Location: Remote in EMEA
Location: This is a 100% remote role and is open to candidates residing in EMEA. Visa sponsorship is not available.
About the job
Testlio's fully managed crowdsourced testing platform integrates expert, on-demand testers directly into your release process. Ship faster and more confidently with global coverage across 600,000+ devices, 800+ payment methods, 150+ countries, and 100+ languages. To learn more, visit
www.testlio.com
.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that owns every way the outside world connects to Testlio: our partner integrations, our public API, our identity and access surfaces. If a client’s Jira, a client’s CI pipeline, a client’s engineer, or a client’s AI agent touches Testlio, it goes through your team’s systems. This role reports to the Director, Engineering.
Why will you love this job?
Own the platform’s contract with the world. You’ll lead the one team that covers the whole programmatic perimeter: bi-directional sync with a dozen tools (Jira, Xray, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Asana, Linear, Monday, TestRail, Trello, YouTrack, Slack), enterprise SSO, our public API.
Build the API as a product, not a byproduct. We have a written public-API strategy: OpenAPI contracts as the source of truth, major and dated versioning, uniform auth, granular API roles, rate limiting, end-to-end request tracing.
Make support self-serve. You’ll cut recurring support work at the source, with self-serve setup and diagnostics, integration health visible to the people who need it, and automation and permanent fixes instead of repeat manual triage.
Partner with product and with real customers. You’ll work closely with a dedicated product manager on discovery, prioritization, and outcomes, and also directly with enterprise client engineering teams who build against our API.
Why will you love being a part of Testlio?
Great Culture:
Testlio is a female-founded company, and half of our team identifies as women. We’re proud of our
inclusive, purpose-driven culture
where people genuinely enjoy collaborating. As part of our team (we call ourselves TestLions), you’ll help create exceptional digital experiences for our customers, while also contributing to our freelance network.
Remote Work:
Our culture is built around remote work. We’ve created systems to allow us to successfully work together asynchronously as a
fully remote and globally distributed team.
Testlio provides the tools and guidance for everyone to succeed in their careers in a fully remote setting. Our working style encourages everyone to make decisions, communicate effectively, and work at a sustainable pace.
Investment in You:
Your growth and well-being matter to us. You’ll have flexible paid time off—including national holidays, personal days, and sick days—plus stock options so you can grow with Testlio. We also provide a $300 annual learning stipend to support your personal and professional development.
Winning Business:
Testlio is growing, profitable, and cash-strong. We are leading our industry with
exceptional clients
who provide us with a high NPS score and a 4.7 rating on G2. Our business model is global, enterprise, and subscription-based. Several of our largest clients have been with us for 7+ years, and many spend $500K+/year with Testlio.
What would your day look like?
Shaping what's next
Stay close to the code:
Expect to spend roughly 20–30% of your time on hands-on engineering, including writing production code, providing substantive reviews on critical-path pull requests, and signing off on key technical designs. You'll help remove critical technical bottlenecks and contribute directly when needed, while empowering the team to own and deliver work independently.
Public API strategy:
Own Testlio's public API end to end: OpenAPI specifications kept current in every service repo and treated as the consumer contract, a coherent versioning and deprecation policy, consistent authentication and authorization on every endpoint, rate limiting, and traceability across the request path.
Integration architecture:
Set the multi-quarter technical direction for a sync platform that must stay correct across a dozen third-party APIs, each with its own data model, rate limits, and release cadence. Reduce per-vendor special-casing in favour of a common mapping and sync core.
Roadmap ownership:
Turn strategy into a sequenced roadmap with your product partner, and own technical delivery from concept to production.
Running it with rigor
Engineering operating rhythm:
Establish effective planning, prioritization, and design review practices that balance delivery speed with long-term scalability.
Technical leadership:
Combine engineering vision and team mentorship with hands-on technical contribution, staying close to the codebase to understand the team's work and make informed technical decisions.
Third-party dependency management
: Own the risk that comes with depending on other people's APIs. Track vendor changelogs, deprecations and sunset dates, plan migrations before they become incidents, and keep credential, token, and connection failures from turning into client-visible outages.
Production support and escalations:
Own production support for your domains, including triage, escalation management, and root-cause resolution. Drive automation, self-serve setup, and permanent fixes that measurably reduce recurring support volume and improve operational efficiency.
Reliability and observability:
Define service level objectives for sync freshness, sync success rate, and API availability and latency; build the dashboards that make integration health self-serve; and lead root-cause analysis on production issues.Engineering standards: Ensure work is traceable and the Definition of Done is consistently met, minimizing escaped defects and keeping cloud costs in check.
Team growth:
Coach engineers technically, bring AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) into daily practice, and reduce knowledge silos through reviews and documentation.
What do you need to succeed?
Technical skills
Engineering management:
5+ years managing a team of 4+ engineers in an agile, remote environment.
Hands-on technical leadership:
Recent experience writing production code and designing or evolving production systems. You are comfortable working directly in the codebase, contributing to implementation, reviewing code, and making architectural decisions alongside your team.
Public or partner-facing API ownership:
Proven experience designing, versioning, documenting, and deprecating APIs consumed by people outside your own company. You've made a breaking-change decision and lived with the consequences. OpenAPI, idempotency, pagination, webhooks, and rate limiting are familiar ground.
Third-party integration systems:
Experience building or running integrations against external APIs at scale: OAuth flows, credential storage and rotation, retries and backoff, queue and poison-message handling, conflict resolution in bi-directional sync, and per-tenant blast-radius control.
Technical stack:
Strong affinity with TypeScript and Node.js on AWS, including serverless (Lambda), DynamoDB, and event-driven patterns.
Nice-to-haves
Identity and access:
Practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and enterprise SSO, plus token scoping and least-privilege API roles.
Broader stack familiarity:
Kafka, GraphQL, Python, and React are a plus.
Observability and performance:
Experience with observability and APM tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Sentry) and optimizing slow database transactions.
Application security:
Knowledge of application security best practices and integrating security review into the SDLC.
Legacy modernization:
Experience modernizing legacy systems or paying down significant technical debt while keeping a product running.
SaaS experience:
Prior experience managing a SaaS product is a plus.
Human skills
Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication.
Collaborative. Works effectively with product management and cross-functional partners in a distributed, asynchronous setting.
Organized and thorough, with a meticulous approach to standards and process.
Growth catalyst. Passionate about team productivity, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Results-oriented, with data-driven decision-making.
What is the application process?
We do our best to bring on individuals who are excited about their role and have the potential for a great future with Testlio. Since we are 100% distributed, you'll meet with several people from our organization so you get a clear picture of who you'd work with and what the role expects. Our process typically takes 3 to 4 weeks.
Application review
Recruiter interview
Hiring Manager Interview
Live Technical Exercise
2 team and stakeholder interviews
Reference checks
Offer
Diversity and inclusion
Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are female-founded, and 46% of our team members identify as women. For more information, see the
DEI section
of our website.
