About the Team The Core Services organization builds and runs the mission-critical online services that product teams rely on in production. We own foundational distributed systems and platform capabilities that enable reliable execution, high-performance services, and large-scale file/data needs across our products. This team is distinct from developer infrastructure and data infrastructure—our focus is production service foundations and core runtime services. About the Role We’re hiring an Engineering Manager, Core Services to help lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for OpenAI products. Your team will own foundational production systems that OpenAI’s product engineering teams build on. You’ll collaborate closely with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and help scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. You’ll partner closely with senior engineering leaders to scale the org, mature operations, and drive major platform initiatives. This role requires strong technical ability. You’ll be responsible for: Managing and growing a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers. Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety. Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability). Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations. Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners. Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders. You might thrive in this role if you: Have significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production
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Citibank, N.A. seeks an Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst for its Tampa, Florida location. Duties: Responsible for source code review to ensure it satisfies good coding practice. Coordinate all communication between tech team and Ab Initio vendor, including scheduling and chairing weekly meetings. Responsible for reconfiguration and reengineering to optimize performance. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Manage the hardware infrastructure and monitor the performance metrices E2E. Identify areas of growth need and proposal scale up activities. Execute on scale up activities by submitting procurement requests, manage regular calls with the deployment team and plan go live/switch activity. Develop shell scripting code base to support the job executions, interactions between systems. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols. Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field and 6 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Associate Director – Data Engineering, Senior Consultant, Data Specialist, Assistant Systems Engineer or related position involving gathering new business requirements, architecture, analysis, estimation, design, implementation, and leading a team of software developers and software development. 6 years of experience must include: Experience with AbInitio Data Processing (SME), Data Modeling
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. Our EPD Recruiting team builds the teams that build Plaid. We partner with leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to deliver thoughtful, candidate-first processes and continually raise the bar for how we scale. Within that, our team owns Product and Design recruiting. We are responsible for delivering world-class talent through pragmatic, data-informed, and principle-aligned recruiting practices that help Plaid scale with intention. We are hiring a Senior Product Sourcer to support Plaid’s growing Product organization. Product Managers at Plaid are builders, thinkers, and connectors who shape how millions of people experience financial freedom — and this role is key to bringing that talent in. As a senior sourcer, you will partner closely with Product leaders and recruiters to drive the top of funnel strategies for specialized and niche Product searches. You will own the research,, manage pipelines, guide hiring teams, and provide data-driven insights that help leaders make smarter hiring decisions. This is a high-impact, high-visibility opportunity where your work will directly influence how Plaid builds its product organization and scales to meet ambitious goals. Responsibilities: Build a
Datadog is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Area Vice President, Enterprise Security Sales to lead our Enterprise Security Sales organization and scale Datadog’s security business through a tightly integrated co-sell motion with Enterprise Account Executives. This senior leader will own the Enterprise Security strategy, ensuring security resources are deployed effectively to influence pipeline creation, deal progression, and multi-product adoption across Datadog’s largest and most strategic enterprise accounts. This senior leader will be responsible for driving market expansion and establishing Datadog as a trusted strategic partner to CISOs and security leadership teams. The role sits at the intersection of GTM design, sales execution, cross-functional orchestration, and customer value creation—ideal for a leader passionate about scaling high-growth security businesses. 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: Recruit, build, manage, and develop a world-class team of Enterprise Security Directors and Enterprise Security Sales Specialists. Own Enterprise Security revenue contribution and influence targets, ensuring consistent attainment through effective co-selling with Enterprise AEs. Inform and evolve Datadog’s Enterprise Security overlay strategy, including coverage models, specialist-to-AE ratios, rules of engagement, and prioritization frameworks. Define and own the Enterprise Security pipeline generation strategy within a co-sell / overlay model, establishing clear rules of engagement for when and how Security Specia
From $151K/yr
