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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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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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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$2M/yr

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About the Role: As a Staff Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with the Machine Learning and Product teams to build world-class machine learning inference platforms. These platforms power essential services like personalized recommendations, search, and content understanding across Tubi. A core responsibility of this team is developing and maintaining low-latency ML model serving systems that support Deep Learning, LLM, and Search models. This involves building self-service infrastructure and critical components such as the inference engine, feature store, vector store, and experimentation engine. You will improve the way we deploy and operate our services and even contribute to open-source projects. This role grants the architectural freedom to explore new frameworks, lead critical cross-functional projects, and transform the capabilities of our ML and Product teams. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable, high throughput, and low latency distributed systems using Scala Build reusable components and services that serve various ML applications like Personalization, Search, Ads and Exploration Partner closely with ML engineers to understand their challenges and limitations and develop scalable solutions to address them. Proactively recommend solutions to keep our ML Inference stack state of the art. Take a data driven approach to identifying & optimizing latency, cost, and efficiency of our infra. Lead large scale cross functional refactorings if necessary Mentor other engineers on the team on system design, effective incident management, interviewing, leveraging LLMs for work, etc. Collaborate with ML, Product, and cross functional engineering teams to define the long term vision and architecture for ML Infrastructure at Tubi. Your Background: Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems in any modern backend language (e.g., Scala, Java, Python, Go, C++); experience with Scala or JVM b

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$198K – $299K/yr

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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. The Developer Experience (DX) team at Amplitude builds and maintains the foundations that power how developers integrate, extend, and trust Amplitude across platforms. Our mission is to make Amplitude’s SDKs reliable, easy to adopt, and a joy to build on, so customers can confidently instrument their products and unlock insights at scale. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, iOS to play a key technical leadership role on our DevEx team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of Amplitude’s core iOS SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay , and serve as the iOS platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Statsig, Guides, and Surveys rely on. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the iOS platform, driving cross-SDK architecture, improving performance and reliabilit

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. About the Team DevX owns engineering velocity at Amplitude: build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. We're building a software factory: automated workflows that remove manual bottlenecks from how engineers ship code. The Role We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – San Francisco) who bridges infrastructure and application thinking and can accelerate how the whole team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud. You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead our software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud-first workflows. This is a high-leverage, low-oversight role. You'll own initiatives end to end, from an ambiguous problem to production, and set technical direction for a foundational team. What You'll Do Cloud development platform: Unify and scale our existing loca

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $210K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role We're seeking an experienced Senior Optimization Engineer to join our Data Science Team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of optimization models that power our software platform across applications including electricity markets, renewable energy, and battery energy storage systems. You will be responsible for developing production-grade optimization engines that solve complex operational and planning problems at scale. This role requires deep expertise in mathematical optimization, strong software engineering skills in Python, and experience building optimization models that integrate with production systems. The ideal candidate has significant experience in the energy industry, particularly electricity markets and battery storage optimization. This position emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of complex optimization projects, and collaboration across engineering, product, and commercial teams to deliver high-impact optimization solutions. Key Res

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$230K – $270K/yr

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Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. As we grow the engineering team, we are looking for engineering leaders who want to build great products, devising product development, prioritization and execution strategy as well as developing a strong team providing career development, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, developing promotion cases, and other managerial responsibilities. About the role: We are looking for a self motivated, engineering leader eager to lead engineering teams with high performing engineers. You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and support your teams to deliver incrementally against our roadmap. What you will be doing: Collaborate with cross-functional groups, executive team, field teams to devise business impact product strategy Enable the team to realize their potential and set them for achieving their career development goals Own execution and delivery of roadmaps, to help setup the business and your team for success Partner with the staffing team to recruit and build performing team Instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability within the team wherein members hold each other to a high bar Participate in discussions pertaining to the architecture and implementation techniques to represent, translate and optimize user directives into optimized queries You: Love working with world-class engineers, product managers, and architects to solve complex problems and enable business impact Have 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years of people management experience Are opinionated and have great product sense make data driven decisions when unblocking the business Have hired, and developed high performing engineering teams Are curious, love to learn and to dig into new technologies to apply them when solving technical challenges Have demonstrated strong technical architecture and engineering skil

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $182K/yr

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At Scale, we develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. Scale’s product marketing team is responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness and engagement for Scale’s offerings amongst our core audiences. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers’ needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We partner closely with product, engineering, research, sales, comms, and the broader marketing team to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. We aim to provide valuable insights and resources that help our customers execute on their AI transformation journey. This role will focus on developing and optimizing vertical-specific messaging and content for Scale’s applications business to ensure our messaging resonates with core buyers across verticals. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You will: Develop clear, compelling messaging for enterprise offerings tailored to key personas within target verticals Create marketing assets, including slide decks, videos, blog posts, and one-pagers, that effectively communicate our value propositions to vertical leaders and support our sales team’s pursuits Lead positioning and sales enablement efforts to drive awareness and engagement for Scale’s offerings. Drive cross-functional marketing programs around target verticals, in conjunction with product, engineering, sales, and growth marketing to create a cohesive customer experience and contribute to pipeline targets Collaborate with field marketing and events teams to develop vertical-specific event strategies, content, and experiences that drive engagement within customer and target accounts Drive customer marketing efforts, creating both strategy and tactics to maximize the value Scale and customers get from our shared success, including case studies, testimonials, visual assets and event particip

