Principal Engineer

Location: Waterloo, London, England, UK | Hybrid (1 day per week in office)

Who We Are 

At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. From early-stage startups to global enterprises, we work across industries to optimise our clients’ digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise. 

Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we’re truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.

If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you’ve found the right place. 

Who You Are

You’ve shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years. You are a trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions. You bring a blend of deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking that drives measurable and impactful outcomes. In your previous experience, you have:

• Demonstrated long-term success on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, technical environments, and client industries 
• Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served 
• Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
• Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality
• A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics) 
• Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
• Successfully led modernization efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs
• Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
• Facilitated alignment and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward in the face of ambiguity and complexity while balancing technical considerations with product and user needs
• Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices 
• Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
• Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

What You’ll Do At 8th Light

As a go-to technologist and strategist within 8th Light, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, while continuing to deepen your and our collective domain expertise over the course of your career with us. You’ll be responsible for:

• Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives 
• Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
• Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modelling our Values
• Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
• Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
• Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
• Participating in account planning; opportunity identification.
• Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes
• Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development.
• Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices.
• Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale.

Strongly Preferred Skills

We work across many areas, and encourage anyone with the experience listed above to apply. We would particularly like to encourage applicants with experience in the following areas:

• Delivering and advising on enterprise-grade AI systems, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Crew AI, AutoGen, n8n), ensuring scalable, production-ready solutions that empower developers and align with business outcomes.
• DevSecOps & DevOps
• MLOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics.

Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together. We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with real-world career experiences. 

How You’ll be Supported

At 8th Light, we believe our people are our greatest asset. Their growth, well-being, and success shape our future. 

• Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes:
• A robust L&D programme featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
• Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
• Coworking support for our global team
• 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees

See our full list of Benefits. 

A Note on Compensation

At 8th Light, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that is transparent, fair, and helps us attract and retain top talent in alignment with our company’s strategic growth goals and clients’ needs.

We benchmark our salaries using Geographic Structures to establish competitive pay ranges within the regions where 8th Lights live. Our pay ranges for our Principal Engineer position within London is: £92-818-£116-122 GBP

Reach out to recruiting@8thlight.com for more relevant information pertaining to your local market.

8th Light Hubs and Geographies

8th Light's culture is rooted in strong connections that extend across our teams, regions, and beyond client work. We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. 

• London Co-working: Employees working from our London hub follow a hybrid model, which includes a minimum of one day per week in our Waterloo Office. This co-working day is designed to encourage collaboration and further strengthen our community.In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel.

We hope to see you apply! 

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About the Role

We are seeking a Pre-sales Architect to join our team of identity security experts. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise and business acumen to drive customer success, helping organisations modernise and secure their identity ecosystems. As a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with enterprise customers, channel partners, and internal teams to deliver innovative identity and access management (IAM) solutions that align with business goals.

This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, technical depth, and exceptional communication skills to translate complex identity challenges into solutions that address customer needs. You’ll play a pivotal role in accelerating sales cycles, enabling technical wins, and shaping the future of identity in your region.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the EMEA Office of the Field CTO, this role will be challenged daily to show prospects and customers how Okta can help solve their business challenges.  We are searching for individuals that have experience deploying identity and access management solutions in large and complex environments.  This hands-on experience and exposure to the operational aspect of real customer deployments is what sets you apart and provides credibility to the architectures you design and propose. Your proven experience with other products and legacy solutions will be invaluable when assessing a customer’s existing challenges and planning the roadmap for them to modernise and transition to Okta.

What you’ll be doing 

• Customer Engagement & Solution Design
• Collaborate with customers to understand their business objectives, technical challenges, and security needs.
• Design and present tailored identity and access management (IAM) solutions using Auth0.
• Lead workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and technical deep dives with enterprise stakeholders.
• Technical Expertise & Enablement
• Deliver live architecture workshops, drive proofs of concept (POCs) as part of a team, and pilot deployments to showcase Auth0’s capabilities.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging threats, compliance regulations, and industry trends to guide customers in future-proofing their identity strategies.
• Business Alignment & Thought Leadership
• Align identity solutions with customers’ business priorities, focusing on efficiency, security maturity, and ROI.
• Address regional compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, DORA…) and navigate micro/macro-economic factors affecting budgets.
• Represent the company as a technical leader at customer meetings, industry events, and webinars.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment
• Partner with account teams (AEs + SEs) to define account strategies and drive customer success.
• Act as a conduit between customers and product teams, ensuring feedback informs the product roadmap.
• Collaborate with professional services and customer success teams for seamless solution delivery.
• Engage with Partners to support co-sell motions, ensure alignment on solution positioning, and provide technical enablement during pre-deal registration and opportunity qualification.
• Act as an overlay support resource for complex opportunities, helping SEs craft tailored strategies that address unique customer challenges while accelerating deal velocity.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Technical Skills
• Proficiency in identity protocols (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, LDAP)
• An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF)
• Hands-on experience with APIs, SDKs (eg. [Javascript, HTML, frontend frameworks] development, mobile [iOS, Android] development, backend [Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby]), and developer tooling for identity integrations.
• Business & Strategic Skills
• Ability to align technical solutions with business outcomes and articulate ROI to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with regional compliance and regulatory frameworks, tailoring solutions to meet specific requirements.
• Awareness of threat landscapes and emerging risks, including AI-driven attacks, insider threats, and privilege misuse.
• Soft Skills
• Strong presentation skills leveraging multiple mediums like whiteboarding, capable of engaging technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional collaboration skills to work across customers, partners, and internal teams.
• A problem-solving mindset with the ability to adapt to evolving requirements and priorities.

