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 At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. Database Observability is a critical pillar of New Relic's platform strategy. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (M3) to lead a senior, high-performing team building next-generation Database Observability products. Your team will own the entire lifecycle of critical telemetry data flows from lightweight database agents and high-throughput ingestion pipelines to intelligent DB recommendation engines and autonomous DB AI Agents. You will lead a team that includes senior and Lead-level engineers with deep domain expertise in distributed systems and AI. Your primary value will come from setting strategic technical direction, enabling their best work, and fostering a high-accountability culture while partnering closely with Product and Design to deliver features that directly drive New Relic's Database Observability. What you'll do Manage a full-stack engineering team (6–8 engineers) spanning backend systems, database telemetry, agent engineering, and UI workflows. Own end-to-end delivery sprint planning, roadmap execution, system quality, and operational excellence for critical database ingesti
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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. Senior Backend Engineer - Database Change Management An overview of this role As a Senior Backend Engineer, Database Upgrades, you'll help replace GitLab's sequential database migration system with a dependency graph model that makes upgrades faster and safer for GitLab.com and self-managed customers. You'll lead the design and delivery of a migration validation and test framework, including versioned fixture data across about 1,000 tables, a continuous integration (CI)-integrated test runner, and required correctness checks. You'll also serve as the senior technical anchor for our India-based engineering group, using clear writt
DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos. About the job DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides an in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos. In this role, you will Build core capabilities for our SaaS Platform across multiple clouds Drive development of functional enhancements for Data Discovery, Observability & Governance for both OSS and SaaS offering Lead efforts around non functional aspects like performance, scalability, reliability Lead and mentor junior engineers Work closely with PM, Customers and OSS community Requirements Over 8+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems, preferably in cloud-first or SaaS environments. Solve complex tech
Location: Mumbai, India (Andheri East) Description: We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to lead the design and delivery of robust, scalable, and production-grade data systems across a high-growth, multi-venture environment. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives in hands-on build mode, and who can scale technical delivery without losing speed, quality, or ownership. If this is interesting, we would love to hear from you! About Blenheim Chalcot Blenheim Chalcot India is part of Blenheim Chalcot a global venture builder headquartered in London. With over 26 years of innovation, we've been at the forefront of creating some of the most groundbreaking GenAI-enabled companies. Our ventures lead the charge in digital disruption across a spectrum of industries, from FinTech to EdTech, GovTech to Media, and beyond. Our global presence spans the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with a portfolio that employs over 3,000 individuals, manages assets exceeding £1.8 billion, and boasts total portfolio sales of over £500 million. The role We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to build scalable products, tools, and systems across our portfolio companies. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in hands-on engineering, writes maintainable code, and is deeply motivated by solving real-world problems with technology. You’ll work closely with product and engineering colleagues in both Mumbai and London, driving delivery within a specific business. If you're passionate about engineering craft, product-led development, and delivering systems that scale, we’d love to hear from you. Behaviours that we look for Solve problems rigorously , not reactively - breaking them down into tractable elements and considering multiple paths to resolution. Write clean, defensive code with clear structure and minimal complexity. Think about testing and observability early , automating meaningful tests and implementing relevant metri
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. Location- Chennai Team: Engineering Enablement Group As a Senior Software Engineer in our Engineering Enablement Group, you will lead the re-design and evolution of our Mobile Branding framework — the system that enables customers to create custom-branded versions of the Appian mobile application for both iOS and Android. You will drive the architectural modernization of the end-to-end branding pipeline, from the customer-facing Forum application and provisioning tools to the backend build service running on Mac EC2 runners in AWS. By leveraging modern microservices, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native infrastructure, you will transform the current system into a more reliable, scalable, and maintainable platform that reduces manual intervention and accelerates customer delivery. We are looking for a technical leader who can bridge the gap between complex Ruby/Bash-based tooling, Appian process models, and AWS infrastructure to deliver a seamless mobile branding experience. Primary Qualifications: 6-9 Strong working experience with Android and iOS frameworks and mobile application development workflows. Familiarity with mobile build systems (Fastlane, Xcode, Gradle) and code-signing workflows. Experience with proficiency in Python, with experience in Ruby, Bash, or Go being a plus. Advanced experience with AWS infrastructure (S3, Lambda, EC2) and CI/CD pipeline design. Strong end-to-end knowledge of pipeline creation, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and performanc
Role Overview Build reliable software services that power products, platforms, and business decisions. As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll design and deliver scalable applications, backend services, and integrations that perform well in production and evolve with changing business needs. You’ll apply strong software engineering practices across APIs, data-intensive applications, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and deployment pipelines. You’ll help shape technical solutions, improve system reliability, and contribute to a high-quality engineering culture. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Design and develop scalable backend services and applications using Python or TypeScript. Lead the development of APIs, integrations, reusable software components, and AI-enabled features. Build reliable solutions for data ingestion, manipulation, service-to-service communication, and intelligent automation. Apply AI technologies and modern software engineering practices to improve product capabilities, developer productivity, and operational efficiency. Make sound technical decisions around architecture, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability. Deploy and operate applications using AWS services and CI/CD practices while improving testing, monitoring, documentation, and delivery standards. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview 5+ years of professional experience developing and delivering production software. Strong hands-on experience with Python; TypeScript or similar languages is also valuable. Proven experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and service-oriented applications. Experience applying AI technologies, such as generative AI, machine learning services, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled application features. Strong understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and secure development. Experience working with cloud platfor
