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519 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

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📍 British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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From C$107K/yr

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Location Details: At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ Remote: This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. About the Team Global Compute builds and operates the core cloud infrastructure that engineering teams rely on every day. We provision and manage AWS accounts across the company, operate the network backbone that connects them, and maintain the security guardrails that keep those environments safe, compliant, and scalable. We believe reliability is an engineering challenge, not an operations task. We automate repetitive work, build for scale before it becomes a problem, and invest heavily in observability to identify issues before they impact the business. What you'll get to do... Operate and scale AWS production infrastructure, owning the health of services that provision, secure, and manage accounts across GoDaddy AWS organisations. Design, build, and maintain cloud platform capabilities using Python, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and automation-first practices. Drive cost optimisation initiatives that improve efficiency and deliver measurable business impact. Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational tooling. Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response efforts, and drive long-term reliability improvements through blameless post-incident reviews. Support strategic AWS initiatives across networking, identity, governance, and multi-account architecture. Review code and designs, contribute documentation and operational runbooks, and mentor fellow engineers. Leverage AI-assisted tooling to improve engineering productivity, accelerate automation, and reduce operati

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📍 Huntington Beach, Canada
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Principal Electro-Optical Infrared Design, Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is seeking a Principal Electro-Optical Infrared Design, Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer (Level 6) for a satellite development program in Huntington Beach or El Segundo, California. This position will lead a team of engineers, analysts and staff within the Space and Missile Systems (SMS) and Boeing Technology and Innovation (BTI) Mission Systems organizations in the development, assembly, integration, and test of a constellation of satellites. The SMS and BTI organizations develop and capture technology for designing disruptive Mission Systems solutions. Focused on visible and infrared spectrum Electro-Optics Infrared (EO/IR) sensors operating in Space and Air domains, our growing team is leaping ahead of our competition with an exceptional mix of mission architectures, sensor designs, and algorithms for advanced image and data processing. Position Responsibilities: Drives technical excellence throughout all Optical Sensor development activities Troubleshoots sensor design and integration issues with the telescope and sensor focal plane Provides technical leadership to SMS and BTI sensor teams Serves as the primary technical interface with the EO/IR suppliers Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Works closely with program manager, program chief engineer, and other Boeing teams Ensure mission success and prompt resolution of anomalies Provides mentoring and coaching to Optical Sensor Engineers and Technicians Performs Technical Lead Engi

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.5M/yr

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About the Team At DoorDash, we’re reimagining how people connect with the things they need — whether it’s a meal, a grocery run, and anything in between. Our audiences — Consumers, Dashers, and Merchants — are at the heart of everything the Design org builds. Our content design team plays a big part in this, with each content designer shaping the experience and bringing our vision to life through clear, thoughtful language that makes our three-sided marketplace easier, faster, and more human. About the Role We’re looking for a full stack UX Design Engineer to be the technical backbone of our global Content Design org and leader who builds the platforms, tooling, and ML systems that make world-class, localized product content effortless across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. You’ll work at the intersection of design and engineering to build content tooling and embed LLM-driven workflows into product experiences. You’ll accelerate content design AI tooling so that CD’s can focus on the highest leverage strategic work, while your tools enable product designers and cross functional partners to ship high-quality content faster across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. You're excited about this opportunity because... Design and build internal content tools that: Help PMs and designers generate, manage, localize, and deploy product content at scale. Plug custom GPTs and other LLMs into everyday product workflows for content iteration and improvements. Own full-stack development of these tools: Build and maintain frontend experiences using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript. Design and implement backend services and APIs (e.g., Kotlin/Java) to support content tooling, experimentation, and automation. Integrate tooling with experimentation and infra: Embed content tools into A/B testing platforms so teams can test and ship variants with minimal engineering dependency. Build pipelines from variant generation → experiment → automated deployment of winners. Operationalize

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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 seeking a Staff Design Program Manager for the Global Growth organization. Design Foundations is the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization — the systems, standards, and processes that every product team depends on. This role sits at the center of that work, owning program management across Product Design, UXR, Content Design, and AI tooling. Design Program Managers are strategic partners with design leads, leading and driving the design work forward everyday. You will work across teams to shepherd and manage the delivery of design and customer experiences to completion. You’re a strong strategic thinker, you can execute the small tasks well, and you take a creative approach to operational challenges. You’re savvy at connecting the dots, and being a trusted partner to cross functional peers at Lyft. You’ll be a leader within the design organization and an advocate for the Design+ team and the design process. Responsibilities: Own roadmap and execution for projects end-to-end Drive program management for the Global Growth design team Shape and document workflows and processes that make the team faster and more effective Partner with design, engineering, marketing, legal, and product to scope work, set timelines, and manage delivery Build and maintain visibility into project health, team utilization, and priorities for design leadership Lead planning and prioritization across cross-functional teams — balancing competing inputs without losing sight of the goal Facilitate design reviews, retros, and planning sessions Bring AI fluency to program management work — use tools like Figma, Jira, and AI assistants to accelerate your own workflow, and help the team adopt new tools effectively Experience: 7+ years in design program management, product design, or a relevant design industry role

