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3mo ago

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role At Sentry, Support is an engineering discipline. Our customers are the greatest technical minds in the world—developers at elite enterprises building the future of software—and they deserve answers that go deeper than a knowledge base link. We're looking for an APAC Technical Support Engineer based in San Francisco to join our global Support Engineering team. This role is designed to provide APAC coverage to our users; with the shift being Sunday through Thursday 4PM-12AM PST. We are architecting the Technical Support engine . We’re looking for an experienced engineer to help us redefine the standard of technical support by combining deep human expertise with autonomous agentic systems. You are a debugger of both code and systems. You will treat support volume as a data signal to build automated resolution paths, ensuring our human engineers only touch the most complex, high-impact architectural puzzles. Sentry Support Engineers aren't just clearing queues; they are Orchestrators . You will engage with our users across GitHub, Discord, and our internal systems, while acting as the Technical Lead for our Agentic Ops. You ensure that when a developer asks a complex question, our systems have the right context and a seamless "Human-in-the-Loop" path to you when deep, nuanced expertise is required. In this role you will Master the Sentry Ecosystem & Support Elite Developers Deep-Dive Debugging: Perform root-cause analysis on complex issues and distributed tracing gaps across polyglot environments. Support the Great Minds: Act as a strategic consultant for senior engineers at our largest enterprise customers, s

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4mo ago

We’re looking for an Senior Software Developer, Backend who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one piece of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will execute on defined projects to achieve team-level goals. In line with Hootsuite's distributed workforce strategy, our flexible work arrangement allows for a hybrid model. This role is open to applicants within commutable distance to Luxembourg. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Write software - tools, libraries, automation, services Design and build our infrastructure platform Identify and implement new platform features Research and evaluate new technologies Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features Operate our developer experience and production application environments Diagnose and repair our distributed systems Perform maintenance, upgrades and migrations Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work Enable development teams Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle Participate in a flexible on-call rotation Communicate by writing documentation, participating in meetings, and showing off your work at demos WHAT YOU’LL NEED: A degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience working in a software engineering role An ability to write software and working knowledge of software engineering practice (Java programming language and strong working knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts) Proven experience creating stable, reliable, performing and maintainable code Familiarity with data modeling and schema design Knowledge of data structures and algorithms Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarific

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Sentry
📍 Toronto• Full-time• Remote• C$100K – C$125K/yr
4mo ago

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role At Sentry, Support is an engineering discipline. Our customers are the greatest technical minds in the world—developers at elite enterprises building the future of software—and they deserve answers that go deeper than a knowledge base link. We are architecting the Technical Support engine . We’re looking for a veteran engineer to help us redefine the standard of technical support by combining deep human expertise with autonomous agentic systems. You are a debugger of both code and systems. You will treat support volume as a data signal to build automated resolution paths, ensuring our human engineers only touch the most complex, high-impact architectural puzzles. Sentry Support Engineers aren't just clearing queues; they are Orchestrators . You will engage with our users across GitHub, Discord, and our internal systems, while acting as the Technical Lead for our Agentic Ops. You ensure that when a developer asks a complex question, our systems have the right context and a seamless "Human-in-the-Loop" path to you when deep, nuanced expertise is required. In this role you will Master the Sentry Ecosystem & Support Elite Developers Deep-Dive Debugging: Perform root-cause analysis on complex issues and distributed tracing gaps across polyglot environments. Support the Great Minds: Act as a strategic consultant for senior engineers at our largest enterprise customers, solving high-stakes architectural challenges that push the boundaries of observability. Troubleshoot SDK Implementations: Go deep into the source code of Sentry’s SDKs to help developers instrument complex frameworks and custom environments. Engin

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MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Cork for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pref

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Datadog
📍 Massachusetts• Full-time• $192K – $240K/yr
5mo ago

As a Senior Product Manager for Serverless at Datadog, you will define and deliver products that help developers monitor and operate serverless applications at scale. You’ll own the strategy and execution for Datadog’s AWS Serverless observability offering, building experiences that provide visibility into distributed systems and simplify debugging and operations. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-powered workflows, and is ideal for a PM who thrives in highly technical product areas. You will work cross-functionally and with external partners to shape how customers build and run modern serverless applications. 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: Own and drive the roadmap for Datadog’s AWS Serverless observability products, including Lambda, Fargate, and Step Functions Define how developers monitor, debug, and operate serverless systems across distributed environments Partner with engineering and design to deliver end-to-end product capabilities from concept through launch and iteration Collaborate with AWS product teams to align roadmaps and deliver joint solutions for shared customers Engage with customers to understand serverless adoption patterns and validate product direction Define and track success metrics such as adoption, usage, and impact on developer workflows Who You Are: 5+ years of product management experience building technical products in areas such as cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or observability Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern application development practices Familiarity with serverless technologies, containers, Kubernetes, or microservices environments Comfortable working closely with engineers and discu

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MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pr

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MongoDB
📍 New York• Full-time• $157K – $270K/yr
7mo ago