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Location: Remote in the UK
Workplace: Remote
At Sanity.io http://Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like PUMA, Carhartt WIP, Anthropic, Just Eat Takeaway, Spotify, HiPP, and Mercedes AMG are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.
As an Enterprise Account Executive at Sanity, you'll own the full sales cycle, from identifying the right prospects to closing deals with some of Europe's most ambitious companies. You'll work closely with SEs, SDRs, and marketing to build genuine relationships with enterprise customers and help them understand the real business value of structured content. It's a role with real autonomy, clear progression, and strong earning potential at a company that just raised $85M and is scaling fast.
WHAT YOU WOULD DO
- Take warm opportunities from our SDR and Marketing teams and run with them, your job is to close, not to chase cold leads all day
- Get under the skin of every prospect: understand their real business challenges and show them exactly how Sanity solves them
- Pitch, negotiate, and close enterprise deals and get well rewarded when you do
- Map organisations from the inside out, building relationships across teams from developers to the C-suite
- Work through procurement and contracts without losing your mind (we'll help)
- Be the voice of the customer internally - your feedback shapes product, messaging, and strategy
- Keep your pipeline tight: accurate forecasting, clean Salesforce data, and deal reviews that actually reflect reality
ABOUT YOU
- You're based in Germany and fluent in both German and English - You can close a deal in either language without breaking a sweat
- You've sold a complex SaaS product before and you know how to navigate technical buyers, marketing leaders, and enterprise procurement all at once
- You have experience selling into large enterprises and are comfortable managing big, multi-stakeholder deals from first call to signed contract
- You're genuinely curious, about technology, about your customers' businesses, and about finding smarter ways to sell
- You pick up new products quickly and can translate complexity into a compelling story
- You're honest, high-integrity, and the kind of person colleagues actually enjoy working with
- You thrive when things move fast and you're not waiting around for someone to tell you what to do
WHAT WE CAN OFFER
- A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
- Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
- A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
- Competitive location-based salary and stock options program
WHO WE ARE
Sanity.io http://Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.
You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 300+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here! https://www.sanity.io/blog/our-sanity-values
Sanity.io http://Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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Location: London, UK
Workplace: Hybrid
At Sanity.io http://Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.
In this Enterprise Account Executive role, you'll be one of the first sales hires building Sanity's presence in France. You won't be pitching a CMS. You'll be selling the infrastructure that engineering teams actually want to build on, to French enterprises who've never heard of us yet, and closing deals big enough to prove the market. You'll own the full cycle end to end, working with SDRs, marketing, and product (most of them not in France) while building the local playbook as you go.
What you would do
- Qualify opportunities SDRs and marketing hand you, and decide fast which ones are worth chasing in a market you're still mapping.
- Run discovery in French that gets past the checklist and surfaces the real business case for switching.
- Pitch a product developers already love to the people who sign the check, in their language.
- Price and negotiate enterprise deals, including French contract and procurement norms that don't always match the US or UK playbook.
- Grow existing French accounts after the ink dries: spot the next use case and go land it.
- Map the account and get everyone from the CMS admin to the CTO talking about Sanity, en français.
- Get deals through French procurement and legal without losing momentum.
- Bring client and market feedback back to the business, since you're often the first signal on what France actually needs.
- Keep Salesforce, decks, and deal docs sharp enough that anyone could pick up your deal cold.
- Forecast bookings monthly and quarterly, and stand behind the number, even while you're still building the pipeline that feeds it.
About you
- Fluent in French and English. You'll sell in French and work internally in English.
- Curious, coachable, and straight with people, including when the deal's on the line.
- You've closed complex, technical SaaS deals in our ACV range, selling to a technical audience, ideally in the French market.
- You can hold a room with a developer in the morning and an exec in the afternoon, in their language.
- No CMS experience required. You just need to pick up new products fast and explain them faster.
- Genuinely energized by building something from the ground up, not just running an existing playbook.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER
- A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
- Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
- A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
- Competitive location-based salary and stock options program
WHO WE ARE
Sanity.io http://Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.
You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 300+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here! https://www.sanity.io/blog/our-sanity-values
Sanity.io http://Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Location: Remote - Europe
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
About the role
You own the company's identity provider: who signs in, from where, with which factors, into which applications — and how that access is granted, reviewed, and revoked.
Microsoft Entra ID is the primary identity plane and the center of gravity for the role. Google Workspace, Cloud Identity, and Google Cloud IAM form a secondary domain. Microsoft 365 is in scope for tenant, licensing, and access administration.
You are the escalation point for identity incidents from operations, security, service desk, and application teams — expected to resolve them, not route them onward.
What you'll own
Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365
– Users, dynamic and assigned groups, administrative units, directory roles, service principals, workload identities.
– Conditional Access design and rollout: named locations, client app and platform conditions, session controls, sign-in frequency, break-glass exclusions, report-only staging.
– Authentication methods policy and phishing-resistant factors.
– Application onboarding over SAML 2.0 (NameID, claims mapping, signing certificate rollover, encrypted assertions) and OIDC / OAuth 2.0 (authorization code with PKCE, client credentials, device code).
– App registrations: redirect URIs, permissions, admin consent workflow, secret and certificate lifecycle.
– SCIM 2.0 provisioning: attribute mappings, scoping filters, expression transformations, quarantined jobs, drift reconciliation.
– Tenant consent settings, OAuth grant review, remediation of over-permissioned and stale applications; defensible controls for SaaS without SSO or SCIM support.
– Joiner-mover-leaver as an automated pipeline: provisioning, group-based licensing, revocation with session and refresh token invalidation.
– Least privilege for admin access: scoped role assignments, RBAC, PIM, access reviews, entitlement management access packages.
– Service account and workload identity governance: ownership, credential rotation, permission scoping, decommissioning.
– Microsoft 365 tenant settings, licensing, admin roles; access and permission issues in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Power Platform.
– Diagnostics from sign-in, audit, and provisioning logs, with diagnostic settings routed to Log Analytics and KQL queries.
– Cross-tenant access settings and B2B external collaboration.
Automation
– PowerShell tooling on the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and Graph REST API: lifecycle, licensing, access reporting, recertification.
– Google-side automation through the Admin SDK Directory API, Cloud Identity API, and gcloud.
– Scheduled and event-driven workflows in Azure Automation Runbooks, Azure Logic Apps, or Power Automate.
– Unattended execution on managed identities and narrowly scoped app registrations, with credential rotation, structured logging, error handling, and retries.
– Automation treated as production code: version control, peer review, documented rollback.
What you'll bring
We care about what you can do, not which products appear on your CV. Concretely, you can:
– Decode a SAML assertion or JWT and pinpoint the failure — audience mismatch, NameID format, expired signing certificate, missing claim — without escalating to the vendor.
– Diagnose a failing SCIM job and tell scoping from attribute mapping, transformation expressions, or target schema.
– Replace a manual lifecycle process with automation that logs, retries, and can be handed to someone else to run.
Experience we expect
– 3+ years administering Microsoft Entra ID in production as a primary responsibility.
