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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$210K – $280K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Mentor teammates through tho

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $220K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Python / Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Partner with teammates through thoughtful code reviews

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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The NVIDIA DGXC Data Services team builds cloud-native systems, frameworks, and services for managing data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. We are building the next-generation data and storage infrastructure to solve some of the hardest problems in AI: storage, access, ingestion, governance, observability, and data management for exabyte-scale, high-performance GPU-based training and inference jobs. Our work gives NVIDIA teams the foundational capabilities they need to build, train, deploy, and operate AI products at scale without reinventing critical data infrastructure for every workload. What you will be doing: Build cloud-native data and storage services for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, including dataset discovery, ingestion, governance, checkpointing, observability, and low-latency access. Develop scalable cloud-native services and APIs that support exabyte-scale, high-performance GPU training and inference workflows. Work closely with product managers, internal AI teams, platform teams, and partner engineering teams to understand requirements and turn them into reliable production systems. Collaborate with SRE, operations, and support teams to improve service reliability, performance, observability, on-call readiness, and operational scale. Use modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, while maintaining high standards for design, testing, security, and verification. What we need to see: BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of software engineering experience. Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and practi

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -12.7%

The NVIDIA DGXC Data Services team builds cloud-native systems, frameworks, and services for managing data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. We are building the next-generation data and storage infrastructure to solve some of the hardest problems in AI: storage, access, ingestion, governance, observability, and data management for exabyte-scale, high-performance GPU-based training and inference jobs. Our work gives NVIDIA teams the foundational capabilities they need to build, train, deploy, and operate AI products at scale without reinventing critical data infrastructure for every workload. What you will be doing: Build storage technologies, client libraries, and filesystem frameworks that help AI workloads access data across object stores, file systems, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Develop high-performance storage paths for training and inference workflows, including data loading, checkpointing, caching, POSIX-style access, and object-store integration. Build observability systems that diagnose storage bottlenecks, attribute GPU idle time to I/O behavior, and expose actionable telemetry through production monitoring stacks. Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of storage systems serving massive datasets, deep directory trees, and high-concurrency AI workloads. Work closely with internal AI teams, platform teams, SRE, and operations to validate storage behavior against real workloads and production environments. Use modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, while maintaining high standards for design, testing, security, performance, and verification. What we need to see: BS in Computer Science, Information Sys

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📍 New York City, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -99.2%

From $10K/yr

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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 This is a hands-on, on-site role for someone who takes pride in keeping an office running smoothly every single day. As Office Coordinator, you'll be the day-to-day operator who makes sure the space works, vendors are managed, deliveries land, meals are set up, supplies are stocked, and the office looks and feels welcoming and organized. You'll be the person that keeps the gears turning, and the one the Workplace team turns to when something needs to get done on the ground. This role partners closely with Facilities, IT, Security, and the broader Workplace team, and provides backup support to reception and front-of-house as needed. What You’ll Do Own day-to-day vendor relationships with on-site partners including regular check-ins and daily coordination with kitchen, cleaning, and security teams Coordinate daily office operations, including security, food deliveries, breakfast/lunch/dinner setup, and backup reception/VIP guest support as needed Manage office ordering and inventory including supplies, kitchen stock, printer needs, and

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📍 New York New York United States, United States
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About the Role Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact. Job Overview Citi's Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP) is at the vanguard of institutional blockchain adoption — and security is its foundation. As digital assets move from innovation to regulated infrastructure, the cryptographic integrity of every transaction, wallet, and key lifecycle operation becomes mission-critical. We are building the security layer that the world's most sophisticated financial institution can trust. We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer (VP) to join our New York-based Digital Assets Platform engineering team. This is a hands-on, Java-focused backend engineering role for a security-minded engineer who understands both the craft of secure software development and the cryptographic primitives that underpin digital asset custody, signing, and key management. You will sit inside the core engineering team — writing production code every day — while being the resident authority on cryptographic design patterns, HSM integration, MPC protocols, and security architecture. Your work will directly protect billions of dollars of digital asset infrastructure used by institutional clients worldwide. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain security-critical backend services in Java — including cryptographic libraries, key management APIs, signing wor

