About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. About the Team Cloudflare handles traffic for almost 25% of the Internet. That’s a lot of data. On the Town Lake team, our mission is to make that data accessible and valuable for users across the company. We connect data from dozens of source systems and make it available so that any user in the company can answer any question in 5 minutes or less, using SQL or plain english. We’re building a modern, agentic-first data lakehouse platform ba
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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Austin, US About the Role Cloudflare's People team supports 5,000+ employees globally. To scale, we are building an AI-driven operating layer on the Cloudflare Developer Platform to automate workflows, ensure data integrity, and streamline employee support. You will ship production systems for hiring, onboarding, and self-service, using AI to create leverage while designing rigorous guardrails for sensitive employee data. Lever
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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 Software Engineer on the Account Authentication Team, you will help authenticate and authorize Roblox's user base, setting the foundation for every other feature on our platform. You will build the authentication and security controls that meet each user's needs, along with just-in-time friction that adapts to each user's unique risk profile, all while scaling to 1 billion active users. This is a rare opportunity to sit at the convergence of security, user experience, and scale. You'll join Roblox's Safety organization, whose mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities by detecting, removing, and preventing problematic accounts, content, and behavior, and by keeping accounts secure and free from compromise. The team draws on a broad tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers, experimentation, automation, and AI-powered filters, partnering with product teams to shape the roadmap, build safety products, and measure impact on our community of users and developers. You Will: Own the design, implementation and landing of features that make Roblox more secure and more accessible for users of all ages on all platforms. Collaborate cross-organizationally w
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 Software Engineer Intern at Roblox, your 12-week journey is designed around accelerated learning and tangible global impact. With the support of a dedicated mentor, you’ll apply your knowledge to production-scale reality as you take end-to-end ownership of a project tackling some of the hardest technical challenges, including distributed systems, real-time communication, 3D co-experience, data processing, rendering, and more. You Will: Join our supportive community of engineers, receiving dedicated mentorship as you deliver live production projects. Investigate and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, such as machine learning frameworks, agentic coding tools, and large language models (LLMs), to solve complex technical challenges and improve our engineering systems. Own a project from beginning to end, from coding and testing to deploying it to production, and presenting your work to peers and leaders across the company. Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Design, Product, Data, QA, and DevOps, to deliver cohesive products and features. Build a close community with fellow interns and full-time builders alike, while gaining a broad perspective on the compa
From $153.1K/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 Software Engineer on the Communications team, you will work on real-time communication across 2D and 3D spaces for billions of users while keeping interactions civil, safe, and expressive. Communication is at the core of what makes Roblox a vibrant social platform, the systems you build will define how tens of millions of people connect every day. You will work with teams across Game Engine, Safety, and ML Platform, building backend services at scale, data pipelines, and ML models that strengthen the underlying chat and policy infrastructure. You will build and ship detection systems that identify chat violations and continuously evolve to outpace bad actors circumventing our safety policies. As a core contributor to a broader suite of communication products, you will drive feature development while embedding safety into the foundation of the platform. If you are a developer with an understanding of large scale systems and want to shape how the next generation of Roblox users interact safely in the metaverse, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and rapidly growing team. You will: Engineer and scale the communication infrastructure that supports millions of c
From $153.1K/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 Agent Infra team builds the infrastructure that runs autonomous AI agents at Roblox for millions of creators building experiences on our platform, and for thousands of Roblox engineers shipping production code every day. Agent workloads break the assumptions most infrastructure is built on. They run for hours instead of milliseconds, they're non-deterministic, they execute code nobody wrote, and they need real credentials against real systems to be useful at all. Making that safe, durable, and cost effective at Roblox’s scale is the hard problem our team is solving. As an early member of the Agent Infra team you’ll work alongside an experienced engineering team on systems that are already in front of real users, at scale, in a field that didn’t exist two years ago. You Are Early in your career : 1-3 years of professional experience or a recent grad; with strong CS fundamentals and an interest in learning infrastructure, distributed, and agentic systems. Someone who builds things: You have projects, internships, or open-source work you'd genuinely enjoy walking us through. Into AI agents. You've built something with them, even something small, and you can tell us what broke. Comfortable
From $153.1K/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 Software Engineer on the User Frameworks team, you will help create the reusable UI components and systems that many Roblox teams rely on to create engaging and intuitive product experiences. You Have: 1–3 years of experience building software systems (industry experience) Strong coding fundamentals in one or more languages such as Javascript, TypeScript, Lua, or similar Experience building frontend systems, reusable UI components, or design systems Familiarity with modern UI frameworks such as React, and an interest in building practical, maintainable abstractions that can scale An understanding of software quality fundamentals such as performance, accessibility, responsiveness, maintainability, and thoughtful API or component design. A growth mindset and curiosity about automation and AI-assisted development You Will: Build and improve reusable UI components, and libraries that many Roblox teams rely on to create consistent, polished, and accessible user experiences Contribute to the Foundation Design System by working closely with design and engineering to define and implement shared building blocks for Roblox Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, while contributing to en
