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📍 New York, new york, United States· Full-time
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About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of highly experienced engineers building the infrastructure that powers Modal's serverless GPU platform. This is a hands-on leadership role — expect to split your time between technical contribution and people management depending on what the team needs. You'll set direction, remove blockers, and build a strong engineering culture as your team tackles hard problems in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization. Who You Are You're an experienced engineering leader who stays close to the work and builds alongside your team when it counts. You earn trust through technical depth, not title. You communicate clearly, help strong engineers move fast without cutting corners, and stay calm and pragmatic under pressure. You care as much about how your team gets to an answer as the answ

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We're looking for an Engineering Manager II to own and grow the Observability Pipelines engineering org at a pivotal moment in the product's lifecycle. Observability Pipelines is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product, with a lot still to build as it grows and scales. It sits at the center of a fast-consolidating market, is central to Datadog's data pipeline optimization story for Logs and Metrics customers. This is a build-and-scale opportunity: you'll grow the management and technical leadership layers, co-own the roadmap with Product, and define how this org operates as it continues to expand. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Directly manage the OP org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org continues to grow - today ~20 ICs Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping decide where OP’s engineering investment goes next Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC team, and the Vector open-source community Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth plans that let the org scale beyond you Who You Are: Experienced managing managers across distributed teams, with a track record of raising the bar on how those teams operate, not just delivering through them Back

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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Code Intelligence sits at the intersection of agentic engineering and product, running agents against real customer source code in production. This is a chance to own an AI-native team at the center of a business-critical growth area. High visibility, high leverage, and squarely in the fastest-growing part of the AI agent space. 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 employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead and develop an existing engineering team, building trust, setting technical direction, and establishing a high bar for ownership and execution. Own the roadmap and execution across four areas: source code indexing, PR Agentic Reviewers (agents that generate artifacts like metric descriptions on customer pull requests), shift-left work (extending code-writing agents to make direct changes to customer repos), and closed-loop feedback and evaluation systems including LLM-as-judge. Set the team's product strategy independently while partnering day-to-day with product teams company-wide — this team functions as its own product org. Build and operate scaled LLM and agent software in production: LLM APIs, agent frameworks, harness and tool-use layers, prompt and eval tooling, and closed-loop evaluation systems that measure and improve agent output quality. Partner closely with customers and internal stakeholders to deeply understand needs and translate them into technical direction. Drive the team's AI-native development practices, setting high standards for safety, validation, and increasing agent autonomy over time. Who You Are: Experienced engineering manager with a track record of shipping products with direct customer interaction, not just internal stakeholders. Hands-on experience building scaled LLM software: LLM APIs, agent frameworks, prompt and eval tooling, h

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📍 New York, new york, United States· Full-time
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About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical production systems. As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform, customer base, and our team. This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines, and thrive from making others move faster at scale. Responsibilities include: Identifying architectural changes to improve reliability and performance. Fostering a culture of reliability across Modal’s engineering organization. Defining and implementing operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, etc. Operating systems like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, etc. Participating in on-call rotations, and responding to production incidents. Requirements: 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code. 2+ years of

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in NYC. We use a hy

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more. We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more. Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: (Describe role responsibilities here/max 6 bullets) Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC) Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate project Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc. Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability Who You Are: (Describe role qualifications here/max 6 bullets) Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc. Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up ow

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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We are the Experimentation team at Datadog, a startup operating inside one of the fastest-growing companies in software. The team brings together engineers who joined through Datadog’s May 2025 acquisition of Eppo with engineers from across Datadog, and together we are building feature flagging and experimentation into the platform. Both products were recently launched this year, and we are just getting started: we are migrating customers from Eppo onto Datadog while shipping an ambitious roadmap across both flagging and experimentation. Our statistics engineers hold PhDs and are pushing the boundaries of what an experimentation platform can do. Our full-stack engineers move fast, lean on the latest AI tooling, and prototype and ship new features weekly. We talk to customers directly to shape requirements, and our roadmap is driven by our own product vision and sharpened by real customer and sales input. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Experimentation App. You will own one to two squads to start, partnering closely with our engineers, statisticians, product managers, and designers to turn a deep roadmap into a shipped product. To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. What You’ll Do: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong full-stack and frontend engineers. Help them grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop. Own delivery for the Experimentation App from planning through production, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment. Set technical direction in partnership with your team and our statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs. Partner with Product, Design, and customers directly to shape requirements and turn customer and sales input into roadmap. Foster a culture of fast iteration and high engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and blamele

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth This Engineering Manager will lead the Onboarding team within the Shared Capabilities organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that drive new users to adopt Datadog in their organizations. From the first time a new user signs up for a Datadog trial, this team is responsible for making sure they have a world class setup and onboarding experience, and can realize the full value of Datadog in their organization. Onboarding owns the “front door” of Datadog, the very first experience new users and prospective customers encounter. This work is extremely important to company success - improving our onboarding process directly impacts new users ability to find value with Datadog quickly. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling first-time user experiences At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Onboarding Growth team Coach and develop engineers at various levels Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more Build UX features to streamline the onboarding and trial experience through rapid experimentation Build out data platforms and use that data to personalize the onboarding experience for each user Work directly with product teams to ensure each product has a best in class new user experience Create AI-assisted setup options to make sure initial setup “just works” out of the box Champion the use of analytics data to analyze user behaviour and apply those insights