– Microsoft 365 tenant: settings, licensing, admin roles, Service Health
– Exchange Online: mailbox permissions, groups, mail flow, SPF/DKIM/DMARC
– Microsoft Defender: threat policies, quarantine, message trace
– Power Platform: environments, DLP connector policies, maker access
– PowerShell: Exchange Online module, Microsoft Graph SDK
– Enterprise applications, app registrations, consent and permission models, automated provisioning.
– Azure Automation Runbooks, Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, or comparable platforms.
– Least privilege, secure administration, change management, and the discipline to leave configurations documented.
– Written and spoken English at B2 or higher.
Nice to haves
– SC-300, MS-102, or SC-401 — or equivalent demonstrable expertise.
– Microsoft Entra ID Governance: entitlement management, lifecycle workflows, Privileged Identity Management.
– Microsoft Purview (DLP, retention, eDiscovery), Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, or Microsoft Sentinel.
– Google Cloud IAM: projects, roles and policies, service accounts, API access, OAuth credentials.
– Google Cloud workload identity federation, custom roles, organization policy constraints.
– Git, CI/CD practices, Pester, Bicep, or Terraform.
– Access evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable audit cycles.
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Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Career growth and learning opportunities
Flexibility and ownership
Collaborative and innovative culture
Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
International environment and talented teams
What's it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
Location: Remote - Europe
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
Your responsibilities will include:
Develop and maintain Python-based API integrations between our HR information system (HRIS) and business systems, including finance, travel, expense management, and recruiting platforms.
Build and maintain cloud-native services, web applications, and containerized workloads on Microsoft Azure.
Implement automation for system workflows, onboarding/offboarding, access-related processes, and data synchronization.
Create and maintain deployment pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.
Own integrations through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support; respond to alerts and troubleshoot issues across APIs, Azure services, and data sources within agreed SLAs.
Implement safeguards for sensitive employee data, including validation, audit trails, and controls around mass changes.
Work with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and maintain technical documentation as part of each change.
We expect you to have:
3+ years of integration or backend development experience, including hands-on experience deploying and supporting production workloads in Microsoft Azure.
Practical experience with Azure compute and integration services. Our stack includes Azure Functions, App Service, Container Apps, Container Instances, Service Bus, and API Management.
Practical Python development skills, including maintaining and debugging existing services and automations.
Experience integrating REST APIs, webhooks, and Microsoft Graph API, with an understanding of pagination, rate limits, retries, and idempotency.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform for Azure deployments.
Good understanding of OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID, and managed identities for secure authentication and service-to-service access.
Experience designing and working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc.).
Experience with automated testing and diagnosing production issues through logs, monitoring, and alerts.
It will be an added bonus if you have:
Experience integrating HRIS or other business systems, such as ERP, expense management, or recruiting platforms.
Azure certifications (AZ-204, AZ-900, AZ-104).
Hands-on experience with Application Insights and Log Analytics.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools, with the ability to critically evaluate their output.
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Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Career growth and learning opportunities
Flexibility and ownership
Collaborative and innovative culture
Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
International environment and talented teams
What's it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
Location: Hybrid
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations:
London (UK), Lisbon (Portugal)
About the role
Cloudflare’s Engineers build and operate the software that helps power 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses around the world. Across our engineering organizations, we have opportunities for high caliber, curious and empathetic people to take on big challenges and build some of the best skills in the industry. We’re looking for talented team members to help build high-growth products, help scale our expanding network, build tools to improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times, and make systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
We are looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join the Security Rules team. You will work on a range of microservices written mainly in Rust. Technologies we use include Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows. We strive to build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare’s scale. You will join a team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who are passionate about their craft, and you will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced but sane work environment.
As a senior engineer, you will take ownership of complex technical problems, lead projects from design through production operation, and help shape the architecture and reliability of systems that run at Cloudflare’s scale. You will also mentor other engineers, provide thoughtful technical guidance, and help raise the quality of engineering practices across the team. You will join a group of hard-working, and supportive engineers who care deeply about their craft and value a fast-paced but sane work environment.
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
What you'll do
Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare’s Application Security Product Offering such as Rate Limiting, Web Application Firewall and more
Lead technical design and execution for complex projects, helping define architecture, tradeoffs, milestones, and delivery plans.
Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
Help raise the technical bar for the team by identifying systemic improvements, reducing operational toil, and influencing long-term engineering direction.
Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
Mentor engineers across the team by sharing technical context, providing thoughtful code and design feedback, and helping others grow in scope and ownership.
Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Rust, Go, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:
6+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company
Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, or a similar systems-level language
Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects from ambiguity through delivery
Experience building and operating distributed systems
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.
Experience mentoring engineers, reviewing technical designs and providing high-quality code review.
Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
Experience with databases (we use PostgreSQL, Clickhouse and Memcached)
Bonus Points:
Experience influencing technical direction across a team or product area
Experience improving engineering practices, operational processes, or reliability for production services
Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments
Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
Compensation
For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €66,000 - €91,000.
The final offer will be inclusive of time exemption, in alignment with the applicable law and collective bargaining agreements.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1
: We released
1.1.1.1
to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our
privacy commitment
and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual
race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at
hr@cloudflare.com
or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Location: Hybrid
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Location: Dubai
About the Role
We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Account Executive
to join our Sales team in Dubai. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).
As an Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.
Regional Focus: South Africa - Gauteng and Western Cape
What You'll Do
Strategic Revenue Generation:
Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
Expert Pipeline & Forecasting:
Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding:
Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
Multi-Engagement Leadership:
Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
Virtual Team Leadership:
Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
Digital Transformation Authority:
Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
Compelling Value Creation:
Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
Advanced Negotiation & Closure:
Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
Trusted Advisor & Coach:
Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
Organizational Impact & Leadership:
Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.
Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
8+ years of advanced experience selling complex technology solutions into enterprise accounts across South Africa, particularly Gauteng and the Western Cape
, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
Deep expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies
, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures
and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams
(e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills
, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
Advanced negotiation skills
with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
Expert-level sales acumen:
unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
Authority on digital transformation trends
and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
Strong coaching and mentorship abilities
, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient
, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms
(e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
Bachelor's degree required
, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
Ability to travel
as required to engage with key customers and internal teams.
Language Skills: English
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1
: We released
1.1.1.1
to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our
privacy commitment
and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual
race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at
hr@cloudflare.com
or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
Summary:
Location
: Amsterdam
Duration
: 3-6 months
Start date
: January 2027
Compensation
: Paid
Eligibility
: Current University student (Computer Science or related field), Recent Graduate or Early Career specialist
Work authorization
: Permitted to work in the job’s location
Why work at Nebius
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. We create the tools and resources our customers need to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. Our employees work at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure alongside some of the most experienced and innovative leaders and engineers in the field.
