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D-ploy is an IT and Engineering Solutions company with operations throughout the EMEA region including Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, UK, as well as the USA. We pride ourselves on delivering innovative and superior services and solutions to numerous industry-leading clients. By building relationships and trusted partnerships within the IT community, we optimize our customer‘s IT productivity and contribute to the organization’s success and value. We are interested in talking to engaging, flexible, and solution-oriented individuals who are looking to become a part of a dynamically growing and international organization. We are focused on creating value where IT counts, join us! For this role we are looking for a German and French speaking IT Service Desk Analyst for our team. The person can be based everywhere in EU. Task and Responsibilities: • provide technical and troubleshooting assistance related to computer hardware and software, mobile devices and other tech tools and products • First level technical support • Provide prompt responses to questions from employees as well as from client’s site • Documentation of problems and knowledge database creation • Provide hardware migration teams with information and appropriate reports and lists • Process Improvement activities • Consult with IT experts, if the appropriate course of action in unclear Requirements • Language skills: fluent German and English , French is a big advantage • Technical skills are a plus • Strong problem solving/analytical abilities • Good communication skills • Attention to detail and ability to multi-task handling multiple clients • Ability to work independently as well as willing to follow direction and best practices • Planning and organizing skills • Team player and supportive personality • Candidates have to declare Criminal record extract not older than three months Benefits • Broad range of activities, tasks, and projects • Flexible working conditions • Minimum 5 weeks of vacation • Paid sick days • Meal vouchers • Vouchers (B-day voucher, wedding, and new born surprise) • Contributions to wellness programs (multisport card) • Fishing for Friends program – our referral program • Refreshments in the D-ploy office • Further development and professional advancement • Friendly and international working environment • Company-sponsored events • Competitive salary and various benefits Is IT in your DNA?

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Location: Remote Type: Contract / Part-time Commitment: 10-20 hours per week Compensation: Up to 40 USD / hr Project duration: 2 months , with potential extension About the role We create high-quality STEM training data for frontier AI models that is directly used in training and evaluation workflows at leading AI labs. We are looking for experts in Chemistry to design advanced, deterministic problems with exactly one verifiable correct answer. These problems should challenge modern AI systems …

At 1KOMMA5° , we pursue a clear vision: Living on wind and sunlight forever for free . To make this a reality, we are building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI. Want to be part of it? We bring together regional craftsmanship and scalable software: We don't think of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and e-mobility as isolated components, but control them as an intelligent, integrated overall system in our virtual power plant. Directly connected to the electricity market – in real time, fully automated. This way, energy is used when it is available from renewables and particularly cost-effective. By 2030, our goal is to transition 1.5 million households to renewable energies. Over 3,000 people are working towards this every day, at more than 80 locations worldwide, from Finland to Australia. Want to take responsibility and build solutions that truly matter? Apply now and help us shape the energy world of tomorrow. Learn more about our Product & Tech team! Deine Position At 1KOMMA5°, we connect and manage tens of thousands of distributed energy devices at scale. As a (Senior) IoT Cloud Engineer, you will own the cloud side of our IoT Platform that ingests, routes, and observes every message flowing between our gateway fleet and our cloud services. You will work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, messaging systems, data and IoT engineering, making sure our device-to-cloud highway is reliable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient as the fleet grows. We are a Platform team: your work directly enables product teams across Heartbeat AI to ship features faster, while giving the business a clear, data-driven view of fleet health and performance. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Take ownership of our systems at the intersection of Cloud Services and residential IoT Gateways • Operate and evolve our Kubernetes-based IoT Cloud Platform, including the deployment, scaling, and hardening of our connectivity and fleet services • Develop and run our Eclipse Hono stack as the messaging backbone between gateways and the cloud • Design, build and operate features around fleet management enabling the lifecycle of gateways from production line to field • Integrate tightly with Mender to operate safe OTA rollouts across the fleet. • Contribute to load and resilience tests to prove the platform scales and to find limits before our customers do • Build and own the observability pipelines for the IoT Platform and turn metrics into automated monitors, alerts, and self-healing mechanisms • Build data pipelines and BI models to turn raw data into fleet insights • Work collaboratively with product managers, data engineers, IoT engineers, as well as cloud engineers to understand problems, support discoveries, and create solutions enabling a scalable virtual power plant • Foster a culture of experiment-driven innovation within the team Technologies you will work with include: • Cloud & Infra: Google Cloud Platform, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run, Terraform/IaC • Messaging & IoT: Eclipse Hono, MQTT, Mender • Data & BI: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, SQLMesh, Looker • Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry • Languages: TypeScript (Nest.js), Java, Go • DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) Dein Profil The successful candidate will have: • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field • 5+ years of experience building and operating cloud / distributed backend systems in production • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and modern cloud-native operations • Solid understanding of MQTT and device-to-cloud messaging patterns at scale, including back-pressure, QoS, and fan-out • Experience designing and running observability pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for large-scale distributed systems, and turning them into actionable monitors • Comfortable working with data and BI tooling — writing SQL, modeling data, and building dashboards that drive decisions • Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and platform engineering practices • A strong reliability and security mindset • Ability to guide architectural decisions and navigate across embedded, hardware, data, and product teams • Agile, product-oriented mindset and a strong team player with a bias for action and ownership • Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset • Clear and effective communicator in English (German is a plus) Bonus points for: • Production experience with Eclipse Hono or a comparable IoT connectivity platform • Familiarity with Mender or other large-scale OTA / fleet management systems • Experience with SQLMesh and/or Looker (LookML) specifically • Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform as the primary cloud • Experience running load tests for messaging infrastructure or large-scale distributed systems. • Passion for climate tech and distributed energy systems We are an ambitious and dynamic company with a talented team. We …