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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C$107.4K – C$155.7K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Product Design Engineer at HP IQ, you’ll work at the intersection of creativity, engineering, and design to develop groundbreaking devices that redefine how people interact with technology. You’ll collaborate closely with industrial designers, hardware engineers, and interaction designers to transform ideas into functional prototypes and production-ready designs. From 3D CAD modeling and hands-on prototyping to engineering analysis and design validation, you’ll help solve complex mechanical challenges and drive designs from early concepts toward production. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful engineering work while learning from an experienced, multidisciplinary team and contributing to products that push the boundaries of what’s possible. What You Might Do Design mechanical parts, components, and assemblies for new consumer devices using 3D CAD (NX) Create detailed 2D engineering drawings, define specifications and tolerances, and work closely with overseas vendor partners to ensure accuracy and quality Design and run experiments, applying engineering ana

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📍 Canada· Full-time
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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 Web Presence and Platform is organized into two pillars, each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripe's public mission. The Presence pillar creates industry-leading designs for Stripe's front door surfaces, educating customers about the power of our platform, sharing Stripe's ideas and expertise with the public, and driving adoption. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces, and is responsible for making our websites fast, stable, and easy to update. Together we design and build stripe.com and other sites that amount to what is, for many, their first impression of Stripe. As such, WPP offers exciting opportunities to have a major impact on Stripe's success. We want to make every pixel count, we want it to be enthralling, and we want to help other Stripes seamlessly benefit from our systematic work. What you'll do As a Design Engineer you will concept, prototype, and build new experiences for our web presence. You'll bring your creativity and expertise to the full range of the Stripe brand, across evergreen pages as well as time-based campaigns. You'll both utilize and contribute to our libraries and design systems, and, when appropriate, work outside established systems to create new digital moments. You'll constantly have in-browser performance in mind, and create abstractions that other designers and engineers consume and build upon. All Design Engineers in WPP have a sha

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$175K – $210K/yr

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As Sigma scales its global footprint, the Sales Engineering (SE) organization is the technical engine driving our GTM motion. We are looking for a Strategy and Operations Lead, SE to partner directly with our VP of SE and serve as the operational bedrock for this critical organization. Operating within our broader GTM Strategy & Operations team, you will own the global operating rhythm, operational infrastructure, and capacity planning for the entire SE organization. You will drive strategy across a highly matrixed, global environment. You are part strategist, part builder, and part operator - responsible for ensuring our pre-sales motion scales seamlessly. What You Will Do Drive Business Reporting & the SE Operating Rhythm: Own the cadence of the SE organization. Design and execute regular business reviews and leverage Sigma to build robust, real-time reporting that gives the VP of SE crystal-clear visibility into technical pipeline health, team utilization, and conversion metrics. Optimize Funnel Mechanics & Deal Acceleration: Deep dive into the pre-sales funnel to identify where deals stall during technical validation. Partner with SE leadership to optimize the Proof of Concept (POC) lifecycle, remove friction, and accelerate the technical win. Lead Global Headcount & Capacity Planning: Serve as the SE representative in cross-functional GTM planning cycles. Own end-to-end global SE capacity requirements, design territory allocation frameworks, and manage annual headcount planning seamlessly across AMER, EMEA, and APAC. Build Solutions in Sigma: Leverage Sigma itself to build robust operational solutions, designing the dashboards, data models, and workflows needed for POC tracking, capacity management, and performance visibility. Act as the Cross-Functional Hub: Represent the SE organization in all major GTM Strategy & Operations initiatives. Serve as the connective tissue between SE, Sales, Product, and RevOps, ensuring SE requir