Your responsibilities will include
Operation:
assist in day-to-day SRE operations tasks
Project work:
execute tasks from the backlog
together or instead: work on small and well-defined SRE project from backlog
create tests for their changes/project (if applicable)
write technical documentation about their work
track and update Jira tasks according to their progress
Learning and growth:
actively study system fundamentals: Linux ( networking, cgroups, ebpf, etc.)
learn internal tools, workflows and operational standards
learn container and platform fundamentals: Kubernetes (core architecture and networking), Helm, Terraform
learn configuration management and automation basics
What we expect you to have
demonstrate strong interest and foundational knowledge in cloud providers, operations, networking, hardware, and software
programming experience in any of Python, Go, C++ or Java
basic understanding of the Network (ethernet, ip, tcp/udp, routing fundamentals)
familiarity with Git
basic understanding of containers, Kubernetes and Gitops approach
What we offer
Mentorship from experienced AI, ML, and cloud infrastructure professionals
Hands-on experience with real customer workloads and production systems
Opportunities for professional growth within Nebius
Opportunity to be considered for a full-time role after the Early Talent Program
We’re growing and expanding our products every day. If you’re up to the challenge and are excited about AI and ML as much as we are, join us!
Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Career growth and learning opportunities
Flexibility and ownership
Collaborative and innovative culture
Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
International environment and talented teams
What's it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
The role
Nebius
is looking for a Security Risk
Lead
to strengthen security risk management across our global AI cloud infrastructure, products, business operations, and strategic programs.
This is a senior, hands-on individual-contributor role with end-to-end ownership of security risk assessments, the security risk register, remediation tracking, risk acceptance, and risk reporting. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, cloud infrastructure, product, security, compliance, legal, and business teams to ensure that material risks are
identified
early, assessed consistently, and driven toward clear treatment decisions.
The role requires strong judgment, technical understanding, and the ability to influence stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
Your responsibilities will include
Risk Assessment
Lead security risk assessments for infrastructure, cloud environments, products, applications, business processes, and major technology changes.
Conduct risk assessments for new initiatives, systems, and significant changes, including supporting M&A-related risk assessment work alongside the due diligence team.
Evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls and identify residual risk following mitigation.
Identify emerging and systemic risks that may affect multiple services, regions, or business functions.
Risk Register & Tracking
Maintain the security risk register: log new risks, update status, track owners, and follow items through to remediation or formal risk acceptance.
Support the ongoing refinement of Nebius's risk assessment and risk register processes, contributing improvements as the practice matures.
Coordinate with other GRC functions on findings and gap assessments that carry risk implications, and independently determine whether a given finding warrants a risk register entry.
Metrics & Reporting
Maintain and improve security risk assessment, scoring, prioritization, and acceptance processes.
Define and monitor meaningful Key Risk Indicators and risk trends.
Translate complex technical risks into clear business impact for senior leadership and governance forums.
Prepare risk reporting that supports security posture reviews, strategic decision-making, and Board-level reporting.
Support auditors, customers, and internal stakeholders on security risk management matters.
Cross-Functional Coordination
Work closely with other GRC functions to ensure risk assessments reflect current operating reality.
Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to embed risk thinking into day-to-day decisions, building trust through clear, practical communication rather than formal authority.
Build trusted relationships with risk and remediation owners while maintaining independent and objective judgment.
We expect you to have
5-8 years of experience in security risk management, IT risk, GRC, or a closely related discipline.
Hands-on experience running risk assessments and maintaining a risk register, including driving items through to remediation or formal risk acceptance.
Solid understanding of risk scoring and prioritization approaches, and the judgment to apply them consistently and defensibly.
Ability to define and track meaningful risk metrics/KRIs for leadership reporting.
Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent risk items without losing accuracy or follow-through.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable working across security, compliance, engineering, and business teams.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and technology environments is an advantage.
Relevant certifications (e.g., CRISC, CISSP) are an advantage, not a requirement.
Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Career growth and learning opportunities
Flexibility and ownership
Collaborative and innovative culture
Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
International environment and talented teams
What's it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Hybrid
About Cantina
Cantina Labs is a social AI company developing a suite of advanced video generation models. We bring characters to life, transforming how people tell stories, connect, and create. We build and power ecosystems. Cantina, our flagship social AI platform, is just the beginning.
About the Internship
Cantina is growing its research lab in Singapore, and we are looking for exceptional research interns to work with us on the next generation of video models in October 2026.
This is a three month onsite internship designed to give you meaningful ownership of a well-defined research or engineering problem. You will be matched with a project based on your background and interests, working closely with a senior mentor from initial problem formulation through experimentation, evaluation, and, where appropriate, submission to a leading AI conference.
Projects may focus on post-training and inference efficiency for video generation models, reward modeling and preference-based optimization multimodal data systems, or scalable infrastructure for video model training. The primary focus will be your core project, with opportunities to contribute to applied or product-adjacent work where relevant.
What You’ll Work On
Depending on your project, you may:
- Research and develop distillation methods for large-scale diffusion and flow-based video generation models, including guidance and adversarial distillation
- Explore techniques that reduce inference cost while preserving or improving generation quality
- Develop reward models and preference-based optimization methods to improve aesthetics, motion quality, temporal consistency, and prompt adherence
- Study how base-model behavior affects post-training outcomes and use experimental findings to inform model development
- Design rigorous evaluations and conduct large-scale experiments on generative video models
- Contribute to evaluation harnesses, model integrations, research tooling, or other product-adjacent projects related to your core work
- Document and communicate your findings through research reports, internal presentations, demonstrations, and potential conference submissions
You may be a good fit if you
- Are currently pursuing a PhD or are a final-year master’s student in computer science, machine learning, computer vision, or a related field
- Have research experience in generative modeling, computer vision, multimodal learning, or video generation
- Have hands on experience with diffusion models, flow-based models, model distillation, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, or related post-training techniques
- Can formulate hypotheses, design controlled experiments, analyze results, and communicate conclusions clearly
- Are proficient in Python and have hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or another modern machine learning framework
- Are comfortable working independently on an open-ended research problem while collaborating closely with a mentor and the broader team
Experience with video, image, audio, or other multimodal data is valuable. Publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, or AAAI are a plus, but are not required. We care most about the quality of your thinking, the depth of your technical work, and your ability to learn quickly.
What You Can Expect
- A defined project and named senior mentor before your first day
- Weekly one-on-one meetings and clear project milestones
- A meaningful compute allocation for your research
- The opportunity to own a complete research or engineering result
- First-author positioning by default where your contribution supports a publication
- Timely internal review of research intended for submission
- Support for conference travel if your paper is accepted
- Opportunities to demonstrate your work and receive credit for product contributions
- A competitive monthly stipend
- Visa and travel support for eligible international candidates
- Housing support for qualifying international interns in Singapore
- Equipment and resources needed to complete your work
Internship Details
- Location: Singapore
- Duration: Three months
- Working model: Onsite
- Start dates: First batch starts in October 2026, second batch starts in January 2027
Location: Hybrid
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Location: Tokyo, Japan
About the Role
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. As the architectural complexity of enterprise solutions scales, we are evolving how we partner with our customers. The Customer Engineer (CE) represents the core driver of our technical go-to-market strategy: a trusted advisor who owns the technical relationship from the initial discovery phase through to long-term adoption and ongoing account expansion.
