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. 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 Core Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers all engineering at Vanta. We're expanding upmarket to support enterprise customers, which requires strategic investment in platform systems that ensure security, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. As we expand upmarket to support enterprise and regulated customers, we’re investing heavily in platform capabilities that scale securely while reducing cognitive load for product teams. As the Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Vanta, you'll own the foundational infrastructure that every engineer builds on, ensuring it scales with company growth while remaining fast, simple, and reliable. This team’s ownership spans shared services infrastructure, observability and monitoring, datastore management, and async work systems. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow high-performing platform engineerin
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We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who is ready to lead through ambiguity and improve how software gets built at MongoDB. This role leads teams focused on developer productivity, with an emphasis on measurable improvements to the software development lifecycle. This role can be based remotely in the United States. The Team The AXIS team (AI, X-functional tools, Insights, and Signals) sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for overseeing the metrics and observability infrastructure of our expansive developer environment to help build a strong data-driven culture. You’ll also be a key partner in building the agentic ecosystem for AI-driven development across engineering. Candidate Profile We’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for solving the big challenge of measuring developer productivity and providing the actionable signals that help teams improve their performance. They should be comfortable working collaboratively with other leaders and partners across our Engineering and Data teams in maximizing the use of data for insights and AI enablement. The right candidate for this role will have 4+ years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, growth planning, and compensation; required for external candidates and preferred for internal candidates 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems; experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus Demonstrated the ability to lead through ambiguity, work across team boundaries, and deliver outcomes without close supervision Strong customer orientation and sound judgment in finding practical, high-leverage solutions Experience working with systems involving analytics, data pipelines, and metrics platforms Experience with AI tools development and enablement efforts Strong technical judgment, including the ability to evaluate t
$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,
From $295.3K/yr
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 Observability team builds the infrastructure that empowers engineers to understand, operate, and improve the Roblox platform and ecosystem. Our team owns the end-to-end observability stack across telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, storage systems, and developer-facing visualization tools. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. In this role, you will help build intelligent systems that leverage AI to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows — enabling engineers to move faster, improve reliability, and operate large-scale distributed systems with greater efficiency and confidence. This is a highly impactful leadership role at the center of Roblox infrastructure. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the company. You will partner closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and AI platform teams to shape the future of developer tooling and autonomous operations at scale. You Have 3+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams. Strong ex
From $152.8K/yr
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Engineering Manager for the Agent Execution group , you'll lead more than 10 engineers who build foundations for AI agents to run safely and effectively across GitLab. You'll give the group clarity, remove obstacles, and help teams move quickly while protecting what matters. You'll contribute to design reviews on sandboxing and agent observability, work alongside staff engineers, and use modern AI coding tools and agent harnesses in your work. What you’ll do Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering, with each team anchored by a s
From $115.2K/yr
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Support Engineering Manager on our US Government support team, you’ll own the end-to-end delivery of world-class support for GitLab’s US Government customers. You’ll lead a tight-knit team of support engineers who troubleshoot complex environments and enterprise deployments, and you’ll evolve how we serve this highly regulated customer base so their experience not only meets but exceeds expectations. You’ll be responsible for hiring and developing excellent engineers, building and refining processes, and partnering closely with other Support Engineering Managers and product and engineering teams to e
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: We’re looking for a Senior Product Marketing Manager to help accelerate the growth of Replit Agent — a core part of our mission to allow anyone to build software, without any coding experience. This role sits at the crossroads of product, engineering, and go-to-market , ensuring that every new feature we ship lands with clarity, excitement, and impact. You’ll work closely with our engineers, PMs and Partnership teams to understand the product roadmap, then translate those innovations into compelling narratives that resonate with builders of all kinds — from solo builders to enterprise teams. You’ll also leverage your storytelling expertise to collaborate with our partner ecosystem , crafting compelling “Better Together” narratives that elevate our joint value and propel partner marketing initiatives. Replit moves fast — we ship continuously, experiment relentlessly, and aim to make every builder more productive and creative. We’re looking for someone who thrives in that environment: part strategist, part storyteller, and part operator. What You’ll Do: Lead Product Marketing for our Launches Develop and operationalize Replit’s launch motion — from early roadmap planning through public release. Create repeatable frameworks that keep launches fast, clear, and coordinated. Shape Messaging & Positioning Craft technically fluent, developer-first narratives that highlight how Replit’s AI coding agent accelerates creativity and productivity. Tailor messaging to different developer segments and channels. Create Sales & Growth Enablement Build the first generation of enablement materials (decks, demos, battlecards, FAQs) that empower GTM teams and partners to tell Replit’s story confidently. Lead Competit
From $243.3K/yr
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 Senior Enterprise Security Engineer, you will play a critical role in executing Roblox’s Enterprise Security Strategy. You will design, deploy, and manage security solutions to protect Roblox’s corporate infrastructure and ensure secure, compliant operations across the organization. Working closely with Corporate Engineering and Trust & Safety teams, you will translate business requirements into robust security implementations that enable secure productivity while mitigating risk. You will be reporting directly to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Security Engineering. You'll partner with security professionals across the Information Security organization, and work cross-functionally with teams throughout Roblox to drive security initiatives that scale with our business. You will: Evaluate and implement security technologies and vendor solutions to ensure alignment with enterprise security requirements, compliance standards, and overall risk management strategy Lead and drive initiatives across core security domains, including Endpoint Security, SaaS Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Agentic AI Governance, and Supply Chain Security. Collaborate closely with IT, engin
From $293.8K/yr