OUR MISSION At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes. ABOUT US Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. Redwood’s global team of automation experts and customer success engineers provide solutions and world-class support designed to give you the freedom and time to imagine and define your future. Get out of the weeds and see the forest, with Redwood Software. CORE VALUES One Team. One Redwood Make Your Own Weather Obsess over Customer Success Work the Problem Be Curious Own the Outcome Respect Each Other YOUR IMPACT We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global engineering organization and help lead the design, development, and enhancement of our solutions and products. As part of our engineering team, you’ll build high quality, scalable and secure software that powers critical file exchange capabilities for over 5000 global enterprise customers. This role is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, takes ownership of complex systems, and enjoys working across the full stack—from APIs to UI to cloud integration. Design and develop robust, high-performance, highly secure file transfer products and solutions in Modern C++ (version 11 and later) and Java Build and maintain RESTful integrations using JSON and XML Contribute to and enhance web-based UIs using JavaScript, JQuery, and related frameworks. Implement and optimize support for file transfer protocols (SFTP, FTPS, HTTP/S, FTP/S)&
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. Senior Software Engineer Grow your engineering career building software that matters by powering AI automation for the world’s largest enterprises. Location: Chennai, | Work Model: On-site (5 days/week) About the Team Appian Engineering spans the full depth of our platform: from the foundational layers that power enterprise scale, to the AI capabilities redefining what automation can do. We operate in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment focused on technical precision, continuous learning, and high code quality. By joining our team, you will solve real-world problems that directly shape how Appian delivers our AI-Powered Process Automation platform to enterprises around the world. The Opportunity As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take meaningful ownership of the software you build. You will bring deep technical expertise to a highly skilled team solving real problems at enterprise scale. As an experienced engineer, you’ll be equipped with cutting-edge AI tooling to design and deliver features of real sophistication, shape team-level engineering practices, and deepen your expertise while ensuring flawless Enterprise-Grade Orchestration . What You’ll Do Develop Clean Software: Architect, build, and optimize core platform features while maintaining a strong personal technical presence on the team. Engineer with AI: Use AI coding tools fluently as a force multiplier: generating, reviewing, and critically evaluating AI-assisted code to ship faster without compromising quality or correctness. Lead Architecture & Delivery: Drive technical sto
Role: Senior Software Engineer Location: Hyderabad, India (Hybrid) Department: Product Development About GHX: GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange) is a leading healthcare technology company on a mission to simplify the business of healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Founded in 2000, GHX has built the GHX Global Network — the world’s largest cloud-based supply chain community connecting healthcare providers, suppliers, distributors, and partners to automate key processes, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency. Its solutions span electronic trading, procurement automation, inventory and contract management, business intelligence, and data synchronization, helping healthcare organizations improve productivity and focus more on patient care. Over the years, GHX has enabled significant cost savings for the industry and continues to innovate with intelligent automation and AI-driven capabilities. Website: https://www.ghx.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ghx/ About Role: GHX’s trading platform handles millions of documents to facilitate business transactions between healthcare providers, suppliers and trading partners. The Exchange Engineering team is seeking to hire a Seasoned Engineering lead to strengthen its Engineering team in Hyderabad. This role will design, develop and scale backend platform that supports millions of transactions. Candidate must be well-versed and comfortable working in multiple aspects of a multi-tiered architecture, including but not limited to cloud-based applications and CI/CD processes. He/She should be able to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills, be self-motivated, highly detail-oriented, able to context switch easily, work with vendor/offshore team(s), and be a strong team player. He/She will work with other engineers, managers, Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet company initiatives with respect to functionality, perfo
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Responsibilities: Design and develop control‑plane and system services for a firewall platform, operating above the networking dataplane (OSI Layer 3+). Build and maintain management interfaces and APIs , including configuration frameworks, CLI, secure access (SSH), logging, and diagnostics. Implement security services such as authentication (SAML), guest access, SSL/TLS handling, and certificate lifecycle management . Develop embedded services for content filtering , including URL categorization, reputation, and rating systems, along with SNMP/telemetry support. Lead efforts in licensing systems , vulnerability remediation, and secure architecture in collaboration with cross‑functional teams. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in C/C++ systems development for embedded platforms, security appliances, or network operating systems. Strong hands‑on expertise with configuration frameworks, service APIs, CLI development, logging systems, and secure remote access (SSH) . Solid understanding of L3–L7 networking and security concepts , including SSL/TLS, au
