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Forward is transforming how the world’s most complex networks are managed and secured. Founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D.s, we built the industry’s first network digital twin — a mathematically precise model of the production network that gives IT teams unmatched visibility, verification, and agility across every major cloud and vendor environment. Our customers include global leaders such as Goldman Sachs, PayPal, S&P Global, IBM, and Dell, as well as fast-growing enterprises and government agencies. According to IDC, Forward customers realize an average of $14.2 million in annual benefits through improved efficiency and security. Backed by world-class investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, MSD Partners, and Threshold Ventures, Forward offers a people-centric, innovative culture where brilliant minds are shaping the future of network reliability, security, and AI-ready operations. Forward is currently seeking experienced Java developers to work as part of our Network team. Responsibilities Help bring the best ideas from the software development world into the networking industry. Contribute to our code base, systems and software architecture as a member of our engineering team. Help create and optimize network device models for different device vendors and protocols. Help create infrastructure needed to configure, collect and test network devices. Work with peers who are experts in Networking, Distributed Systems, Big Data and Search. Requirements 5+ years of work experience in software development 3+ years of work experience with Java BS in Computer Science or related degree Solid software engineering experience with large code bases Basic understanding of networking and TCP/IP. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Nice to haves Working knowledge of how switches, routers, firewalls or load balancers work. Experience working with networking protocols such as BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, VLAN, VXLAN, etc. This position is a re

MeltPlan | Planning Engine for the Built Environment MeltPlan is building the “planning engine” for the $14 Tn construction industry, an AI system designed specifically to optimize decisions before construction begins. While design software optimizes use and aesthetics and construction software optimizes execution and control, MeltPlan is building the missing layer - software that optimizes decisions and tradeoffs upstream, before scope is locked, procurement begins, and change orders become inevitable. MeltPlan’s long-term goal is to help teams make construction “boring” by making planning more intense: surfacing constraints and tradeoffs early, aligning stakeholders before plans are frozen, and reducing the need for late-stage redlines, rework, and change orders. MeltPlan is founded by operators who have built at scale. Kanav previously co-founded Innovaccer, a $3Bn health-tech company focused on making US healthcare more affordable and accessible. He’s now applying that systems-level thinking to construction.He’s joined by Tanmaya Kala, former Project Executive at DPR Construction, who led large commercial, healthcare, and life sciences projects. We combine deep tech scale with real construction execution. What This Role Really Is Code writing is a commodity. We’re not hiring someone to close tickets. We’re hiring someone who: Is biased toward building Thinks in systems Designs for scale and resilience Reviews architecture, not just PRs Can move fast without creating long-term mess You’ll ship products daily. You’ll also help shape the system so it doesn’t collapse under growth. What You’ll Do Build end-to-end features (DB → API → UI) Design scalable data models and backend architecture Ship clean, production-grade frontend experiences Review and improve system design decisions Work directly with founders on product direction Help define engineering standards as we scale What We’re Looking For Strong backend fundamentals (APIs, databases, performance, system desi

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer, Data, you will design, build, and operate the next generation of our data platform and products – going beyond ID to power a networked digital identity – while keeping member privacy, security, and reliability at the core. What you’ll do: Build and operate scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines – from ingestion to modeling to visualization – so Analysts and Engineers can self-service changes in an automated, tested, secure, and high-quality manner. Develop and maintain end-to-end data products and pipelines (batch and/or streaming) that collect, clean, transform, and model data, and own the infrastructure that powers them to unlock new business use cases and reporting. Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and shared developer tooling for data products (e.g., Pulumi/Terraform, GitHub, orchestration tools like Dagster/Airflow) to make it easy and safe for teams to build, test, and ship changes across environments. Improve the security, compliance, and cost posture of the data stack through robust dependency management, IAM and secrets hardening, observability, and performance/cost optimizations. Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, make architectural decisions, and continuously improve our data platform and processes. How you’ll measure success: Data reliability & SLAs: % successful pipeline runs, adherence to freshness SLAs for core datasets, and reduction in data-related incidents impacting stakeholders. Platform quality & efficiency: Reductio