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security organization protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products by building and operating deeply technical systems that must work reliably at massive scale. Our work underpins OpenAI’s commitments around safety, privacy, and security across research, products, and emerging platforms. The Host Assurance team exists to make bare metal and VMs dependable & scalable foundations for OpenAI: secure by default, verifiable in practice, and resilient across providers and operating models. We operate at the trust boundary between hardware and cloud-scale orchestration, ensuring that hosts are eligible to safely run workloads with predictable security properties and auditability. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer, Host Assurance to build and operate the services, APIs, and host software that establish and maintain trust in our compute infrastructure. You will own production software from design and implementation through testing, rollout, observability, and operation. Your work will support capabilities such as machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, secure bootstrap, and host attestation across bare-metal and VM environments. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, the ability to reason across software and host-system boundaries and learn unfamiliar parts of the stack, and a practical mindset for building systems that are secure, reliable, and usable in fast-moving production environments. The systems you build will sit on the critical path of OpenAI’s frontier infrastructure investments and will directly shape how large amounts of compute are brought online - securely, responsibly, and at global scale - underpinning long-lived commitments around privacy, security, and reliability. You will partner closely with infrastructure, research, and confidential computing initiatives—inc

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📍 Berkeley, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +121.6%

Vehicle Management System (VMS) Hardware Engineer (Experienced) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Flight Systems Engineering Capability is currently seeking an Experienced Vehicle Management Systems Hardware Engineer to join the Air Dominance Vehicle Management System (VMS), Hardware team located in Berkeley, MO. You will work across engineering disciplines to help us design elements of the Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) hardware. You will collaborate with our requirements and labs teams to implement and test your designs. Mechanical, Electrical, Aerodynamics, and other engineers are all welcome – to succeed in this role, you will need to leverage your area of expertise and quickly learn on the job about other areas to develop capabilities for our Vehicle Management System Computer. You will get to see tangible results of your efforts as you contribute to exciting aircraft development programs in St. Louis. Develops and documents moderately complex electronic and electrical s system requirements. Design hardware, and interfaces specifications. Test and validates to ensure designs meet operational and functional requirements Assist in monitoring supplier performance to ensure integration and compliance with requirements Solves problems concerning fielded hardware over the entire product cycle Researches specific technology advances for potential application to company business Analyze solutions to ensure ongoing operation of products thru life cycle Position Responsibilities: Lead requirements decomposition and traceability from customer need to testable design Develop, document,

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📍 Colorado Springs, Colombia, United States
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Human Engineer (Associate or Experienced) Company: The Boeing Company Are you ready to join a team of innovators, strategic disruptors, and dreamers who dare to redefine the future of the defense industry? Are you driven to create the unimaginable? Are you passionate about addressing human performance within the design and development of cutting-edge aerospace systems? Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS ) has an exciting opportunity for an associate or experienced Human Engineer to join our Human Engineering team in Colorado Spings, CO working on the front end of the next generation of Space Mission Systems technology. As a Human Factors Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design, development, and integration of complex aerospace systems, ensuring that all components function cohesively to meet user needs and operational requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including systems engineers, software developers, and hardware specialists, to create systems that are not only technically robust but also intuitive and user-friendly, enhancing overall efficiency and user satisfaction. Position Responsibilities : Apply Human Engineering knowledge and principles to the analysis, design, and evaluation of complex systems Define system performance requirements to ensure safe and successful human operation of physical, functional, and program interfaces for all system operators Apply human performance principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of complex systems Develop and implement research methodologies and analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes Apply a knowledge of military standards (such as MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-1474,

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📍 Mountain View, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -83.9%

About the Team The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops, measures, and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage, pricing, billing, ads, payments, and financial data to help Product, Engineering, Finance, and GTM teams make better decisions and deliver reliable customer experiences. We work at the intersection of data engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, Finance, and GTM. Our goal is to turn complex monetization and financial data into accurate, explainable, and timely data products while building systems that scale with the growth and complexity of the business. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our monetization data platform. You will own high-impact platform systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and ongoing operation. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous customer and business problems, designing durable systems, and partnering closely with Product, Data, Finance, Accounting, and GTM. You will help define technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and turn monetization opportunities into reliable, scalable product experiences and platform capabilities. In this role, you will: Design, improve, and operate reliable, scalable backend services that power pricing, billing, ads, payments, entitlements, and other monetization platform capabilities. Own the architecture and implementation of critical workflows relevant to monetization data, data contracts, and integrations across product and business systems. Establish strong guarantees for correctness, availability, security, performance, reconciliation, and auditability across business-critical systems. Build reusable platform capabilities and developer tools that enable product teams to launch, measure, and iterate on monetization products

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📍 United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -92.7%

