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RDQ226R605 This role can be based remotely anywhere in the United States. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 12,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. About the Team The Agentic Security Engineering team is a horizontal, shared services engineering team that makes every Databricks security function AI-native — building the AI agents, "personas," and shared platform that security teams across the org (Detection & Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability & Product Security, Red Team, GRC, and Continuous Monitoring) build on to operate at machine speed, safely and reliably. We leverage AI to transform how security is done. The Role As Staff Security Software Engineer , you own a major technical workstream designing and shipping production-grade AI agents and the platform capabilities that power them, with reliability, observability, and safe-by-default security as first-class requirements. You set the standards for how agents are built and operated and co-build with partner security teams. Example use cases you'll enable, led by AI threat detection at scale (alert triage and false-positive reduction, fleet-scale anomaly detection), extend to threat hunting, vulnerability management, product security, red team/offensive testing, and GRC/assurance use cases. The Impact You Will Have Agentic Security Engineering Architecture Design, ship, and operate production AI agents/personas that security teams depend on, starting with AI threat detection at scale. Build and harden the shared platform so any security team can ship agents safely and reliably — i.e., sandboxing, scoped least-privilege identity, obs

About Druva Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence. Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn , X and Facebook Profile – Senior Staff Software Engineer Druva delivers Data Protection and Management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva is trusted worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud. Druva is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Viking Global Investors, Tenaya Capital, Riverwood Capital, and Nexus Partners. Please do visit us at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/druva/mycompany/ https://www.druva.com/about/ https://www.druva.com/blog/ The Data team within Foundation processes data at scale. It builds and operates tools that scan petabytes of data to extract insights. The team builds indices and views for semi-structured data to facilitate analytics, using both in-house and off-the-shelf tools. . The team diligently keeps track of newer services, storage tiers, and various aspects of existing AWS services to take

P-1405 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. The Partner Ecosystem team’s mission at Databricks is to enrich and win customer workloads through seamless integrations with strategic partners, while also widening the partner ecosystem to include new partners and data applications. This team enables seamless connectivity between Databricks and a vast range of partner applications through SQLDrivers. This vital data integration work powers the majority of the company’s Data Warehousing revenue by allowing customers to effortlessly connect their applications to Databricks SQL. In addition to that, through products like Databricks Partner Connect, we are simplifying the discovery and integration process, allowing you to seamlessly incorporate your preferred tools directly within the Databricks platform. We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Partner Ecosystem team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain SQL drivers that power the majority of the data warehousing traffic and critical infrastructure components that power our partner integrations. You'll focus on optimizing SQLDri

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models. Note: For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. This role may require responding to incidents on short-notice, including on weekends. Responsibilities: Implement and optimize post-training techniques at scale on frontier models Conduct research to develop and optimize post-training recipes that directly improve production model quality Design, build, and run robust, efficient pipelines for model fine-tuning and evaluation Develop tools to measure and improve model performance across various dimensions Collaborate with research teams to translate emerging techniques into production-ready implementations Debug complex issues in training pipelines and model behavior Help establish best practices for reliable, reproducible model post-training You may be a good fit if you: Thrive in controlled chaos and are energised, rather than overwhelmed, when juggling multiple urgent priorities Adapt quickly to changing priorities Maintain clarity when debugging complex, time-sensitive issues Have strong softwa

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the teams Our Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to all Claude models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5. Our work spans several key areas: Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectively Advancing code generation through reinforcement learning Pioneering fundamental RL research for large language models Building scalable RL infrastructure and training methodologies Enhancing model reasoning capabilities We collaborate closely with Anthropic's alignment and frontier red teams to ensure our systems are both capable and safe. We partner with the applied production training team to bring research innovations into deployed models, and are dedicated to implement our research at scale. Our Reinforcement Learning teams sit at the intersection of cutting-edge research and engineering excellence, with a deep commitment to building high-quality, scalable systems that push the boundaries of what AI can accomplish. About the Role As a Research Engineer within Reinforcement Learning, you will collaborate with a diverse group of researchers and engineers to advance the capabilities and safety of large language models. This role blends research and engineering responsibilities, requiring you to both implement novel approaches and contribute to the research direction. You'll work on fundamental research in reinforcement learning, creating 'agentic' models via tool use for open-ended tasks such as computer use and autonomous software