MongoDB’s Security Product Management team is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own security, compliance, and public sector product strategy within Atlas for Government (A4G). In this role, you will be a key member of the security product management team, helping make data security a market differentiator that enables MongoDB to win in enterprise and regulated industries. You will lead product strategy and execution for capabilities and programs that support federal compliance requirements and broader regulated-industry needs. You will work across Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Security, and Go-to-Market teams to translate complex regulatory and customer requirements into clear product investments, roadmaps, and outcomes. This role is suited for a candidate who can orchestrate multiple interlinked product areas, own cross-team product and architectural trade-offs, and align senior stakeholders around multi-year bets. You will be expected to identify opportunities and dependencies that cut across team boundaries, bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, and establish reusable ways of working that help MongoDB deliver secure, compliant platform capabilities for public sector and other regulated markets. You will partner closely with senior engineering and business leaders to evaluate trade-offs, sequence investments, and bring clarity to decisions that balance customer impact, execution risk, and long-term business value. This role can be based out of of our offices or remotely in the United States. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Our FedRAMP program requires that anyone who is accessing customer data or metadata inside the Authorization Boundary be a US Person on US Soil. Responsibilities Security and Compliance Product Strategy Own the public sector compliance roadm
From $101K/yr
We are seeking a Salesforce Engineer III to design, build, and support secure, scalable Salesforce solutions that support critical business operations. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong hands-on technical expertise, sound engineering judgment, and experience working in regulated environments. This position supports systems and data subject to FedRAMP and other U.S. government compliance requirements. Due to the nature of the work, U.S. citizenship is required. This role will be based remotely in the United States. What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain Salesforce solutions across sales, service, customer, and operational workflows Implement functionality using Salesforce configuration, Flows, Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, and platform automation Develop and support integrations between Salesforce and external enterprise systems Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions Participate in technical design reviews, sprint planning, code reviews, testing, deployments, and production support Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to automation, integrations, data integrity, and system performance Create and maintain technical documentation, support UAT and regression testing, and assist with user enablement Ensure all solutions comply with Salesforce best practices, internal security standards, and regulatory requirements Leverage AI-powered development tools to improve productivity and analysis, while adhering to security and compliance guidelines Responsibilities Technical Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of Salesforce features using a mix of declarative and programmatic solutions Secure Engineering: Design and implement solutions that meet FedRAMP, security, and compliance requirements, including least-privilege access and auditability Integration Design: Build and maintain secure integrations between Salesforce and downstream systems Engineering Excellence: Maintain high st
About the Team The OpenAI Audit Team is on a mission to build the future of internal audit from the ground up. Our ambition will be powered by a high-energy, technically exceptional team with the judgment, intellectual curiosity, and creativity to harness the latest advances in AI and design a truly next-generation audit function. As AI reshapes how work is performed across the enterprise, Internal Audit will use AI, automation, and data analytics to identify and assess the most significant and emerging risks across the business, including technology, cybersecurity, finance, compliance, operations, and data. We will build trusted partnerships at every level—from the Board of Directors and senior leadership to the teams delivering on OpenAI’s mission every day. We will operate as both an independent assurance provider and a trusted advisor, bringing an objective and pragmatic perspective to critical decisions. By engaging closely with management while preserving our independence, we will help the business innovate responsibly, move with confidence, and manage risk without creating unnecessary barriers. About the Role As the Cybersecurity & Technology Audit Leader, you will help shape the strategy, methodology, technology, and culture of a new audit function. You will lead complex audits and advisory reviews of cybersecurity, technology, data, and AI-related risks while advising leaders on practical ways to strengthen governance, resilience, and risk management. You are an experienced, hands-on professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong business judgment. You can quickly move between executive-level governance questions and detailed technical analysis, use data to identify and assess risk, and form clear, well-supported conclusions in fast-moving or ambiguous situations. You will have meaningful influence over how the function develops, including how we apply AI, automation, and analytics to audit planning, testing, monitoring, and reporting. T
