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The AppSec Engineer will enhance security practices across development, assess AI-driven security risks, and collaborate with teams to embed security in processes while maintaining delivery speed.

Leads a high-performing engineering team responsible for core services and systems. Focuses on people management, coaching, hiring, team development, strategic execution, technical direction, architectural feedback, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages employees and contractors, sets priorities and metrics, addresses technical risks, navigates ambiguity and organizational change, and promotes inclusive, high-performing engineering practices. This is a remote position requiring U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 10–20% business travel.

Develop and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js, React.js, and AWS. Design scalable architectures, implement infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK, build CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux environments, and support secure cloud operations. Collaborate with UI/UX designers, cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams while working in an Agile environment. The role requires obtaining Public Trust, passing a background check, and completing onsite fingerprinting.

Leads human-centered UI/UX design and information architecture for complex enterprise applications. Conducts user research, usability testing, accessibility reviews, journey mapping, prototyping, and requirements analysis. Establishes design and IA standards, creates interface specifications, and collaborates with product, development, and stakeholder teams. Designs dynamic forms and advanced UI components using ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Tailwind within a microservices environment.

Leads Percona’s globally distributed Global Services organization, overseeing Support, Managed Services, Professional Services, project management, and delivery operations. Owns service quality, customer satisfaction, strategic planning, operational improvement, AI-first transformation, knowledge management, and P&L performance. Partners with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market to shape strategy and innovation while maintaining expertise in open source database technologies. Develops high-performing teams, builds customer and community relationships, monitors market trends, and drives experimentation, efficiency, and scalable service delivery.

Create and maintain user-oriented technical documentation for PostgreSQL products, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, user guides, manuals, man pages, help prompts, and release notes. Collaborate with engineering, product, development, QA, and documentation teams in a distributed docs-as-code environment. Use Markdown, version control, diagrams, AI tools, and documentation testing practices while contributing to documentation strategy and potentially open-source projects.

Lead and execute end-to-end growth marketing: design multi-channel acquisition campaigns, own funnel KPIs, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, develop brand and positioning, analyze metrics, and run experiments to scale user acquisition, engagement, and retention.

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Build and own conversational voice AI products end-to-end: architect, implement, and deploy the platform. Design infrastructure, develop front-end and back-end systems, deliver reliable customer outcomes, and collaborate directly with the CTO to scale the product for enterprise customers.

Executes local brand activations, tastings, trade engagements, and promotional events for a premium spirits portfolio. Builds consumer and trade engagement, manages activation logistics, supports approved social amplification, maintains compliance, tracks budgets and expenses, and reports market insights, feedback, competitive activity, and program results. Requires strong on-premise relationships, field independence, accurate administration, and flexible evening, weekend, and holiday availability.

The Customer Growth Executive drives satisfaction, retention, and growth for Tier 1/Tier 2 clients by building relationships and developing strategies for client engagement.

Manage and administer short- and long-term incentive programs, conduct job evaluations (Hay method), perform compensation benchmarking and analytics, support merit planning, lead Pay-for-Skill implementation, ensure regulatory compliance, mentor analysts, and partner with HR and business leaders on compensation strategy and projects.

Deploys, integrates, and scales enterprise generative AI solutions within customer engineering teams. Builds intelligent agents and multi-agent systems using Vertex AI, ADK, and MCP; connects AI systems to enterprise databases; develops real-time data pipelines; and operationalizes LLMs across cloud environments. The role also includes model training, tuning, evaluation, deployment, vector-based grounding, cloud infrastructure integration, stakeholder communication, and translating business goals into technical architectures.

Deploys, integrates, and scales enterprise generative AI solutions in customer cloud environments. Responsibilities include architecting GCP and Vertex AI infrastructure, deploying and optimizing LLMs, building RAG data and vector search pipelines, managing GPU/TPU workloads on GKE, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and advising clients on AI safety, prompt engineering, hallucinations, and inference costs. The role also collaborates with research and platform teams and requires travel to client sites.

The Forward Deployment Engineer will deploy and optimize Generative AI solutions on-site, collaborating with engineering teams to operationalize AI systems across multi-cloud platforms.

Drive end-to-end enterprise sales for Softeon WMS across strategic accounts. Build executive relationships, expand and cross-sell within installed base, pursue net-new logos, lead complex multi-stakeholder deals, maintain account plans, collaborate with Solutions, Customer Success, Marketing and Partners, and ensure accurate CRM, forecasting and pipeline hygiene to hit quota.

Drive revenue growth for Poka across strategic manufacturing and industrial accounts. Own enterprise sales cycles, expand existing customers, acquire new logos, build executive relationships, develop account plans, and manage complex multi-stakeholder negotiations. Collaborate with solutions consulting, customer success, marketing, and partners while maintaining accurate CRM data, forecasts, and pipeline hygiene.

Lead multiple cross-functional projects on the Product team using Agile, Scrum, and Kanban. Manage end-to-end project life cycles, documentation, backlogs, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication to deliver high-impact outcomes. Collaborate with product owners and program managers, contribute to PM best practices, and support Bravens project management Centers of Excellence.

Leads organization-wide progress monitoring and reporting, including board updates, data analysis, and data-driven narratives. Coordinates cross-functional partnerships among Product, Systems, and External Affairs, supports internal and external councils, and owns the Insights & Strategy team’s planning, meeting cadence, knowledge management, and process improvement. Requires strong writing, strategic thinking, quantitative analysis, collaboration, discretion, and operational execution.

Leads fundraising strategy and execution for an assigned regional portfolio, targeting approximately $23 million annually. Partners with regional leaders to cultivate donors, manage moves management, track pipelines, and achieve revenue goals. Oversees grant-writing workflows, donor stewardship, narratives, collateral, CRM systems, and quarterly action plans. Collaborates with development, communications, marketing, data, finance, and systems teams while engaging directly with funders and donors. The role is primarily internal-facing and includes occasional regional travel and non-traditional hours.