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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $240k - $270

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing high performance interactive experience to enable analytics and workflows use cases on top of modern warehouses Build software using the latest developer tools and using programming languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Typescript Develop new algorithms and techniques for improving the performance and interactivity for enabling analytics and workflows for the world largest companies Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user growth Collaborate with cross-functional groups - infrastructure, design, product, customer support, sales and marketing to build an innovative product capabilities Qualifications We Need 10+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience to enable customer facing cap

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing high performance interactive experience to enable analytics and workflows use cases on top of modern warehouses Build software using the latest developer tools and using programming languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Typescript Develop new algorithms and techniques for improving the performance and interactivity for enabling analytics and workflows for the world largest companies Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user growth Collaborate with cross-functional groups - infrastructure, design, product, customer support, sales and marketing to build an innovative product capabilities Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience to enable customer facin

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/yr

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Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability About the Role We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible. What You Will Be Doing Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time Qualifications We Need Strong Computer Science fundamentals 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software other engineers use You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building systems for data analytics Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills Knowledge of cloud application security models Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Startup experience Additional Job details Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize e

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $235K/yr

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About the Role Sigma Computing is redefining business intelligence by making complex data analysis accessible through a high-performance platform built for the modern data stack. The Compiler Team plays a foundational role in this mission by transforming user-driven spreadsheet interactions into highly optimized SQL queries, enabling seamless exploratory analytics on cloud data warehouses. As a member of the Compiler Team, you will join a group of engineers dedicated to building the core systems and abstractions that power Sigma’s intuitive spreadsheet interface, ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability for all users. What You Will Be Doing Tackle core challenges at the intersection of data modeling, query compilation, and large-scale interactive analytics—making it possible for end-users to query data warehouses efficiently without deep technical knowledge Design, build, and maintain sophisticated compiler infrastructure and intermediate representations that translate spreadsheet operations into optimized query plans Apply advanced optimization strategies to improve performance and accuracy across a wide range of query workloads and data architectures Contribute to both backend (Rust) and key frontend foundations (TypeScript), evolving critical abstractions that enable end-to-end workflow optimizations and new features Debug, analyze, and resolve complex issues, ensuring robustness and maintainability in a rapidly evolving product Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to review designs and code, driving technical best practices and architectural decisions throughout the team and company Qualifications We Need 5+ years experience engineering high-quality software systems Demonstrated success building and maintaining complex infrastructure or core platform services Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, particularly in compilers, algorithms, SQL Optimization Passion for teamwork, technical ownership, and continually

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. For 10 years, Scale has provided the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and has helped enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. Scale's internship is not a side project. Interns own real, shipped work on the same roadmaps as full-time engineers, with mentorship from world-class talent and a culture that values ownership, speed, and truth-seeking. Many of our interns return as full-time Scaliens. Example Projects Build reinforcement learning and post-training data pipelines that power frontier model development Develop evaluation infrastructure that measures model reliability for enterprise and public sector customers Ship agentic AI applications and the tooling that makes them observable, testable, and safe to deploy Ship tools that accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale's platform Build fraud-detection systems that remove bad actors and keep Scale's contributor base safe and trusted Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and contributors, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale Devise advanced matching algorithms that pair contributors to customers for optimal turnaround and accuracy Create optimized and efficient UI/UX tooling, in combination with ML algorithms, for 100k+ contributors completing billions of complex tasks Develop new AI infrastructure products to visualize, query, and explore Scale data Requirements A graduation date in Fall 2027 or Spring 2028 with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (Computer Science, EECS, Computer Engineering, Statistics) Available for a Summer 2027 internship (May/June start dates) in San Franci

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About the Team DoorDash is building the world’s most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery! We’re looking for machine learning engineer interns to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7 global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. About the Role As a Machine Learning Engineer intern at Doordash, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You’ll conduct research that can be applied across Doordash engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: Auction, Game theory, Recommender systems, Ranking, AdTech, Computer Vision, Causal Inference, and Big data analytics. We offer a 12-week summer internship program in our San Francisco, Sunnyvale, New York, or Seattle offices. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Use cutting-edge research in ML/AI, NLP, RecSys, Ranking, Computer Vision, Causal Inference, Ad Tech, Graph analysis to solve real-world problems across discovery, ads,forecasting, fulfillment and search experiences at Doordash. Contribute and execute on research ideas that can be applied and used to improve product experience at Doordash. Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and use these insights to build relevant ML models. Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code We’re excited about you because you… Are working towards a Masters degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field and are graduating between Fall 2027 & Summer 2028 Have a mastery of at least one systems languages (Java, C++, Python, Kotlin, GoLang) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow) Have experience in research and in solving analytical problems Are a strong communicator and team player. Have a passion for applied ML and the Doordash product Ideally have