About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end. This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage. Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable. Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems. Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams. Own governance systems
Topgolf is looking for a Unity Developer to join our Games team and help build the next generation of interactive experiences played by millions of Guests across our venues. This role sits at the intersection of game development, real-world sports, connected venues, and large-scale entertainment technology. You will build and ship Unity-based games and experiences that run in Topgolf bays, using ball-tracking data, venue systems, real-time scoring, and engaging game mechanics to create fun, social, competitive gameplay. You will work closely with game designers, artists, UX/UI designers, QA, product owners, and platform engineers to deliver high-quality games from prototype through national rollout, with guidance from senior engineers on more complex technical decisions. Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and optimize Unity games and interactive experiences for Topgolf venues. Build gameplay systems, UI, animation, scoring, camera behavior, effects, and game-state logic. Integrate Unity games with internal Topgolf services, APIs, tracking systems, configuration tools, and venue hardware, with support from senior engineers on architecture decisions. Work with designers and product owners to turn game concepts into playable prototypes and production-ready experiences. Collaborate with artists and technical artists to implement assets, shaders, VFX, animations, and performance-conscious visuals. Support QA by fixing bugs, improving testability, and helping diagnose issues found in venue and local test environments. Write clean, maintainable, well-structured C# code and contribute to code reviews. Help improve build, deployment, and development workflows where needed. Optimize performance for venue hardware and ensure games run reliably in a live entertainment environment. Participate in technical planning, estimation, and sprint ceremonies. Help mai
$176.6K – $294.3K/yr
ROLE SUMMARY As an AI-enabled strategic scientific leader, you will partner with Oncology Research Leadership to integrate AI-driven strategies that will drive data-informed decision-making across our Oncology Research pipeline. As the AI Portfolio Lead, you will bridge cutting-edge AI/advanced analytics with deep Oncology R&D expertise to guide our portfolio strategy. Working as an individual contributor reporting into the Head, Portfolio Strategy and Program Management, you will analyze and continuously assess Oncology Research projects using AI-driven insights (predictive models, scenario simulations, competitive intelligence) and propose actionable strategies to Oncology Research Leadership. This role is science-focused and spans across discovery and preclinical stage programs, ensuring that our project teams pursue the most promising scientific approaches and mechanisms of action. Your work will directly inform pipeline prioritization and resource allocation decisions, enhancing the quality and objectivity of governance deliberations with robust data. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Portfolio Analysis and Insights: Continuously analyze the oncology Research portfolio (ESD through Preclinical) using advanced AI/ML tools and analytics to evaluate each program’s scientific strength, probability of success, and strategic portfolio fit per disease area strategies. Strategy Recommendation: Develop and propose data-driven portfolio strategies (at both project and portfolio levels) to senior leaders and Research governance committee. Use scenario analysis and predictive modeling to highlight optimal project prioritization, pipeline balance, and resource allocation scenarios. AI-Enabled Decision Support: Integrate AI-derived insights (e.g. machine learning predictions, knowl
Experienced Supply Chain Management Analyst Company: Boeing Aerospace Operations Boeing Global Services is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Management Analyst (Level 3) to support our business in San Antonio, TX The Supply Chain Analyst will have responsibility across all airplane programs. This position will incorporate change and planning decisions to arrive at optimal solutions. The Statement of Work includes standard Supply Chain Management functions, data analysis, forecasting, supply and/or demand troubleshooting, and additional duties as assigned. Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Mid-Level or Senior Supply Chain Management Analysts. Position Responsibilities: Incorporates change and planning decisions to arrive at optimal solutions. Applies Supply Chain Management (SCM) methodologies to ensure coordination in the global supply chain. Analyzes complex material requirements. Verifies and incorporates Bills of Material/schedules into a production plan. Determines part number attributes. Initiates, coordinates and authorizes release of orders by evaluating system requirements and resource availability. Ensures on-time delivery. Documents and resolves order delinquencies. Reports schedule adherence issues. Develops and controls inventory plans. Optimizes inventory levels. Analyzes and dispositions excess inventories. Initiates audits. Develops and creates schedules for products and services. Assists in developing estimates and schedules for new business proposals. Implements and maintains process improvements by analyzing and establishing best practices for mate