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workf

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Addepar
📍 New York• $134K – $209K/yr
11mo ago

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,500 firms in 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $10 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and levels of complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Warsaw, Dubai, Pune and Singapore. The Role We are currently seeking a visionary and hands-on Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Java and distributed systems to lead technical initiatives within our Order Management System (OMS) team in Trading! We are building a high-performance Trading Order Lifecycle Management system designed to bridge the gap between investment intent and market execution. Our platform serves as the mission-critical link between our portfolio managers and executing brokers, ensuring every trade is executed, allocated, and reported with absolute precision, low latency, and high fault tolerance. We’re looking for a strategic technical leader who remains deeply hands-on and is passionate about solving highly complex, ambiguous engineering challenges. You will drive the architectural vision, establish high-quality engineering standards, and work closely with product and design leadership to deliver impactful business outcomes. You will champion Agile methodologies and the adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the organization to amplify engineering delivery. This role requires someone to work Eastern working hours. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa

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25mo ago

P-375 We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide. Key Characteristics As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone. Job Description At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. 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 regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. 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 & opti

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12 days ago

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. Cloudflare is building a new public Certificate Authority for the Internet. We are looking for a senior technical architect to help define the systems, protocols, and security architecture behind it. This role spans applied cryptography, Web PKI, distributed systems, security engineering, compliance, and Internet standards. It will help Cloudflare build a CA that operates safely at Internet scale while establishing a credible path from today's X.509 eco

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29 days ago

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 Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer, who will serve as a senior technical leader on a cross-functional product team responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable healthcare technology solutions. You will play a critical role in driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, UX, and business stakeholders to build secure, cloud-native applications that enhance the digital healthcare experience. In this role, you will lead the development of distributed systems and microservices leveraging Java, Spring Boot, event-driven architectures, and modern cloud technologies. This Staff Engineer will also guide data migration and interoperability initiatives, supporting healthcare integrations that enable seamless and secure exchange of clinical data across platforms. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering expertise with a passion for innovation, technical leadership, and delivering high-quality solutions in an Agile environment. Expectations for the Role Software

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Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard. For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements. Due to the nature of the projects and specific client security clearance, this role requires the successful candidate to be a Singapore Citizen or PR of Singapore. Job responsibilities You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way. You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build an

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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. As a Senior Software Engineer II at Smartsheet, you will create the next generation of our platform while tackling meaningful distributed systems challenges alongside a talented engineering team. You will collaborate closely with product managers and fellow engineers through code reviews and architectural discussions, and you will have the opportunity to mentor other engineers. This role is a great fit for someone with a strong background of hands-on development as well as solid technical leadership experience. About the Billing & Subscriptions Team The Billing & Subscriptions team is at the heart of Smartsheet’s growth engine. We are responsible for the critical systems that power Licensing and Monetization. Our mission is to build a seamless purchasing experience that supports millions of users and enables the business to rapidly evolve its product and AI offerings at scale. You Will: Contribute to Smartsheet’s most critically visible initiatives into FY28 Build scalable back-end services for the next generation of applications at Smartsheet (Kotlin, Java) Solve challenging distributed systems problems and work with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) Lead code reviews and architectural discussions as you work with other software engineers and product managers Be a force multiplying team lead at the helm of our most important work Mentor other engineers on code quality and other industry best practices Forge a strong partnership with product management and other key areas of the business Activel

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Okta
📍 Toronto• Full-time• From C$160K/yr
2mo ago

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Streaming Foundations team builds services and operates data pipeline infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale. In this high-impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come. What you’ll be doing Help set the technical direction for the team and influence the engineering roadmap for the Platform’s streaming capabilities Design and lead the implementation of our most complex and critical systems for data-intensive use cases. Research and champion new technologies and architectural patterns to solve strategic challenges and scale the platform. Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives, ensuring technical alignment and successful execution across multiple teams. Improve the operational posture of our systems by designing for observability, reliability, and scalability, and by mentoring others in operational best practices. Coach and mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across the engineering organization. Collaborate with different stakeholders like product teams whenever needed. What you’ll bring to our teams 7+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment Experience working with Golang or Java is preferred H

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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role Elasticsearch powers search, observability, and AI retrieval (RAG) for the world's largest organizations. We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. In this role, you will contribute to performance engineering initiatives through high-quality code and technical analysis. Your goal is to help improve the optimization and predictability of Elasticsearch performance, collaborating with area-specific teams to enhance our software. What You Will Be Doing Contributing to core performance engineering initiatives from development to production, focusing on the delivery of impactful optimizations. Executing technical designs and plans for architectural and code-level performance improvements. Implementing foundational performance models and methodologies for complex, distributed systems. Supporting optimization strategies to ensure Elasticsearch remains performant, predictable, and scalable in diverse environments. Profiling and analyzing system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL. Ensuring robust performance benchmarks and regression detection for both stateful and stateless (Serverless) architectures. Collaborating with peers across the team to apply performance-focused development practices into new features. Contributing to automation efforts by bui

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