Preferred Experience

• 8+ years in pre-sales, solution architecture, or a related field within the identity space with hands-on experience in enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Customer Identity & Access Management (IAM) platforms such as Okta, Auth0, Microsoft, Keycloak, or similar solutions.
• Experience tailoring customer IAM strategies to specific industries or addressing international  challenges.
• Proficiency in an additional language relevant to your region (e.g., German, French, Arabic..) is highly desirable for fostering stronger customer engagement and regional support.

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Okta is the foundation for secure connections between people and technology. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to access applications on any device at any time, while allowing for strong security protection. The Okta service integrates directly with an organization’s existing directories and identity systems, as well as 6,500+ applications.

Because Okta runs on an integrated platform, organizations can implement Okta quickly at large scale and low total cost.

Thousands of customers, including Adobe, Allergan, Chiquita, LinkedIn, and Western Union, trust Okta to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

In this role, you will be tasked with providing hands-on implementation and deployment services to our customers. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and hands-on expert who can rapidly learn the Auth0 platform, our technology and the value proposition that we bring to customers of all sizes. You will lead multiple concurrent customer deployment projects with the number one goal to ensure long-term customer success. Additionally you will engage with the full Customer Success team in order to assure a smooth transition post-deployment to the support/maintenance phases. Finally, you will also be responsible for the continuous improvement of delivery processes and methods.

This role is for the Okta EMEA Professional Services team, focusing on helping Okta customers in the region successfully deploying and implementing our Auth0 product.

What you'll do:

• Work hands on with Auth0 customers, primarily in a post-sales role, to provide innovative consulting services.
• Gather, analyze, and document post-sales requirements.
• Communicate to customers and partners at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.
• Be dedicated to providing excellent design and deployment solutions resulting in extraordinary customer satisfaction.
• Be prompt and deliver high quality service and leadership to align with customer goals and requests.
• Manage project scope, schedule, status, and documentation.
• Mentor and train customers on the service.
• Act as a liaison between Customers and Product Management to drive product development.
• Lead interaction and collaboration with other Okta teams such as Engineering and Support as needed to address escalated issues.
• Interact with management and other roles within the customer organization and Okta.
• Collaborate with the sales team on existing customers up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
• Perform hands on technical design, configuration, and troubleshooting of the Okta service.
• Shape and Influence Okta’s growth and scalability, by designing new offerings, and finding new ways to deliver amazing customer satisfaction.
• Manage multiple concurrent deployment projects.
• Apply knowledge of technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models, such as SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
• While providing customer service, apply knowledge of cloud architectures as well as complex enterprise on-premise IT landscapes.
• Apply software development experience (Java, Ruby, .Net, PHP, REST/JSON, etc) when working with customers.
• Utilize knowledge of typical enterprise identity life cycle management processes and standards.
• Apply experience with JavaScript and one of the major JavaScript MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React, etc.) when working on customer integrations.
• May provide mentoring, guidance, and expertise to less experienced team members.
• Ensure quality and time management processes are followed by the team (e.g., change controls, time tracking).
• Commit to and use a knowledge repository for deployment standard methodologies and other customer ideas as continuous improvement.
• Ability to travel up to 25%. 

Who you are:

• 7+ years experience as a technical consultant delivering solutions to external customers.
• Experience with technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, WS-Federation).
• Software development experience (Node.js, Java, Ruby, .Net, PHP, REST/JSON, etc).
• Experience with JavaScript / Typescript and one of the major JavaScript MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React, etc.).
• Some knowledge of enterprise web technologies, security and cutting-edge infrastructures.
• Ability to work independently and multi-functionally supporting the development of client work you're doing.
• Knowledge of typical enterprise identity life cycle management processes and standards.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple customer engagements is a requirement.
• Able and willing to be a hands-on contributor.
• Superb communication skills, including issue tracking, triaging and crisis management.
• Experience in Process Improvement, Decision-making, Managing Processes, Planning, Analyzing Information and Developing Standards.

Education:

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline required.
• Okta Certified Developer - Customer Identity Cloud will be a plus.
• CISSP, CISM or an IAM-related certification is a plus.

Nice to have:

• Experience in designing and implementing security and identity management solutions to support critical systems and business programs.
• Experience with Node.js runtime environment.
• Experience with Auth0.
• Mobile development experience preferred (iOS and Android).

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Senior Solutions Engineer - Auth0, UK&I

The UK&I Solutions Engineering team are involved in all stages of the customer’s development lifecycle and are experienced using presentations, email, phone and social media to connect with customers. We are looking for great teammates who are able to work in close partnership with the sales team to progress opportunities toward successful conclusion.

We believe in Okta’s Solutions Engineers empathise with existing and prospective customers to quickly discern the true technical needs in the context of their business, by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs. You have the rare combination of technical savviness and business insight and you’re looking for a career where you can utilise both. As a Solutions Engineer at Okta, you will hone each of these skills by advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using the Auth0 Identity Platform.

What you’ll be doing:

• Comprehensive discovery. Understanding the requirements of customer's and prospects in the context of their desired business outcomes.
• Deal progression. Working in close partnership with the sales team to progress opportunities.
• Manage technical sales progression from discovery to technical win.
• Building sales presentations, product demonstrations and educate customers (everyone from developers to product managers to C-level executives) on the best ways to cloud security technology.
• Have a hands on approach to solution validation, such as building and delivering. custom demonstrations, supporting customer-led PoCs etc.
• Empathising with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs.
• Using your technical savviness and business insights. As a Sales Engineer at Okta, you will hone each of these skills by advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using Auth0.
• Maintain a broad and deep technical understanding of the Auth0 product line and the underlying technologies and protocols.
• Proactive engagement in local and regional sales and marketing events

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience working in a Pre-Sales role as Sales Engineer or Solutions Engineer.
• An ability to quickly articulate complex ideas around a technical topic, ideally on the fly at a whiteboard.
• Experience in a customer-facing role such as consulting, support, teaching, or pre-sales.
• Experience with at least one standard identity protocol (e.g. OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP).
• Strong development background with proficiency in at least one backend stack (e.g., Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) and a popular frontend stack (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Experience working with REST APIs and SDKs.
• An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF).
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to articulate business value.
• An ability to disperse knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience.
• A natural at building relationships, listening, and managing time well.
• Enjoy travel and meeting customers.
• Bonus points if you have experience in any of the following!
• Experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on and API-based solutions
• An understanding of Agentic AI and the role that Identity plays in enforcing continuous oversight
• Experience in mobile (iOS, Android) development
• Experience working with HTTP, HTML, and REST services. This includes using the dev tools in a browser to explain HTTP traffic and an HTTP client (like curl or Postman) to interact with an HTTP service.