Sitting within the GTM organization and reporting to the Regional Customer Engineering Leader, you will not hand off your customers once an initial agreement is reached. Instead, you will operate as a quota-carrying technologist, utilizing AI-augmented workflows to eliminate administrative toil so you can focus on high-value architectural design and driving measurable business outcomes across the entire customer journey.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Validation:
Partner closely with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, build bespoke architectures, and deliver compelling product demonstrations and Proof of Concepts (PoCs) across Cloudflare’s portfolio (Security, Networking, Zero Trust and Developer Platforms).
Trusted Advisory:
Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the entire customer lifecycle, maintaining a continuous, deep relationship with key stakeholders from initial onboarding through maturity, renewal, and expansion.
Strategic Alignment:
Own the long-term technical relationship across the entire customer lifecycle, ensuring continuous alignment between the customer’s evolving business goals and our product roadmap.
Commercial Accountability & Expansion:
Carry a variable quota tied directly to new business acquisition and/or ongoing account growth. You will be commercially accountable for ensuring deep platform adoption, retaining revenue, and identifying strategic cross-sell and up-sell opportunities based on product usage data. Lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to translate platform capabilities into return on investment for C-level executives.
AI Orchestration & Workflow Automation:
Act as an "AI-Augmented" engineer. Leverage AI agents and internal platforms to automate routine tasks such as RFP/Security Questionnaire responses, sandbox provisioning, and basic telemetry monitoring, reclaiming your time for strategic customer advisory.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience:
Experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, or as a Forward Deployed Engineer.
Technical Acumen:
Broad technical expertise spanning web security, networking (routing, DNS, DDoS mitigation), cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
Commercial Mindset:
Proven track record of operating in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned environment, with a strong understanding of SaaS metrics, business value translation, and enterprise sales cycles.
Communication:
Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills, capable of bridging the gap between deep technical implementation details and high-level C-suite business strategy.
Strongly Preferred Qualifications (The "Good-to-Haves")
Cloudflare Developer Stack Experience:
Hands-on experience building, deploying, or architecting solutions using Cloudflare's developer platform and AI ecosystem, specifically Workers AI and AI Gateway.
Applied AI Knowledge:
Experience with prompt engineering, Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
Coding/Scripting:
Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages to write custom integration scripts, API connectors, and edge computing functions.
Compensation
This role features a competitive base salary and a variable commission structure tied directly to the successful execution of full-lifecycle commercial targets, including new business acquisition, ongoing adoption milestones, and overall account expansion.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1
: We released
1.1.1.1
to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our
privacy commitment
and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual
race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at
hr@cloudflare.com
or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Location: Hybrid
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations:
Singapore
About the Department
The Cloudflare APAC sales organisation operates as one integrated revenue system. Account Executives, Customer Engineers, Partner Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Customer Experience Managers, Professional Services and Revenue Operations work as a continuous engine - winning, deploying, adopting, expanding, and scaling platform commitments across the full customer lifecycle.
The system is supported by an AI-embedded operating model. The work itself, however, remains human. The role of every seller at Cloudflare is to bring critical thinking, judgment, and trust to customer relationships and outcomes.
About This Role
In this role, you will be responsible for driving significant growth by landing and expanding a portfolio of assigned customers in the
Digital Native territory for Indonesia
. The ideal candidate possesses a strong blend of sales acumen and technical understanding, enabling them to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical buyers. As an Account Executive, you will drive revenue velocity by utilizing foundational sales data layers for accurate forecasting, proactive pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets.
You are the kind of operator who uses AI as a force multiplier every day, cares more about customer outcomes than job boundaries, and demonstrates curiosity, judgment, and high agency.
Role Responsibilities
Own and execute a comprehensive territory plan to consistently achieve and exceed sales and revenue targets.
Cultivate long-term strategic relationships with key accounts and partners. Lead executive-level transformation narratives that earn the right to be in the architecture conversation.
Leverage top partners as an extension of the sales team to co-sell alongside where they bring customer relationships, services capability, or procurement leverage. Drive regular forecast & pipeline cadences with top partners.
Understand customer network architectures, the problems that Cloudflare can solve and effectively translate Cloudflare’s solutions to drive successful platform sales, ensuring clients can secure and scale their own AI-driven workloads.
Manage contract negotiations and structure platform-level commercial commitments (multi-year, multi-product, outcome-anchored) rather than point-product deals.
Stay engaged through onboarding, adoption, and the first renewal. Partner with Customer Engineers, Professional Services on a deployment plan with milestones tied to measurable outcomes.
Proactively build and manage a robust sales pipeline by leveraging internal tools, AI-assisted research and pipeline sources (BDR, Channel, Marketing).
Maintain high standards in pipeline discipline, CRM hygiene and forecasting accuracy.
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree required.
Experience selling technology solutions in high-growth technology firms.
Demonstrated track record of consistently meeting and exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
Proficient in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and multi-threaded land and expand strategies.
Strong understanding of computer networking, cloud security technology, and how enterprise infrastructure adapts to automated data workflows.
Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and value selling skills.
Proficiency in modern sales software, customer data environments, and core systems (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite).
Thinks critically rather than reacting, exercises judgment under uncertainty, names risks honestly, shows genuine empathy for customers as people, can point to relationships built over time on trust, and demonstrates visible curiosity in how they prepare, sell, and learn.
Willingness to actively engage with AI tools and experiment.
Ability to travel as required.
The portfolio for this role consists of customers based in Indonesia. Proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia to communicate with these customers would be an added bonus.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1
: We released
1.1.1.1
to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our
privacy commitment
and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual
race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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Location: Amman, Jordan
We are looking to recruit Support & Implementation Engineers who will provide high-level onsite and remote IT technical liaison. The Support & Implementation Engineer will be responsible for enterprise solutions implementations and support services for incidents or issues. The position will require close collaboration with other technical support and engineering teams at different levels.
Responsibilities
Implement and install solutions at customer's infrastructure platforms.
Work onsite and offsite to troubleshoot and diagnose customer-reported issues on the different implementation layers.
Act positively and respond promptly to the customer’s requests/tickets.
Prepare, review and ensure the accuracy of technical documentation.
Conduct Preventive / Corrective Maintenance visits.
Perform any other job-related duties related to work.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering/Science, Computer application, or any related field.
At least 2 years experience in a similar field.
Willing to travel and work extra hours when needed.
Experience in database engines (Oracle, MS-SQL, and PostgreSQL).
Experience in operating systems (Linux and MS Windows).
Developed knowledge in cloud Infrastructure Orchestration Tools (Ex. Kubernetes, HashiCorp Nomad)
Working experience in application servers (Ex. Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere).
