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About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. About the Role We are hiring a Product Manager to focus on risk related to multimodal models. In this role, you will drive initiatives which ensure that OpenAI’s audio, image, and video deployments are safe, impactful, and aligned with user needs and technical innovation. You will clarify strategic priorities, develop safety-focused product roadmaps, and collaborate closely with AI researchers, software engineers, policy experts, and cross-functional partners. This role suits a proactive, technically skilled product manager adept at adversarial thinking and excited to tackle challenging, ambiguous problems through structured analysis and collaborative decision-making. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Partner closely with AI research, engineering, data science, policy teams, and other stakeholders to embed safety throughout the development and deployment of multimodal AI models - such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images - as well as multimodal capabilities in frontier AI models. Develop comprehensive frameworks for understanding and mitigating deployment safety risks, drawing on data analysis, expert consultation, and adversarial assessments. Define strate

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? Fin is a complete customer service platform, and the leader in AI for customer service. This is a unique opportunity to lead a support team at a support focused company, and showcase our vision for AI first customer service experience. You will be leading a high performing team of Technical Support Specialists and Technical Support Engineers while managing all aspects of delivering an exceptional customer experience for our customers. We’re looking for a motivated, independent operator, who is comfortable wearing multiple hats and is energized by constant change. The ideal candidate will have exceptional customer service skills, solid technical experience, an interest in AI and proven experience successfully leading and contributing to a distributed customer support team at a SaaS organization. As a company we are majorly focused on AI so we hope you’ll be excited about the way AI is changing the customer support world and experience for our customers. What will I

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Our Purpose We connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. We enable safe, simple, smart, and accessible transactions through secure data, strong networks, partnerships, and innovation. Our culture is driven by our Decency Quotient (DQ), fostering inclusion, respect, and diversity. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen decision-making, drive innovation, and deliver better business outcomes. About the Role The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role’s responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework. If you want a challenging project that is changing the way people make payments, this is the role for you! Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: • Design and develop secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer-facing products • Support dev

The Atlas API Experience (APIx) teams are part of MongoDB Atlas Data Services, a diverse group of individuals who develop the capabilities to run MongoDB globally (see MongoDB Atlas ). Our software and services allow users to deploy fault-tolerant, scalable, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes. APIx’s mission is to create delightful experiences that bring developers along on the journey from eager beginner to sophisticated MongoDB expert! As part of our team in APIx, you will be responsible for improving & extending our API platform & downstream tooling, such as the Atlas CLI . Our mission is to help Atlas customers automate their workloads easily through APIs & support internal teams contributing to the API. We are looking for passionate, intrinsically-motivated software engineers who lead by example, raise the bar for those around them, and want to make a broad impact. No prior experience with MongoDB technologies is required! During interviews, you will meet most of our team and have the opportunity to ask questions about working at MongoDB. We pride ourselves on our team's culture and on being an inclusive and collaborative group that Builds Together . This role can be based in our Dublin office or remotely within Ireland. What will you do? Propose, design, implement and support product features for the MongoDB Atlas API Platform & MongoDB Atlas DevTools, such as AtlasCLI Build tooling that enables MongoDB users and developers to succeed, using programming languages such as Java, Go, Python & Javascript/Typescript Design and develop software integration components utilizing MongoDB’s technology (i.e. database, mobile, search, etc.) in larger contexts and integrate into partner frameworks or solutions Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers through code and design reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing Lead sophisticated projects end to end, breaking large efforts into incrementally shippable deliverables Investi

About Bazaarvoice At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products. The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty. Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK! About the Team We are building our next-generation Data Enrichment Platform and we need a heavy hitter to help us scale. We aren't just moving data; we are building the real-time engine that powers our business. As a core member of our engineering team, you will architect high-throughput pipelines, solve complex latency challenges, and define the standards for a robust "Lakehouse" architecture. If you obsess over JVM internals, distributed consistency, and Exactly-Once semantics, this is the role for you. How You'll Make an Impact: Architect at Scale: Lead the design of dis