The role is based around the London Office and the expectation will be that you will spend 2-3 days a week either meeting with prospective customers, existing customers, or collaborating with the team in the Office, which is located in Farringdon.

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Location: Remote - AMERICAS ONLY (NORTH & SOUTH)
Sponsorship: Not available. We cannot support visas, work permits, or extensions in any country (including OPT/CPT or similar programs).
Salary: Varies by region — see details below below for USA. All other regions: salaries TBD

Summary

As a Senior Marketing Engineer at DistroKid, you will build systems that drive growth. You will operate at the intersection of marketing and engineering, shipping high-impact features and enabling the marketing team to move faster through automation, experimentation, and better tooling. You will also help design and enable experiments across pages, funnels, messaging, and growth loops, using results to drive continuous iteration.

You will work closely with marketing to drive acquisition, conversion, and overall performance across DistroKid’s web properties. This includes building and enhancing landing pages, scaling SEO and content systems, and implementing robust tracking and analytics. You will own projects end-to-end while making sound engineering results, prioritizing effectively, and continuously iterating based on results.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, is highly self-directed, and is excited about building systems that create leverage rather than one-off solutions.

What you'll do:

1. Own and improve marketing engineering systems that drive acquisition, conversion, and retention.
2. Partner with marketing to identify high-leverage opportunities and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
3. Own projects from concept through launch and iteration, making sound engineering informed-choices, prioritizing effectively, and resolving issues related to performance, functionality, and reliability.
4. Build, improve, and iterate on landing pages, funnels, and other growth surfaces to improve performance.
5. Design and perform rapid experiments, using results to guide future iteration.
6. Implement and maintain marketing tracking, analytics, and attribution systems to aid in better decision-making.
7. Build internal tools and automations that help the marketing team scale effectively and operate more effectively.
8. Use expertise to evaluate, select, and implement marketing technologies that improve execution and insight.
9. Apply AI-driven workflows to areas such as content generation, SEO, personalization, and analytics.
10. Ensure web experiences are reliable, performant, and compatible across browsers and devices.

Qualifications:

1. Strong proficiency in JavaScript and experience with full-stack web development, including but not limited to Ruby, ColdFusion, or Python.
2. Proven experience building and enhancing growth-focused web systems, including landing pages, funnels, SEO, analytics, and marketing attribution.
3. Experience performing A/B tests or growth experiments and using data to drive outcomes.
4. Experience working with CMS platforms and implementing analytics, tracking, and attribution systems.
5. Experience building with LLMs, including prompt design, evaluation, and applying AI to marketing use cases (content, SEO, personalization, internal tools).
6. General curiosity, strong critical thinking techniques and knowledge of how to turn ambiguous problems into concrete solutions.
7. Propensity to work autonomously, oversee projects end-to-end, and ship with a pragmatic, iterative approach.
8. Exceptional communication, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members and audiences.
9. Pragmatic approach to development: shipping quickly, iterating based on results, and avoiding over-engineering.
10. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.

Bonus: 

1. Experience leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency and decision making is preferred.
2. Passion for the music industry and knowledge of its unique obstacles and opportunities.

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We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. A Technical Account Manager (TAM) will continue to provide hands-on technical services to our largest customers by supporting, adopting and providing guidance over the comprehensive suite of products and features available at Datadog. A TAM is held in high regard as an expert and trusted advisor for how IT Operations translates to business value.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Advise on technical support and product adoption for customers in line with pre-sales, post-sales and the renewal processes
• Analyze customer’s IT Operations environment on a regular basis and provide recommendations that will maximize Datadog’s value.
• Be the customer’s advocate by knowing their goals and use cases then suggesting process changes, product adoption, configuration and additional features to meet their requirements
• Participate and prepare for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews with customers
• Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify new features and products
• Continuously evolve best practice to technical product adoption and customer success

Who You Are:

• Someone with a solid technical grounding and hands-on experience of IT Operations
• Confident in your hands on experience AWS, Azure or GCP
• Comfortable scripting languages like Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, Go, PHP, or Chef/Puppet etc.
• Skilled in using CI/CD tools e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
• Knowledgeable about Containerization tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes or Rancher etc.
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites 
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 30% of the time
• Previous experience working as a TAM supporting mid-market and/or Enterprise customers in the cloud space
• Experienced using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. A Technical Account Manager (TAM) will continue to provide hands-on technical services to our largest customers by supporting, adopting and providing guidance over the comprehensive suite of products and features available at Datadog. A TAM is held in high regard as an expert and trusted advisor for how IT Operations translates to business value.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Advise on technical support and product adoption for customers in line with pre-sales, post-sales and the renewal processes
• Analyze customer’s IT Operations environment on a regular basis and provide recommendations that will maximize Datadog’s value.
• Be the customer’s advocate by knowing their goals and use cases then suggesting process changes, product adoption, configuration and additional features to meet their requirements
• Participate and prepare for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews with customers
• Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify new features and products
• Continuously evolve best practice to technical product adoption and customer success

Who You Are:

• Someone with a solid technical grounding and hands-on experience of IT Operations
• Confident in your hands on experience AWS, Azure or GCP
• Comfortable scripting languages like Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, Go, PHP, or Chef/Puppet etc.
• Skilled in using CI/CD tools e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
• Knowledgeable about Containerization tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes or Rancher etc.
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites 
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 30% of the time
• Previous experience working as a TAM supporting mid-market and/or Enterprise customers in the cloud space
• Experienced using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with the Sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
• Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients
• Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses
• Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape

 Who You Are:

• Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer
• Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering
• Experienced in programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc.
• Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites 
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% of the time

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth: 

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Senior Engineer

Location: Waterloo, London, England, UK | Hybrid (1 day per week in office)

Who We Are 

At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. From early-stage startups to global enterprises, we work across industries to optimise our clients’ digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise. 

Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we’re truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open and collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.

If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you’ve found the right place. 

Who You Are

You’ve shown repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 4+ years. You have a broad range of expertise that allows you to make an immediate impact on projects. In your previous experience, you have:

• Successfully contributed to high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production 
• Written production-quality code using a variety of languages and frameworks, that include: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
• Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served 
• Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation, where appropriate
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics) 
• Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
• Debugged and refactored pre-existing code to incrementally improve it
• Collaborated with teams using Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD
• Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
• Contributed to forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving
• Made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity
• Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues
• Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
• Communicated empathically with stakeholders and colleagues
• Influenced stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

What You’ll Do At 8th Light

As a senior technologist on projects, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, through a variety of technologies and frameworks over the course of your career with us. You’ll work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions. You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know. You’ll be responsible for:

• Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with your clients and team
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Contributing to architecture and software design discussions
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients
• Contributing to formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Regular syncs with your delivery team to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Pursuing opportunities to further your skills to grow your career and keep pace with the rapid changes within the technology industry 
• Contributing to your team culture by building connections with your fellow 8th Lights, showing up on camera, and leveraging collaboration opportunities, such as coworking spaces and local team gatherings, where appropriate

Strongly Preferred Skills

We work across many areas, and encourage anyone with the experience listed above to apply. We would particularly like to encourage applicants with experience in the following areas:

• MLOps: including tools like LangChain for application development and managing the ML lifecycle
• Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics
• DevSecOps & DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code

Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together. We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with real-world career experiences. 

How You’ll be Supported

At 8th Light, we believe our people are our greatest asset. Their growth, well-being, and success shape our future. 

Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes:

• A robust L&D programme featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
• Coworking support for our global team
• 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees
• Transparent semi-annual promotion panel

See our full list of Benefits. 

A Note on Compensation

At 8th Light, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that is transparent, fair, and helps us attract and retain top talent in alignment with our company’s strategic growth goals and clients’ needs.

We benchmark our salaries using Geographic Structures to establish competitive pay ranges within the regions where 8th Lights live. Our pay ranges for our Senior Engineer position within London is: £56,640-£70,800 GBP.

Reach out to recruiting@8thlight.com for more relevant information pertaining to your local market.

8th Light Hubs and Geographies

8th Light's culture is rooted in strong connections that extend across our teams, regions, and beyond client work. We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. 

• London Co-working: Employees working from our London hub follow a hybrid model, which includes a minimum of one day per week in our Waterloo Office. This co-working day is designed to encourage collaboration and further strengthen our community.In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel.

We hope to see you apply! 

_#LI-Hybrid

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying advanced AI Agentic Solutions that exhibit autonomous, proactive, and adaptive behaviors. This role requires a deep understanding of AI/ML technologies, integration, automation experience and solution architecture, combined with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Implement agent-based AI solutions using the Workato Agentic AI platform.

• Develop advanced prompting, memory management, and behavior-planning techniques to enable LLMs and agents to reliably author and execute complex workflows.

• Act as a technical solutions expert with strong aptitude in troubleshooting and analyzing AI-driven architectures, including scalable RAG pipelines and agent frameworks built using the Workato Agentic AI platform.

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable AI-powered IT workflows with agent-based decision-making, dynamic retrieval mechanisms, and seamless integration using the Workato Agentic AI platform.

• Continuously monitor and improve AI system performance, ensuring efficiency and reliability.

• Work closely with customers to understand use cases and deliver tailored, scalable agentic AI and RAG-based solutions using the Workato Agentic AI platform, while prioritizing exceptional customer service to ensure alignment with both technical and business needs, as well as satisfaction and successful implementation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI workflows into existing IT frameworks, ensuring smooth and seamless deployment.

• Contribute to internal process improvements and promote knowledge sharing by adding to Workato’s knowledge base.

• Play an instrumental role in all phases of product development, from ideation to implementation, contributing valuable insights and expertise.

• Assist the product manager in creating technical and design specifications, ensuring alignment with product goals and user needs.

• Leverage strong communication skills to effectively translate complex technical concepts into accessible insights for non-technical audiences.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• BTech/BE or higher technical education in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.

• A total of 4+ years of relevant experience in design, development, and implementation.

• Proven experience in AI engineering, with a focus on agent-based systems.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable AI-driven workflows that enhance IT operations.

• Knowledge of implementing integration projects is essential. Hands-on experience with automation technologies, middleware, integration architecture patterns, web services technologies, enterprise messaging patterns, APIs, SOA, ESB, BPM, SDKs, and databases.

• Strong working knowledge of APIs—RESTful, SOAP/XML. Solid understanding of data structures—JSON. Sound knowledge of any RDBMS/NoSQL.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with any of the following: Java, Python, or Ruby.

• Experience working with integration platforms such as TIBCO, Dell Boomi, MuleSoft, or other integration/automation tools.

• Experience with cloud technologies—iPaaS, SaaS applications, and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with in Workato.

