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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams. Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. Mentor and grow junior engineers. Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. Ensure operational readiness of

Be the trusted adviser that senior leaders rely on to navigate complex organizational challenges and drive meaningful change. As a principal consultant at Gallup, you will serve as a highly respected partner to address leaders’ most pressing workplace challenges, such as performance, leadership effectiveness, culture, employee engagement and large-scale change. You’ll help executives interpret their organization’s data, clarify priorities and make well-informed decisions that lead to effective action. Through your relationships and the quality of your consulting, you will grow your accounts and expand Gallup’s impact. If you’re an experienced consultant who wants to create exceptional workplaces with a globally respected brand, this is your opportunity. What You’ll Do Advise senior leaders on a broad range of workplace challenges, drawing on Gallup’s research, analytics and consulting expertise Build deep relationships to influence decision-making at the highest levels of client organizations Lead sessions, roundtable discussions and consultative meetings that help leaders align, decide and act on complex issues Diagnose client needs, architect tailored consulting approaches and guide clients through change with clarity and credibility Identify and grow new opportunities with existing and prospective clients to expand Gallup’s work and impact Represent Gallup with professionalism and authority in client meetings, executive forums and selected external engagements Who We Want Client-obsessed advisers who earn trust quickly and create value through their expertise, reliability and outcomes Executive communicators who bring presence, clarity and composure to high-stakes conversations and forums Sophisticated program architects who identify business opportunities and orchestrate change management to impact growth Strategic thinkers with intense intellectual curiosity and talent for navigating ambiguity, diagnosing workplace issues and helping leaders focus on what matte

About Us Are you ready to build the future of supply chain? At Gather AI, we're not just creating software; we're pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence. We've developed a groundbreaking, vision-powered platform that uses autonomous drones and existing equipment to capture real-time data, completely digitizing workflows that have historically been manual and error-prone. This means facilities operate smarter, safer, and more efficiently, ultimately redefining "on-time, in full" delivery. If you're looking for an opportunity to contribute to truly transformative technology and make a significant impact in a vital industry, Gather AI is the place for you. We're leading the charge in the rapidly evolving robotics industry, and we invite you to join us in reshaping the global supply chain, one intelligent warehouse at a time. About You As a Principal Systems Engineer at Gather AI you will be a technical leader, driving the development and integration of cutting-edge autonomous and passive sensing systems, bridging the gap between product vision, complex system requirements, hardware implementation, and real-world performance. What You’ll Do Take full technical ownership of the design, architecture, and integration of the autonomous data gathering systems in logistics and material handling environments. Collaborate with Product Management, Customers, and cross-functional engineering teams (e.g., Software, Hardware, Cloud, Test) to negotiate and finalize system boundaries and interfaces. Serve as a technical leader, mentoring less experienced engineers and setting the standard for systems engineering best practices. Possess specific, in-depth knowledge of hardware implementation and integration challenges for both active robotic components (e.g., actuators, controllers) and passive sensing modalities (e.g., RGB cameras, depth cameras). Drive trade-off analyses, risk assessment, and mitigation planning for critical system elements. Requirements BS, MS, or PhD

Role Overview We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of our enterprise SaaS platform. You’ll combine deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams design scalable systems, modernize our platform and solve complex engineering challenges. You’ll work across backend, frontend, cloud and AI technologies while defining technical direction and staying close to the engineering work. A key part of this role will be driving the adoption of AI-native software engineering practices, including AI-PDLC (AI-enabled Product Development Lifecycle) and Spec-Driven Development, using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and other AI coding and agentic development tools. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, designing systems at scale, influencing architecture, establishing modern engineering practices and mentoring experienced engineers. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do Define and evolve the technical architecture of our SaaS platform and create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for complex systems. Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical designs, implementation plans and engineering deliverables. Establish and drive Spec-Driven Development, using structured requirements, architecture specifications, API contracts, data models and acceptance criteria to guide development. Drive adoption of AI-PDLC, integrating AI across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, code review, deployment and operations. Establish AI-assisted development workflows using Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and similar AI coding agents, while maintaining engineering quality, security and architectural consistency. Design secure, scalable and reliable distributed, microservices and event-driven systems. Build and evolve backend services and APIs primarily using Node.js/TypeScript and Python, while remaining open to other modern technology stacks. Cont