Knowledge and acquired skills of DevOps techniques including (CI/CD, Helm, Ansible)
Knowledge in Directory Services (AD & LDAP).
Excellent personal skills
Professional effective communication, verbal and written
Customer oriented mentality
Details oriented and a team player
Initiative and self-managed
Time management and result oriented
Experience in one or more of the below is a plus:
Experience in large enterprise environments with emphasis on payments, remittance solutions.
Experience in Cloud Computing, Virtualization Technologies, Storage, Network Infrastructure.
Implementation experience of High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery Strategies.
Knowledge of PKI Infrastructure and Certificate Authorities.
Knowledge of database engines (MySQL and NoSQL Databases).
Knowledge of server and client operating systems (Linux Distros, MS Windows).
Knowledge in Object Storage management.
Knowledge of Security Authentication and Authorization Solutions (HashiCorp Vault and Keycloak).
Knowledge in Cloud-based Solution Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, IBM).
About Us
At Fundraise Up, we are reimagining the fundraising platform to create the fastest and most convenient way to donate to non-profit organizations. Our innovation is aimed at enhancing loading speeds, boosting conversion rates, offering diverse payment methods, and more. Each month, individuals worldwide donate tens of millions of dollars through our platform. We are the go-to fundraising solution for some of the world's leading non-profit organizations. UNICEF, The Obama Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, and many others leverage our platform for their online fundraising needs.
What you'll do
Build the methodology to forecast first-year revenue from new customers, using donation volume data instead of contract values.
Partner with Sales, RevOps, and Finance to validate pipeline data and keep deal value logic consistent with actual and expected donation behavior.
Design and maintain a standard model for deal value estimation, using internal benchmarks and historical donation patterns.
Build reporting that flags gaps between sales pipeline, donation data, and realized revenue.
Support forecast accuracy and board-level reporting, keeping CRM pipeline and financial models aligned.
Work with Product and Data teams to improve visibility into nonprofit donation flows.
Advise Sales on the financial structure of complex or high-impact deals.
Document the forecasting process so it can scale as the GTM team grows.
At Fundraise Up, AI is a default tool, not an experimental one. We expect every team member to actively use AI in their day-to-day work, identify where AI can change the shape of problems in their function, and grow their fluency as the tools evolve.
Skills and Qualifications
5+ years of FP&A or revenue forecasting experience, ideally including exposure to working alongside a sales team or working in a Deal Desk function.
Comfort building a process from scratch, with no existing playbook to follow.
Strong financial modeling skills, including forecasting and scenario analysis.
Working knowledge of CRM systems, Salesforce preferred.
Experience in a transactional or volume-based revenue model (payments, donations, marketplaces, usage-based SaaS) is a plus.
Deal Desk title experience is not required. FP&A depth matters more.
Comfortable working directly with Sales leadership without formal authority over their team.
Compensation
The compensation range for this role is $138k - $150k OTE. Final compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, skills, qualifications, alignment with the role’s requirements and location.
Perks & Benefits
Health, Dental, and Vision insurance covered at 100% for employees, 80% for employee plus dependents, and 70% for employees plus family.
FSA and HSA Spending Account.
20 days of vacation, 5 sick days, 11 company holidays plus an additional 1 floating holiday.
401(k) plan with company match.
100% Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance and AD&D.
Paid parental leave (12 weeks for primary caregivers / 6 weeks for secondary caregivers).
Generous home office stipend to support your remote workspace.
Annual professional development stipend to support your growth (e.g., workshops, courses, and seminars).
Charitable giving program and paid volunteer time off with registered non-profits.
Additional
Please note: All official correspondence from Fundraise Up will exclusively originate from the @fundraiseup.com domain. Exercise caution and ensure the authenticity of emails claiming to be from our company.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law in the countries where we operate.
Location: Remote, United States
Workplace: Remote
About Stepful:
Stepful is a workforce platform redefining how America's largest health systems build, train, and retain their talent. Since our founding in 2021, Stepful’s trained over 32,000 practice-ready healthcare workers.
Layering onto our successful direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers. We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare career ladders for those who need them most.
Our students form the talent pipelines for major employers such as NY-Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, HCA, Providence, CVS, and Walgreens. We have partnerships with half of the top 10 health systems in the US and are in process with many more.
Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with a recent $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-announces-55m-series-c-to-scale-its-ai-powered-training-platform-across-the-healthcare-workforce. We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025 https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-named-1-edtech-company-in-us-top-10-globally-times-2025-list.
Our values:
We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:
- Care first: We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed.
- Learn quickly: We test, learn with data, and iterate.
- Build together: We win when we rely on each other.
- Own it: We show up, take initiative, and show pride.
The opportunity:
We are seeking a highly motivated Program Director to lead Stepful's Surgical Services programs — Surgical Technology and Sterile Processing. This is a high-impact, portfolio-level role for someone who is passionate about healthcare education and committed to expanding access to surgical careers for working adults across the country.
The Program Director, Surgical Services will own the full operational and quality lifecycle of both programs — spanning curriculum, skills lab and clinical operations, instructor team leadership, and enterprise client partnerships across 12+ healthcare employer partners in multiple states. Success in this role is measured by student outcomes (certification pass rates, graduation rates, and job placement) and the quality and depth of Stepful's relationships with its clinical and employer partners.
This remote role will require occasional travel to employer partner clinical sites and reports to the Senior Director, Operations.
If you're energized by the chance to shape how the next generation of surgical technologists and sterile processing technicians are trained — and to do it at scale — we'd love to hear from you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Program Operations
- Own the day-to-day operations of both the Surgical Technology and Sterile Processing programs across didactic (online), skills lab (in-person), and clinical education components.
- Safeguard NCCT program approval and applicable state regulatory standing by protecting key outcome thresholds: certification pass rates, graduation rates, and job placement.
- Conduct ongoing program evaluation and assessment, using data to surface improvement opportunities and drive continuous improvement across both programs.
Instructor Team Leadership
- Hire, onboard, and manage a team of full-time staff and a growing contractor/adjunct instructor pool across both programs.
- Set quality and performance standards; lead performance calibration to ensure instructional consistency and excellence.
- Coach and develop team members, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and shared ownership of student outcomes.
Enterprise Partnerships & Clinical Operations
- Partner closely with the Customer Success team to support multiple healthcare employer partners across multiple states, managing ongoing relationships and ensuring strong program alignment.
- Lead client site visits and clinical skills calibration independently, ensuring graduates are practice-ready from day one.
- Partner with Stepful's enterprise team to support program expansion and onboarding of new employer partners.
Curriculum & Student Success
- As the Subject Matter Expert, collaborate with internal curriculum teams to continuously review and strengthen content across both programs, keeping it current with industry standards and employer expectations.
- Oversee student progress and performance, including progress monitoring, academic advising, and program completion support.