• Experience working with cloud business apps like Workday, NetSuite, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Marketo.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Strong collaboration skills, ability to adapt to a dynamic start-up environment, with a passion for making an impact

• Strong critical thinking, analytical skills with an entrepreneurial and proactive mindset

• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage time, even under high-pressure situations

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively to a non-technical audience

• Fast learner who can independently conduct extensive research, and synthesize ideas, information and options quickly

• Be proactive about solving problems and be ready to take on additional initiatives and responsibilities as they emerge

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Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Solutions Architecture Team partners with our users to realize their full potential through the adoption of prescriptive solutions that drive their growth and success. We influence revenue growth across Stripe’s product portfolio, and collaborate with sales, support, product management, and Stripe’s executive team to provide the best experience to our most valued customers.

What you’ll do

As a member of the team, the Solutions Architect will build highly consultative trusted relationships with c-level executives and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges. You will architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe. 

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of the Platform account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy; Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. 
• Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption. Understand and align with the customer’s product and business roadmap and uncover opportunities for Stripe to accelerate their progress on that roadmap. 
• Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering and Head of Payments. 
• Work to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives, and then design and apply Stripe’s solutions to their challenges.
• Develop and articulate the end to end customer transformation journey and create future roadmaps and architectures with deep 3rd party integrations in play.
• Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries, and competitors with a view to support growth for the user's business. 
• Lead strategy engagements with users to align to business priorities, design solutions and secure the technical win by performing in-depth customer discovery, evangelizing the proposed solutions through executive briefings, readouts, presentations, workshops and solution demos. 
• Expand Stripe’s footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods.
• Act as the “Voice of the Customer” to bring insights, trends and opportunities to the leadership, product and engineering teams from the forefront and prioritized for delivery.  
• Participate in sales forecasting, Quarterly Business Reviews and account/territory planning to strategically and tactically align for success.
• Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally. 

Who you are

You have achieved an experienced position as an enterprise architect, senior solution architect or principal solution engineer and have a successful track record advising enterprise-grade digital native / SAAS / Platform / Marketplace companies, focused on identifying business priorities, formulating technology strategies and designing an end-to-end business solution. You possess deep technical acumen, high interpersonal and leadership skills, and have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success along the entire customer journey. Strategic and creative thinker who can proactively identify challenges, take ownership, and maintain a positive approach when facing difficult obstacles.

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.
• Experience in the payments/ billing / invoicing / issuing / banking / Fintech space.
• Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
• Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence in proposing and leading customer meetings to gain strategic footing and pursue opportunities.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architectures. A background in writing code in any of Stripe’s primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.) is a plus.
• Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confident in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to operate independently in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
• Passion to take on ownership and drive change in a constantly evolving environment. 
• Superior verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to travel per business needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience in consulting.
• Experience at a growth stage internet/software company.

An overview of this role

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for our most critical infrastructure platforms. This role operates at organizational scale, owning architecture, solving complex systems problems, and driving initiatives that shape how GitLab grows, performs, and remains reliable.

As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority and force multiplier, leading architectural decisions across distributed and cloud-native systems to translate business strategy into durable technical direction. Spanning multiple teams and domains, you will bring clarity to ambiguity, raise engineering standards, and mentor senior talent while remaining accountable for real production outcomes. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for leaders who drive success through influence and shape the foundational platforms that the entire organization depends on.

Organizational Focus Areas

Principal Engineers at GitLab drive strategy across our most critical infrastructure and delivery groups. Role placement across the following tracks is determined by business need and organizational priority.

Group Tenant Scale (GTS)

This track builds GitLab’s next generation, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and resilient SaaS platform. You will architect the foundations that enable other engineering teams to build upon this platform and drive convergence among GitLab’s various platforms..

• Core Focus: Lead the design and evolution of projects that enable our distributed, multi-tenant SaaS transformation, including Cells, Organizations, and OrgMover.
• Distributed Architecture: Architect for zero downtime, transparent relocation, and application hardening in a massive distributed environment.
• Strategic Decisions: Guide architecture decisions with availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, and cost in mind.

GitLab Delivery 

The GitLab Delivery track focuses on enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and speed of GitLab’s end-to-end software delivery across all platforms and offerings.

• Core Focus: Lead the platform strategy spanning Developer Experience, CI infrastructure, packaging, and release delivery across SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated.
• Developer Experience: Treat GitLab engineers as customers, building self-service tooling, testing infrastructure, and paved paths that increase velocity while maintaining quality.
• Delivery at Scale: Architect reliable, automated pipelines that streamline how GitLab is packaged, released, and deployed across all platforms and offerings.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms that support GitLab at global scale.
• Lead the design and evolution of large platforms and distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient.
• Serve as the technical authority on complex initiatives, guiding decisions that impact multiple teams and product areas.
• Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, and leadership by clearly communicating tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Establish technical standards and architectural patterns that raise quality and consistency across the organization.
• Be accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier through influence rather than direct authority.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces where both the problem and the solution need to be defined.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale platforms or distributed systems in cloud-native environments.
• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Ruby, with the ability to contribute to, review, and guide core architectural changes in production codebases.
• Strong architectural judgment, including the ability to balance scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost.
• Experience owning platform-level technical decisions that impacted multiple teams or an entire engineering domain.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes-based environments as a production platform, including how they influence system design, deployment models, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Experience being accountable for production systems, not just design recommendations.
• Ability to author and drive long-term technical strategy and multi-month roadmaps.
• Track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction without direct authority.
• Comfort making high-impact technical decisions, including build vs buy vs partner tradeoffs.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

About the team

The Principal Engineer role sits within GitLab’s Infrastructure Platforms organization, working across multiple teams to shape how our platform scales and operates. This group is responsible for some of GitLab’s most critical systems, including the multi-tenant SaaS platform, core delivery pipelines, and the underlying infrastructure that powers millions of users. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll define technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and ensure our platforms remain resilient, performant, and modern. The team operates fully remotely and collaborates asynchronously across time zones, grounded in GitLab’s values of transparency, autonomy, and open communication. You’ll help the organization tackle complex distributed systems challenges at scale while mentoring other engineers and building a culture focused on reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

An overview of this role

As the first Engineering Manager embedded the Upstream Studios organization at GitLab, you'll lead a focused team of Engineers responsible for two foundational surfaces: the Pajamas Design System, which powers the coherence of the entire GitLab product, and docs.gitlab.com, the documentation platform serving millions of GitLab users and contributors worldwide. 