JOB ID: FEQ327R160 Location: London, United Kingdom Industry: Transport-Industry Recruiter: Dina Hussain The Role As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you are an expert-level technical leader responsible for the organisation's most complex customer engagements. You drive consumption strategy, own executive-level relationships, and serve as the definitive technical authority for your accounts. You have declared your archetype—a recognised technical specialisation that makes you a force multiplier across your team and region. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise, strategic account planning, and executive influence. The Impact You Will Have Drive the technical and consumption strategy for the organisation's most complex customer engagements, directly influencing platform adoption and revenue growth. Own senior-level technical relationships — serving as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy Lead the most complex architecture engagements: multi-workload platforms, enterprise-wide migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale Operate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform with a declared archetype — actively mentoring others and driving horizontal impact across your team Develop and execute competitive strategies for your customers, positioning Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms Orchestrate cross-functional teams (DSAs, SSAs, Partners, Product) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions Coach and develop junior SAs (L3–L5) on technical depth, customer engagement, and use case prioritisation Contribute to Field Engineering thought leadership through customer-facing content, workshops, and community engagement What We Look For 8+ years in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role Expert-level coding proficiency — Python, SQL, and ideally Spark/PySpark. You will complete a live coding assessment and a platform build during the interview Deep e

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. Principal Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Our Customer Success team in Chennai serves as elite technical advisors for global enterprise teams. We bridge deep software architecture with business strategy, building scalable platform environments that leverage AI-Powered Process Automation to solve mission-critical operational challenges. As a Principal Technical Consultant , you will assume architectural leadership for multi-application platform design, execution, and performance optimization. Top engineering talent joins Appian in this role to move beyond basic application maintenance and ensure applications are resilient, scalable, and built to power mission-critical operations at enterprise scale . What You’ll Do Architect Platform Scalability: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema optimization, data modeling , system performance, and responsive UX/UI . Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, development, and code reviews using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly isolate performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, resource contention, and latency spikes across the entire web application stack. Performance Analysis & Profiling: Analyze database execution plans, JVM/memory utilization, and Locust load test outputs to resolve root-cause architectural bottlenecks. Technical Communication & Enablement: Translate complex system diagnostics in

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. As a Principal Engineer / architect you will be responsible for creating a technical strategy and coordinating the designs for meeting the needs of Toast’s largest restaurant brands. You will partner with Product Managers to develop the technology roadmap that enables enterprise customers to leverage the power of Toast. You will also work closely with technical leaders and implementation teams across the organization to deliver robust, scalable solutions with integrations to customers’ external systems. While the role is primarily internally-facing, it requires infrequent interactions with enterprise customers, listening to their requirements and providing expert guidance as they deploy Toast. If you’re a technical leader or a solutions architect, experienced with enterprise SaaS, passionate about customer value, and a great collaborator, read on! A day in the life (Responsibilities) Lead the evolution of Toast’s backend architecture , frameworks, and data models with a strong focus on delivery efficiency, system scalability, and resilience. Design and build the next generation of accounting and financial systems using Java, Kotlin, DynamoDB, Pulsar, GraphQL, Big Data tools , and more. Define and implement scalable engineering practices , delivery frameworks, and coding standards that raise the technical bar across the org. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, UX, QA , and multiple engineering teams to deliver robust, customer-facing solutions. Build and maintain strong partnerships across business units, aligning technology strategies with key company objectives. Champion data-driven decision making by developing strategies and prioritizing initiatives with high impact on user and business outcomes. Mentor and grow engineers across levels, promoting a culture of inclu

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron is seeking an experienced NAND Storage Architect, Strategist, and Product Manager to drive, define and implement next-generation NAND technologies and methods for managing stored data in client SSDs. We bring together technical expertise, market insight, and cross-functional partnership to develop products that advance how the world uses information. Join us and influence the future of NAND storage! In this role, you will connect NAND architecture with business priorities, customer requirements, and market opportunities. You will work across Product Management, System Architecture, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, OEMs, and industry partners to develop differentiated storage solutions. Key Responsibilities Define NAND architecture, technology-node, and storage-solution strategies aligned with Micron’s business goals. Develop NAND storage requirements, including performance, reliability, power, packaging, cost, and system-level capabilities. Lead NAND roadmap planning from concept through product lifecycle achievements, using market trends, customer insights, and AI-workload requirements to guide decisions. Own NAND Storage Marketing Requirements Documents and support Technical Requirements Document development. Translate OEM, ecosystem, and business needs into clear product requirements and actionable technology plans. Evaluate NAND industry trends, competitor roadmaps, architectures, and emerging technologies to see opportunities for differentiation. En

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary CVS Health is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions that power next-generation healthcare experiences. This role goes beyond hands-on coding—you will define technical strategy, establish architectural standards, and guide multiple teams in building secure, scalable, and cost-effective AI platforms across AWS (Bedrock) and Google Cloud (Vertex AI API). You will partner with product, security, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure solutions meet business objectives, regulatory requirements, and performance goals. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with leadership skills—capable of influencing cross-org architecture decisions, mentoring engineering teams, and driving responsible AI practices in production. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end platform delivery of highly scalable, secure AI services and applications leveraging AWS Bedrock (Foundation Models, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails) and Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini via Vertex AI API, Agent Builder, Vector Search, Search & Grounding) Architect and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, integrating proprietary data from sources like Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage/BigQuery, and using Bedrock Knowledge Bases and/or Vertex AI Search & Groundi

