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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 The Engineering Manager on the Duo Chat team helps shape the core AI capabilities behind GitLab Duo Chat , so customers can work faster and more securely across the GitLab DevSecOps platform. In this role, you will manage a team of engineers building AI-powered product experiences that span the software development lifecycle, while staying close to the technical work that informs strong engineering judgment. You will play a key role in how the team delivers scalable, reliable, and high-quality AI features, from roadmap execution to stronger testing, performance, and developer clarity. Some examples of our

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 an Engineering Manager , you’ll guide GitLab’s dedicated Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) Add-On engineering team as it develops core capabilities including Dependency Firewall, Build Provenance, Malicious Packages detection, and Artifact Signing . This is a founding management role where you’ll help shape how the team works, partner closely with the Staff Backend Engineer, Product Manager, and SSCS stage management, and turn a defined roadmap into steady, high-quality delivery for enterprise customers with strict security and compliance needs. You’ll focus on developing the team, creating a healt

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 Engineering Manager, Growth at GitLab, you’ll focus on building and enabling a high-performing team that helps users discover, activate, and expand value in GitLab. Growth’s mission is full-funnel: linking acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization into measurable self-serve loops, while using experimentation to improve how users experience the product. Your primary focus will be to hire, coach, and develop team members, and to create an environment where they can do their best work while delivering strong results. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Remote, India Responsibilities Lead the technical customer-facing organization in India, reporting into APAC Customer Engineering leadership, and is accountable for building a high-performing, AI-augmented technical go-to-market team that drives new business, adoption, retention, and expansion. This role is both a people leadership role and a commercial technical leadership role. It is designed for a leader who can coach custom

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Sweden Responsibilities You are the team leader, enabler, point of reference and coach. You will work closely with our prospects and customers by shadowing and improving your team’s technical expertise. You will take care of new team members and you will ensure work loads are equally distributed within the team. You are personable and can provide constructive feedback when necessary. You will help escalate and identify issues q

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Texas, US About the Role At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. As the Manager of Customer Engineering, you will lead, inspire, and grow a team of high-performing, quota-carrying Customer Engineers who serve as trusted technical advisors across the entire customer lifecycle. In this role, you will partner closely with Regional Sales Leadership to execute on our technical go-to-market strategy, drive

The IT Systems Engineering team builds the systems and processes that keep Asana running: endpoint management, identity, and the enterprise applications every Asana employee uses every day. As Manager of IT Applications and Client Platform Engineering, you’ll lead four engineers: two on client platform, two on applications. You report directly to the Head of IT Systems Engineering. This is a player/coach role: you set direction, run planning, and step in on escalations and architecture decisions while your engineers own most of the day-to-day. Your primary depth is in endpoint engineering; you have enough SaaS administration background to lead the apps side without micromanaging it. We’re looking for someone who knows endpoint work deeply and is ready to grow as a manager. Your title history matters less than technical foundation and how you work with people. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you’re interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Lead and develop your team. Manage and mentor four engineers (two on CPE, two on Apps). Set priorities, clear blockers, and help each person grow. Own the client platform program. Set strategy and lead execution for Asana’s endpoint fleet: macOS, Windows, and mobile. This means MDM infrastructure, zero-touch deployment, software catalog, and OS lifecycle. We’re primarily an Apple shop with a growing Windows footprint. Strengthen endpoint security. Work with the Corporate Security team to harden our endpoint posture, respond to incidents, and build initiatives that connect security priorities and endpoints. Oversee the applications engineering function. Your Apps engineers manage the

We are the Experimentation team at Datadog, a startup operating inside one of the fastest-growing companies in software. The team brings together engineers who joined through Datadog’s May 2025 acquisition of Eppo with engineers from across Datadog, and together we are building feature flagging and experimentation into the platform. Both products were recently launched this year, and we are just getting started: we are migrating customers from Eppo onto Datadog while shipping an ambitious roadmap across both flagging and experimentation. Our statistics engineers hold PhDs and are pushing the boundaries of what an experimentation platform can do. Our full-stack engineers move fast, lean on the latest AI tooling, and prototype and ship new features weekly. We talk to customers directly to shape requirements, and our roadmap is driven by our own product vision and sharpened by real customer and sales input. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Experimentation App. You will own one to two squads to start, partnering closely with our engineers, statisticians, product managers, and designers to turn a deep roadmap into a shipped product. To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. What You’ll Do: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong full-stack and frontend engineers. Help them grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop. Own delivery for the Experimentation App from planning through production, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment. Set technical direction in partnership with your team and our statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs. Partner with Product, Design, and customers directly to shape requirements and turn customer and sales input into roadmap. Foster a culture of fast iteration and high engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and blamele

As Engineering Manager for Code Security, you'll lead a team of engineers building Infrastructure as Code and Secrets protection - one of the fastest-growing areas inside Datadog's security business, with a strong roadmap and real customer problems to solve. You'll partner closely with Product Management and User Experience to shape how the team delivers, stay hands-on with the technical work, and bring AI deeply into how your engineers build. The organization is still young, which means real room to shape its direction and grow into broader scope as it does. 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: Lead and grow a team of engineers building Datadog's Infrastructure as Code and Secrets security products Own the team's roadmap, staffing, and delivery, partnering closely with Product Management and User Experience Stay hands-on: contribute to code review, weigh in on design decisions, and participate in the on-call rotation Bring AI deeply into how the team builds, from adopting agentic coding tools to rethinking workflows around them Coach engineers at every level, giving direct feedback and helping them grow their scope and careers Keep the team's projects and programs organized as priorities shift across a fast-growing area Who You Are: You've managed software engineers for 2+ years, with a track record of shipping through your team You bring a strong technical background you can draw on in day-to-day roadmap and design conversations You're comfortable staying close to the work - reviewing code and unblocking technical decisions alongside your team You've integrated AI agents into how you and your team deliver code, not just experimented with them You keep projects and programs organized, even as priorities and scope shift &n