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 Enterprise Security Engineer, you will advance Roblox’s Enterprise Security strategy by shaping and evolving security architecture in alignment with business objectives. You will lead the design, deployment, and governance of security solutions that safeguard Roblox’s corporate infrastructure while enabling scalable, secure operations. Partnering cross-functionally with Corporate Engineering and Trust & Safety, you will translate organizational priorities into resilient security capabilities that balance risk, compliance, and productivity. You will join the Platform, Enterprise, and Application Security group, reporting directly to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Security Engineering. You'll partner with security professionals across the InfoSec team, and work cross-functionally with teams throughout Roblox to drive security initiatives that scale with our business. You will: Define and maintain enterprise-wide security standards and principles that guide how security is implemented across business workflows, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with organizational risk posture. Lead and drive initiatives across core security domains, including Endpoint Secur
From $182K/yr
Location Details: At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely. This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC. Join Our Team GoDaddy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help define and scale our Internal Developer Platform —a centralized system that powers how engineers across the company build, deploy, and operate software. This platform is used by 1,000+ engineers to manage everything from cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle to security, compliance, and cost transparency. In this role, you’ll operate as a technical leader at platform scale, shaping the architecture and direction of systems that directly impact engineering velocity across the company. You’ll work on high-impact initiatives such as AI-powered developer tooling, next-generation API platforms, and the evolution of a unified developer experience spanning APIs, CLI, and UI. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role where Staff Engineers drive decisions, influence product direction, and partner across infrastructure, security, and platform teams. If you’re motivated by building systems that improve how other engineers work—and want to have a measurable impact on developer productivity at scale—this team sits at the center of GoDaddy’s engineering ecosystem. What You’ll Get to Do... Design and build platform services that power GoDaddy’s internal developer ecosystem, used by 1,000+ engineers. Lead architecture and technical direction for high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration,
$135K – $300K/yr
About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who are you? We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Software Engineer to join the Ema team. As an Enterprise Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our enterprise software applications. You will work with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, and developers to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented, fast-paced, high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Develop and maintain enterprise software applications, including API, data, application, and service development Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code by employing test-driven development process. Build scalable and reliable back-end systems using languages like Go and Python Develop and maintain APIs using REST or GraphQL Integrate multiple enterprise applications and services using a scalable framework like FastAPI Build and maintain data schema using PostgreSQL,
From $168K/yr
MongoDB’s Developer Productivity organization exists to help engineers build and deliver high-quality software through a highly effective software development process and a strong foundation of shared tools and services. We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Pipeline team. This role is tasked with bringing together the major systems and experiences that power software delivery at MongoDB. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and effective platform for ensuring fast software deployability, leveraging AI native approaches. We are open to in-office, flexible or remote hiring across the US. The Team The Pipeline organization sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for the systems, services, and user experiences that define MongoDB’s software delivery ecosystem. This is mission-critical infrastructure operating at substantial scale and supports a variety of software product delivery needs. Success in this role requires excellent product judgment for developer-facing experiences, strong systems and platform leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams around a cohesive strategy. Candidate Profile We’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can unify product-minded developer tooling with deep platform and operational excellence. The right candidate is passionate about developer productivity and has a track record of leading managers and teams through organizational growth, technical complexity, and cross-functional change. They should be comfortable owning a broad portfolio that spans developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health. They should also be able to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform function. The right candidate for this role will 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience bui
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a member of the Infrastructure Security Team within the Product Security Department , you will work with teams across GitLab to ensure that the components that comprise our public cloud infrastructure are built from the beginning with resiliency and set security expectations that our customers rely on to power their DevSecOps goals. As a Staff Security Engineer, you will serve as a technical lead across the topics the Infrastructure Security team owns, including our SaaS Platforms (e.g. GitLab Dedicated, Cells) and Self-Managed offerings. You will define the technical direction for how the team approac
From $170K/yr
Join VTS as an Engineering Manager. As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major features in web and mobile. You’ll play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering a healthy and collaborative culture, guiding the team's execution and delivery, and mentoring engineers to grow their careers and capabilities. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. ** To thrive in this role, you have: Proven experience leading software teams using agile development methodologies. A strong technical background with a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications, services, and third-party integrations. Experience working on high-impact, business-critical domains, where reliability, performance, and operational stability are essential. Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop talent, strengthening the team's capabilities through effective coaching and mentorship. The ability to engage in strategic technical discussions, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals, especially in environments involving multiple systems and external partners. A sense of empathy for the customer and a relentless focus on shipping high-quality products. Excellent communication skills that empower you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others. A keen interest in building AI-backed features and leveraging AI as an engineering productivity tool. What you'll do: Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team : Foster a healthy, collaborative, and diverse culture that reflects our company and engineering values. Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and hi
From $10K/yr
About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of JavaScript, a passion for web performance, and can creatively come up with solutions to solve customer's needs. Our tech stack currently involves TypeScript, React, Vite, and Ryu, our in-house design system. Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values! What You’ll Do Build! Design performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces Collaborate on our technical vision. Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects Foster a culture of upholding industry-leading UX Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers and interns What You'll Need Minimum of 2 years of frontend engineering experience preferred Proficiency in JavaScript and React Knack for getting the visuals right Track record of ship
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