About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of highly experienced engineers building the infrastructure that powers Modal's serverless GPU platform. This is a hands-on leadership role — expect to split your time between technical contribution and people management depending on what the team needs. You'll set direction, remove blockers, and build a strong engineering culture as your team tackles hard problems in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization. Who You Are You're an experienced engineering leader who stays close to the work and builds alongside your team when it counts. You earn trust through technical depth, not title. You communicate clearly, help strong engineers move fast without cutting corners, and stay calm and pragmatic under pressure. You care as much about how your team gets to an answer as the answ
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About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming. As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, then leading delivery. In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering. Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second, being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling, or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale. What You'll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/P
About the Team API Frontiers turns OpenAI’s frontier models into production APIs that developers can use to build reliable products and agents. We own the core path connecting models to developers through the Responses API, with a focus on safety, reliability, and speed. Working closely with Research, Safety, Codex, and other API teams, we bring new model capabilities into production and improve them through developer feedback. About the Role We are looking for a backend software engineer to build and operate the services behind the Responses API. You will shape API behavior, bring new capabilities from research into production, and make long-running agent workflows dependable and fast. The work combines distributed systems engineering with product judgment: designing useful developer interfaces, managing staged rollouts, and following production issues through to durable fixes. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate APIs and backend services that bring frontier model capabilities to developers. Partner with Research, Safety, Codex, and API teams to define API behavior and deliver safe, staged launches. Build API capabilities for agent workflows, including task delegation, context sharing, and parallel execution. Strengthen long-running request reliability across timeouts, cancellation, streaming, and background execution. Improve request-processing performance and tail latency through profiling, efficient systems code, and persistent connections. Turn developer feedback and production failures into better observability, diagnostics, and lasting product improvements. Your background might look something like: 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services or developer-facing APIs in production. Strong software engineering fundamentals, with practical knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and asynchronous execution. Ability to diagnose production failures and performance bottlenecks using observability data and profiling. Product
About the Team The Astral team builds high-performance developer tools to power the future of programming, at OpenAI and beyond, including Ruff, uv, and ty. The Astral toolchain sees hundreds of millions of installs per month and powers hundreds of millions of package downloads per day for the Python ecosystem. As a team, we are building on those foundations to continue solving impactful tooling problems as programming evolves. About the Role We are looking for an experienced software engineer to build next-generation programming language tooling. If you like writing high-performance Rust, it could be a good fit; if you like thinking about the future of programming, it could also be a good fit. Strong candidates tend to have deep experience with Rust, Python, open source, compilers, or developer tools — but few candidates are deep in all of these areas, and we've hired candidates without prior Rust or Python experience. In this role, you will: Design and implement features in Astral’s existing open source projects (Ruff, uv, ty, and python-build-standalone, and more). Support Astral’s open source projects as a maintainer, triaging user issues, reviewing pull requests, and participating in community discussions. Evolve the Astral toolchain to accelerate development velocity at OpenAI. Build entirely new tools, in entirely different programming ecosystems, to power the future of agentic software development. Your background might look something like: 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant engineering roles. High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment, with strong ownership of security, reliability, and operational excellence. Strong developer empathy and communication skills, including experience maintaining open source projects. Exceptional systems engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading complex projects from ambiguous problem statements through to user impact. Proficiency in one or more s
Business Systems drives efficiency across Datadog through business process analysis, systems automation and integrations, AI agent and MCP development, and vendor/software review. The team is increasingly embedded in cross-functional initiatives across People, Finance, GTM , Legal, Recruiting, and Technical Solutions — translating ambiguous business problems into scoped, buildable solutions and owning delivery end-to-end. This is not a generalist BSA role. Each Senior BSA will own a cluster of business functions end-to-end, acting as an internal product manager for their domain rather than processing inbound requests reactively. There are two openings, each covering a different domain: People, Recruiting, Legal or Finance, GTM, Procurement As the role evolves alongside AI, Senior BSAs leverage agentic tools for data aggregation and context gathering while remaining the critical human-in-the-loop layer — owning business context and product outlook, validating use cases, managing stakeholder relationships, and making the judgment calls agents can't. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Discovery and scoping: Translate ambiguous asks from business stakeholders into well-defined requirements that Business Systems Engineers can build against. Many stakeholders don't know what they want or the cross-functional impact of what they're asking for — you surface both before engineering begins. Cross-functional visibility: Identify dependencies, downstream impacts, and integration considerations that requesting teams miss. Proactive opportunity identification: Develop deep domain knowledge to identify automation and AI opportunities before they become inbound requests, shifting the team from reactive in