Datadog is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Code Coverage team, which is building the next generation of AI-powered developer tooling. This team owns Datadog’s Code Coverage product across the entire stack, helping customers track and enforce test coverage. Code Coverage is part of the Software Delivery suite, which enables engineering teams to move faster and more securely. In this role, you will lead and develop a high-performing engineering team in an ambiguous environment. You’ll set technical direction, drive execution, and remain hands-on. You will partner closely with customers and product management to evolve the product into an automated system that leverages production signals and AI to improve test quality, relevance, and performance. 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: Lead and develop a team of four engineers in Madrid, supporting their growth through mentorship, regular 1:1s, and clear performance feedback, while fostering a strong culture of ownership and quality Guide the evolution of Code Coverage into an AI-powered system that uses production data and LLMs to identify coverage gaps and improve test effectiveness Partner with product management and customers to define and evolve the roadmap, aligning stakeholders and translating strategy into clear priorities Stay hands-on by contributing to architecture and design decisions, and by participating in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have a strong interest in AI and agentic engineering, and are curious about how LLMs and autonomous systems can improve developer workflows You have experience leading an engineering team as a tech lead or manager, with a track record of developing engineers at different level

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join our growing Gurugram Product & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As an Engineering Manager on this new team, you will be responsible for leading and growing an engineering team, taking on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Bengaluru for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement Drive the architectural vision for the platform, ensuring it runs equally well on public clouds, private cloud environments and on-premise Work with product managers, program managers, design & analytics teams and other teams to define, prioritize and deliver new features that delight our users and drive platform improvements Take responsibility for the planning and execution of major features, raise delivery risks Own the monitoring, operations, and maintenance of the systems your team develops Enable the team to operate efficiently by removing technical obstacles, coordinating with other teams on dependencies, and prioritizing the team's overall well-being Contribute to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, participate in hiring and assignment of projects Qualifications 8+ years of experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundati

About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across strategy, solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Digital Natives segment serves technology and software companies that are building AI into the core of their products and businesses. These customers are often highly technical, move quickly, and are among the earliest adopters of OpenAI’s newest capabilities. Our Applied AI Engineers work directly with their engineering, product, and technical leadership teams to identify high-impact opportunities, solve complex technical challenges, and bring ambitious AI applications into production. About the Role We are seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives) to lead the team responsible for the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers who work hands-on with customers to design, build, evaluate, and scale AI applications. You will help determine where deep technical partnership can unlock the greatest customer and business impact, while developing repeatable approaches that allow the team to support a broad and fast-moving customer segment. As a manager, you will set the strategy and operating model for the team, coach and develop engineers, and serve as a senior technical partner to customers and internal stakeholders. You will work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Research to connect what we learn from customers with OpenAI’s product direction and help customers take advantage of our newest capabilities. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful production applications, sustained adoption and usage, strong customer outcomes, and

About the Team The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences, that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation. Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers, advertisers, and businesses. This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, Research, and external customers to bring new monetization products into real-world systems at global scale. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help build Ads Manager, the UI platform advertisers use to create, manage, measure, and optimize ad campaigns across OpenAI’s ads ecosystem. This is a foundational role responsible for designing and implementing advertiser-facing products, APIs, tools, and services that connect external customers to OpenAI’s next-generation monetization products. You’ll work across the full technical stack to build intuitive self-serve workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers, as well as scalable APIs and integrations for large enterprise advertisers, agencies, and ad-tech partners who manage campaigns through their own buying platforms or intermediary systems. This includes building advertiser-facing APIs and tooling for campaign management, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement, and insights. You will collaborate deeply with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To

About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across strategy, solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Digital Natives segment serves technology and software companies that are building AI into the core of their products and businesses. These customers are often highly technical, move quickly, and are among the earliest adopters of OpenAI’s newest capabilities. Our Applied AI Engineers work directly with their engineering, product, and technical leadership teams to identify high-impact opportunities, solve complex technical challenges, and bring ambitious AI applications into production. About the Role We are seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives) to lead the team responsible for the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers who work hands-on with customers to design, build, evaluate, and scale AI applications. You will help determine where deep technical partnership can unlock the greatest customer and business impact, while developing repeatable approaches that allow the team to support a broad and fast-moving customer segment. As a manager, you will set the strategy and operating model for the team, coach and develop engineers, and serve as a senior technical partner to customers and internal stakeholders. You will work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Research to connect what we learn from customers with OpenAI’s product direction and help customers take advantage of our newest capabilities. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful production applications, sustained adoption and usage, strong customer outcomes, and

Engineering Manager - Backend About Us: Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners. About the role: As a Engineering Manager, you will help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions and will work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those solutions. Requirements: 8 to 12 years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products Hands on experience in Advance Java, Spring boot, AWS, Node, Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, Cursor, Copilot Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stack overflow, Top coder, Git hub, Google Developer Groups (GDGs). Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills. Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment. Preferred Qualifications : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Skills that will help you succeed in this role: Expertise in Java, DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers Probl