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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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 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role The Advisor Experience team is a new engineering team within Addepar’s Core Product Engineering organization, focused on building the products and experiences that define how financial advisors and their clients interact on the Addepar platform. Initially this role will focus on our new Secure Message Center — a compliant messaging experience built into Addepar’s client portal — but the scope extends well beyond messaging. We’re building the connective tissue between advisors and the investors they serve, creating workflows that make every interaction more informed, more personal, and more seamless. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll lead a small, growing group of engineers and shape both the technical direction and team culture from the early stages. You’ll partner closely with product management and design to translate an ambitious product vision into shipped software. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B , F-1 /OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment. What You'll Do Lead, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack en

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$240K – $300K/yr

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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do You will lead the engineering team responsible for Brex’s GTM Engineering surfaces, enabling our growth engine across Marketing, Sales, and self-serve funnels. This role focuses on building and optimizing our marketing website (Brex.com), GTM applications, top-of-funnel experiences, and AI-powered systems that increase efficiency, reduce CAC, and improve sales and marketing effectiveness. Where you’ll work This role will be based in our New York office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$300K – $350K/yr

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Salary range: $300k - $350k | Equity: 0.4% - 0.6% | In-Person: NYC About Datalab Datalab trains models that read documents reliably at scale. The world's most important information is trapped in PDFs, scans, and files that can't easily be parsed, and getting it out correctly matters. From frontier AI labs processing training data to Fortune 500s like Siemens extracting decades of engineering records, Datalab is where businesses turn to when extraction has to be right. We’re at an 8-figure run rate with a team of 7. Anthropic is a customer. And we have hundreds more across FAANG, frontier AI labs, healthcare, finance, government, and legal. Our tools, Chandra, Surya, Marker, and Lift, have 70,000+ GitHub stars and broad developer mindshare. We're backed by founding members of OpenAI, FAIR, and Hugging Face. Role Overview We're looking for an engineering lead to guide our team while staying hands-on in the code. You'll set the technical direction and standards for how we build the interfaces, tools, and infrastructure behind our OCR, extraction, and document-understanding systems. This includes everything from optimizing agent loops and interfaces to helping to speed up inference. This is a player-coach role. You'll manage and grow a team of three engineers, own engineering delivery and quality, and spend a large share of your time writing code - focused on architecture, infrastructure, and the hard problems rather than routine feature work. You’ll partner closely with the research team to define the handoff between experimentation and production. As a small and fast-moving team, roles are fluid and ownership is high. You'll work directly with the founder to set priorities, ship features, and make our technology accessible to a global community of builders. Day to day, you will: Manage and grow a team of three engineers - 1:1s, prioritization, feedback, and hiring as we scale. Own engineering delivery, quality, and technical standards across code, testing, infrastruct

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Security Engineering is the engineering function inside the Plaid security org that focuses on developing the industry-leading security systems and infrastructure. Security Engineering owns most of Plaid’s security-related infrastructure: secure data storage, key management systems, internal identity platform, internal authentication systems, internal permission management, and internal authorization service. We develop solutions across data encryption, key management, access control, and data loss prevention to protect sensitive consumer data. We believe in the Zero Trust security model and are always looking for ways to improve our authentication and access control platforms. About the role: You will develop security capabilities to secure Plaid infrastructure and sensitive data access. You will lead the team’s strategic planning in collaboration with the manager and other senior engineers. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s security infrastructure and services like IAM Gateway, Key Management System and Network Firewall. You will consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards. You will help educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$275K – $350K/yr

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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. The Engineering Manager, CLEAR1 Strategic Partnerships Platform (StratP) is responsible for leading the engineering team that builds partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements that strengthen CLEAR1’s customer offerings. In this role, you’ll drive execution, technical direction, and team development across a high-leverage platform area, turning strategic partner and market needs into scalable, reliable capabilities that improve delivery quality and create long-term business value. What you’ll do: Lead, coach, and develop engineers through hiring, feedback, performance management, and career growth Drive roadmap execution by setting priorities, running strong planning cadences, and delivering against CLEAR1 business commitments Partner across Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering to translate partner and customer needs into scalable platform capabilities Lead delivery across work spanning partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements for CLEAR1 Guide architecture, technical tradeoffs, and dependency management to improve reliability, speed, and long-term platform leverage How you’ll measure success: Improved roadmap predictability and delivery against planned commitments Clearer prioritization and stronger execution across competing demands and shared dependencies Better ownership clarity across partner-facing integrations, identity flows, and customer-facing platf

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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This Engineering Manager will lead the Data Visualizations Explorations team within the Graphing organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that build end to end experiences for Datadog’s core users: observability engineers. This includes extending the capabilities of core widgets like Hostmap and Geomap Visualizations and finding innovative ways to leverage existing Datadog data sources. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling data experiences. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team Coach and develop engineers at various levels Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more. Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals. Identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages. Deeply understand the needs of our customers and other Datadog products we work with. Participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices as well. Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for our widgets. Who You Are: At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with front

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$192K – $240K/yr

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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do As an engineer at Brex, you will help develop new products from concept to launch, whether for a 5-person startup or a 5,000-person-strong enterprise. We’re looking for folks with an interest in building products and tools, and who are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You’ll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar. You'll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best fin

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