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. As a Senior Security Engineer at Vanta, you’ll own projects with impact across the business to help us run an efficient and highly effective security team. The security team at Vanta ensures that we are a trustworthy steward of sensitive data. We also contribute subject matter expertise to the product, sales, marketing, support, and engineering functions, given the nature of our business. You’ll join Vanta’s Security organization, which provides essential security operational services, is directly involved in the software development process and building tools to make it easy for developers to ship products securely, sets policies and standards regarding enterprise-wide security requirements, and offers advisory services to enable our business to thrive while effectively managing risk. If you’re someone who has high initiative and enjoys problem solving while having impact at a high-growth company, we would love to hear from you! What you’ll do as a Senior Security Engineer at Vanta: Participate in team exercises to identify potential security risks, including threat modeling and tabletop scenarios Contribute to complex prioritization discussions around which risks are the most important to solve next Plan projects to address the risks we prioritize, and coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to execute those projects Build maintainable programs to implement operational excellence where ongoing work is needed to achieve our goals (e.g. vulnerability management) Partner with engineering teams to architect secure software, address security concerns, and build a strong security culture Build, customize, a

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📍 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Job Responsibilities Adhere to all established company standards when interacting with guests, associates, vendors and other visitors to the venue. Patrol premises to prevent and detect signs of intrusion. Control access to the facility and verify identification. Respond to alarms and security incidents in a timely manner. Report and document security breaches and unusual activities. Escort employees and visitors as needed. Provide a visible security presence to deter unauthorized activity. Assist with emergency evacuations and procedures, and administer first aid if necessary. Critical Skills & Experience Requirements High school diploma or equivalent. 1+ years of previous security or law enforcement experience preferred. Strong observation and surveillance skills. Knowledge of security procedures and protocols. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to remain calm and composed under pressure. Basic computer skills for operating security systems. Valid security license or certifications (if required by local regulations). Min 17.00 - Max 17.00 Position Pay Range BENEFITS Free Play & 1/2 price food! Health, dental, vision, 401(k) team member match, free mental well-being platform – and that’s just for starters for those who qualify. View team member benefits here. ADA The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.<br /

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📍 United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but operational in how we execute, and we support every product and research effort at OpenAI. Our tenets include prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers and developers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and fostering a strong, collaborative security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Security Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team. InfraSec safeguards the core of OpenAI’s research and production environments—GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking, storage, and the critical services that power our frontier AI models. Our charter spans everything from bare-metal hardware and firmware to Kubernetes clusters, service meshes, and the data pathways that carry highly sensitive model weights and user data. As a Security Software Engineer, you will design and build critical foundational services, such as authentication systems, egress/ingress proxies, access brokers, and key management platforms, that demand high standards of reliability, scalability, and software craftsmanship. These systems form the security backbone of OpenAI’s supercomputing environment and must remain robust under intense scale and adversarial pressure. In this role, you will: Architect and implement production-grade security services (e.g., auth services, access brokers, secure proxies, key-management infrastructure) that provide strong guarantees across hardware, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Partner with infrastructure and research engineers to embed security into high-performance compute clusters, enabling rapid model training and deployment without compromising protection. Develop automation and detection tooling to continuously identif

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -73.5%

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 Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team is part of Plaid’s security organization, focused on enabling the business by proactively managing information security risks and maintaining effective controls. Our mission is to reduce the likelihood and impact of security risks while operating a robust assurance program that builds trust with our customers, consumers, and data partners. We own Plaid’s security compliance frameworks, run our audits and risk programs, and partner across the company to keep Plaid’s platform secure, resilient, and aligned with industry and regulatory expectations. GRC Engineering is how we make all of that scale — turning compliance into code, evidence into telemetry, and audits into a continuous, automated capability. The Role: You will own GRC Engineering at Plaid — a foundational, high-ownership role defining an emerging discipline from the ground up. Today most of our compliance work is manual and point-in-time; you will turn it into an engineered system that is continuous, data-driven, and scalable, and set the technical direction for the field. You will: Define the discipline and the architecture — how GRC Engineering works at Plaid, not just execute with

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -73.5%

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. Team: The Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team is part of Plaid’s security organization, focused on enabling the business by proactively managing information security risks and maintaining effective controls. Our mission is to reduce the likelihood and impact of security risks while operating a robust assurance program that builds trust with our customers, consumers, and data partners.We partner closely across the company to ensure Plaid’s platform remains secure, resilient, and aligned with industry and regulatory expectations. Third-party ecosystem risk is a core part of how we keep Plaid safe—we vet the security of both the vendors we rely on and the customers and partners who connect to our platform, so trust runs in both directions. Role: You will run security risk assessments for Plaid’s third parties end-to-end—from intake and questionnaire through risk rating, findings, and tracked exceptions. You will assess the security posture of customers and partners onboarding to the platform with the same rigor we apply to vendors. You will keep the third-party risk lifecycle moving—risk tiering, reassessment cadence, remediation follow-through, and a clean, current risk register. You

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