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Deine Aufgaben: In this role, you build the technical systems that ensure product knowledge reaches the right people at the right time. If you enjoy designing, developing, and automating learning solutions to make knowledge accessible, scalable, and impactful, this role is for you. • Build and improve digital learning solutions that help people find and use knowledge more easily. • Connect learning tools with other systems such as ERP, CRM and collaboration platforms. • Create learning experiences directly within the product, so users can learn while they work. • Set up automated ways to share knowledge, for example through emails, notifications, chatbots or AI-supported content. • Develop gamification features that make learning more engaging and effective. • Track how people use the learning solutions and improve them based on data and user feedback. • Work closely with Product, Engineering and Customer Success to make sure learning solutions support business goals. Das bist du: • Several years of experience building learning systems from the ground up, including system integrations, automation and scalable set-ups • Strong technical skills in areas such as APIs, scripting, and automation tools • Hands-on experience with learning technology platforms and tools, including LMSs, in-app learning solutions, knowledge systems, automati on platforms, and analytics tools • Ability to translate concepts into scalable, working solutions • Comfortable navigating change in fast-moving, evolving enviro nments • Fluent English language skills (written and spoken), fluent German would be a plus Das bieten wir: Remote First: Whether you prefer working from home, using co-working spaces across Germany, or being in our modern headquarters in Cologne – we support all working styles. Well equipped : To make sure you have everything you need in your home office, we provide the appropriate hardware. After your probation period, you’ll also receive a budget for ergonomic home office equipment. Flexibility: You can organize your working hours flexibly. With a core working time from 9:00 to 12:00, you have plenty of freedom to balance work and personal life. With our Workation Worldwide program, you can work remotely for up to 60 days per year from anywhere within ±4 hours of the German time zone. Benefits à la carte: With Probonio, you can design your benefits anew every month: Use your budget for meal subsidies, childcare support, vouchers, or book your Urban Sports Club membership – all easily managed via app. Time Off & Recharge: You benefit from 32 days of paid vacation per year. In addition, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are fully off. With our Culture Day, you can also take a day off that is personally important to you - intentionally and individually. Company-wide Bonus: Our Shared Success Plan strengthens a shared result orientation by transparently and fairly sharing company success with everyone. Mobility & sustainability: Through FINN JobAuto, you can lease your own electric vehicle at attractive conditions. You can also benefit from bike leasing. Team spirit: Our teams meet in person once per tertial for brainstorming, workshops, and of course for our much-loved summer and winter events. Healthy at work: We support you with Urban Sports Club, life coaching programs, and additional offerings to help you stay fit and stress-free in your daily work. Dog-Friendly Headquarters: Your four-legged friend is welcome in the office —bring your dog to work! And more: 20% contribution to your company pension plan, access to our attractive corporate benefits portal, and lots of fun – “Spark joy together” is one of our core company values for a reason. Art der Beschäftigung Full-time, 40 hours, permanent Lust Teil des Teams zu werden? We look forward to receiving your application! At our company, everyone is welcome - regardless of gender, gender identity, disability, ethnic background, nationality, religion, belief, age, or sexual orientation. What matters most is that you’re a great fit for our team.

Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world’s fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities—specifically our Process Intelligence Graph—to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Team: The Business Development team, located right in the center of Madrid is the growth engine of Celonis. We are curious, ambitious and driven to build a generational tech company that will transform the way companies run their processes. Want to learn more about how your first role after the internship could look like? Have a look here . The Role: As an essential member of the Business Development Team at Celonis, you will support and work alongside an diverse & international team Sales team. You will engage in account research as well as strategic prospecting with a heavy focus on cold calling. Your Career Growth: • Great pathway into Full-time BDR roles through the program. The internship program targets high potential (future) graduates & is our standard path into full-time BDR roles without previous full time experience. • Structured 2-week onboarding process to learn the essentials of Tech Sales • Weekly coaching sessions with Management, mentoring by Senior BDR • Real-life exposure to BDR role with dedicated target accounts & monthly targets • Opportunity to quickly take ownership by calling into senior management of prospects from week 3 The Work You'll Do: • Align focus accounts with account team • Identify & source key influencers & decision makers within target companies • Prospect into prioritized accounts via cold calls, emails and social strategies • Initiate sales opportunities by setting up qualified meetings for Account Executives • Accompany sourced opportunities through the sales cycle • Present and report your progress to Sales leaders to ensure and produce growth results The Qualifications You Need: • Student of Business Administration or a comparable program • Work in a structured manner & fast learner • Ability to listen very well, be an excellent communicator • Exceptional organizational and planning skills within a fast-paced sales environment • Be curious and have a long-term interest in building a career in Sales • Native (or equivalent) proficiency in Dutch is a must. Other European languages are a plus . • For this role, you bring at least 6 months of full-time availability staring FEBRUARY 2027. • Nice to have: • First experience in a Sales-related role • First proficiency with Sales tools such as Salesforce, Hubspot, SalesNavigator, SalesLoft etc • First experience in account research, planning as well as prospecting & cold calling What Celonis can offer you: • Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations. • Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants. • Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment. • Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration. • Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform. • Holistic Well-being: Prioritize your health with subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance. • Drive Sustainability: Participate in annual Impact Days, where you receive paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes with your local office, or virtually. • Global Inclusion & Belonging: Find community through our Inclusion Think Tank and participate in our annual Inclusion Days, ensuring every voice is heard and valued. • Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where our core values—Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future—drive every decision. About Us: Celonis makes processes work — for people, companies, and the planet. Powered by process mining and AI, the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform integrates process data and business context to create a living digital twin of business operations. We enable thousands of companies worldwide to understand how their business actually runs and, together with …

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates in the UK, Spain, Germany or Sweden. What is Grafana Cloud? Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. In this role, you will be part of the team that designs, builds, and scales our Cloud Observability product suite, providing customers with the ability to collect, visualize, analyze, and understand metrics and logs data from hundreds of cloud provider services. This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences. We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by contributing to projects such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla. The Observability department provides a core building block for customers using Grafana Cloud. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. We are looking for engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities. About Grafana Labs There are more than 950,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces). At Grafana Labs, our engineers have a dedicated career path and do not have to become managers to progress in their career. Senior Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas. They are able to estimate, plan, coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems. They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes. Key Responsibilities You will bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take our infrastructure monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working with our Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions. • Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications • Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions • When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working …

