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Who We Are: At Bandwidth , we shape how the world connects. We're the global communications software company and Tier 1 network operator with global reach. The voice, messaging, and emergency services infrastructure behind the brands and apps you use every day. Because we own the network we build on, the problems you'll solve here are bigger, more complex, and more impactful. And as communications shifts to AI, we're the infrastructure layer making it possible. We call ourselves BANDmates because building something this big takes collaboration, different perspectives, and the freedom to bring your authentic self to the table. We're experts who speak like humans. Ready to build what's next? #JoinTheBand What We Are Looking For: We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who leads by example — someone who takes deep ownership of what they build, moves fast without cutting corners, and is genuinely excited by the challenge of designing and scaling distributed systems that millions of people depend on. You are the right candidate if you thrive with mission-focus, enjoy solving complex problems at scale, and are energized — working in an environment where AI is woven into how great engineers work every day. We don't treat AI as a future capability. It's how we build now, and we want teammates who feel the same way. What You'll Do: Own your services end-to-end — from design and development to testing, operations, and production monitoring. You build it, you run it. Create and maintain REST APIs (Java/Spring), customer-facing dashboards (React), and the cloud infrastructure (AWS) that powers the Numbers platform. Lead solutions from start to finish , collaborating across teams to iteratively ship value aligned to customer and business needs. Identify and solve scaling problems through both application development and infrastructure optimization, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Mentor junior and mid-level developers through productive code reviews, t

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Who We Are: At Bandwidth , we shape how the world connects. We're the global communications software company and Tier 1 network operator with global reach. The voice, messaging, and emergency services infrastructure behind the brands and apps you use every day. Because we own the network we build on, the problems you'll solve here are bigger, more complex, and more impactful. And as communications shifts to AI, we're the infrastructure layer making it possible. We call ourselves BANDmates because building something this big takes collaboration, different perspectives, and the freedom to bring your authentic self to the table. We're experts who speak like humans. Ready to build what's next? #JoinTheBand What We Are Looking For: As a Senior Engineer on our Account Provisioning Development team, you’ll get to build and expand on our company’s account provisioning system. The team enables Bandwidth to provision our customers for all of the global communication services we offer at a large and growing scale. We’re looking for people who get excited about building highly performant and maintainable services and infrastructure. What You'll Do: Design, implement, and operate flexible and accurate account provisioning systems that support our global communication services. Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver solutions that meet customer needs. Identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in provisioning processes, ensuring high availability and scalability. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architecture decisions to uphold high-quality software development practices. Provide guidance and support to less experienced team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. What You Need: 5+ years of engineering experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. Experience with Java, Python and Go; familiarity with AWS or other cloud providers. Ability to a

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Baxter
📍 Raleigh• $152K – $209K/yr
1mo ago

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter Provides enterprise-level technical leadership for cloud shared services and related connected-care ecosystems. Collaborates with engineering, product, and business leaders to shape long-term architectural strategy, establish technical standards, and guide the evolution of secure, cloud-native services that support multiple products, regions, and business domains. Serves as a senior technical leader for distributed systems, GraphQL and API architecture, multi-region cloud strategy, service interoperability, scalability, security, resiliency, observability, SOC 2 readiness, and operational excellence. Partners closely with executive leadership, product management, cybersecurity, quality, regulatory, operations, and engineering teams to align technology investments, architectural decisions, and platform capabilities with business objectives and sustained growth. <span style="color:

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Databricks
📍 Mountain View• $190K – $237.5K/yr
1mo ago

RDQ427R123 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 tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. Databricks is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the App Traffic team, responsible for critical networking infrastructure that powers communication across the Databricks platform. The team builds and operates Databricks’ unified service mesh, including ingress, service discovery, service-to-service communication, traffic management, and intelligent routing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. These systems sit on the critical path of Databricks services and must deliver exceptional reliability, scalability, and performance while providing simple abstractions for application developers. As the Engineering Manager for App Traffic, you will lead a team of strong infrastructure engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives. You will partner closely with senior engineers and infrastructure leaders on the architecture and evolution of Databricks’ traffic platform. The Impact You Will Have Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for Databricks’ application traffic infrastructure. Drive the design and evolution of highly available distributed systems operating across multiple clouds and regions. Partner with senior and staff engineers on architectural decisions involving routing, control planes, reliability, scalability, and d

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Notion
📍 Hyderabad• Full-time
2mo ago