$192K – $240K/yr
Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do As a Security Operations Engineer at Brex, you will focus on preventing, detecting and responding to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments. You will use existing systems and develop tools to improve our security capabilities. Our team is responsible for functions across corporate security, detection & response and infrastructure security domains; and we perform systems engineering and automation to support those functions. Security Operations is part of our wider Trust & IT o
About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We're looking for Forward Deployed Engineers on our engineering team who want to work at the intersection of deep infrastructure work and direct customer impact. As an FDE, you'll partner with leading AI companies and foundation labs on cloud architecture, networking, storage, containerization, sandboxing, and more — helping them design and ship production infrastructure on Modal's platform. The FDE team today includes world-class software engineers, computational scientists, ML engineers, and former founders. We're looking for people with strong engineering fundamentals, deep curiosity across the infrastructure stack, and energy for working directly with customers on hard problems. You will: Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to architect and deploy massive-scale production workloads on Modal Lead technical discovery and architect
From $272K/yr
About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Senior Staff Engineers are technical leaders operating at the forefront of large-scale systems design, building the infrastructure that will support our next five years of growth and beyond. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world-class technical depth to build industry-leading systems in areas such as observability data platforms, distributed query engines, and real-time event streaming at global scale. As technical leaders, they apply broad architectural perspective and deep systems thinking to align design decisions across teams and domains. They work across complex, multi-team problem spaces to define long-term technical direction, drive large-scale initiatives forward, and ensure consistent execution. As engineering stewards, they play a key role in evolving our systems and engineering culture. They actively participate in Datadog’s senior technical community, bringing external insights and internal experience to elevate engineering standards and mentor the next generation of technical leaders. Examples of projects a Senior Staff Engineer may lead include designing and launching a new distributed data storage engine capable of handling hundreds of millions of records per second, building the real-time infrastructure behind a new observability product, or re-architecting a core service to support exponential growth in throughput and complexity. What You’ll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas, often spanning several t
From $192K/yr
As the Senior Product Manager for the Actions & Automations team, you will own the ecosystem that enables customers, partners, and Datadog teams to build, deploy, and operate AI agents on Datadog. You will drive the strategy and execution for the platform capabilities, developer experience, integrations, and extensibility model that make Datadog the best place to build agents that understand and act on production systems. Modern engineering organizations are entering a new era where software is not only monitored and operated by humans, but increasingly by AI-powered agents. As agentic workflows reshape how teams build, operate, secure, and troubleshoot systems, customers need a platform for creating specialized agents, connecting them to business and engineering systems, governing their behavior, and extending them to solve unique organizational problems. You will define and build the ecosystem that makes this possible. Agent Builder sits at the intersection of Datadog's products, AI capabilities, and ecosystem strategy. You will have the opportunity to work across the breadth of the Datadog platform, partner with teams throughout the company, and help establish Datadog as the foundation for operational AI. 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: Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Datadog's Agent Builder platform and ecosystem. Own the core platform capabilities that enable customers and partners to create, customize, deploy, and manage AI agents. Drive the extensibility model for agents, including integrations, tools, actions, context sources, APIs, SDKs, and developer workflows. Shape how agents perform actions across Datadog products and third-party systems. Partner closely with AI, platform, infrastructure, and product tea
Datadog's Software Engineers with Systems depth leverage their experience with systems and tooling to build software that ensures Datadog remains reliable, performant, and secure. For this track, their Software Engineering experience may resemble the Distributed Systems track, but is typically applied in combination with their systems experience to build and run internal platforms and tools that our products are built on. These people typically have deep experience building and managing large cloud infrastructure deployments, or leading reliability efforts for orgs similar to ours, or building release machinery to allow hundreds or thousands of devs to do their jobs without stepping on each others' toes. The systems and tooling where they may have experience depth may include (but not limited to): bazel, build tooling, cassandra, CDN, chef, configuration management, container orchestration, consul, docker, elasticsearch envoy, haproxy, kafka, kubernetes, load balancing, network architecture, postgres, redis, release management, RPC frameworks, service discovery, spinnaker, terraform, zookeeper. Bonus: You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. #LI-KM5 Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. Th