From $153.1K/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 Software Engineer on the Creator Business team, you will help drive a healthy and ever-growing creator economy at Roblox. Our mission is to help Creators efficiently operationalize their revenue so they can invest in and grow their business. The team works on complex areas such as monetization analytics, revenue reporting, payouts, and taxes, requiring penny-perfect accuracy and zero defects. In this role, you'll build and own the scalable, secure, and reliable platform that lets our creators thrive. You'll work alongside your team, partnering with product and other engineering teams to shape end-to-end requirements and drive projects with real impact and visibility. You'll take meaningful, scoped projects from concept to completion, shape key system design decisions, and have the room to surface improvements and communicate technical decisions with clarity and confidence. You will: Develop remarkable products and systems that will delight our users Work with the product, data science, and design to help refine requirements Contribute to or drive the overall end to end system design Have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s next for the company Help recruit future talent fo
From $153K/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 an Early Career Software Engineer at Roblox, your story begins with supportive mentorship and immediate, global impact. You’ll work alongside seasoned engineers and curious experts, designing, coding, and deploying real features that reach millions of people globally. By the end of your first year, you’ll have directly influenced the future of our platform and the experience of our global community with millions of daily active users. You Will: Join a community of curious, supportive engineers, actively engaging in architectural discussions and system design. Investigate and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, like machine learning frameworks and large language models (LLMs), to solve complex technical challenges and improve our engineering systems. Design, code, and test innovative features, navigating the full development lifecycle from initial design to production deployment. Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Design, Product, Data, QA, and DevOps, to deliver cohesive products and features. Support the continuous evolution of our distributed systems, operating at our massive scale of 2 trillion analytics events a day. Engage in our team mat
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Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners by providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). As a Commercial Sales Engineer 2, you will independently own technical engagements throughout the sales cycle, partnering closely with Account Executives to align customer business objectives with Datadog's platform. You will also collaborate across Engineering, Support, Product, and Customer Success to resolve customer concerns, advocate for customer needs, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the evaluation process. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we'd love to meet you! 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: Partner with the sales team to articulate Datadog's value proposition, vision, and technical strategy throughout the sales cycle. Deliver tailored product demonstrations and technical presentations that map customer challenges to Datadog solutions. Assist with technical discovery by identifying customer business objectives, technical challenges, and success criteria. Own technical evaluations (POCs) from kickoff through successful completion, proactively driving customer engagement and removing technical blockers. Continually expand your expertise across Datadog's platform while building competitive knowledge and technical credibility. Develop trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders while effectively communicating business value to broader buying teams. Contribute to team success by sharing best practices, mentoring newer Sales Engineers, and supporting enablement initiatives. Think creatively to solve a wide variety of tech
From $1.8M/yr
As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen
From $1.8M/yr
As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen
From $149K/yr
As a Key Accounts Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. What You’ll Do: Partner with the Sales, Product/Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and executive leadership to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Lead technical strategy for both short-term and long-cycle pursuits by driving the end-to-end technical sales agenda for Fortune 100 and comparable prospects — from pipeline generation through purchase decision Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Present at executive and technical forums, lead workshops, and translate technical detail to business impact for CIOs, SRE/Platform teams, security/compliance, and engineering leadership Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering Experienced in programming/scripting with one or more languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, etc.) and familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC workflows Demonstrated ability to land into net new logo accounts and collaborate with prospects through long, multi-quarte
From $118K/yr
As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll partner with Sales to help customers understand the value of Datadog and how it solves their most important technical and business challenges. You'll lead technical evaluations, deliver compelling demos, and guide customers through the journey from discovery to successful adoption. You'll act as a trusted advisor, bridging business goals with technical solutions, and play a key role in winning new business and expanding existing accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes Project manage technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify and cultivate technical champions within customer accounts, empowering them to advocate for Datadog adoption and drive consensus internally Participat e actively in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, serving as the technical voice of the customer to help shape product direction Maintain operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Support, and GTM teams to address customer needs and resolve
About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great dev
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