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. Today, CLEAR is well-known as a leader in digital and biometric identification, reducing friction for our members wherever an ID check is needed. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to establish our Observability framework and foundations. You will join us to accelerate building and scaling our innovative systems that support our growing identity platform. You will drive on Observability best practices to find and fix gaps in our observability and our overall systems. You will also lead practices such as load testing, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and incident post-mortems. What You Will Do: Embed within the Engineering pillar to deeply understand the product and implement observability across all key flows Facilitate and build load testing cases, ensuring we understand the limits and scaling factors of our services and systems Contribute to observability and support the design of new services and systems, ensuring highly reliable and scalable concepts are implemented Build and lead practices such as game days, chaos engineering, and failure analysis Build long-term capacity plans, with an eye toward reliability and cost-efficiency Who You Are: 6+ experience writing production-grade software in a modern language, such as Java and Python. Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts (think CAP theorem), microservices architecture, and distributed tracing . Experience with modern observability systems such as Datadog. Experience with performance debugging tools and patterns. You should be able to read a f

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Python / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Mentor teammates through t

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to serve as a technical leader and strategic contributor within our Product Security team. This role goes beyond execution — you will drive the evolution of CLEAR’s application security posture by influencing architecture, shaping security engineering processes, and mentoring team members in security and engineering. You’ll lead security initiatives across the organization and help embed security into every stage of our software development lifecycle. What you'll do: Drive security strategy and implementation across all CLEAR products and engineering teams, ensuring consistent protection of customer and business-critical assets. Partner with engineering leadership to align application security initiatives with company-wide technology and product roadmaps, balancing innovation with risk mitigation. Provide technical leadership across CLEAR’s application security initiatives, guiding architecture, design, and development to meet high security standards. Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams — including Engineering, DevOps, Product, GRC, and IT — enabling secure-by-design practices across the organization. Design and drive implementation of scalable automated security controls and testing frameworks integrated into CLEAR’s CI/CD pipelines. Lead complex threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments across high-value systems and platforms, driving meaningful security outcomes. Engage with CLEAR's customers to provide insight and support their fraud and ident

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Network Engineering team to accelerate building and scaling our innovative systems that support our growing identity platform. In this role, you will build the next-generation infrastructure that underpins all systems at CLEAR. The ideal candidate for this role will approach challenges with an eye toward reliability, simplicity, and scalability. What You'll Do: Develop and maintain a streamlined process for engineers to effortlessly build and deploy scalable and reliable software-defined networking solutions on AWS. Enhance our compute platform (Kubernetes) by integrating new functionalities and features, focusing on AWS networking services and concepts such as VPCs, Route Tables, Security Groups (SGs), ALBs/ELBs, and Route53, as well as implementing Kubernetes networking solutions like service mesh (Istio) to optimize service communication and management. Collaborate across engineering teams to advocate for and implement best practices in observability, utilizing tools like Splunk or Datadog to ensure robust network monitoring. Act as a product owner for our infrastructure, collecting feedback and requirements from engineering teams to address pain points and develop solutions, particularly in the realm of AWS networking and cloud-native design principles. What you're great at: 6+ years of extensive experience in infrastructure and platform development, particularly in software-defined networking and AWS cloud services. Proficient in writing production-grade softwar

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. Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications. With Okta Workflows, organizations can automate processes quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost - all within an intuitive, no-code interface. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, MGM, Netflix, and more, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure. Position Description We are looking for a full-stack JavaScript engineer that has a deep understanding of both backend service engineering and user interface development. In this role, you will be a vital part of our Workflows Integrated Development Environment team. You will share our passion and great pride in building elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that prioritizes scalability, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative approach to build high-quality, next-generation enterprise software. You will be part of a full-stack engineering team at Okta that provides opportunities to investigate new technologies and share knowledge, tools, code, and best practices. You will get an opportunity to solve hard problems while partnering with product management an

