Postman platform. You will be paired with a pod that includes a Principal Solutions Engineer and a Field CTO, forming a high-caliber account team focused on building long-term, value-based relationships. Together, you’ll engage senior technology leaders, uncover complex challenges, and drive adoption of Postman’s enterprise and platform solutions at scale. This is not a traditional “low-hanging fruit” sales role—this is about strategic account expansion, multi-threaded enterprise engagement, and solution selling. Location: This fully remote role based in Atlanta, GA. What You’ll Do Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts (e.g., Fortune 500, cloud-first companies, large-scale developer organizations). Deeply engage with senior buyers—CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Platform, Security, and Collaboration—to pos
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