This is a rare opportunity to define what engineering leadership looks like inside a design organization. You’ll report to the Chief Design Officer and partner closely with Product Design, Technical Writing, Localization, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering leaders across GitLab. Critically, the design system is a contribution-based, company-wide platform that engineers across the entire organization depend on and actively participate in. Building those partnerships and making it easier for engineers everywhere to contribute to Pajamas will be central to your success. 

You’ll be a hands-on technical leader and people manager in equal measure: guiding architecture decisions, shaping contribution workflows, and helping a small, high-impact team do some of the most leveraged work at GitLab.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor,and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site.
• Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape.
• Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization).
• Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform.
• Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions

What you'll bring

• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.
• Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system.
• Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale.
• Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Passion for open source and developer tools, with a commitment to GitLab's values, inclusive culture, and high-performance expectations.

About the team

Upstream Studios is the full-stack experience organization for GitLab. We imagine it, we design it, we document it, we ship it—partnering across product, engineering, and marketing to deliver a continuous deployment of quality.

We integrate research, design, frontend engineering, documentation, and brand into a unified delivery pipeline, shaping how customers experience GitLab from first impression to final deployment. For more information on how we work, see the Upstream Studios section of the GitLab Handbook.

As a Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group, you’ll work cross-functionally to help us identify and improve the engineering experience across GitLab’s internal engineering teams. We’re at a pivotal time in transforming our testing approach and development experience to enable engineers to deliver high-quality code efficiently and with confidence. 

Developer Experience currently has six, globally distributed teams of Backend Engineers and Software Engineers in Test. This role will work across the entire group to help us identify and remove the biggest points of friction that affect development at GitLab. Expect to split your time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go, designing scalable solutions and helping every team deliver.  You’ll be instrumental in shaping our engineering culture across GitLab.  

This is a highly visible role with strong company-wide support. You’ll be instrumental in shifting our culture and practices toward a cohesive Developer Experience Platform strategy—backed by buy-in and appetite for change.

Some examples of our projects

• Identifying and removing the source of flakiness in our tests pipelines
• Introducing comprehensive test coverage reporting to guide our decisions about what and when to test
• Standardizing logging libraries and documentation to make it easy for all features and components to provide consistent logs
• Providing stable, configurable development environments 

What You’ll Do

• Drive Technical Excellence Across Teams: Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, jumping in to unblock critical work or accelerate high-impact initiatives
• Champion Engineering Needs: Partner with engineering teams across GitLab to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate day-to-day frustrations into actionable improvements for the Developer Experience roadmap
• Transform Testing at Scale: Help us modernize our testing to support GitLab's growth—ensuring engineers have fast, reliable tools that catch issues early without slowing them down
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Reduce merge and CI friction by building workflows that deliver fast, actionable feedback—helping engineers iterate confidently and ship faster
• Break Down Systemic Bottlenecks: Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate the architectural and process friction that slows down development
• Shape Engineering Culture: Foster a culture of continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement—where great developer experience is a shared value across the organization

What You’ll Bring

• Deep experience with developer tooling, DevEx strategies, and testing frameworks at scale
• Experience leading platform or transformation initiatives across multiple teams
• Proven ability to influence without authority and collaborate across functions
• Familiarity with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote-first environment
• A product mindset with a passion for empowering developers
• Alignment with GitLab values, especially collaboration, iteration, and transparency

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. 

Rockstar is on the lookout for a seasoned Lead Programmer who is keenly interested in all the low-level technology that makes a modern video game tick, in order to help support the Rockstar Games creator platforms, including FiveM and RedM. You will need to adequately juggle team mentorship responsibilities, all the while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to ensure adherence to development processes and security standards.

This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar’s unique game development studio in the heart of London. 

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Creator Platform team creates technology, tools, and solutions to enhance the creator experience and empower our community to create and share any experience imaginable.
• We deliver a technology platform that enables creators to develop their own game modes and other modifications in a variety of scripting languages and for players to experience this content on fully customized dedicated servers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive strategy for the standup and continuous improvement of Rockstar’s Creator Platform technologies, which includes the FiveM and RedM platforms and associated creator tooling.
• Devise and work with the Creator Platform teams towards the achievement of attainable development milestones.
• Oversee Creator Platform engineering teams, working closely with appointed engineering leads to align on key technical decisions.
• Help mentor and develop the skills of the engineering leads and other developers within the Creator Platform team.
• Support the ongoing scaling of the technical group through ongoing recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding.  
• Implement and maintain the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for the Creator Platform team, ensuring it is aligned with company and project objectives.
• Leverage knowledge of internal code base to devise well-considered strategies for integration of Creator Platform technology into Rockstar Games’ games and products.
• Collaborate with partners across Game, Security, Online Services and related development teams to guarantee alignment with all Rockstar Game and Security required standards and guidelines.  

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing and developing low-level software systems and architecture.
• At least 3 years’ experience leading engineering teams of 10+, including mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, PERL, Ruby).
• At least one shipped console or PC title; preferably on the Xbox and/or PlayStation consoles.
• Experience crafting and accomplishing roadmaps, with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, supported by excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to tailor communication style to technical and non-technical audiences.

PLUSES

Please note that these are desirable skills and are not required to apply for the position.

• A keen interest in the modding or User Generated Content communities.
• Experience with Javascript and/or Lua.
• Experience with reverse engineering.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter during the interview process.  