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. About the role We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and drive the next generation of GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. Fulfillment ensures that customers receive the right product access and can manage seats, usage, and spend across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, and other deployment models. Its core areas include entitlements, licensing and provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. The existing platform has served GitLab for approximately a decade and now faces significant challenges in scale, maintainability, and architectural complexity. This role will help us understand where w

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level. We are hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II for our Frontier Engineering team. This team embeds directly with Snowflake's most strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems . At the IC6 level, you serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for a portfolio of high-impact customer engagements. You operate as a peer technical advisor to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI, setting technical direction that extends beyond individual accounts and influences how Snowflake delivers AI solutions at scale. AS A PRINCIPAL FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER II YOU WILL: Serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for customer engineering leadership: Build durable, peer-level relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI at Snowflake’s most strategic accounts. Lead architectural steering, technical reviews, and executive strategy alignment while shaping multi-year AI ro

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level. We are hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for our Frontier Engineering team. This team embeds directly with Snowflake's most strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems . At the Principal level, you are the senior technical counterpart to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and chief architects at our largest enterprise customers; you set the technical direction that the Frontier Engineering organization follows. AS A PRINCIPAL FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER YOU WILL: Be the trusted technical partner to customer engineering leadership: Build durable, peer-level relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data/AI at Snowflake’s most strategic accounts: lead architectural steering, technical reviews, and executive strategy alignment to help shape their AI roadmaps. Drive Architecture & Technical Strategy Across High-Stakes Deployments: Own end-to-end technical execution and outcomes across Snowflake’s most complex, high-visibility AI engagement

Principal Software Engineer – AI CoE About Redwood Redwood Software helps the world's largest enterprises automate mission-critical business processes. Our platforms support complex enterprise workloads across ERP systems, business applications, cloud infrastructure, and on-premises environments. Redwood is building reusable AI infrastructure, agentic capabilities, developer tools, and platform services that enable enterprise-ready AI features across its product portfolio. Role Mission As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of complex, production-grade AI and agentic capabilities that can be reused across Redwood products. You will solve ambiguous engineering problems, establish standards for reliability and AI evaluation, and contribute to important technical decisions. This is a hands-on role with ownership of significant systems and platform capabilities. Key Responsibilities Design and deliver complex services, agentic workflows, and shared AI platform capabilities. Build multi-step agentic systems that combine reasoning, tool use, retrieval, memory, policy controls, and human oversight. Establish robust approaches for AI evaluation, observability, model selection, fallback behaviour, and failure recovery. Lead technical delivery across multiple contributors and coordinate dependencies with product and platform teams. Review designs and code for scalability, security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost. Resolve complex production issues and implement corrective actions that prevent recurrence. Create reusable frameworks, reference implementations, and engineering standards that accelerate development. Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and Operations teams to translate business problems into durable platform solutions. Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption based on technical evidence, enterprise requirements, and business

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our Anti-Abuse team. The Anti-Abuse team sits at the core of protecting Snowflake and our customers from abuse on the Snowflake Platform. We strive to see the complete picture, leading platform-wide abuse and fraud detection while designing and deploying proactive controls for Snowflake's highest-risk capabilities: Snowpark, Data Sharing, Cortex AI, and the next generation of cloud engineering challenges as Snowflake rapidly scales. In this role, you will be the lead technical architect responsible for defining and driving our technical strategy for abuse prevention, detection, and response across the entire Snowflake ecosystem. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ANTI-ABUSE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Define and drive the long-term technical vision for abuse and fraud detection across the Snowflake platform, serving as the chief architect for platform-wide anti-abuse strategy Partner directly with product and engineering teams building Snowflake's newest and highest-risk surfaces (Snowpark user code execution runtimes, Data Sharing and Marketplace, AI/LLM services) to design and deploy robust anti-abuse controls from day one Architect and scale high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and risk-scoring engines capable of ana

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Configuration Management team and define the future of enterprise infrastructure automation, configuration management and operational platforms. This is a deeply technical, hands-on leadership role, you will architect and build foundational software systems that manage infrastructure consistently across compute, storage, networking, data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will establish the multi-year technical direction, identify organization-wide challenges, and drive large-scale transformations from initial strategy through architecture, implementation, production adoption, and measurable outcomes. What You’ll Be Doing: Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture for IT infrastructure automation, configuration management, orchestration, and self-service platforms. Set the technical direction for infrastructure automation and configuration management across technologies such as Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Salt or equivalent platforms. Establish the strategy for applying AI to configuration management, including configuration intelligence, drift and compliance analysis, change-risk identification, root-cause assistan