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About the Team DoorDash is building the world’s most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery! We’re looking for machine learning engineer interns to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7 global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. About the Role As a Machine Learning Engineer intern at Doordash, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You’ll conduct research that can be applied across Doordash engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: Auction, Game theory, Recommender systems, Ranking, AdTech, Computer Vision, Causal Inference, and Big data analytics. We offer a 12-week summer internship program in our San Francisco, Sunnyvale, New York, or Seattle offices. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Use cutting-edge research in ML/AI, NLP, RecSys, Ranking, Computer Vision, Causal Inference, Ad Tech, Graph analysis to solve real-world problems across discovery, ads,forecasting, fulfillment and search experiences at Doordash. Contribute and execute on research ideas that can be applied and used to improve product experience at Doordash. Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and use these insights to build relevant ML models. Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code We’re excited about you because you… Are working towards a PhD degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field and are graduating between Fall 2027 & Summer 2028 Have a mastery of at least one systems languages (Java, C++, Python, Kotlin, GoLang) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow) Have experience in research and in solving analytical problems Are a strong communicator and team player. Have a passion for applied ML and the Doordash product Ideally have work

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring a backend software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We’re looking for Backend Engineers to work on both Product and Product Platform based teams in DoorDash Labs. Product focused Engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Design and implement backend services for IoT that integrates with core DoorDash data, focused on reliability, and future extensibility Create a well documented APIs for other departments to integrate with Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our development process Design and implement backend services for autonomous delivery system that integrate with core DoorDash data. We're excited about you because you have... B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer Experience with backend for frontend architecture Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of multiple system resources Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API’s, unit testing, and architectural design Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST) Experience with SQL Experience with either Java or Kotlin Nice to Have Experience with

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $121.6K/yr

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Scale’s Generative AI business unit is currently seeing historic levels of growth. As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL), you will leading initiatives that will drive $XXM+ in new revenue for the business. This is a demanding role, and as an SPL, you should be prepared to wear many hats such as Operator, Product Manager and customer-facing Engagement Manager. The ideal SPL should have a strong entrepreneurial mindset, be comfortable getting into the weeds, and be excited about intense, impactful work that leads to an accelerated career progression. You will: Lead cross-functional projects with diverse stakeholders (Engineering + Ops + Go-to-Market) Partner with product and engineering teams to enhance products to fulfill needs of strategic customers and initiatives Own the execution of our data labeling operations for strategic projects Give regular progress updates to Scale’s executive team Work on some of the most impactful problems at the company Ideally, you’d have: Strong technical background (a degree in computer science is ideal, and at minimum the role requires the ability to do data analytics using SQL or Python). 2+ years of experience leading a team, developing product or operational processes, or as a SWE. Strong problem solving capabilities (experience working on operational challenges or as a consultant is a plus). Entrepreneurial experience and mindset - you are excited about building things from scratch Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted e

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Consumer Engineering Team is responsible for helping consumers discover and order everything they love globally. Our work spans the entire consumer journey across homepage, search, store discovery, item exploration, checkout and post checkout. We aim to craft a hyper-personalized, delightful and frictionless experience for millions of our customers. About the Role As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Core Cx, you will set the personalization (P13n) strategy for the entire consumer shopping journey and bring that strategy to life. You will use our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to implement new ML solutions to make the consumer search experience more relevant, seamless, and delightful across restaurant, grocery, retail and all business at DoorDash . You will modernize the recommendation system leveraging AI. You will demonstrate a strong command of production level machine learning, experience with solving end-user problems, and collaborate well with multi-disciplinary teams. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive the engineering vision, strategy, and execution for an organization of 150+ Grow, build, and nurture impactful business-focused product engineering teams. Scale the team by developing leaders internally and attracting world-class talent Mentor and guide a fast-growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, working with various vendors in the space, and making judicious investments in the right areas anticipating what the company needs a few years down the road. Partner with Business, Product, and other Engineering teams to transform DoorDash from local commerce to agentic commerce We're excited about you because you have… B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. 10+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models with business impact, and shipping ML solutions to production. Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) in th

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is looking for an Engineering Manager from across multiple disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve, and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an Engineering Manager at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other teams and orgs, product managers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and operations on technology that empowers us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with specific verticals like your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution. As an Engineering Manager on the Rider vertical team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of supporting current projects and delivering new products from 0 to 1. This includes developing complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring engineering excellence to improve the rideshare experience. Responsibilities: Drive team execution, proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs. Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Marketing, Science, and Analytics) to define the team's strategic direction. Translate high-level business goals into actionable projects. Own a team roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Maintain operational excellence through contributing to best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes. Ensure technical excellence through architecture reviews, tech debt management, and engineering guidance. Maintain team health

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -74.4%
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. As an Engineering Manager on the Core Rider team, you will act as a critical technical leader in a highly visible area of the Rider Organization. Taking holistic ownership of our foundational systems and core rider functionality, you will be directly responsible for moving top-line business metrics and delivering a seamless rideshare experience. You will partner with multiple product managers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to develop complex systems, define strategic roadmaps, scale the product and infrastructure that powers how millions of riders request and experience their rides every day. Responsibilities: Drive team execution, proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs. Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Marketing, Science, and Analytics) to define the team's strategic direction. Translate high-level business goals into actionable projects. Own a team roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Maintain operational excellence through contributing to best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes. Ensure technical excellence through architecture reviews, tech debt management, and engineering guidance. Maintain team health by creating and refining team processes, fostering a supportive team culture, and managing resourcing. Develop team member careers by matching them with opportunities, setting clear expectations, and providing timely feedback. Build relationships across engineering teams to share learnings, align on standards, and identify collaboration opportunities. Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader community. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practic

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -74.4%

From $1.5M/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled M

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