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As Director, People Partners for Product, Design & Engineering (PDE), you'll be partnering with the leaders that are responsible for the teams building Figma and leading a team of highly skilled People Partners. You'll operate as a trusted advisor - coaching, challenging, and guiding the organization through rapid growth, reorganization, and change. As a member of the People team, you’ll partner closely with all of our People functions to build a best in class people function. If you’re energized by ambiguity, adept at building deep relationships, and excited to shape what great People Partnering looks like at Figma, we’d love to hear from you! This is a full time role held from our San Francisco hub. What you'll do at Figma: Serve as the strategic People Partner to Figma’s CTO and Chief Design Officer, building the credibility and trust to influence how they lead, organize, and grow their teams Lead and develop a talented team of People Partners across the Product, Design and Engineering organizations Lead and execute our People Programs such as org design, resource management, performance, and change management through periods of rapid scaling, reorganization, and shifting priorities Drive the core people cycles for your orgs across performance, calibration, talent reviews, succession planning while raising the bar on quality and consistency Partner across the People function and our cross functional partners to help execute the People strategy across the PDE organization Use data and insi

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$1.4M/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 Safety and Customer Care (SCC) team at Lyft manages over 1.7 million monthly human and AI interactions and serves as Lyft's primary direct touchpoint with riders and drivers. We handle critical infrastructure that powers both human associates and AI agents to make riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable while riding or driving with Lyft, transforming every support interaction into a moment of genuine connection. Agentic AI is at the center of how we scale that mission. We fine-tune and align open-source models, build AI-powered support agents, and develop end-to-end AI agents for safety case management, systems that reason over complex, high-stakes cases and drive them to resolution. SCC brings together ML, data, backend, and product engineers alongside data scientists and operations partners to transform these systems. As a Machine Learning Engineer on the SCC team, you will fine-tune and align models and build AI Agents that power how riders and drivers get help. Your work spans the full loop: post-training open-source models for our domain, composing them into multi-step agents, and building the evaluation that proves they are safe to ship in a customer-facing, safety-critical setting. Post-train and adapt open-source LLMs for SCC use cases using SFT, LoRA, and preference-tuning methods (RLHF, RLAIF, RLVR). Design and build AI-powered support agents and end-to-end agents for safety case management using LangGraph or equivalent agentic frameworks. Own the evaluation data flywheel, offline and online, that defines what "good" looks like and build benchmarks for the team to hill-climb. Turn interaction feedback into training data and learning signals, closing the data flywheel that continuously improves the models. Responsibilities: Conduct literature review and build post-training fra

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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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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -76.2%
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team of bold thinkers and sharp problem-solvers who are wired to make an impact. The Ops Platform organization develops internal platforms that replace repetitive manual processes with AI-driven systems. These tools support key areas such as Fraud Operations, Account Operations, Financial Crimes Operations, and Retirement Services. The team works closely with product, data science, and operations partners to deliver reliable systems that improve decision-making and efficiency! As a Software Developer, you will design and build platforms that enable operational teams to investigate and resolve issues more quickly and accurately. You will work with large datasets and signals to create tooling that supports fraud investigation and other operational workflows. You will collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to translate manual processes into automated systems. Your work will focus on improving system reliability, reducing operational effort, and increasing the speed at which new products and features can be supported across Robinhood’s offerings. This role is based in our Toronto, ON office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. What you’ll do You will define technical direction and make architectural decisions for systems that support operational workflows across multiple product lines You will build tools that proces

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📍 Menlo Park, CA· Full-time
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Load and Fault team sits within Robinhood's Developer Infrastructure organization, with a mission to give every engineering team the tools they need to test their services under real-world conditions before those conditions test them in production. We build the platforms and frameworks that enable load testing, fault injection, and resilience validation at scale — treating reliability as a developer productivity problem, not just an operations one. Our work directly raises the quality bar for every service Robinhood ships, and we partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to make resilience testing a seamless part of the development workflow. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Load and Fault Environments team, you will design and build the infrastructure that lets Robinhood's engineers simulate load, inject faults, and validate system behavior under stress — at the scale of a fast-growing financial platform. You'll own meaningful components of the load testing and fault injection platform, write production-quality code, and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to ensure the tooling you build gets adopted and drives real

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📍 Toronto, ON, CA· Full-time
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest is the world's leading visual search and discovery platform, serving over 500 million monthly active users globally on their journey from inspiration to action. As we scale experiences in a complicated ecosystem, ensuring they are safe, fair, and trustworthy is paramount. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help lead Pinterest's Trust and Safety mandate by designing the foundations for measuring the prevalence of unsafe content across the platform. In this role, you will design and build sampling frameworks, complex data aggregations, and measurement methodologies to track Trust & Safety policy violations across complex, multi-component user interactions. You will work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, partnering with ML Engineers, Trust & Safety Ops, subject matter expert teams, and Product

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