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! What this job can offer you • The opportunity to shape the future direction of Remote’s global payroll products • Strategic ownership of how compliance requirements are translated into scalable product capabilities • Direct influence over product roadmap decisions, regulatory readiness, and market expansion initiatives • Partnership with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Payroll Operations • The ability to build compliance-by-design principles into products used by customers around the world • A high-impact leadership role that helps transform compliance into a strategic business advantage What you bring Product Strategy & Compliance Expertise • Deep understanding of global payroll, employment, tax, and labor compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions • Experience translating complex regulatory requirements into scalable product capabilities, business requirements, and operational processes • Strong understanding of payroll technology, product development lifecycles, and compliance-by-design principles • Ability to balance regulatory obligations with customer experience, automation, and commercial objectives • Experience supporting global payroll products in highly regulated environments Leadership & Organizational Development • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams within Compliance, Product Compliance, Payroll, or related functions • Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities with a track record of building team capability and future leaders • Experience establishing strategic priorities, operating models, and governance frameworks • Ability to drive alignment and execution across multiple workstreams and stakeholders • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments Strategic Thinking & Risk Management • Ability to assess complex regulatory requirements and determine practical, scalable implementation approaches • Experience developing long-term strategies that support business growth while maintaining regulatory compliance • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with a risk-based mindset • Ability to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and risks that may impact product strategy • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and navigating competing priorities Stakeholder Management & Communication • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex regulatory concepts into clear business recommendations • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Legal, Operations, and Executive stakeholders • Strong facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills • Ability to build trust and credibility across technical, operational, and leadership audiences • Comfortable presenting strategic recommendations and regulatory insights to senior leadership Key Responsibilities • Lead the Product Strategy & Compliance Function • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Product Compliance Leads and compliance specialists responsible for supporting global payroll products • Establish team priorities, operating models, and development plans that enable scalable support across multiple products and jurisdictions • Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Build organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, and knowledge-sharing initiatives • Ensure the team remains a trusted partner to Product, Operations, and Legal stakeholders Define and Drive Product Compliance Strategy • Execute the strategic vision for Product Strategy & Compliance across Remote's global payroll platform • Establish frameworks and governance models that ensure compliance requirements are consistently incorporated throughout the product lifecycle • Create scalable approaches for managing legislative change, product readiness, and regulatory implementation across multiple countries • Partner with Product Leadership to align compliance priorities with broader product strategy and business objectives • Drive initiatives that improve compliance coverage, …

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. • Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Major Account Executive, you will own a portfolio of our largest most strategic customers and prospects in Germany, helping them get the most value from GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll break into net new enterprise accounts and expand GitLab’s footprint within existing customers, using a consultative approach to understand their business needs and guide successful adoption and expansion of GitLab. You’ll work closely with pre- and post-sales teams and strategic channel partners to drive full-cycle sales, from prospecting and qualification through rollout, usage, and long-term growth, while acting as the voice of your customers by feeding their feedback and product ideas into GitLab’s public issue tracker. Responsibilities • Manage and support GitLab’s major account/(s) • Manage the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Solutions Architects, Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Marketing, Executives, Partners, and the Channel. • Leverage solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential in order to build a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers. • Has a deep understanding of the customer, including an understanding of their performance metrics and develops plans in anticipation of the customer’s business strategies and goals. • Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company • Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses. • Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team • Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process • Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in major accounts • Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales engineering and support resources • Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs. • Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs. Requirements • Experience selling into highly complex organizations • Demonstrated consistent results and overachievement of quota • Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to C-Level executives. • Experience with solutions selling and positioning value to customers based on their needs. • Deep understanding of with Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management • You share our values , and work in accordance with those values. • Ability to use GitLab • Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the …