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . About the Role SonicWall is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep IPv6 expertise to lead the design, implementation, and hardening of IPv6 capabilities across the Sonicwall firewall firmware stack. As a Principal Engineer, you will be the technical authority for IPv6 feature parity, protocol correctness, and interoperability across SonicWall Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) platforms. This role is ideal for engineers with hands-on experience delivering IPv6 in high-performance router, switch, or carrier-grade networking products who are looking to apply that expertise in the embedded network security domain. Responsibilities Lead IPv6 Architecture & Feature Delivery — Own end-to-end design and implementation of IPv6 features across the Sonicwall frewall networking stack, including IPv6 routing, interface addressing, DHCPv6, NDP, MLDv2, and IPv6 Policy-Based Routing (PBR). Drive IPv6 Feature Parity — Identify and close gaps between IPv4 and IPv6 feature sets across subsystems — including VPN Tunnel Interfaces, IPsec/IKEv2, SSL-VPN, Syslog, SNMP, and NAT64 — ensuring consistent dual-stack and
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. At Okta, we are building the future of secure, enterprise-grade cloud automation and system connectivity. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global Automation Engineering team to design, scale, and govern our enterprise integration substrate using AWS cloud services and modern iPaaS platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on system engineer who can set technical standards, establish integration best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to automate complex business workflows at scale. What You'll do : Lead technical design and execution for automation initiatives within the team, creating paved paths that enable builders across Okta to connect enterprise systems seamlessly. Design, build, and deploy high-throughput event-driven integration flows , API gateways, and async orchestration workflows using AWS architectures and iPaaS platforms. Build reusable frameworks , developer SDKs, self-service primitives, and integration templates to streamline automation delivery. Serve as a technical domain expert on AWS cloud services and modern iPaaS tooling, driving scalable architecture, reliability, and builder enablement. Partner with operations, security, and platform teams to strengthen monitoring, observability, structured audit logging, and automated governance. Mentor team members and participate in cross-functional design reviews , instilling a platform engineering mindset and raising the b
Location Details: Remote, India 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... We are looking for an experienced engineer to join the Infrastructure Management and Automation team. In this role, you’ll help shape and build the tools, platforms, and automation that power and manage GoDaddy’s growing infrastructure footprint while leading the design of scalable solutions to complex operational challenges. Our infrastructure platform empowers GoDaddy engineers to help small business customers start, grow, and run their ventures. GoDaddy teams rely on our infrastructure solutions every day, whether for development workflows or hosting production workloads at global scale. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, designing scalable systems, influencing technical direction, and improving how infrastructure is managed and automated, we’d love to hear from you! What you'll get to do... Lead the design and evolution of GoDaddy’s next generation of infrastructure management platforms and automation systems, taking ownership of complex technical areas from design through delivery and operation Leverage modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development workflows to rapidly design, build, and deliver scalable internal tooling and automation Design and build reliable services and integrations across infrastructure platforms and operational systems, including provisioning, networking, IPAM, DNS, CMDB, and asset management workflows Partner with engineering and operations teams to identify opportunities, shape technical solutions, and improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, utilization, and opera
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are seeking an experienced and technically influential Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Cloud Tooling and Pipelines team. This pivotal team is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our core Continuous Delivery (CD) platform (leveraging Spinnaker and custom tooling), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) execution engines (primarily Terraform), and a suite of supporting microservices. These systems are critical for enabling and managing our extensive resource footprint across AWS ECS and EKS. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be a key contributor, driving the implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions that automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments. Your deep expertise in software engineering principles and cloud-native development will be essential in building and enhancing our critical tooling for infrastructure provisioning, vulnerability management, and IaC deployments. You will also play a vital role in mentoring other engineers and influencing the team's technical roadmap. If you have a strong passion for building robust software systems that empower operational efficiency at scale, we encourage you to apply. Key Responsibilities Design and Develop Core Platform Components: Lead the design and development of scalable and reliable microservices and tools that form the backbone of Okta's Continuous Delivery (CD) platform (including components for Spinna
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 As a Senior Software Engineer within the Container Fabric (CF) organization, you will be a key driver in evolving New Relic’s global internal platform. We are looking for an operations-heavy engineer with 5–8 years of relevant experience who can leverage open-source and custom tooling to orchestrate and maintain large-scale Kubernetes environments. You will play a "Captain" role—leading critical deliverables and mentoring junior engineers while maintaining the reliability of our global fleet. What You'll Do Architectural Leadership: Drive the design and implementation of internal tools, specifically focusing on Kubernetes Operators and Controllers to automate resource management. Platform Orchestration: Lead complex, large-scale infrastructure shifts. Operational Excellence: Take ownership of incident response, author comprehensive retrospectives, and implement systemic hardening to prevent recurrence using advanced overcommit strategies. This Role Requires Experience: 5–8 years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role. Kubernetes Mastery: Deep internals knowledge of Kubernetes and hands-on experience writing custom operators. Tooling Proficiency: Strong experience building production-grade tools and services, specifically for infrastructure automation. Operations-Heavy Mindset: A proven track record of Day 1/Day 2 operations for a large-scale Kubernetes fleet, handling high-severity incidents, and improving SLA compliance through auto
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