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. Partner Marketing at Vanta drives revenue growth and market expansion through high-impact cloud, technology and ecosystem partnerships. Our team builds and invests in joint campaigns, co-marketing initiatives, and MDF programs to generate pipeline, accelerate deals, and deepen partner relationships. As we scale, repeatable programs, partner-ready plays, and data-driven insights are critical to maximizing the impact of our partner investments. As the Senior Manager, Partner Marketing Programs at Vanta, you will build, scale and execute the foundational engine behind our global partner marketing strategy. This is a highly visible, highly cross functional role working closely with partner product marketing, partner enablement, partner marketing, partner sales, systems and finance. You will champion three critical focus areas to propel our partnership strategy forward: Orchestrate high-impact partner communications and community engagement —including product launches, enablement webinars, and an active partner community—designed to keep partners fully enabled, deeply engaged, and continuously choosing Vanta. Maximize Market Development Fund (MDF) Impact and ROI —strategically allocating, tracking, and optimizing investments to turn MDF into a high-yield engine for measurable pipeline expansion across our entire partner ecosystem. Scale partner pipegen programs by transforming Vanta's campaign calendar and product roadmap into robust, partner-ready packages, campaign kits, and sales plays that drive joint pipeline. Reporting to the Head of Global Strategic Partner Marketing, you will empower our partner network to grow and scale wit
Become a part of our caring community The Principal Product Owner / Architect is a dual-mandate leadership role that unifies product strategy and solution architecture across CenterWell's four core business segments: Pharmacy, Primary Care Organization (PCO), Home Solutions, and Humana Military. This senior individual contributor serves as the connective tissue between business vision and technical execution—owning cross-segment product roadmaps while simultaneously authoring and governing the architectural blueprints that underpin them. You will operate within CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture, partnering with segment product leaders, engineering teams, EA Activation, security, data, and compliance to deliver integrated, interoperable health solutions that serve members, providers, and partners across the full care continuum. Your decisions shape what gets built, how it gets built, and the standard by which all four segments measure delivery readiness. DAY-TO-DAY Key Activities Define and own a unified cross-segment product roadmap that balances segment-specific priorities against shared platform investments, and communicates trade-offs clearly to leadership. Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and integration standards applicable across all four CenterWell segments. Conduct cross-segment discovery sessions, design workshops, and architecture reviews to surface shared needs, resolve competing priorities, and prevent duplicative build. Own and prioritize top-level product backlogs for shared platforms, partnering with segment product owners to decompose initiatives into delivery-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (NFRs). Define integration contracts, API standards, and domain boundaries for cross-segment data flows spanning pharmac
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer) to join our team. This is a hybrid role (onsite three days a week in San Jose, CA or another Zscaler office; remote can be considered for exceptional candidates) reporting to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department. As a key member of the Zero Trust Exchange team, you will own the systems-level reliability and performance of Zscaler’s high-throughput bare-metal and cloud infrastructure processing tens of billions of daily transactions across a global, multi-region fleet. This is a software-first SRE role: you will write production-grade code and automation, drive the shift from reactive incident response, and bring engineering discipline to the systems-level work - OS, network and application debugging - that keeps the fleet operating safely at scale. What You’ll Do (Role Expectations) Maintain h
From $143.9K/yr
We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime. Hasbro is updating the way work is conducted across supply chain, go to market, finance, consumer products, and licensing. Our mature RPA practice on Automation Anywhere is now growing to include agentic AI. These systems interpret unstructured inputs, invoke tools, and perform complex workflows with human oversight where needed. We are looking for a Principal Automation Specialist to act as the senior technical expert in this initiative. This hands-on leadership role involves setting the architectural vision for our intelligent automation platform, building the most complex elements, and raising the team’s technical standards. Responsibilities As a Principal Automation Specialist, your responsibilities will include: Architect and build agentic automation: LLM-orchestrated workflows that combine deterministic RPA with reasoning based on data patterns, tool/API calling, and structured output. Extend our Automation Anywhere estate — migrate brittle, screen-scraped bots to API- and agent-based patterns and decide deliberately when a task should stay deterministic. Build the reliability layer that makes agents safe to run in production: evaluation harnesses, regression suites, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop approval gates, fallback paths, and audit logging. Own the integration surface — connect agents to ERP (SAP), data platforms, ticketing, and internal APIs via standardized tool interfaces (e.g., MCP servers, REST/GraphQL, event-driven triggers). Apply document and language intelligence to workflows that resisted cl
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