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📍 Bellevue, WA, United States· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Corporate Systems Engineering builds and operates the software platforms, integrations, and automations that power Smartsheet’s core business functions across Finance, Sales/GTM, and People & Culture. Our team owns mission-critical systems and workflows that enable how the company hires, sells, bills, pays, reports, and scales. We operate at the intersection of software engineering, enterprise platforms, and business-critical data, treating internal systems with the same rigor, reliability, and product mindset as customer-facing software. The Automation team builds human-to-system and system-to-system automations that reduce manual effort and friction across the business. We combine cloud-native services, agentic AI, and workflow orchestration to enable employees to interact with enterprise systems through intelligent, secure, and auditable automation. As a Senior Software Engineer I (Automation), you will lead the design, build, and operation of systems and workflows that directly support business execution at scale. You will own complex technical initiatives, partner with Product Managers and stakeholders on technical roadmaps, and mentor junior engineers. This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director, Development and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Architect AI Agents: Take a leading role in designing Agentic Workflows using AWS Step Functions and Bedrock Agents that reason

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📍 Atlanta, Georgia, 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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📍 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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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ 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 Job Overview: Responsible for the analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions. Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices. Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to Mastercard specifications. Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members. Major Accountabilities • Plan, design, architect, and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices • Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with a high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, quality, reliability, and faster time to market. • Accountable for the full systems development life cycle including creating high-quality requirements documents, use cases, designs, and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategies, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility studies, cost and time analysis, and detailed estimates. • Design, develop, test, dep

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📍 Berkeley, United States
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Lead Design and Analysis Engineer (Electrical Systems Design) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing is currently hiring for a Lead Design and Analysis Engineer located in Berkeley, MO to be a part of the MQ-25 Electrical and Equipment Installation team. The MQ-25 Stingray is a new autonomous, unmanned carrier based refueling air vehicle. The selected candidate will be a part of aviation history by helping our Navy customer productization Autonomous Carrier landing, takeoff and refueling capabilities. The MQ-25 program is currently building the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) vehicles for the Navy. Additional work is under way for the beginning of the Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) program for additional vehicles. The MQ-25 Electrical & Equipment team is responsible for the power architecture & design, electrical equipment technical management, electrical installation design, wire harness design, and integrating avionics and other equipment into the vehicle. This role will be focused on the power architecture & design. Position Responsibilities: Leads work with customers to develop and document complex electronic and electrical system requirements. Leads and coordinates work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications. Leads work to test and validate to ensure system designs meet operational and functional requirements. Researches technology advances for potential application to company business needs. Makes recommendations for technology investments. This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be require

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We’re hiring Software Engineers to join our broader Infrastructure organization, which supports multiple high-impact teams. Depending on your interests and experience, you could work on one of several focus areas—including Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity or Cloud Infrastructure. About the Role All teams are deeply collaborative, work on mission-critical services, and are responsible for building distributed, scalable infrastructure to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, setting the technical strategy that supports cutting-edge research and product development. This is a critical role for someone who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems at scale, ensuring their performance, scalability and reliability Team Focus Areas Distributed Systems: Owning and building important, highly scalable, available, performant, and reliable distributed systems (and their building blocks) to power the entire stack at OpenAI Systems Engineering: Work across layers of the stack—debugging system bottlenecks, evolving core infrastructure, and solving novel problems in performance and scalability. Reliability Engineering: Build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and lead efforts around service health, incident response, and resilience. Observability: Design and maintain observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) to give teams visibility into production systems at scale. Developer Productivity: Create tools, environments, and workflows that help engineers ship high-quality software faster and more safely. Cloud Infrastructure: Own the cloud-native infrastructure (compute, networking, storage) that underpins all services and research workloads. Databases: Building high performance, distributed database systems that power all of OpenAI's product stack. In this

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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We’re looking for a technical architecture expert with hands-on development experience to define the architecture of the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Platform and collaborate with engineering to build the platform. This is a technical engineering role and requires familiarity with NVIDIA’s GPU acceleration libraries, experience in Retail, CPG, logistics, or marketplaces, and knowledge of enterprise AI architectures will make you an ideal candidate. Join us and take the lead in building the retail platform and help us develop the future of AI in retail! Your mission is to leverage NVIDIA’s existing retail and supply chain blueprints, along with proven workflows and best practices codified through customers and ISV engagements, to define the architecture and build the Retail & CPG platform. You will be responsible for architecting and collaborating with engineering teams across NVIDIA, to build the platform. Built on NVIDIA’s full stack—including Agentic AI, Physical AI, and accelerated computing—this platform will power our three strategic pillars: digital commerce, supply chain, and intelligent stores. What you'll be doing: You will work with Retail & CPG product management, business development, and developer relations teams to harness their deep expertise in supply chain and retail to architect and build a platform that makes it easier for our ecosystem and customers to build AI solutions at scale. The platform will use our NVIDIA Nemo microservices and Nemotron open-source models, with initial priority on Agentic AI for supply chain, digital commerce and employee productivity. This role will initially be an individual contributor with developer experience building AI agents and will collaborate with a strong technical retail and supply chain team, as well as horizontal engineering team(s). Define product, technical vision and architecture Develop platform s