The MongoDB Atlas team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at a global scale. We are responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database-as-a-service offering and fastest-growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. We're seeking a Software Engineer to join the Atlas Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. The IAM team owns authentication and authorization for all of MongoDB Atlas, spanning from the underlying platform to user-facing features and products. IAM is both a platform and a product team, serving internal engineers as well as external customers. We enjoy the challenge of keeping MongoDB Atlas secure while providing a best-in-class user experience for users ranging from startup to enterprise. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model. Role Responsibilities Lead medium-sized, full-stack projects from technical design to delivery Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of the project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery) Own our leadership principles , and exemplify them in your work Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career! Candidate Profile 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications Proficient in a modern compiled programming language (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.) Willingness to learn JavaScript and/or TypeScript along with modern frontend technologies (React, Redux, etc.); prior experience a plus Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Is collaborative, empathetic, and intellectually honest Success Measures In 1 month, you’ll have shipped code into production In 3 months, you’ll have collaborated and delivered on a project with other engineers on the team In 6 months, you’ll have led the technical design, execution, and delivery of a project About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, em

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production. Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools. Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user. Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction. Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups. Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equiva

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives within APM, leading design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-powered features across multiple teams. Guide long-term strategy and technical direction for GenAI workflows across APM and related products. Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques. Contribute to Datadog’s broader senior engineering community through thought leadership and collaboration on company-wide initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools. Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user. Guide teams through ambiguity, sc

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 Director of Engineering, Security Factory , you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab’s customer-facing security capabilities across our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll help shape how customers detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across modern software workflows by guiding teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and supporting security foundations. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Sec section , you’ll set the engineering vision and roadmap for a distributed group of nine teams, including engineer

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Description of the team The Dashboard Foundations team is the product platform team that stewards the Plaid Dashboard ( dashboard.plaid.com ). As both the portal for applying for production access and also the host for many products, the Dashboard is a critical touchpoint for our customers. Our mission is to build the platform of every product engineer’s dreams, with rich tooling, abstractions, and resources available to support every phase of the software development lifecycle so that developing a high quality, secure product is fast and easy. Our customers are over a dozen teams building in the Dashboard, representing products in areas such as Fraud, Credit, Signal, Account Verification, Transfer products, and more. We are a full stack team made up of former product engineers, drawing upon our experience to set our north star vision. We have in-person members in New York and San Francisco as well as some members distributed in various locations across the United States. Responsibilities You will lead a team of 8 engineers, ranging from Junior to Staff, developing them through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback. You’ll define and drive the long-term strategy for this foundational area, in c

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled M

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Please submit your resume in English.

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Fulfillment group, in Marketplace, at Lyft is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and reliably fulfilling rider requests. The group has a few sub teams that are responsible for generating feasible offers for riders, connecting rider requests with drivers to fulfill those offers and a demand and supply lifecycle platform that power great rideshare experience. As a software engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other software engineers and cross functions like product, data science and analytics to lead and execute large projects from idea to efficient execution. We're looking for a motivated Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging technical problems and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative and cross-functional environment where they will take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing. Responsibilities: Contribute to the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Build Features from tech specification to positive execution Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags and tech talks Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience 3+ years of software engineering industry experience Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale di

Husky is what we call the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform, which powers dozens of Datadog’s most popular products – Logs, RUM, APM , Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog to store and query massive volumes of event data at low cost, with data fully queryable within seconds of arrival. As an Engineering Manager on Husky, you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Husky’s internals. We own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform – whether it’s managing the ingestion of over 100 million events per second exactly-once , optimizing the persistence layer with lightning-fast compaction , tweaking our columnar format, timely deletion across hundreds of thousands of customer tables, or building the metadata service that enables hundreds of thousands of queries per second – you will be responsible for the growth and success of a team constantly meeting new scalability requirements driven by Datadog’s growing customer base and suite of products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact Be a technical leader of the team; while the role may not involve frequent hands on coding, you’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities. Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational exc

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,