- Experiment with AI tools and other technologies to improve program workflows, reporting, and student outcomes — documenting and sharing what works.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- 3+ years of experience teaching surgical technology and/or sterile processing fundamentals, including course delivery, assessment, and student support
- Active NBSTSA Certified Surgical Technologist or NCCT TS-C certification
- 5+ years of clinical or operational experience in a surgical technology or sterile processing clinical setting
- 2+ years of experience in healthcare education, training program administration, or a clinical operations role with instructional oversight — experience with regulatory or certification compliance strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing or leading a team, including contractors or adjunct instructors.
- Experience working with enterprise clients, clinical sites, or healthcare employer partners - a collaborative, relationship-first approach is essential.
- Strong cross-functional skills; comfortable working alongside instructors, students, clinical partners, and internal Stepful teams across multiple states.
- Comfort in a fast-growing organization where priorities evolve and initiative is valued.
- Willingness to travel to our employer partner sites around the US, up to 20-25% of the time
BONUS POINTS IF:
- You have experience in EdTech or online/hybrid healthcare training environments.
- You've participated in NCCT program reviews, accreditation processes, or state authorization compliance activities.
- You hold dual certification across both surgical technology and sterile processing.
INTERVIEW PROCESS:
- Introductory call with Talent Acquisition team member
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Take-Home Assignment
- Virtual Assignment Review
- Virtual Team Interview
- Final Onsite Interviews (at our NYC office)
BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION:
- Meaningful Equity Stake
- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
- 401(k)
- FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
- Learning stipend
- Open vacation policy, including:
- Guidance of 15 days PTO annually
- Stepful closed the last week of December
- 15 work-from-anywhere days
- 10 public holidays observed for 2026
- 10 public holidays observed for 2026
Stepful is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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In light of recent hiring scams, if you're selected to move onto the next phase of our hiring process, a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out to you directly from an @stepful.com email address to guide you through our interview process.
Location: San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We sit inside Finance Operations and own the path from “I need to buy something” to a signed agreement, an accurate purchase order, and clean spend data at month-end.
We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own that path for our research organizations and the special programs that spawn out of it. This portfolio behaves differently from the rest of the company in that it purchases goods and services from highly-specialized vendors and new programs regularly appear with real purchasing needs before any process exists for them. You will be the person who makes all of that feel simple to the researchers and program leads who depend on it, and reliable to the Finance stakeholders behind it. This is a high-volume role with an accounting core. You ensure every purchase in the portfolio is coded, dated, received, and accrued correctly, so research spend is right in the books every month. Expect a steady queue of requests, work orders, and change orders, and expect to be the person Accounting trusts on all of it.
We use Claude as part of our daily workflow and are looking for someone who wants to help define what an AI-native procurement operations function looks like, including how AI changes intake, document review, vendor coordination, and requester support.
Responsibilities
Own the purchasing path for R&D
Manage a high volume of purchase requests, work orders, and change orders each month across research teams and programs, keeping speed and accuracy high at the same time.
Serve as the primary procurement partner for Anthropic's research teams and special programs, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
Review every purchase request in your portfolio for the things that matter downstream: the right vendor record and contracting entity, complete commercial documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and the approvals the purchase actually needs.
Determine what each request requires before it can move, whether that is a statement of work, an order form, an amendment, a security or privacy review, or a third party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers the first time.
Launch and track contract review with Legal, keep it moving, and confirm the executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.
Structure purchase orders so they match how the vendor bills (fixed fee, milestone, per-unit, or usage in arrears) and how Accounting needs to see the spend, with the right GL account, cost center, and service period on every line. Manage change orders, renewals, and closures over the life of each agreement.
Act as the dedicated operations partner for our research services vendor portfolio, where engagements are structured as master agreements with frequent work orders and scope changes, and where speed and documentation discipline both matter.
Handle the mechanics that come with hardware, equipment, and lab purchasing, including multi line quotes, lead times, shipping and receiving, and asset handoffs.
Financial completeness & accuracy
Code every purchase order correctly at creation, including GL account, spend category, cost center, and service period, and understand how each choice lands in the financials (expense vs. prepaid, capitalized equipment vs. operating spend).
Work the hard cases with Accounting: services that span periods, partially delivered milestones, per-unit work billed in arrears, credits and true-ups, and work orders amended mid-month.
Own the open purchase order book: receipts recorded against actual delivery, periodic reviews, stale line cleanup, coding corrections, and timely closures, so PO, receipt, and invoice agree.
Serve as the first line reviewer for month end accruals on your portfolio, gathering estimates from vendors and budget owners for variable spend and confirming or correcting proposed amounts so Accounting can close on time.
Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds, PO mismatches, and receiving questions so vendors are paid on time and spend lands where it belongs.
Support audit and reporting requests that touch your portfolio, including commitment schedules and control evidence, with data you can stand behind.
Stand up new programs
Be the first procurement call when a new research program or initiative spins up. Scope what they will buy and how often, agree a right sized path with Legal, Security, and Finance, and have it working before volume arrives.
Run a regular pipeline check in with your highest velocity teams so upcoming purchases are visible early and nothing urgent arrives as a surprise.
Translate procurement, legal, security, and finance requirements into plain language for researchers and engineers, and carry their operating reality back to those teams so controls fit the work.
Be the front door
Be visible and responsive in your teams' Slack channels and office hours; answer routine purchasing questions quickly and escalate real blockers with context.
Apply purchasing policy consistently and explain the why, including approval thresholds, signature authority, and when an exception is and is not available.
Continuous improvement
Maintain the playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures for your portfolio so the path is repeatable and does not live in one person's head.
Identify manual steps, repeat questions, and failure points and fix them, including where Claude and workflow automation with AI can take work off requesters and the team.
Minimum qualifications
Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in procure-to-pay and intake platform.
Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing: accruals and reversals, service period and cutoff, prepaid vs. expense, and GL and cost center coding. You can explain how a purchase order becomes an entry in the general ledger.
Experience supporting outsourced or managed service vendors at scale, where scope and volume move month to month and the contracts, purchase orders, and invoices have to keep up with each other.
Working knowledge of how contract review, security and privacy review, and financial controls fit together in a purchase, and the judgment to know when to push a request through and when to slow it down.
Preferred qualifications
5-7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations, including time supporting a research, engineering, hardware, or outsourced services organization.
Experience as the embedded procurement partner for a hyper scaling data operations, ML, RL, and lab environments
Time at a hypergrowth technology company scaling procurement operations for outsourced or vendor delivered work.
Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process, including experience with three-way match
Sourced human data, data labeling, annotation, or evaluation vendors (or comparable BPO and outsourced operations) with a point of view on where that market is heading
Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
Prior ownership of month end accrual review or open PO reconciliation for a large, variable spend portfolio
Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low risk purchases without weakening controls.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$190,000
—
$230,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education:
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study:
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience:
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy:
Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:
We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
For roles performing work in California:
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit
anthropic.com/careers
directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about
our policy
for using AI in our application process.
