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Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role We’re building the observability product for OpenAI—from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. Our systems ingest over petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics across our fleet. We're now layering intelligence on top—think agents that summarize SEVs, auto-generate dashboards, or help engineers debug through notebook-like UIs. We’re hiring software engineers across the stack—infra, backend, and product. You’ll join a small, gritty team building both foundational infra and novel internal tools to make OpenAI's production systems reliable, performant, and observable. What You’ll Do Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously. Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product You Might Be a Fit If You: Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases) Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems. Have full-stack chops or product sensibilities—you're excited to build real tools people use. Have strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc). Bonus : built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc). Why This Team We’re b

About the Team The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents in the cloud: orchestration, sandboxing and isolation, secure environment connectivity, secrets and identity, observability, reliability, and cost controls. These agents securely connect to diverse developer and customer environments and use tools to accomplish goals. We partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to turn agentic capabilities into dependable platforms for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI. About the Role We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will work closely with product engineers on ChatGPT, API, and Codex to define the right abstractions and enable them to ship products quickly. Strong backend or infrastructure experience is important; experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms is especially helpful. In this role, you will: Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API. Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions. Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents. Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds. Your background might look something like: 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies. Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems. Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries. Strong understanding

About the team Online Data builds and operates Habitat, the single product surface of Online Data and the system of record for OpenAI’s online user data. As OpenAI’s scale and product requirements evolve, Habitat is becoming a full-stack, one-size-fits-most database platform with end-to-end ownership of: Provisioning and developer experience APIs and guardrails Scaling, performance, and reliability Data movement, caching, routing, and placement Privacy enforcement and access control Change Data Capture (CDC) as a first-class primitive The foundation for future storage backends You’ll work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI’s products, building and operating Habitat services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions. You’ll partner closely with internal platform and product teams to ship safe, reliable systems, then push them to be faster and more cost-efficient through better caching, routing, observability, and operational tooling. This is a critical role for engineers who like owning hard distributed-systems problems end to end and sweating the details from p99 latency to production operations at massive scale. In this role, you will Design and build core abstractions spanning storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement Own a major surface area end to end, from product and API design to operational excellence Improve latency, correctness, and cost efficiency for real production workloads at massive scale Build strong instrumentation, debugging workflows, and developer-first tooling Collaborate closely with internal product and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and ship pragmatic solutions Participate in an on-call rotation and raise the bar on reliability while aggressively improving performance and usability You might thrive in this role if you have A strong track record building and operating high-scale backend or data-intensive distributed systems in production Excellent systems judgment and the a

About the Role We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design and evolve the platforms that power OpenAI’s products. In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader, driving the architecture, scalability, reliability, and security of critical infrastructure systems. You will help define how we build and operate infrastructure at the next order of magnitude, while influencing technical direction across teams. This role is both deeply technical and highly strategic, requiring strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, and research organizations. In this role, you will: Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms that power OpenAI products Evolve cloud infrastructure abstractions that enable rapid product development across teams Architect systems to support significant growth, performance, and operational complexity Improve server orchestration, networking, distributed systems reliability, and infrastructure security posture Influence technical direction and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams Partner closely with product, research, and engineering teams to align infrastructure with evolving needs Own operational excellence, including participation in on-call rotations, incident response, and production readiness Mentor engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the organization Contribute to a culture of high ownership, low ego, and thoughtful collaboration You might thrive in this role if you: 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale Strong experience designing cloud abstractions and platform infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar) Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams Experience operating highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems Security engineering experience or security backgroun

About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who you are We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and play a pivotal role in designing and building our platform and infrastructure as we continue to scale our product and user base. As a part of our team, you will be working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems, while focusing on service architecture and deployment, query optimization, distributed systems, data and machine learning infrastructure, and security and authentication. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented, fast-paced, high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Partner with product teams to architect, design, and build the foundational infrastructure for our products. Design, develop, and deploy highly available and scalable Multi-tenant SaaS solutions on any one of the public cloud networks like AWS, Azure and GCP. Leverage technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Istio to achieve infrastructure resilience. Drive the automation of infrastructure tasks, from provisioning to configuration management and deployment, utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, a

