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. Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML LEAD. STRATEGIZE. TRANSFORM. SUMMARY: Recognized expert and strategic technical advisor resolving critical, wide-ranging design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI. WHY THIS ROLE? You act as the technical "North Star" for high-stakes migrations. You exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments with high business impact. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers. Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge. Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution. Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale. Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance. Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments. Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success. SNOWFLAKE-NATIVE TECH STACK: Vector Data Types, Snowflake Cortex, Advanced LLM
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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
NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. NVIDIA GH200 superchip provides performance and productivity required for strong scaling for HPC and generative AI workload. Scale out is inherent to design of this massive superchip. We are looking for expert engineers to come and help design rack level solutions for next generation scaling AI supercomputing platforms. We are looking for a strong technical architect to own end to end manageability architecture for these products in data centers. You will work with various component leads internally and externally, drive customer use cases, align architecture with customer requirements and release best products to market. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. What you’ll be doing: Drive server management for large clusters and data centers deploying GPUs and Grace solution from Nvidia. Work with data center architects and cloud customers to narrow down on requirements for implementation to ensure speed of light product development. Work with internal teams to make sure requirements are designed and implemented in right way with each firmware and software module Collaborate with other leads to design & build data center health management workflow. Drive reliability and optimization in firmware architecture from a data center view point. Work closely with cluster bring up team and resolve is
$138.9K – $173.6K/yr
Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join us as our next Principal Presales Engineer on Twilio’s ISV team! About the job This position is needed to enable our customers to build the future of communications. The Principal Presales Engineer is a critical part of the sales team focused on our ISV segment. Twilio’s Principal Presales Engineers are responsible for delivering the Technical Win and best Product Fit to our customers. They lead the technical pre-sales relationship, drive technical discovery, propose technical architectures, demonstrate the product, anticipate concerns and offer creative solutions. They build customer trust in Twilio’s solutions. Principal Presales Engineers should be comfortable engaging a CEO or sketching out an API flow on a whiteboard with customer software engineers. As a Principal Presales Engineer you will be fully autonomous. You will be capable of driving the technical side of all but the most complex opportunities independently. Furthermore, you will pr
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are building the next generation advertising in an immersive metaverse. Our team sits at the core of the Roblox Ads ecosystem, serving billions of impressions while providing the critical infrastructure that connects global brands with our massive community of creators. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and execution for the Ads Experience team. This team is responsible for the full spectrum of our monetization experience, including Advertiser Experience (Roblox Ads Manager), Brand Experience (Brand Ads & Integrations), and Publisher Experience (Creator Monetization & Commerce). This is a foundational technical challenge beyond standard ad-tech. You will architect the high-scale backbone of our monetization system, driving the technical vision for our Ads Manager, immersive Brand Ads formats, and creator solutions, while pioneering AI integration and balancing a three-sided marketplace economy in real-time. You Will Architect the Roblox Ads Manager: Design and build the end-to-end technical architecture for our flagship advertising platform, ensuring it can handle complex campaign st
Job Details: Job Description: As the world's largest chip manufacturer, and a global leader in innovation and new technology, Intel strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art - from semiconductor process development and manufacturing, through yield improvement to packaging, final test and optimization, and world class Supply Chain and facilities support. Employees in the Technology Development and Manufacturing Group are part of a worldwide network of design, development, manufacturing, and assembly/test facilities, all focused on utilizing the power of Moore's Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth. We're constantly working on making a more connected and intelligent future, and we need your help. Change tomorrow. Start today. What we offer: We foster a collaborative, supportive, and exciting environment where the brightest minds in the world come together to achieve exceptional results. We give you opportunities to transform technology and create a better future, by delivering products that touch the lives of every person on earth. What we do: Join the Logic Technology Development (LTD) organization, a powerhouse of process technology innovation driving Intel's IDM 2.0 strategy to exceed the aspirations of our global customers. We are seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the charge in Intel's foundry revolution, serving as a strategic technical architect and executive partner in guiding our most critical customers through the entire product development lifecycle. In this leadership capacity, you will orchestrate multidisciplinary strategies spanning device engineering, product integration, and yield analysis to steer customers from critical design tape-out and pre-silicon evaluation through to NPI silicon qualification. Furthermore, you will define t
From $154K/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. Join Our Team GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team operates one of the largest Ceph environments in the world, delivering the object, block, and file storage platforms that power GoDaddy's hosting infrastructure, internal services, OpenStack environments, and next-generation AI/HPC workloads. If you're passionate about distributed systems, storage architecture, and solving failure scenarios at massive scale, this is an opportunity to work on infrastructure few engineers will experience in their careers. Ceph is a strategic platform at GoDaddy — not an ancillary service. Our global footprint includes 80+ production clusters, 20,000+ OSDs, 1,830 storage nodes, 300 PB of raw capacity, and 69 billion objects spanning five datacenters across three continents. The platform supports RBD, RGW (S3/Swift), and CephFS workloads through more than 1,550 pools, 574,000 placement groups, and 900+ MDS daemons, creating engineering challenges that demand deep expertise in storage architecture, data durability, performance optimization, automation, and observability. As a Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll serve as one of the principal technical leaders for GoDaddy's Ceph platform. You'll design the next generation of storage clusters, lead major platform upgrades, drive capacity and hardware strategy, and establish the standards that govern how the platform scales. You'll be the engineer the team turns to for the most complex s