Location: Hybrid
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Canada, Remote
About the Team
We manage an internal, multi-region PostgreSQL platform that enables engineers to rapidly build, deploy, and operate services. Our mission is to provide a highly available, stable, and self-service platform with clear operational visibility. As a Systems Engineer, you will collaborate with database engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams to evolve our database architecture and automation. You will be instrumental in scaling our PostgreSQL infrastructure and enhancing database reliability. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, reliability, and database tooling, let's connect!
Role Responsibilities
Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.
Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)
Must-Have Skills
Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing high availability failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .
Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience developing software in Go, Ruby or C/C++
Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $157,000 - $196,000
For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $187,000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project
: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1
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Who we are...
Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.
Culture
Verra Mobility Corporation is a dynamic, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.
Position Overview
The VP, International Portfolio owns the Automated Enforcement and Tolls and Violations portfolios cradle to grave across the international business, reporting to the SVP, Software Engineering. Cradle to grave ownership means full accountability for each portfolio's technology, delivery, support, and P&L, not delivery alone. Because customer relationships in this business often span more than one region, this role also owns the coordination model for any shared or overlapping regional coverage, ensuring accountability stays clear even when a single account touches multiple markets.
This is one of the most operationally demanding roles in the organization, requiring a leader who can run a coherent global business across regions that never share a full working day. You will set the strategy for how the organization leads across time zones, ensure every local leader has deep, current fluency in the specific regulatory and commercial realities of their own market, and hold each business accountable for its own P&L while keeping both portfolios coherent under a single technology and delivery strategy.
Essential Responsibilities
Global Portfolio & P&L Ownership
Cradle to Grave Accountability:
Own Automated Enforcement and Tolls and Violations end to end, including technology strategy, delivery, production support, and full profit and loss accountability for each portfolio.
Appointed Portfolio Leadership:
Ensure each portfolio has an appointed leader who is the true technical and commercial owner of their business, evaluating and developing those leaders directly and acting decisively when a leader is not performing at the level the role requires.
Cross Region Coordination:
Own the coordination model between APAC and European operations, ensuring accountability, support coverage, and commercial ownership stay unambiguous wherever the two regional organizations' work overlaps.
Support Ownership:
Own the international support organization as part of the portfolio's full lifecycle accountability, ensuring support coverage spans global operations rather than a single region, and operates on a model that matches how the business actually runs across time zones.
Cross Region Leadership Across Time Zones
Global Operating Rhythm:
Design and run a deliberate operating cadence, including meeting timing, decision rights, and asynchronous communication norms, that lets APAC and European teams collaborate effectively despite little or no overlapping working hours.
Follow the Sun Coordination:
Establish handoff practices for support, incident response, and delivery work that needs continuous coverage across regions, so critical issues do not stall waiting for a single time zone to wake up.
Travel & Presence Strategy:
Maintain a deliberate in person presence strategy across both regions, recognizing that relationship building, culture setting, and complex negotiation in these markets often require being there rather than dialing in.
Local Market Enablement
Local Leader Fluency:
Ensure the appointed leader in each region has deep, current fluency in their own market's regulatory environment, customer expectations, and competitive landscape, rather than relying on this role as the sole source of market context.
Distinct Go to Market Models:
Allow each business to operate with the go to market and service model its market actually requires, resisting the temptation to force a single global template where local realities genuinely differ.
Regulatory & Compliance Awareness:
Maintain working knowledge of how government procurement, data privacy, and automated enforcement regulation differ across APAC markets, Europe, and the UK, sufficient to know where a single compliance approach will not transfer.
Enterprise Coherence & Partnership
Technology Alignment:
Draw on a hands on software development background and fluency in modern architecture patterns to partner credibly with the VP, Software Delivery and the Senior Enterprise Architect, ensuring the international portfolios' systems are engineered for high performance and high availability at the transaction volumes these businesses actually process, often millions of backend transactions per day, while still delivering a modern, responsive experience for front end users, and that technology and delivery standards stay consistent with the domestic organization even where go to market and support models diverge.
Cross VP Partnership:
Partner with the VP, Innovation and Emerging Technology and the VP, Software Delivery to ensure new capabilities and delivery standards developed domestically extend cleanly into the international portfolios where relevant.
Executive Reporting:
Report portfolio health, P&L performance, and regional risk clearly and regularly to the SVP, Software Engineering and executive stakeholders, translating operational complexity into a coherent business narrative.
We are looking for a leader who can run a genuinely global business, not just a domestic one with international customers:
Global Operating Leadership
A proven ability to lead effectively across regions and time zones with little or no overlapping working hours, without collapsing into either constant after hours availability or regional disconnection.
P&L Ownership
Real, demonstrated accountability for a business's financial performance, not only its technology or delivery outcomes.
Cross Cultural Fluency
Genuine comfort operating across different business cultures and regulatory environments, and the humility to let local leaders own the nuance of their own markets.
Portfolio Breadth
Comfort owning a full portfolio lifecycle, from technology strategy through production support, rather than a single slice of the value chain.
Qualifications
Experience:
12+ years in technology or product leadership roles, with at least 5 years owning an international or multi region business with direct profit and loss accountability.
Education:
A bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required; an MBA or equivalent is a plus given the P&L scope of this role.
Global Leadership:
Demonstrated success leading teams and businesses across multiple regions and time zones, including establishing an operating rhythm that keeps distant teams genuinely aligned rather than nominally connected.
P&L Management:
Direct experience owning a business unit or portfolio's profit and loss, including pricing, cost management, and investment trade off decisions made with real financial accountability.
Regulatory Breadth:
Working knowledge of how government procurement, data privacy, and automated enforcement or tolling regulation vary across APAC, European, and UK markets.
Domain Knowledge:
Experience in automated enforcement, tolling, violations processing, or other government facing, transaction heavy technology businesses is strongly preferred.
Talent Development:
A track record of identifying, developing, and holding accountable strong local leaders, and the judgment to know when a portfolio's success depends on stepping back rather than directing from a distance.
Travel Readiness:
Willingness and ability to travel regularly and extensively across APAC and Europe, given the relationship and market dependent nature of this role.
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
Own It.
We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
Do What’s Right.
We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
Choose Courage Over Comfort.
We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
Win Together.
We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company.
Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice
Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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You will set the strategy for how the organization leads across time zones, ensure every local leader has deep, current fluency in the specific regulatory and commercial realities of their own market, and hold each business accountable for its own P&L while keeping both portfolios coherent under a single technology and delivery strategy; Own the international support organization as part of the portfolio's full lifecycle accountability, ensuring support coverage spans global operations rather than a single region, and operates on a model that matches how the business actually runs across time zones; Cross Region Leadership Across Time Zones; Establish handoff practices for support, incident response, and delivery work that needs continuous coverage across regions, so critical issues do not stall waiting for a single time zone to wake up; A proven ability to lead effectively across regions and time zones with little or no overlapping working hours, without collapsing into either constant after hours availability or regional disconnection; Demonstrated success leading teams and businesses across multiple regions and time zones, including establishing an operating rhythm that keeps distant teams genuinely aligned rather than nominally connected