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. POSITION SUMMARY CVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Search / AI who as a Senior technical leader, be responsible for driving architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native platforms built on microservices architecture and AI capabilities. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build intelligent, distributed systems. The right candidate will be a strong analytical thinker and be able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically. We love to collaborate and help each other and we want someone to share that ideology. Expectations for the Role Drive enterprise architecture and technical strategy with strong focus on microservices-based design and AI platform engineering Design and develop highly scalable microservices architectures, including APIs, domain-driven services, and event-driven systems Lead the development and integration of AI/ML solutions, including LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks Develop sc

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

NVIDIA is transforming how the world uses AI, cloud, and accelerated computing, and trust is at the center of that mission. Our Attestation and Trust Services team builds the secure cloud services that show customers their NVIDIA platforms are healthy, resilient, and ready for their most important workloads. In this role, you help design and run services that sit at the intersection of hardware, security, and large-scale distributed systems. We partner closely with security, silicon, platform, and cloud teams to bring new ideas into reliable production services that people rely on every day. We care about building systems that last, supporting each other, and creating space for learning and experimentation. If you enjoy solving complex problems, keeping services running smoothly, and collaborating with teammates from many disciplines, we would love to talk with you! What you’ll be doing: Your main focus will be on building and managing our core attestation cloud services. Day-to-day responsibilities include crafting APIs and integrations, boosting reliability, and working alongside NVIDIA teams to convert hardware trust mechanisms and standards into production-ready solutions. You will contribute significantly to shaping how customers verify that NVIDIA platforms are secure and prepared for their workloads. Crafting and evolving attestation cloud services, APIs, and SDK/CLI integration points that confirm the integrity of NVIDIA platforms across data center, AI, networking, and partner environments. Improving reliability and operational maturity through SLOs/SLIs, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and safe rollout practices. Crafting resilient service behavior that handles dependency failures, caching challenges, regional issues, customer-side resilience needs, and graceful degradation. Architecting trust-material distribution for certificate status, re

As a Senior Software Engineer on Coder’s Agentic Engineering team, you’ll build and evolve the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll work across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows that connect agents with real development environments. You’ll stay hands-on, solve complex technical problems, and work closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to ship reliable agentic experiences. To provide substantive overlap with the team, this position must be in Eastern Time. What you’ll do here Design and build production systems in Go, with work across React and TypeScript where needed. Improve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change. Build reliable integrations between agents, workspaces, tools, and developer infrastructure. Own projects from implementation through rollout and iteration. Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions. Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences. Improve the reliability, performance, and operability of agentic systems. What we’re looking for Strong experience building and operating production software systems. Hands-on experience with Go. Experience with React and TypeScript. Experience building systems around LLMs or agentic workflows. Familiarity with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops. Good understanding of distributed systems and production reliability. Working knowledge of AWS. Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working through technical ambiguity. Someone who contributes beyond their own code through reviews, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Bonus tacos if you have Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments. Experience with MCP, agent tools, or multi-agent systems. Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute.

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 Senior Software Engineer Overview Join a team focused on transforming how Mastercard's payment systems are built, scaled, and operated. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of cloud-ready applications, microservices, and distributed systems that support large-scale payment processing platforms while helping advance modernization, automation, and engineering excellence across the organization. In this role, you will contribute to software architecture decisions, drive technical design discussions, and partner with engineers to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable software solutions. You'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, mentor other engineers, and influence how software is designed, developed, tested, and supported across critical technology platforms. What You Will Do •Design software solutions and contribute to software architecture decisions that support scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence. •Translate complex product requirements into technical designs and implementation plans. •Lead development of modular, extensible, high-performance applications. •Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional, and integration testing strategies. •Analyze, optimize, and improve application performance, scal