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

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About the Job: 

LaunchDarkly is in the middle of a category shift - from feature management to the AI control plane: the governance layer between AI-generated code and safe production deployment. Every enterprise we talk to has the same problem - their engineers are shipping AI-assisted code faster than their release governance, observability, and experimentation processes can keep up. We're the answer to that.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer in EMEA, you'll be on the front line of that shift. You'll partner with Account Executives to win and expand strategic enterprise accounts, lead technical evaluations, and build champions inside customers who genuinely change how they ship software. This isn't a demo-monkey role - it's a role for SEs who want to sit across from CTOs, Heads of Platform, and Heads of AI and have a meaningful conversation about where their business is going.

Responsibilities:

• Be a Trusted Advisor:
  • Partner with AEs to qualify, develop, and close strategic enterprise deals
  • Bring a perspective - challenge customers to think bigger about what's possible, with insight on where the industry is heading
  • Translate complex technical capability into business outcomes that resonate with both engineers and executives
• Champion Building & Customer Relationships:
  • Build deep relationships with technical and business stakeholders so they advocate for LaunchDarkly when you're not in the room
  • Stay connected through on-site visits, working sessions, and continuous discovery
  • Use our London office as a hub for in-person customer workshops, exec sessions, and team collaboration (typically 1-2 days a week)
• Technical Validation & Proof of Value:
  • Lead high-impact demos and POVs that don't just tick a box - they make customers want to buy
  • Own evaluation end to end: success criteria, executive alignment, commercial clarity, and timelines
  • Build solutions that demonstrate clear, measurable business impact
• Stay Sharp & Be the Expert:
  • Stay ahead of where software delivery is going - AI-assisted development, governance, experimentation, progressive delivery, and the platform engineering shift
  • Own the technical conversation across audiences - from staff engineers to CIOs
• Collaboration & Feedback:
  • Advocate for customers - your insights shape the roadmap
  • Work cross-functionally with Sales, CS, Product, Engineering, and Professional Services
• Travel & On-Site Engagement:
  • Up to 35% travel, primarily across EMEA, for customer workshops, deal closings, and industry events

About You:

• Curious about AI, in and out of work: The best SEs we've hired recently are the ones already experimenting with AI tooling for fun - building side projects, automating their own workflows, playing with agentic systems. We're not looking for AI researchers. We're looking for people who are genuinely interested in where this is going and want to bring that curiosity into customer conversations.
• Champion Builder: You enjoy building strong relationships and creating internal advocates. You know that the best deals are won through the people inside the customer, not the slides you bring.
• Drive & Ownership: You don't wait to be asked. You see what needs to be done and you do it.
• Business Acumen: You can position LaunchDarkly as a strategic enabler, not a tool. You connect technology to revenue growth, competitive advantage, and operational efficiency.
• Humble, Hungry, Smart, Energetic:
  • Humble - collaborative, feedback-seeking, team-first
  • Hungry - self-motivated, goes the extra mile, closes big deals
  • Smart - reads the room, tailors the message, connects with any audience
  • Energetic - brings urgency and momentum
• Coachable: You seek feedback and apply it. You learn quickly across new tech, new methodologies, and new customer contexts.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Modern software delivery - Solid understanding of CI/CD, feature flags, progressive delivery, and platform engineering
  • AI-assisted development - Familiarity with how engineering teams are using tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code, and the governance challenges that creates
  • AI/ML workflows (nice to have) - Exposure to model deployment, inference services, prompt engineering, or AI application architecture
  • Hands-on technical skills - You can design and lead technical demos, workshops, and POVs without an engineer holding your hand
• Sales Experience & Methodology:
  • Comfortable with MEDDPICC, Command of the Message, or similar structured frameworks
  • Experience selling into FTSE 100, FTSE 250, or large enterprise environments
  • Proven ability to drive $1M+ deals and build compelling business cases

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in technical sales or solutions engineering, selling complex enterprise SaaS
• Track record of leading POCs, POVs, and world-class demos
• Experience with structured sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, CoM, or similar)
• Strong technical and business communication skills
• Willingness to travel up to 35%
• Based in or able to commute to London 1-2 days per week

Preferred: 

• Experience selling adjacent categories - dev tools, observability, experimentation, AI infrastructure, platform engineering
• Programming and cloud expertise - proficiency in one of LaunchDarkly's supported languages (Java, .NET, Go, JavaScript/Node, Python, PHP, Ruby, iOS, or Android) and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Enterprise sales experience in $1M+ blue-chip environments
• Personal interest in AI - side projects, experimentation, and a point of view on where the industry is heading

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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About the Role

Our Platform team creates the foundation that allows our entire engineering organisation to move fast. This means building shared tooling, managing migrations (including our move from a Ruby monolith), and evolving our infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to join a team that keeps frameworks lean and focuses on what matters: clean, maintainable code, shipped fast with TDD, DDD, and continuous integration and delivery.

We are a Go shop, and while we’re busy migrating away from our Ruby monolith, our stack includes PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, and Thrift. Everything runs on AWS and Kubernetes, managed via Terraform.

Our interview process includes a recruiter screen, algorithms and live coding. Senior+ candidates also complete a system design section and a structured review of past experience and achievements.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, performant code primarily in Go.
• Implement new microservices while helping us responsibly manage and migrate away from legacy services.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn abstract requirements into concrete technical designs.
• Ensure our systems stay responsive under heavy load, optimising for both latency and reliability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience (5+ years for seniors) building and maintaining scalable backend services.
• We use Go. If you know it, great. If not, we’ll interview you in your strongest language (Python, C++, Java, Ruby, etc.). We hire for engineering fundamentals, not syntax.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

What we Offer

• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice
• Salary: £90,000 – £120,000
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display
• Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional development stipend
• Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance

About the Role

Our Marketplace team builds the models and algorithms that balance supply and demand, optimising pricing and matching to ensure chauffeurs earn and passengers aren't left waiting.

