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Lead Senior Software Engineer Production Engineering in United States

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Explore current lead senior software engineer production engineering jobs across United States. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

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$216K – $216K/yr

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States
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Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. The Challenge As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for OneTrust’s AI Governance (AIG) platform, driving the design, scalability, and reliability of systems that enable enterprises to deploy and govern AI and LLM-powered applications responsibly. You will deeply understand how customers build, deploy, and operate AI systems, and translate those needs into secure, compliant, and observable platform capabilities. Your Mission Development Lead the design and development of Java/Python microservices and shared libraries integrating with AI platforms for OneTrust’s AI Governance product. Design, build, and test cloud-native applications deployed on Microsoft Azure using Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem. Lead the architecture and development of reusable AIG reporting and dashboard capabilities that integrate governance data from SQL databases and analytical platforms with runtime observability signals. Design reusable semantic-layer and metric-abstraction capabilities, including dataset contracts, metric defini

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📍 United States· Remote
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary: As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Aetna, you will play a critical leadership role in the design, development, and continuous enhancement of enterprise-scale Provider Applications. You will drive technical solutions for complex business problems, ensure application stability, and lead cross-functional initiatives as a Project Owner. This role requires a balance of hands-on engineering expertise, technical leadership, and delivery ownership, including overseeing vendor/contractor teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, and delivering high-impact solutions that improve provider data systems and operational efficiency. Required Qualifications: 5+ years of hands-on application development experience with Python and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 2+ years of experience leading or contributing to large-scale application development initiatives Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environments Proven experience in project/program management, including planning, execution tracking, and delivery management Strong organizational, leadership, and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities Experience working with distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders Prior exposure to

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $272K/yr

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About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Senior Staff Engineers are technical leaders operating at the forefront of large-scale systems design, building the infrastructure that will support our next five years of growth and beyond. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical depth to build industry-leading systems in areas such as observability data platforms, distributed query engines, and real-time event streaming at global scale. As technical leaders, they apply broad architectural perspective and deep systems thinking to align design decisions across teams and domains. They work across complex, multi-team problem spaces to define long-term technical direction, drive large-scale initiatives forward, and ensure consistent execution. As engineering stewards, they play a key role in evolving our systems and engineering culture. They actively participate in Datadog’s senior technical community, bringing external insights and internal experience to elevate engineering standards and mentor the next generation of technical leaders. Examples of projects a Senior Staff Engineer may lead include designing and launching a new distributed data storage engine capable of handling hundreds of millions of records per second, building the real-time infrastructure behind a new observability product, or re-architecting a core service to support exponential growth in throughput and complexity. What You’ll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas, often spanning several t

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -98.8%

From $244K/yr

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Job: Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb's belongs anywhere mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we'll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts. Airbnb's business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments' processing volume. Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization. Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets. As a Senior Staff Engineer and Technical Lead for the Payments Compliance organization, you would own the technical vision and architectural direction across the full Compliance engineering landscape — spanning Policy Enforcement, Identity, Screening, Auditing, and Compliance Experience. You will ensure our compliance systems are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with broader company priorities as we navigate an increasingly complex global regulatory environment. The Role: We are looking for a seasoned technical leader who can operate at the intersection of deep systems expertise and organizational influence. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will serve as the connective tissue across Complia

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities across the enterprise admin experience and OpenAI's growing multi-product portfolio. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems that are foundational to our enterprise business. This role requires operating well beyond a single service or feature area. You will identify the most consequential architectural investments, align teams around durable solutions, and ensure our identity platform meets an exceptionally high bar for scale, availability, latency, and security. This role will be based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office. In this role, you will: Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces. Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base. Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products and enable the organization to scale. Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities. Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team. Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization. You might thr

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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We are seeking a highly skilled and hard-working Senior Test Developer / test engineer to join our multifaceted Enterprise Software QA team. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to leave your mark on the design, construction, optimization and testing of large-scale infrastructure for various foundational NVIDIA unified cloud services and data center offerings. If you are a dedicated engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems and want to apply your skills with AI tools, this role could fit you perfectly. You will thrive in an exciting, innovative environment. What you'll be doing: Work with development teams on test plans for all layers of SW stack for cloud infrastructure, execution, reviews, failure analysis and assessing overall quality and risk. Work with customer PMs on software issues including technical feedback from OEMs and CSPs. Develop key benchmarks to track execution and deploy process improvements to improve efficiency Leverage AI skills to expedite the test scope, test plan, execution and automation workflows. Lead NVIDIA Cloud and Data Center bring up activities which will involve validation, reporting, working with engineering to debug issues, providing design input at times, adding coverage in different areas. Design, develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing in cloud environments when needed. Perform performance, scalability, and reliability testing of cloud services. Implement and maintain test environments in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Supervise the infrastructure to alert on significant events, ensuring the highest level of system performance and reliability. Work with various different partner teams to ensure availability of clusters to test on and take the lead in resolve all issues. Working with tea