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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The Engineering Lead Analyst – SonarQube & Code Quality Engineering is a senior-level engineering role responsible for leading static code analysis, automated code quality governance, security vulnerability remediation, and AI-augmented developer enablement across enterprise software delivery pipelines. In this role, you will champion software reliability, maintainability, clean-coding standards, and automated quality gates. You will partner with development teams, system architects, and platform engineering to integrate and manage enterprise-scale code quality platforms (such as SonarQube) both on-premises and in cloud/SaaS environments. Additionally, you will drive modern engineering practices by embedding Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) within your own software delivery and leveraging Agentic AI workers and Model Context Protocol (MCP) architectures to optimize developer experience, streamline code governance, and boost engineering velocity. Key Responsibilities 1. Code Quality & Static Analysis Platform Ownership Lead the architecture, deployment, administration, and continuous enhancement of enterprise Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Code Quality platforms (e.g., SonarQube , DeepSource, Codacy, Semgrep). Configure, calibrate, and enforce automated Quality Gates, code rulesets, technical debt calculation models, and code-coverage baselines across multi-language enterprise repositories. Oversee version upgrades, patching, high availability, and operational maintenance for on-premises and SaaS/cloud-hosted code quality infrastructure. 2. CI/CD & Pipeline Integration <li style=

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📍 Denver, Colorado, United States
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$118.7K – $160K/yr

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Healthcare is complex. We’re here to change that. RVO Health is a health technology company on a mission to make health easier to navigate, more accessible, and more affordable for everyone. Here, you'll help over 40 million people every month, with a team that genuinely cares about the work and each other. AT A GLANCE The Senior Software Engineer is a crucial role within our organization, requiring work in various capacities and adaptation to different work arrangements based on the needs set by the business. The successful candidate will be responsible for fulfilling their job duties in the following work situations: Where You'll Be Location: Denver, CO | Hybrid We believe great collaboration happens when we're together, solving problems, learning from each other, and connecting as a team. That's why we’re in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week. You are welcome to work remotely Mondays and Fridays if you wish. Address: 1801 California St. Denver, CO 80202 What You’ll Do Lead the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of sophisticated software applications and systems aligned with business goals. Collaborate closely with stakeholders including product managers, designers, and other engineers to gather requirements and translate them into robust technical designs and solutions. Write high-quality, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code adhering to best practices and company standards. Debug, analyze, and resolve complex software defects and performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal system reliability and user experience. Conduct comprehensive testing and validation including unit, integration, and performance testing to guarantee software quality. Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing. Perform thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality, enforce coding standards, and promote best p

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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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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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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. The Engineering Acceleration team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review and CI environment. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you've ever wanted to define — not just build — the systems that fundamentally change how an entire engineering organization operates, this is your opportunity. You Will: Own, scale, and define the long-term technical vision for Roblox's source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Architect software that improves the lives of your coworkers — spanning local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools. Lead and drive major company-wide efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, setting direction across teams a

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As a Software Engineer at on the Training Infrastructure team, you'll architect and lead development of our training platform, supporting top tier research engineers and model developers. You'll make key technical decisions for the infrastructure enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor their workloads with high performance and reliability. You’ll own scheduling, storage, networking, reliability, and observability of technical systems in the training stack EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Take a look at what we’ve built so far: Overview of the product so far Training docs overview Story of the Training product Research we've done RESPONSIBILITIES Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML training platform (e.g. scheduling, storage, and networking) Partner closely with developers and research engineers to translate complex training requirements into technical solutions Design and architect a global training scheduler Design and architect reinforcement learning systems and continuous learning pipelines Drive long-term improvements to improve reliability of systems and velocity of development Partner closely with SRE and Capacity teams to unlock state of the art training infrastructure Make critical architectural decisions balancing performance with system reliability Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices Contribute to long-term technical strateg

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$174.5K – $236.1K/yr

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Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: The Senior Software Engineer II helps lead the platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we're building clean, maintainable, and beautiful applications. This person is responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our APIs that power our web applications. They develop specifications for moderately complex software programming applications and modify/main

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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. Vanta’s Developer Experience team builds the tools engineers use every day to bring ideas to production rapidly and reliably. You’ll empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level. Example projects include modernizing our CI/CD pipelines, introducing new test frameworks, launching AI-powered dev tools, and scaling developer environments to support a growing engineering team. This team has a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. The work we do compounds in value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose and solve bugs, streamline workflows, and ship value to our customers quickly and safely. Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Github Actions, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! You will: Set direction for critical dev infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth Design and build CI and build systems that ensure Vanta engineers can develop and ship robust products quickly and confidently Improve the efficiency and reliability of our deployment workflows, including tools for hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops — from typechecking and linting to running tests and deploying changes Build and maintain scalable developmen

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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. The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products.The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security. We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security "left" by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers. Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team. Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a Senior software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the "secure path" the only path for Plaid developers. The Role You will lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes. You

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