Top Senior Level Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads internal communications for enterprise priorities, organizational change, M&A integrations, organizational updates, and People programs. Develops employee messaging, FAQs, presentations, manager toolkits, intranet content, and leadership communications. Manages communication plans, timelines, stakeholders, approvals, and multiple workstreams while anticipating employee concerns, synthesizing feedback, and advising leaders on communication risks and solutions.

Leads space vehicle architecture and systems engineering for new business pursuits, including architecture trades, requirements definition, customer engagement, proposals, technical baselines, design reviews, and transition to execution. Provides technical leadership across spacecraft subsystems, supports capture teams, develops engineering documentation, manages risks, coaches systems engineers, and collaborates with customers, partners, and cross-functional teams.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of real-time space vehicle simulators in hardware-in-the-loop and software-only environments. Defines requirements, architectures, interfaces, and validation approaches; makes technical decisions; guides simulator development teams; and performs full software lifecycle activities. Develops containerized simulation services using Podman or Docker and applies Agile, GitLab, coding standards, and DevSecOps practices. Requires aerospace systems expertise, simulation experience, and an active Top Secret clearance.

Leads spacecraft bus or subsystem projects from concept through hardware delivery, managing cost, schedule, technical requirements, risks, suppliers, customer relationships, and cross-functional engineering teams. The role develops estimates and schedules, monitors earned value and performance, supports procurements and logistics, produces technical documentation, and presents to customers and leadership. It is approximately 70% project management and 30% technical work.

Design, build, and operate Cloudflare’s globally distributed cache and reverse-proxy data plane. Responsibilities include improving Pingora-based asynchronous systems, cache performance and correctness, purge and Tiered Cache services, APIs, observability, reliability, and production operations. The role owns features end to end, including design, implementation, testing, staged rollouts, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

Leads customer-facing technical discovery, architecture, demonstrations, evaluations, proofs of value, and technical close for Cloudflare One solutions. Advises enterprise customers on Zero Trust, SASE, secure connectivity, WAN transformation, AI security, and related technologies. Partners with sales, product, engineering, support, and customers to drive successful evaluations, communicate business value, create reusable technical assets, and provide feedback for product improvement.

Own end-to-end network reliability across data centers, AWS, and GCP, including routing, switching, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, VPNs, circuits, and cross-connects. Automate network configuration with Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, CI validation, and IPAM. Engineer failover, observability, security hardening, client connectivity, and Kubernetes ingress while participating in an interrupt-contained on-call rotation.

Own the durability, recoverability, performance, and security of a production PostgreSQL/RDS fleet supporting a live trading platform. Lead replication, failover, backup and restore, disaster-recovery drills, data lifecycle management, access control, encryption, and database observability. Investigate engine-level performance issues including WAL contention, replica lag, bloat, and locking. Build infrastructure and AI-assisted operational tooling while documenting runbooks and reliability decisions.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Manage and grow a portfolio of strategic accounting firm partners for Gusto Pro. Responsibilities include account planning, QBRs, partner acquisition, renewals, upsells, contract negotiation, enablement, product adoption, executive relationship management, pipeline reporting, and cross-functional product feedback. The role requires frequent partner engagement, AI-enabled workflows, CRM and sales software experience, and travel to partner meetings and industry events.

Own GTM operating rhythms, route-to-market planning, OKRs, forecasts, and business reviews. Lead complex cross-functional programs, fiscal-year planning, performance analysis, and growth initiatives across sales, marketing, partnerships, finance, and product. Design AI-augmented workflows, automation patterns, and AI agents to scale operations. Drive execution, change leadership, and strategic alignment across Gusto’s GTM organization.

Lead quantitative UX research across R&D, shaping high-stakes product investments and AI experience decisions. Develop psychometric frameworks, surveys, segmentation, usability benchmarks, pricing research, and statistical models. Partner with Data Science to integrate behavioral and attitudinal data, establish scalable research standards, mentor researchers, and enable non-researchers to conduct rigorous studies. The role requires executive-level influence, expertise in AI-powered products, and hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python, and Qualtrics.

Develop high-performance, accessible, responsive user interfaces using React and Storybook. Collaborate with designers, product owners, and engineers to build reusable design-system components, write secure maintainable code, participate in code reviews, lead cross-team initiatives, document processes, and improve systems through refactoring and testing.

Build scalable, API-first platform capabilities through manifest-driven development. Develop Java and Kotlin backend services and Python workers for third-party integrations, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in architecture reviews, and troubleshoot production systems using logs, metrics, and traces. The role requires expertise in highly scalable systems, object-oriented design, REST services, relational databases, responsive messaging, caching, and software quality practices.

Develop and scale Java and Kotlin backend services powering vulnerability detection, CVE correlation, risk prioritization, and remediation workflows across millions of endpoints. Design high-availability distributed systems, implement scalable data structures and APIs, contribute production code, and uphold rigorous testing and quality standards. Collaborate with product and detection teams to improve vulnerability remediation speed.

Lead tax information reporting and withholding compliance across domestic and international frameworks, including FATCA, CRS, CARF, DAC7, and U.S. tax rules. Advise product teams on digital asset reporting, oversee tax documentation, withholding, remittance, and annual filings, and partner with technology and operations teams on automated workflows. Lead audits, risk remediation, policy updates, regulatory monitoring, and business requirements development for tax systems.

Owns IT financial planning, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, month-end reporting, cost allocation, and variance analysis across capital and operating expenses. The role develops TBM showback and chargeback models, evaluates technology investments, creates KPI scorecards, manages vendor commitments, reconciles accounts, and provides predictive modeling to reduce financial risk. It also uses AI and automation to improve forecasting and identify cost-saving opportunities while partnering with IT leaders and executives.

Lead enterprise-wide employee assessment, selection, development, and survey strategies. Design scientifically valid tools, manage employee voice programs, advise HR and executives on interpreting talent data, and facilitate action planning. Integrate assessments into hiring, leadership development, succession planning, and high-potential programs. Monitor industrial-organizational psychology trends, ensure ethical and legally compliant testing, and translate insights into organizational improvements.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s AI-driven search experience. Lead conversational search, personalization, semantic and multilingual search, ranking, and discovery improvements. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, marketing, and partnerships teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Use experimentation, market analysis, KPIs, and customer insights to improve conversion, merchandising, learner experience, and revenue.