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role The Hyderabad Infra team builds and maintains Notion's internal async task runner and configuration management platform. The async task runner plays a critical role in ensuring our millions of users have a fast, reliable, and secure experience. The configuration management platform enables safe, explicit configuration management for Notion's product and infrastructure engineers. As part of the Hyderabad Infra Team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape how Notion manages and scales its async task runner and configuration management platform, enabling innovation across the company. What You'll Achieve You will contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our async task runner to meet the needs of over 100 million global users and support the rapid growth of our product and business. With guidance from senior team members, you'll help ensure our systems remain reliable, efficient, and scalable. You'll evaluate and integrate new technologies to keep us ahead of emerging challenges. Your work will empower our engineering team to build features confidently while you grow your skills in distributed systems and infrastr

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Twilio
📍 United States• Full-time• Remote• From $117K/yr
2mo ago

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (L2) About the job This position is an engineering role within Twilio Platform Engineering, suited to an engineer who is building hands-on experience with highly available, large-scale distributed systems. Our systems regularly process more than 12 billion emails during peak events like Black Friday, and our throughput requirements continue to scale rapidly. As an L2 engineer, you will help build and operate backend services at scale, working alongside more senior engineers on our dual-cloud infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. You'll get hands-on with Kubernetes, contribute to Terraform-based infrastructure automation, and write production code to help keep distributed systems healthy under real production load, using modern AI-assisted tooling to move faster and ramp up your skills. Responsibilities In this role, you’ll: WEAR THE CU

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For more than 30 years, SonicWall has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio that helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate network security, endpoint security, security service edge (SSE), and threat response across hybrid environments. By bringing connected technology, real-time threat intelligence, automation, and expert services together, SonicWall helps organizations simplify security operations, achieve better security outcomes, and lower total cost of ownership. Backed by a global ecosystem of more than 17,000 partners, SonicWall delivers enterprise-grade protection built for SMB and mid-market realities. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn , Facebook , and Instagram . We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of a large-scale malware analysis and cybersecurity platform. This role will own the end-to-end technical architecture across Python-based analysis pipelines, message-driven job orchestration systems, Windows VM sandbox environments, and web-based interfaces. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in software engineering, malware analysis, and distributed systems, with a proven ability to take ownership of complex legacy platforms and drive modernization initiatives. You will lead the design and implementation of advanced detection capabilities, including behavioral analysis, malware sandboxing, machine learning-based classification, and support for new file types, while ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and performance. This position requires strong hands-on development skills in Python with Linux-based production environments, messaging architectures such as RabbitMQ, virtualization technologies, and cloud-native deployment practices. As the technical leader for the platform, you will establish engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, reduce technical debt, mentor senior engi

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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 As Director, Engineering, Platform Operations & Productivity, you'll own three functions that all require hands-on technical depth, not just people management. Platform Staff is a small, senior, AI-native team that moves to wherever the organization needs the most leverage, from standing up early scaffolding for an initiative, to taking on a high-impact customer request that doesn't fit any existing team's charter, to stepping directly into a production crisis until it's resolved. This role is for a technical engineering director who has personally built distributed systems, not only managed people wh

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Okta
📍 San Francisco• Full-time• $275K – $378K/yr
3mo 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 Director, Engineering Opportunity You will lead the engineering charter for the Okta Integration Network , driving the evolution of a platform that powers 8,000+ integrations across the Okta ecosystem. This role oversees distributed teams in the US and India and is accountable for delivering secure, scalable, standards‑based integration capabilities. You will shape the roadmap for cross‑app identity security, expand the OIN catalog and strengthen enterprise‑grade extensibility. The role expects acquaintance in IAM standards like OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and governance workflows, along with strong architectural judgment in building distributed systems, APIs, SDKs, and developer‑focused integration frameworks. You will partner closely with product, security, and AI teams to secure emerging agent‑driven interactions and deliver high‑reliability services with strong operational rigor. Success requires exceptional cross‑geo leadership, the ability to drive multi‑quarter programs, influence standards, and cultivate a high‑performance engineering culture while ensuring the OIN remains the industry’s most trusted and comprehensive identity integration network. What you’ll be doing Lead, recruit, and mentor multiple teams of engineers, architects and engineering managers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and psychological safety. Partner closely with senior leaders in Product Management and Design to define a compelling

