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📍 Texas, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $145.3K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. About the Role We are looking for an Account Executive to join our Sales and Go-to-Market team. This role is based in the greater Dallas, TX area, reporting to the Regional Director. You will be part of a global group of professionals passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing expertise to drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future. By demonstrating the power and agility of cloud transformation, you will help cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Build relationships with important internal and customer stakeholders, including c-suite decision-makers Create a long-term account strategy aligned with customer goals Collaborate with internal teams to meet customer needs and contribute to comprehensive account planning Act as a trusted advisor by understanding client businesses and aligning technical solutions with their stra

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📍 New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $120.8K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. About the Role We are looking for an Account Executive to join our Sales and Go-to-Market team. This role is based in New York, reporting to the Regional Director. You will be part of a global group of professionals passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing expertise to drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future. By demonstrating the power and agility of cloud transformation, you will help cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Build relationships with important internal and customer stakeholders, including c-suite decision-makers Create a long-term account strategy aligned with customer goals Collaborate with internal teams to meet customer needs and contribute to comprehensive account planning Act as a trusted advisor by understanding client businesses and aligning technical solutions with their strategic goals W

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📍 California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $97K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. We are looking for an Account Executive based in California to join our Sales and Go-to-Market team, reporting to the Regional Director. The Zscaler Sales and Go-to-Market team is a global group of professionals passionate about driving a secure, cloud-enabled digital future. You will demonstrate the power and agility of Zscaler cloud transformation to the world while cementing our position as the global leader in cloud security. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Build relationships with important internal and customer stakeholders, including c-suite decision-makers Create a long-term account strategy aligned with customer goals Collaborate with our teams to meet customer needs and contribute to account planning Be a trusted advisor, understanding client businesses and aligning Zscaler solutions with their goals Who You Are (Success Profile) You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. Y

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📍 California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $117.3K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. About the Role We are looking for an Account Executive to join our Sales and Go-to-Market team. This role is based in the greater Southern CA area, reporting to the Regional Director. You will be part of a global group of professionals passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing expertise to drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future. By demonstrating the power and agility of cloud transformation, you will help cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Build relationships with important internal and customer stakeholders, including c-suite decision-makers Create a long-term account strategy aligned with customer goals Collaborate with internal teams to meet customer needs and contribute to comprehensive account planning Act as a trusted advisor by understanding client businesses and aligning technical solutions with th

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📍 California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $117.3K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. About the Role We are looking for an Account Executive to join our Sales and Go-to-Market team. This role is based in the greater Bay Area, reporting to the Regional Director. You will be part of a global group of professionals passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing expertise to drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future. By demonstrating the power and agility of cloud transformation, you will help cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Build relationships with important internal and customer stakeholders, including c-suite decision-makers Create a long-term account strategy aligned with customer goals Collaborate with internal teams to meet customer needs and contribute to comprehensive account planning Act as a trusted advisor by understanding client businesses and aligning technical solutions with thei

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $150.5K/yr

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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 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges 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. We are seeking a Global Senior Manager of Leave of Absence to join our team in a hybrid capacity—based out of our Santa Clara, CA or Bellevue, WA offices (in-office Tuesday–Thursday)—or as a Remote (US) team member. Reporting directly to the AMS Director of Benefits within the Total Rewards department, you will serve as the strategic architect and hands-on operational lead for our global leave, time off, and disability programs. In this high-impact role, you will design, implement, and scale leave policies and processes tailored for a diverse, rapidly growing global workforce. Your mission is to ensure our programs remain highly market-competitive and legally compliant, while championing an "employee-first" philosophy that deeply reflects our core values. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Design and standardize global leave frameworks that balance statutory requirements with company benefits, serving as the lead SME for

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$960K – $1.2M/yr

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At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The IT team helps keep Affirm’s people productive, connected, and secure by supporting the technology employees rely on every day. We manage and support end-user devices, enterprise applications, office technology, and IT infrastructure while maintaining a strong focus on security, compliance, and a seamless employee experience. Our team works across a broad range of technologies and partners closely with employees throughout the company to troubleshoot issues, improve processes, and build reliable, scalable solutions as Affirm grows. We’re seeking a flexible IT Support Administrator to help manage and support Affirm’s New York City office and technology infrastructure. Our ideal candidate excels in troubleshooting and problem-solving, with respect for compliance, and documentation. As a Support Administrator of a rapidly growing company, you will be the backbone of IT, with efficiency, security, and customer satisfaction being your primary objectives. What You'll Do: Locally support and troubleshoot users within our NYC office Remotely support and troubleshoot our end user’s problems Educate on and enforce our IT compliance and policy obligations Maintain our Zoom Rooms and AV hardware within conference rooms Monitor for security threats and malware, staying ahead of the curve to protect our users Occasionally maintain the in-office, local network infrastructure Maintain enterprise systems and company IT assets such as servers and desktops What We Look For: Experience with macOS administration and support Ability to improvise and find immediate solutions Experience managing formal ticketing systems Experience administering SaaS technologies Flexibility to work with all types of technology macOS, Windows, Printers, Network devices, etc. Experience with machine and account prov

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $220K/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. We’re looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to help us build the next generation of products which will go beyond just ID and enable our members to leverage the power of a networked digital identity. As a Machine Learning Engineer at CLEAR, you will participate in the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of applications to build and enhance our platform - one that interconnects dozens of attributes and qualifications while keeping member privacy and security at the core. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / Postgres / Snowflake / dbt AWS SageMaker and MLflow What you'll do: Own and drive the foundational work of a ML system at CLEAR Design, build and deploy ML models for various applications, such as document and image processing, fraud detection. Develop and implement robust data pipelines at a variety of scales, including collection, pre-processing, transformation, and feature engineering Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR What you're great at: 3+ years of experience building, operating and scaling ML models for consumer applications, particularly those with experience building end-to-end systems Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance Expertise in best practices for feature enginee