Job Requisition ID # 26WD97363 Position Overview We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Backend to join Autodesk’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) organization within the COO-GET Engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the Principal (P4) level , expected to drive technology direction for large, complex, and business-critical backend and distributed systems . This role is anchored in backend software engineering excellence : designing, building, and evolving scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems that operate at enterprise scale. As a Principal Engineer, you will work with high autonomy and ambiguity , shape long-term architecture, and influence multiple teams and domains. Familiarity with data engineering concepts is valuable, but backend systems, service design, and distributed systems are the core competencies. You will function as a technical authority and force multiplier—guiding design decisions, setting standards, and ensuring Autodesk’s core data services are reliable, resilient, and evolvable over time. Responsibilities Provide principal-level technical

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role Issue Workflow is Sentry's primary product surface. Our issue platform processes billions events daily and turns them into actionable insights that help millions of developers fix bugs faster. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team, you'll architect the systems that power this experience. You'll work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and product engineering, building real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analysis systems that surface signal from noise. This is product engineering at massive scale—where every architectural decision impacts millions of debugging sessions. You'll be the technical leader who shapes how Sentry groups issues, how we make search lightning-fast, how we enable sophisticated agentic workflows, and how we ensure that the product is performant even at billions-of-events scale. Your work will define what's possible for the most trafficked part of Sentry's platform. In this role you will Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape the multi-quarter technical vision for Issue Workflow platform. Make strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt. Ensure the team is building a strong foundation to scale with Sentry's growth. Solve complex performance and scalability challenges. Champion product quality and user experience. Build features that don't just work—they delight. You understand that milliseconds matter in the developer experience. You sweat the details of interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases. You instrument everything s

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the team The Billing team sits at the intersection of product, finance, and infrastructure. They're responsible for ensuring every observable event—errors, logs, traces, tokens—gets accurately measured, priced, and billed. Their work directly impacts company revenue and customer trust, requiring distributed systems expertise, attention to financial accuracy, and deep understanding of product usage patterns. The team works cross-functionally with product, engineering, BizOps, marketing, and sales to build systems that enable new products and pricing models. About the role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and scale the core systems that power Sentry's billing infrastructure, ensuring accuracy and reliability at massive scale. You will collaborate on building the next generation of Sentry’s usage tracking pipeline, processing hundreds of billions of events daily with low latency and financial-grade accuracy. You will help design flexible pricing primitives that support everything from per-event usage billing to complex enterprise contracts, enabling product and sales teams to experiment rapidly while maintaining revenue accuracy and reduced time-to-market for new products. You will contribute to technical decisions on data consistency challenges unique to billing—like handling event delays, retroactive pricing changes, and distributed count reconciliation across our infrastructure. You'll love this job if you Want to solve the "easy to explain, hard to build" problems—like ensuring a customer's bill matches their usage perfectly, even when processing hundreds of billions of events daily across distributed

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role The Streaming Platform team at Sentry is building the next generation of infrastructure that powers our ingestion pipelines and real-time data processing systems. Our platform ingests, processes, and distributes hundreds of thousands of events per second with low latency and high reliability. We are creating a system that makes it easy for Sentry engineers to deploy and run Streaming Applications at scale by simplifying the complexity of Kafka, scaling consumers automatically, and managing state so product teams can focus on building great experiences for developers. As part of this team, you will work on challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and developer experience. You will help us create a self-service streaming platform that improves stability, accelerates time to production, and reduces operational overhead. In this role you will Design, build, and operate components of our Streaming Platform, including Kafka, the streaming runtime, high-level APIs, and developer-facing abstractions. Implement resilient, high-throughput stream processing systems that handle unbounded datasets with strong correctness guarantees (delivery, checkpointing, watermarking, and more). Build scalable automation and control plane for Kafka fleet management and improve efficiency. Partner with product engineers to ensure our abstractions enable fast, reliable, and consistent ingestion pipelines. Improve observability, monitoring, and failover for mission-critical real-time systems. You’ll love this job if you You enjoy working on distributed systems at scale and care about reliability and

Role Summary: Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines with log management software that customers deploy and manage in their own infrastructure. This role will focus on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale. 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: Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and operate within their own cloud infrastructure. Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments Who You Are: You have significant experience building software that is installed, deployed, and operated in customer environments rather than only as a fully managed SaaS service. You have strong expertise in distributed systems,