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Fraud Data team at Plaid builds the machine learning systems that power Plaid’s fraud detection products, leveraging insights from across Plaid’s network to help identify and stop fraud before it happens. Our team works across the full data science and machine learning lifecycle—from discovering new signals and experimenting with models to deploying and optimizing them in production. We continuously learn from real-world model performance and customer feedback to improve our systems and develop new ways to protect customers and consumers from evolving fraud threats. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Plaid's Fraud Data team, you will develop models that improve fraud detection for our customers. You will identify predictive patterns in Plaid's network data and lead projects from initial experiments through model deployment and ongoing improvement. Investigate fraud patterns and model errors to identify new signals, improve detection, and expand coverage across customers and use cases. Develop training datasets and predictive features, addressing challenges such as incomplete labels, class imbalance, data leakage, and changing fraud behavior. Design, train, and tune model

Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly. We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services Who You Are You have exper

Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly. We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services Who You Are You have exper

Atlas Stream Processing enables developers to continuously process streaming data alongside critical application data stored in their database. It builds on MongoDB’s integrated developer data platform, so developers can stand up a stream processor and database with just a few API calls and lines of code, all fully managed. Our product is quickly gaining traction, and we are adding core features that you will contribute to and own. The team owns the C++ stream processing engine that powers Atlas Stream Processing, built on top of MongoDB's Aggregation Framework. The team operates like a startup within the company, a small group with real autonomy, responsible for everything from the core execution engine and stream processing stages . We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve this execution engine. Position Expectations Design, build, and deliver core components of the system in collaboration with other stakeholders Help shape architecture, development practices, and escalation policies as the teams and the product grow Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects Qualifications Strong background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization) 5+ years of experience in building database services, distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational material of computer science, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers, and assume project ownership and accountability Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or

Datadog Notebooks provide customers with a collaborative surface for ad-hoc data analysis, technical documentation, incident postmortems and runbooks. The power and flexibility of Notebooks also makes it the perfect place to integrate AI tools that can augment user workflows. Our vision is that in Notebooks users can collaborate with each other and with AI agents seamlessly. We are looking for a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-assisted workflows that are becoming central to how customers use Notebooks. In this role you will work closely with product and design, and own platforms for analysis workflows and context discovery. There is a real opportunity for impact here: turning Notebooks into the tool that helps customers go from uncertainty to answer, and making that knowledge retrievable and reusable across Datadog products. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered product experiences for Notebooks and adjacent surfaces Develop systems that combine deterministic product capabilities with LLM-powered experiences to deliver trustworthy and explainable customer outcomes Partner closely with Product: Work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager to translate customer problems, adoption signals, and roadmap goals into concrete technical decisions and iterations Build experiences that enable Datadog capabilities to operate within third-party AI platforms, agents, and conversational environments Provide technical leadership and mentorship while helping establish AI engineering best practices Own production systems: Build and operate reliable backend services that run in the critical path of customer deployments, and be on-call for those services Who You Are You have experience with Go,

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacarts Detection Engineering team sits at the core of our Security organization, building and operating the systems that identify, surface, and respond to threats across one of North America's largest grocery technology platforms. We own the full detection lifecycle, from telemetry collection and signal design to automated response, across a complex, cloud-native environment spanning endpoint, cloud, container, and SaaS. As a Senior Detection Engineer II, you'll be a technical anchor on the team: developing high-fidelity detection logic, hunting for novel attacker techniques, and raising the bar for how we think about coverage, quality, and scale. You'll work closely with Engineering, Red Team, Incident Response, Fraud, and Trust & Safety to ensure our detections reflect real-world adversary behavior; not just signatures. We operate with a detectio

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacarts Detection Engineering team sits at the core of our Security organization, building and operating the systems that identify, surface, and respond to threats across one of North America's largest grocery technology platforms. We own the full detection lifecycle, from telemetry collection and signal design to automated response, across a complex, cloud-native environment spanning endpoint, cloud, container, and SaaS. As a Senior Detection Engineer II, you'll be a technical anchor on the team: developing high-fidelity detection logic, hunting for novel attacker techniques, and raising the bar for how we think about coverage, quality, and scale. You'll work closely with Engineering, Red Team, Incident Response, Fraud, and Trust & Safety to ensure our detections reflect real-world adversary behavior; not just signatures. We operate with a detectio