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.9%
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About the Team The Finance Platform & Technology team builds and scales the systems and data architecture that power OpenAI’s core financial operations. We enable business agility, compliance, and operational excellence across procure-to-pay, quote-to-cash, supply chain, financial planning, and asset management. We partner with Procurement, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Security, Data, and Engineering to modernize workflows through thoughtful platform design, reliable integrations, scalable automation, and trusted data. About the Role As a Business Systems Lead for Procure-to-Pay, you will be a hands-on engineer who designs, builds, and operates the integrations and first-party applications that power OpenAI’s procurement workflows. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable software, APIs, data flows, and automation across Oracle Fusion, Zip, and connected platforms. You will build the future of buying at OpenAI using OpenAI’s own technology, from guided intake and approval experiences to supplier onboarding, purchasing, receiving, invoicing, and downstream financial data flows. You will own the technical roadmap and support model for these capabilities, improving today’s platforms while deciding where to integrate, configure, or build as OpenAI scales. Your core strength will be software and integration engineering. You will personally write code, troubleshoot cross-system failures, and take solutions through testing, deployment, and production support. You will also make targeted functional configurations in procurement platforms and partner with functional specialists on deeper process and module design. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate integrations across Oracle Fusion, Zip, and connected systems using APIs, events, messaging, and batch interfaces where appropriate. Build first-party

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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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 Senior Software Engineer Overview Join a team responsible for building the authentication and security solutions that help protect digital interactions across Mastercard's Identity Solutions platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing applications that enable trusted identity verification, authentication, and fraud prevention capabilities. In this role, you will take ownership of complex technical challenges, contribute to software design and architecture decisions, and partner closely with product, security, and platform teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions. You'll play a key role in advancing engineering excellence through secure development practices, system reliability, automation, and continuous improvement while mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction across the team. Role •Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, cloud-native applications and microservices •Develop REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability •Translate requirements into well-structured designs and architecture, ensuring maintainability and security •Lead and contribute to system design discussions, aligning with architectural standards and best practices<

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📍 Texas, United States of America, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +41%

$147.1K – $230.9K/yr

Principal Embedded Firmware and Software Engineer Description - We are seeking a Principal Embedded Firmware & Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and debugging of embedded software and firmware for computer systems. In this role, you will combine deep, hands-on engineering expertise with system-level technical leadership to ensure seamless integration between software and hardware components, delivering reliable and efficient system performance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, software developers, QA, and product managers to bring high-quality products to market. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the architecture, development, security, integration, debugging, validation, and deployment of embedded firmware and software including BIOS/UEFI, EFI applications and drivers, embedded controllers, and RTOS-based systems. Analyze hardware and system architectures to define firmware requirements, dependencies, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches. Troubleshoot and resolve firmware issues by designing and implementing enhancements, updates, and programming changes across firmware subsystems. Define and drive firmware integration, verification, and validation strategies, including automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration . Develop and improve engineering tools and automation using Python and other appropriate technologies for development, debugging, testing, analysis, and validation. Advance CI/CD and DevSecOps practices for embedded development to improve engineering velocity, quality, traceability, and release confidence. Evaluate and apply AI-assisted software development and engineering tools where they can improve developer productivity,

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📍 United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -92.7%

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our data science team and business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future. What you’ll do as an Senior Analytics Engineer at Vanta: Design and implement complex data models to enable dashboards, self-serve analytics, and data science teams. Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses. Enable AI tooling with semantic layers and observability, guiding analytics functions on best practices. Manage and improve data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions. Help develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide Work with the Product and Corporate Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise. How to be successful in this role: Have at least four years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field. Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. dbt is a must, Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, Airflow, Dagster, Looker/Mode/Sigma). Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Analytics Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries. Deep knowledge of crafting dimensional and fact models in modern data fashion. Have a passion for enabling the developer experience of data, and being obsessed with giving

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our engineering team and business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Data Engineer at Vanta: Design and deploy data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions Design and implement complex data orchestration models, modeling metadata, scaling reporting tools for data science and ML products users Be the company’s expert on data administration, data management and scalable data systems Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses Work with the Product and Enterprise Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise Help maintain CDC pipelines to power customer reporting Help develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide How to be successful in this role: Have at least four years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field. Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster). Have good working knowledge of AWS data infra systems and Terraform. Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Data Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries Deep kn

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -83.9%

About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great dev

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -83.9%

Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Full-Stack Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team to build and optimize the interfaces and tools that power our data infrastructure. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain full-stack applications that support data acquisition, including internal tools and dashboards. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure seamless data ingestion and workflow management. Design and implement APIs to facilitate data interactions between internal services and external data sources. Enhance user experience by developing intuitive web-based interfaces for managing and monitoring data pipelines. Optimize backend services for performance, scalability, and security in a distributed computing environment. Work with legal and compliance teams to ensure our data acquisition processes adhere to privacy regulations and best practices. Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies. Analyze system performance, conduct experiments, and improve data workflows to maximize efficiency. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in full-stack development. Proficiency in frontend frameworks (React, Vue, or similar) and backend technologies such as Python, Node.js, or Go. Strong expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and database design (SQL and NoSQL). Experience building data-intensive applications that handle large-scale datasets. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). Prior experience with web crawling and large-scale data processing is a

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