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $272K/yr

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We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end. 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: Serve as the technical owner for GenAI initiatives within APM, leading design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-powered features across multiple teams. Guide long-term strategy and technical direction for GenAI workflows across APM and related products. Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques. Contribute to Datadog’s broader senior engineering community through thought leadership and collaboration on company-wide initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools. Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user. Guide teams through ambiguity, sc

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $200K/yr

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We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $200K/yr

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We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -85.9%

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: As a Staff Product Engineer at Replit, you’ll work closely with other product and platform engineers, designers, sales representative, and product managers to build features that help users collaborate with their team to go from idea to software fast. You’ll be at the forefront of shaping and experimenting on what our tens of millions of users love. You will: Help lead major projects and take new products from 0->1 Identify the hardest technical and/or quality problems holding us back, and then build solutions Chart high level technical direction and follow up to make sure those projects come together to deliver on results Mentor and develop new senior engineers to help grow the team Ship new features and build infrastructure using: TypeScript, React, CSS, GraphQL, Node.js, and Postgres Required skills and experience: A minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience Experience in a technical leadership role, working cross functionally Working experience building full stack applications with TypeScript Working experience building directly for users Bonus Points : You’re excited about the future of programming and have experience working with IDEs, terminals, or other common developer tools You’ve had previous experience working at a startup in a cross-functional engineering role This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match ( US Only ) ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave 🏝 Flexible

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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 We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Advisor Experience team as our Technical Lead. Our team is focused on building tools for financial advisors to grow and sustain their business. We oversee bespoke products for advisors and develop advisor-focused capabilities throughout the Addepar platform. In this role, you will be the primary technical anchor for new capabilities including Secure Message Center — a compliant messaging experience built into Addepar's client portal that allows advisors and their clients to communicate directly within the platform. You will partner directly with Engineering Leadership and Product Management to build a modern, scalable architecture from the ground up. Beyond system design, you will act as a true engineering multiplier: setting technical standards, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and working alongside other senior engineers and AI specialists to deliver high-impact advisor tools. 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 employme

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -70%

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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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

From $295.3K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team, you will lead large, multi-team initiatives with long-term technical vision and group-level impact. You will be expected to define and drive the platform-wide strategy powering how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox. In this role, you will set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and serve as a key architect of our long-term technical direction. You Will Drive Strategy & Execution: Own the outcome of complex, business-critical programs spanning several teams, often lasting years. Innovate at Scale: Develop and drive a multi-year technical vision for content creation and sharing, anticipating scale, technology, and business evolution. Elevate Reliability: Lead high-severity incident response across groups; drive durable systemic solutions that improve reliability and velocity. Architect Foundations: Regularly improve shared infrastructure and foundational systems, introducing frameworks that uplift development speed across the organization. Align Teams: Aligns multiple teams on shared technical direction, producing detailed design docs, phased roadmaps, and planning models that balance short an

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.7%

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security for our Security Foundations team. Product security sits at the center of the trust customers place in the Snowflake platform, and this role owns the hard technical problems that keep that trust intact. You will drive security architecture and secure-by-design practices across engineering teams, shaping how new products are built rather than reviewing them after the fact. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PRODUCT SECURITY AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Set the technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions before code is written Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls that other engineering teams adopt as defaults Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform's most complex and high-risk systems Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle Investigate and drive resolution of the highest-severity security issues, then eliminate the underlying class of problem, not just the instance Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the security engineering bar across the organization Own initiatives end to end, from problem framing and scoping through de

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.7%

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Come join us in this super high impact role as we build the future of Snowflake! Snowsight is the perfect place for data professionals to do their best work, and in this role you'll be making it even better. You'll join a wildly talented, multi-disciplinary team to not only reimagine existing Snowsight experiences, but also to extend it to exciting new surfaces and unlock high value business opportunities. Acting as a startup within Snowflake, together we'll iterate quickly, ship daily, and experiment continuously. This is a phenomenal opportunity to revolutionize how people across the world turn data into knowledge, and knowledge into opportunities. As a senior technical leader on this team, you'll have exceptional impact, both shaping and shipping amazing experiences — and helping the engineers around you do the very best work of their careers. YOU WILL: Act as a technical leader and deep domain expert across the stack, owning an area of the product end-to-end with an eye toward service health, quality, and customer experience. Lead large, cross-team projects from architecture through delivery — identifying opportunities, making the right trade-offs in the context of overall company goals, and driving them to completion. Leverage agentic AI to accelerate your work (and th

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