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 Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer Position Overview The Principal Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor within Architecture & Technology (A&T), responsible for driving enterprise engineering strategy, architecture standards, and technology excellence across Mastercard. This role provides deep technical leadership across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, resiliency, observability, and software engineering practices while influencing technology direction across multiple teams and domains. The Principal Engineer partners with senior engineering leaders, architects, and platform organizations to define architectural standards, establish reusable patterns, and guide critical technology decisions. Through technical expertise, thought leadership, and cross-functional influence, this role helps teams build secure, scalable, reliable, and operationally excellent solutions that align with Mastercard's long-term engineering strategy. Role • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering organizations, driving consistent adoption of engineering standards, best practices, and enterprise technology patterns. • Partner with platform CTOs, architects, and engineering leaders to evaluate technology investments, transformation initi
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. Company Overview We are building the next generation of cloud security infrastructure, focusing on advanced Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) and unified Data Movement Policies (DMP). Our mission is to provide seamless, context-aware security that protects sensitive data without hindering developer velocity. We are looking for a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture for our Data Movement and Perimeter control systems. Role Summary As a Principal Engineer in the Data Protection group, you will be the technical lead for the Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) and Data Movement Policy (DMP) initiatives. You will bridge the gap between high-level security policy and low-level system enforcement, ensuring that our perimeter controls are robust, scalable, and deeply integrated with context-aware access policy frameworks. You will be responsible for the architectural evolution of our egress control systems, moving from simple IP-based rules to sophisticated, content-aware, and identity-driven data movement governance. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY, DATA SECURITY AND TRUST AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of the Data Movement Policy (DMP) framework, ensuring it can handle complex
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. As a Principal Engineer on Content Lifecycle, you will be leading the architecture and design of workflows on Roblox Studio and our platform enabling Creators and AI agents to collaborate at scale by creating, sharing, and managing reusable content. The ideal candidate has C++ and game engine experience, enjoys solving complex software problems and has a passion for mentoring other engineers on the team. We believe that collaborative teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision. Join us in our mission to make collaboration at scale performant, frictionless, and most of all fun! You Will: Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Roblox Studio that will allow developers to grow in our community Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies Improve the product quality by fost
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. Why Content Safety? As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Content Safety, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions, focused on critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning for content moderation. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of massive-scale ML systems that mitigate violative UGC content before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community thoughtfully and fairly, while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for our broad community of over 100 million daily active users. You will: Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions in Content Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and mitigate violative content at massive scale. Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with execu
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. As a Principal Software Engineer of the Game Engine data model team, you will innovate on the core data structures that form the backbone of Roblox’s platform. In this role you will have first hand opportunity to design and build one of the core technologies that makes the Roblox game engine special. The Data Model framework provides an interface between engine capabilities and our creators. It also acts as a fabric to core technologies, such as networking, scripting, Studio, rendering and physics which are essential to the high performance of the Roblox game engine. This role is in our San Mateo, CA HQ three days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays). You Will: Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform. Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction for the team. Work cross-functionally , across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing functionality. Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies. Improve the product quality by encouraging automation testing. Take Ownership of projects throughout their full li
From $345K/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. About the Team The CI and CD Foundation team is the backbone of our engineering velocity. Our mission is to engineer and deliver a CI/CD ecosystem that streamlines the integration and delivery of our core client code—including the Game Engine, Studio, and User Apps. We are laser-focused on three goals: enhancing overall build reliability, maximizing developer productivity, and ensuring consistent software quality. We’re building and improving pipelines and tools to transform SDLC in the age of AI-driven software development. The Role As a Principal Software Engineer on the CI/CD Foundation team, you will serve as the chief technical strategist and architect responsible for transforming how Roblox builds, tests, and ships code at massive scale. Our build and delivery ecosystem handles immense complexity: decades of C++ game engine code, extensive Lua applications, complex native platforms, and a sprawling monorepo with massive, growing test suites. You will lead the technical vision to modernize, decouple, and accelerate this ecosystem—driving radical improvements across our Local Dev Inner Loop (pre-commit/pre-push), CI (PR validation, speculative execution, merge queues), and CD (OTA
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. Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D experiences built by creators around the world. As a Principal Engineer focused on Collaboration, you will be leading the architecture and design of workflows on Roblox Studio and our platform enabling creators and AI agents to collaborate at scale by creating, sharing, and managing content. The ideal candidate has C++ and game engine experience, enjoys solving complex software problems and has a passion for mentoring other engineers on the team. We believe that collaborative teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision. Join us in our mission to make collaboration at scale performant, frictionless, and most of all fun! You Will: Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Roblox Studio that will allow developers to grow in our community Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality Lead by example and mentor e
From $345K/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 Engineer in the Builder Tools team, you’ll work on interactive, developer-facing tools and reusable tooling frameworks for Roblox Studio, a collaborative IDE for making Roblox games. The Builder Tools team is in charge of Roblox Studio’s content making features, from 3D draggers to world-class character animation tools, tooling for making terrain for huge worlds, in-game UI authoring tools, and many more. In this role, you will have a direct impact on how streamlined and enjoyable making games on Roblox is for hundreds of thousands developers worldwide! You will: Work on various interactive tools for Roblox game developers Define architecture and implement reusable tooling frameworks Work with UX designers and Product Manager to come up with most optimal and ergonomic solutions Design and execute on the architecture and technical direction that will be the future of our application Own and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms Mentor team members helping them improve their professional skills and expertise Design, develop, and implement technological p
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