About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Akamai CDN & WAF Engineer with 2-5 years of hands-on experience in configuring, deploying, and managing Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of web performance optimization, security best practices, and have a proven track record of implementing and troubleshooting Akamai services in a production environment. This role requires a proactive individual with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities: Configuration and Deployment: Configure and deploy Akamai CDN services (e.g., Domain onboarding, delivery rules, caching policies, origin configurations) and WAF rulesets (e.g., security policies, custom rules, DOS and client reputation) based on application requirements and security guidelines. Production Support: Provide day-to-day operational support for Akamai CDN and WAF infrastructure, including monitoring performance, identifying and resolving issues, and implementing necessary changes. Performance Optimization: Analyze website performance metrics and implement Akamai CDN features and configurations to optimize website speed, reduce latency, and improve user experience. Security Implementation: Implement and manage Akamai WAF policies to protect web applications from various security threats, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and DDoS attacks. Rule Management: Create, review, and maintain custom WAF rules and exceptions based on application-specific ne

Who are we? Artefact is a new generation of a data service provider, specialised in data consulting and data-driven digital marketing. Our purpose? Ev ery day we boost our clients’ data transformation into business impact across the entire value chain of organisations. Our strength? Our data services stand on a double expertise: the combination of Artificial Intelligence and the business prowess acquired from our customers around the world, such as AccorHotels, Orange, Carrefour, Engie, Samsung, L'Oréal, Nissan... Artefact’s success comes from a unique mix of company assets: cutting-edge data technologies, agile methodologies for fast delivery, cohesive teams assembling the finest business consultants, data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and digital marketing experts. Artefact is : 13 offices in Paris, London, Shanghai, Dubai... 900 employees 4 practices: Data Consulting, Data Marketing, Activation and Creation What you will be doing: Key responsibilities As a Data Director, your role will encompass: Strategic Leadership and Management Lead and expand the data science team, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic objectives. Develop and oversee the execution of ambitious data transformation projects, ensuring they meet client needs and business goals. Drive collaboration across different divisions—such as Activation, Creativity, and Strategy—to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions that enhance client satisfaction and service delivery. Client Engagement and Relationship Management Build and maintain senior-level relationships with clients, becoming a trusted advisor for their data strategy and transformation efforts. Regularly present insights and strategic recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders, showcasing the value and impact of data-driven decision-making. Operational Excellence and Innovation Ensure the successful delivery of data projects, setting high standards for timeliness and quality.

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role: You want to build and run elegant and thorough machine learning experiments to help us understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. You care about making AI helpful, honest, and harmless, and are interested in the ways that this could be challenging in the context of human-level capabilities. You could describe yourself as both a scientist and an engineer. As a Research Engineer on Alignment Science, you'll contribute to exploratory experimental research on AI safety, with a focus on risks from powerful future systems (like those we would designate as ASL-3 or ASL-4 under our Responsible Scaling Policy ), often in collaboration with other teams including Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and the Frontier Red Team. Our blog provides an overview of topics that the Alignment Science team is either currently exploring or has previously explored. For the London team, we are opportunistically hiring for the following research areas: AI Control: Creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios. Alignment Stress-testing : Creating model organisms of misalignment to improve our empirical understanding of how alignment failures might arise. Note: Currently, the team's hub is in San Francisco, so we require all candidates to be based at least 25% in London and travel to San Francisco occasionally. Additionally, we are prioritizing growing our San Francisco teams, so you may not hear back on your application to the London team unless we see an unusually strong fit. For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. Representative

P-1403 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems - from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Ingesting data into the Lakehouse is a strategic area of investment for Databricks and a key enabler for Data and AI workflows. Lakeflow Connect is looking to solve this problem by providing ready-to-use, point-and-click connectors for a wide variety of sources, including enterprise applications (like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint), databases (e.g., SQL Server), cloud storage, message queues, and local files. In addition to being an important part of Lakeflow and Data Engineering, Connect is also a key platform capability. Every surface in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI) requires ingestion capabilities and the lead for this role will need to work closely with other products to embed Connect into these surfaces. We are looking for engineers with experience in core Database internals to join our Lakeflow Connect team. A key part of Connect is to extract data from OLTP systems while imposing minimal load on production systems. To do this efficiently we are building systems that use techniques such as incremental data capture, log parsing, etc. We are looking for engineers who continue to be hands on and are looking to make a large impact on an important problem for the company. The Impact you will have: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters. Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and ta

Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Senior or Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies. You will help drive key decisions around the architecture, design, and implementation of foundational components in our technical stack. Responsibilities Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization Qualifications 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar) Ownership of full project lifecycle — you don't just write a fast inner loop, you care about how the system is built, deployed, operated, and scaled in production Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages Passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems-level code Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them effectively Deep understanding of multithreading, including various approaches, challenges, and trade-offs Experience building high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services Solid understanding of Linux internals (syscalls, networking stack, memory model, kernel tuning) Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques (memory management, cache efficiency, SIMD, profiling) Preferred Qualifications Experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems Understanding of search fundamentals: indexing, query parsing, ranking, and relevance Experience with trading systems or other latency-sensitive real-time systems Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure

About the Role The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API. This is a fast-growing team and you will get a chance to own and define the strategy, vision, and plan for how to increase developer productivity. In this role, you will: Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output. Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry. Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements. Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations. Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems. Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers. Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout. Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others. Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary. As technical context: at the heart of our infrastructure is a large-scale deployment of GPU nodes running in dozens of Kubernetes clusters across regions. Some core technologies we build wit

About Us: YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. Every day, our proprietary technology analyzes billions of alternative data points to uncover actionable insights across sectors like software, AI, cloud, e-commerce, ridesharing, and payments. Our data and research teams transform raw data into strategic intelligence, delivering accurate, timely, and deeply contextualized analysis that our customers—ranging from the world’s top investment funds to Fortune 500 companies—depend on to drive high-stakes decisions. From sourcing and licensing novel datasets to rigorous analysis and expert narrative framing, our teams ensure clients get not just data, but clarity and confidence. We operate globally with offices in the US (NYC, Austin, Miami, Mountain View) APAC (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore), and India. Our award-winning, people-centric culture—recognized by Inc. as a Best Workplace for three consecutive years—emphasizes transparency, ownership, and continuous mastery. What It’s Like to Work at YipitData: YipitData isn’t a place for coasting—it’s a launchpad for ambitious, impact-driven professionals. From day one, you’ll take the lead on meaningful work, accelerate your growth, and gain exposure that shapes careers. Why Top Talent Chooses YipitData: Ownership That Matters : You’ll lead high-impact projects with real business outcomes Rapid Growth : We compress years of learning into months Merit Over Titles : Trust and responsibility are earned through execution, not tenure Velocity with Purpose: We move fast, support each other, and aim high—always with purpose and intention Who Thrives Here? We hire sprinters, not coasters—people who: Choose growth over comfort Lead through challenges Are energized by high expectations It’s not for everyone, and that’s intentional. If your ambition is matched by your

P-1394 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Our engineering teams build technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is important to making customers successful on our platform. We develop and operate one of the largest-scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. As a Senior Software engineer in the Observability team , you will develop observability solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products and infrastructure. The impact you'll have: Establish standards for logging, metrics, and tracing. You will collaborate with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing. You will build tooling and infrastructure to allow components to efficiently emit, aggregate, and store metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and used for alerting. Ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of systems by contributing to and executing the technical roadmap. Participate in on-call rotation

About the role: Are you a relationship builder? Are you curious to learn about customers and passionate about giving them the best customer experience? Are you a self starter and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment where you can make a difference in creating playbooks and processes? We’re looking for a Renewals Manager to be the post-sales quarterback for our corporate customers. In this role, you will be responsible for renewing and generating expansion opportunities. You will work with your Sigma colleagues to maximize customer value and to grow their business. Responsibilities: Develop professional and personal relationships with key stakeholders within each customer account Partner with Customer Success to minimize attrition, identify growth opportunities, drive adoption and increase usage Work with customers to create a strategy for achieving goals and assist Customer Success with removing barriers to business growth Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders such as Product, Engineering, and Alliances. Be able to communicate feedback and insights to the business. to improve product and customer experience Serve as an advocate for our customers and set appropriate expectations Leverage data to effectively guide meaningful customer conversations Facilitate business reviews to accomplish goals and opportunities Help identify opportunities for improvement in existing processes Required Skills / Experience: 2+ years working in Renewals / Customer Success role Ability to react and adapt to potential rapid shifts in priorities and organizational policies Strong negotiation and objection handling skills that allow for value-based contract negotiations Strong process management and detail oriented skills Strong customer management skills, including soft skills Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $100k - 120k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, incl

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role We're seeking an exceptional engineer to join Anthropic's Detection Platform team to build and scale our next-generation security analytics infrastructure. In this role, you'll architect and implement data pipelines that process massive amounts of security telemetry, develop ML-powered detection systems, and create innovative solutions that leverage Claude to transform security operations. Responsibilities: Build AI-powered platform responsible for all aspects of D&R capabilities from detection development to incident response Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing security telemetry across our rapidly growing infrastructure Architect solutions for storing and efficiently querying large volumes of security-relevant data Create rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts for new security tooling and analytics capabilities Work closely with security and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and growth of the Security team Participate in on-call shifts You may be a good fit if you: 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on security, infrastructure and/or data pipelines Track record of building and maintaining internal developer tools or security platforms Strong understanding of data processing pipelines and experience working with large-scale logging systems Experience with: Test-driven software development and/or CI/CD (plus for direct experience with Detection-as-code workflows) Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) Query optimization for large datasets Experience with building st