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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore, reporting to the Senior Manager in the Engineering department. You’ll collaborate with a diverse team of engineers to design, build, and deliver an innovative zero-trust cybersecurity product as part of the world’s largest cloud security platform. You will bring your vision and passion to our team of experts who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Collaborate with a diverse team of engineers to design, build, and deliver an innovative zero-trust cybersecurity product Write production-quality code in C and C++ for Linux-based systems Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in complex distributed systems Who You Are (Success Profile) You thrive in ambiguity, comfortably building the path forward in a

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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Vice President, Software Engineering Overview Decision Stream is Mastercard's next-generation AI-native decisioning platform, designed to power intelligent, real-time decisions across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk. Built with a startup mindset and enterprise-scale ambition, the platform combines innovation, speed, and engineering excellence to redefine decisioning across Mastercard's global ecosystem. We are seeking a visionary and hands-on VP of Software Engineering to help build and scale the platform. This leader will partner closely with Product, Architecture, AI, and Platform Engineering teams to drive technology strategy, architecture, engineering execution, and organizational growth. What You'll Do Lead Through Technical Excellence • Serve as a senior technology leader and role model for engineering teams. • Drive architecture, design, and technology decisions across distributed systems, streaming, AI, and cloud-native platforms. • Engage deeply with engineers, architects, and product leaders to solve complex technical challenges. • Influence engineering standards, software quality, and operational excellence. Build and Scale the Platform • Help shape and deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and secure decisioning platform operating at Mastercard scale. • Balan

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Pinterest
📍 CA, United States• Full-time• Remote
4mo ago

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Production Engineering organization at Pinterest is accountable for ensuring overall Pinterest availability as well as enhancing Engineering teams' capability to design, build and operate robust systems at scale. Pinterest's applications and infrastructure handle billions of monthly page views and petabytes of data as Pinterest continues to grow and scale. As a Senior Production Engineer on Solutions Engineering, you will design and build AI agents, platforms, tools, frameworks and methodologies to assure the reliability of our large-scale distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of monthly active users, handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second, and managing tens of petabytes of data. You'll lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, build intelligent automation that eliminates operational toil and amplifies engineer

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Twilio
📍 India• Full-time• Remote
5mo ago

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Software Architect, (L6). About the job This position is needed to define and drive architectural vision, strategy, and alignment across multiple products and domains at company scale. As a senior-most technical leader, you’ll set long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure coherence across distributed systems and platforms. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives, solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges, and elevate the technical standard for Twilio company-wide. Responsibilities In this role, you'll: Set and communicate long-term architectural vision, aligning teams and leadership across Twilio. Lead cross-product architecture reviews, standardize engineering practices, and drive foundational technical investments. Solve the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges at platform and company-wide scale. Mentor and guide principal and staff engineers, fostering a culture

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Databricks
📍 Mountain View• $189.8K – $256.2K/yr
7mo ago

P-1489 About Databricks At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance their business. The Role We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our most critical Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams at Databricks. As Databricks scales to support thousands of customers and the world’s most data-intensive workloads, Reliability is foundational to our mission. In this role, you will lead cross-company programs that significantly enhance the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud infrastructure. This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role partnering closely with our most senior engineering leaders, including Reliability Program executive sponsors, senior TLs, and Engineering Managers to define Reliability strategy, set long-term goals, and execute multi-quarter programs to build the most reliable cloud platform on the planet to help our customers run their mission-critical workloads on. To be successful, you must possess a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering principles that drive operational excellence. You will leverage your background to anticipate risks, shape technical direction, and deliver complex programs across product, engineering, SRE, and cloud partner teams. You will have the opportunity to: Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment

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P-1489 About Databricks At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance their business. The Role We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our most critical Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams at Databricks. As Databricks scales to support thousands of customers and the world’s most data-intensive workloads, Reliability is foundational to our mission. In this role, you will lead cross-company programs that significantly enhance the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud infrastructure. This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role partnering closely with our most senior engineering leaders, including Reliability Program executive sponsors, senior TLs, and Engineering Managers to define Reliability strategy, set long-term goals, and execute multi-quarter programs to build the most reliable cloud platform on the planet to help our customers run their mission-critical workloads on. To be successful, you must possess a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering principles that drive operational excellence. You will leverage your background to anticipate risks, shape technical direction, and deliver complex programs across product, engineering, SRE, and cloud partner teams. You will have the opportunity to: Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment

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