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Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more. We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more. Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: (Describe role responsibilities here/max 6 bullets) Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC) Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate project Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc. Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability Who You Are: (Describe role qualifications here/max 6 bullets) Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc. Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up ow
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Role Overview You’re a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer who loves owning complex infrastructure, making things run faster, safer, and with less manual effort. In this Staff‑level role, you’ll design and operate VMware‑based private cloud platforms that power mission‑critical SaaS products used by customers around the world. You’ll work across Linux, Windows Server, networking, storage, and automation frameworks to increase reliability, reduce toil, and modernize a global datacenter environment. You’ll have the scope to set technical direction, build automation at scale, and mentor engineers while staying hands‑on with VMware vSphere, F5/AVI load balancers, and hybrid Active Directory. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Lead the architecture, deployment, and ongoing optimization of VMware vSphere–based private cloud infrastructure across multiple global datacenters. Design and build automation using PowerShell/PowerCLI, Ansible, Python, and CI/CD tools to streamline provisioning, configuration, and compliance. Administer, harden, and troubleshoot Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments that host enterprise and SaaS workloads. Integrate and manage Active Directory for authentication, access control, and service accounts across hybrid on‑prem and cloud environments. Partner with network and security teams to manage firewalls, VPNs, storage, and load balancers (F5 BIG‑IP, AVI/NSX Advanced Load Balancer) for highly available services. Document architectures and runbooks, participate in on‑call and change management, and mentor engineers while influencing long‑term reliability and automation strategy. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview 10+ years of experience in systems or infrastructure engineering, including operating large‑scale enterprise or SaaS datacenter environments. Deep hands‑on expertise with VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, DRS, HA, vMotion, distributed switches) in production
From $131K/yr
Help shape the technology that enables a global organisation to do its best work. As Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, you’ll lead the team responsible for Diligent’s Atlassian and Microsoft platforms while setting the architectural direction for the wider internal IT estate. You’ll combine people leadership, enterprise platform strategy and hands-on technical judgement to create secure, reliable and scalable experiences for employees worldwide. From modernising service management and automating joiner, mover and leaver processes to enabling AI safely through Microsoft Copilot and Atlassian Rovo, your work will reduce friction, strengthen governance and deliver measurable business impact. Working across IT, Security, HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance and business teams, you’ll turn complex requirements into well-governed platforms that are easy to use, resilient and ready for the future. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Lead, coach and grow a global team of platform engineers and systems administrators, building a high-performing and inclusive culture. Own the strategy, architecture, governance and roadmap for Atlassian Cloud, including Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Atlassian Guard and Rovo. Set the direction for Diligent’s Microsoft 365 E5 estate, including Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online, Intune, Defender, Purview, Power Platform and Copilot. Design scalable integration and automation patterns across identity, HRIS, ITSM and business systems using APIs, event-driven automation, Okta Workflows, Power Platform and scripting. Partner with IT Support to improve self-service, automate repetitive work and reduce ticket volume, escalation effort and time to resolution. Establish strong standards for security, access governance, AI adoption, reliability, compliance and business continuity across the internal technology estate. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview Significant experience in i
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Datadog is seeking curious, driven interns to join our Product Management team and help build products that improve how engineers monitor and understand their systems. As a Product Management Intern, you'll support the product development lifecycle by partnering closely with Engineering, Design, and Product Marketing to bring new ideas and features to life. You'll gain hands-on experience working on products that serve highly technical customers while contributing to meaningful business and user outcomes. Interns are embedded directly within product teams, working on meaningful initiatives alongside full-time Product Managers and contributing to actual product decisions. Our platform processes over 100 trillion events per day across 30,000+ customers in a multi-cloud environment -- giving you direct exposure to large-scale, real-time systems built by engineers, for engineers. It's an environment where you'll develop product thinking, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills by doing the work, not just observing it. 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: Conduct customer discovery conversations and gather feedback to better understand user needs Drive product initiatives from concept through launch alongside Engineering, Design, and Product Marketing teams Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements and engineering priorities Analyze customer feedback, product data, and market insights to help inform product decisions Prepare and deliver technical product demonstrations and communication materials Develop technical understanding of Datadog’s observability platform and cloud infrastructure products Who You Are: Targeting a 2028 full-time graduation or start date Pursuing a degree in
About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in NYC. We use a hy
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