We’re looking for a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to join a team that keeps frameworks lean and focuses on what matters: clean, maintainable code, shipped fast with TDD, DDD, and continuous integration and delivery.

We are a Go shop, and while we’re busy migrating away from our Ruby monolith, our stack includes PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, and Thrift. Everything runs on AWS and Kubernetes, managed via Terraform.

Our interview process includes a recruiter screen, algorithms and live coding. Senior+ candidates also complete a system design section and a structured review of past experience and achievements.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, performant code primarily in Go.
• Implement new microservices while helping us responsibly manage and migrate away from legacy services.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn abstract requirements into concrete technical designs.
• Ensure our systems stay responsive under heavy load, optimising for both latency and reliability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience (5+ years for seniors) building and maintaining scalable backend services.
• We use Go. If you know it, great. If not, we’ll interview you in your strongest language (Python, C++, Java, Ruby, etc.). We hire for engineering fundamentals, not syntax.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

What we Offer

• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice
• Salary: £90,000 – £120,000
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display
• Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional development stipend
• Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance

About the Role

Our Mapping team tackles the spatial intelligence of the platform: road matching, low-latency ETA predictions, and processing thousands of coordinates every second to ensure every journey is accurately tracked.

We’re looking for a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to join a team that keeps frameworks lean and focuses on what matters: clean, maintainable code, shipped fast with TDD, DDD, and continuous integration and delivery.

We are a Go shop, and while we’re busy migrating away from our Ruby monolith, our stack includes PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, and Thrift. Everything runs on AWS and Kubernetes, managed via Terraform.

Our interview process includes a recruiter screen, algorithms and live coding. Senior+ candidates also complete a system design section and a structured review of past experience and achievements.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, performant code primarily in Go.
• Implement new microservices while helping us responsibly manage and migrate away from legacy services.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn abstract requirements into concrete technical designs.
• Ensure our systems stay responsive under heavy load, optimising for both latency and reliability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience (5+ years for seniors) building and maintaining scalable backend services.
• We use Go. If you know it, great. If not, we’ll interview you in your strongest language (Python, C++, Java, Ruby, etc.). We hire for engineering fundamentals, not syntax.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience with mapping-related work such as processing noisy geospatial data, map-matching techniques, or road network graphs and routing algorithms.

Nice to have

• Driver-side intuition for navigation systems (rerouting behavior, GPS drift, missed turns, real-world edge cases).
• Experience with routing engines like OSRM.
• Proficiency in C++.
• Familiarity with open geospatial datasets such as OpenStreetMap.

What we Offer

• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice
• Salary: £90,000 – £120,000
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display
• Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional development stipend
• Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance

We are looking for a skilled Technical Lead Manager to join one of our dynamic technical teams, such as Passenger, Billing, etc. 

Responsibilities

• Managing the team of ~10 developers on a day-to-day basis: participating in planning, project management, delivery, career development for DRs, hiring
• Architect M- and L- sized features
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (designers, testers, product managers) to gather requirements and discuss project goals
• Participate in the analysis, design and evaluation of technical requirements together with the team
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code mainly in Go language
• Review and give feedback on code written by peers to ensure consistency, readability, and efficiency
• Write and maintain technical documentation, including software design documents and user guides

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing scalable and reliable backend services
• Proficiency with Go/Ruby/Python/C++/Java/Kotlin languages
• In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging systems like PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis/Kafka/RabbitMQ, etc.
• Upper-Intermediate or higher English proficiency

Our current stack: Go microservices, shrinking Ruby monolith, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Thrift, Redis, AWS, Terraform, K8s, Jenkins.

What we Offer

• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice
• Salary: £130,000 – £160,000
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display
• Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional development stipend
• Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. 

Rockstar is on the lookout for a seasoned Lead Programmer who is keenly interested in all the low-level technology that makes a modern video game tick, in order to help support the Rockstar Games creator platforms, including FiveM and RedM. You will need to adequately juggle team mentorship responsibilities, all the while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to ensure adherence to development processes and security standards.

This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar’s state-of-the-art game development studio in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Creator Platform team creates technology, tools, and solutions to enhance the creator experience and empower our community to create and share any experience imaginable.
• We deliver a technology platform that enables creators to develop their own game modes and other modifications in a variety of scripting languages and for players to experience this content on fully customized dedicated servers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive strategy for the standup and continuous improvement of Rockstar’s Creator Platform technologies, which includes the FiveM and RedM platforms and associated creator tooling.
• Devise and work with the Creator Platform teams towards the achievement of attainable development milestones.
• Oversee Creator Platform engineering teams, working closely with appointed engineering leads to align on key technical decisions.
• Help mentor and develop the skills of the engineering leads and other developers within the Creator Platform team.
• Support the ongoing scaling of the technical group through ongoing recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding.  
• Implement and maintain the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for the Creator Platform team, ensuring it is aligned with company and project objectives.
• Leverage knowledge of internal code base to devise well-considered strategies for integration of Creator Platform technology into Rockstar Games’ games and products.
• Collaborate with partners across Game, Security, Online Services and related development teams to guarantee alignment with all Rockstar Game and Security required standards and guidelines.  

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing and developing low-level software systems and architecture.
• At least 3 years’ experience leading engineering teams of 10+, including mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, PERL, Ruby).
• At least one shipped console or PC title; preferably on the Xbox and/or PlayStation consoles.
• Experience crafting and accomplishing roadmaps, with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, supported by excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to tailor communication style to technical and non-technical audiences.

PLUSES

Please note that these are desirable skills and are not required to apply for the position.

• A keen interest in the modding or User Generated Content communities.
• Experience with Javascript and/or Lua.
• Experience with reverse engineering.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter during the interview process.  

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

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