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $290.4K/yr

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Scale's LLM post-training platform team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training. The platform powers MLEs, researchers, data scientists, and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLMs. It also serves as the underlying training framework for the data quality evaluation pipeline. Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely with Scale’s ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform which supports all our ML research and development works. You will be building and optimizing the platform to enable our next generation LLM training, inference and data curation. If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you! You will: Build, profile and optimize our training and inference framework. Collaborate with ML and research teams to accelerate their research and development, and enable them to develop the next generation of models and data curation. Research and integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize our ML system. Ideally you’d have: Passionate about system optimization Experience with multi-node LLM training and inference Experience with developing large-scale distributed ML systems Experience with post-training methods like RLHF/RLVR and related algorithms like PPO/GRPO etc. Strong software engineering skills, proficient in frameworks and tools such as CUDA, Pytorch, transformers, flash attention, etc. Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment. Nice to haves: Demonstrated expertise in post-training methods and/or next generation use cases for large language models including instruction tuning, RLHF, tool use, reasoning, agents, and multimodal, etc. Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity,

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.6M/yr

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About the Team Come help us build and develop tools serving hundreds of engineers internally! We’re looking for a Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Developer Insights team. About the Role Our mission is to improve the developer experience of engineers at DoorDash by building various internal products, including our internal developer portal, Developer Insights. Our success as a platform team depends on the success of the product teams we serve. Because of this, we invest in building a strong community that encourages participation and promotes best practices. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Introduce cutting edge technologies to our engineering organization, including tools built on LLMs Build new features for Developer Insights (using Backstage.io) Improve the developer experience for all of our engineers Work and collaborate across team boundaries. Contribute features and bug fixes to upstream open-source projects. Mentor and educate your peers. Lead the team in a technical fashion and assist in roadmap planning and measurement of existing features. Represent the team at large in OKR and engineering all-hands presentations. Context switch from frontend to backend to data depending on the need that arises. We’re excited about you because… You have at least 2 years of experience in web technologies using Typescript with React on the frontend with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go backend experience. You have a product mindset and apply that to how you would build out platform services. You love systems and software, and you're proficient in both. You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures. You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator. You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Compensation The successful candidate’s starti

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Merchant (Mx) AI/ML team is a cornerstone of DoorDash’s merchant organization. We empower our restaurant partners to thrive on DoorDash by building intelligent, scalable AI systems that simplify operations, elevate their digital presence, and enhance customer engagement. Our world-class machine learning engineers develop production-grade AI solutions that power the entire merchant lifecycle — from onboarding and store setup to menu management, growth, and real-time order operations. The team is deeply customer-obsessed and impact-driven, focused on turning cutting-edge research in LLMs, multimodal learning, generative AI, and agentic automation into products that make our merchants more successful every day. About the Role We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Mx AI/ML team, driving the design and deployment of next-generation AI product solutions that power our merchant experiences. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role — you’ll collaborate with product, design, operations, and data science teams to define the AI roadmap, guide technical direction, and deliver end-to-end AI/ML solutions at massive scale. You’ll lead a team of talented ML engineers who are building real AI products delivered to merchants’ fingertips, helping them become more successful on DoorDash. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and grow a team of exceptional AI/ML engineers developing production-grade machine learning and generative AI solutions for the merchant ecosystem. Define a multi-year strategy and execute the AI roadmap across key Mx pillars — Onboarding, Menu Media Understanding & Generation, Menu Metadata Intelligence, and Agentic Task Automation. Partner with product and operations to translate merchant pain points into scalable AI-powered solutions. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML systems — from ideation and experimentation to productionization and continuous improvement. Drive innovation in multimodal AI

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer ne

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$102K/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. Data is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. You will leverage data and rigorous, analytical thinking to shape our products and make business decisions. This will involve performing rigorous product deep dives, identifying opportunities for product enhancements, and measuring the impact of product changes. The Airports team, within the Driver organization, focuses on the airport marketplace and the unique products designed for this use case. Airports are one of the most important, impactful, and complex parts of Lyft’s Rideshare business, as they are a key part of both the rider and driver Lyft experience and have unique dynamics. As an Analytics Lead on the Airport team, you will collaborate with our team of engineers, product managers, and designers to conduct thorough data deep dives on airport performance, challenge our current strategy, and recommend enhancements to facilitate market growth. The ideal candidate can apply strong business acumen to propose product and marketplace changes, and is comfortable working with a highly cross functional team. In this role, you will help us tackle problems such as: How should we determine pricing and earnings for airport rides? Who are our current airport drivers and what segment can we focus on to grow our supply? How does this strategy interact with driver bonuses? Which airports are underperforming and which key metrics can we use to identify and classify airport performance? What targets should we set for these key metrics and how do we efficiently monitor these metrics? What is driving high cancellation rates today and which types of riders/drivers are cancelling? What product changes can we implement to reduce cancellation rates? How are riders and drivers using different ride modes at airports, and how do we design

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📍 Toronto, Canada
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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 Fulfillment group, in Marketplace, at Lyft is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and reliably fulfilling rider requests. The group has a few sub teams that are responsible for generating feasible offers for riders, connecting rider requests with drivers to fulfill those offers and a demand and supply lifecycle platform that power great rideshare experience. As a software engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other software engineers and cross functions like product, data science and analytics to lead and execute large projects from idea to efficient execution. We're looking for a motivated Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging technical problems and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative and cross-functional environment where they will take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing. Responsibilities: Contribute to the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Build Features from tech specification to positive execution Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags and tech talks Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience 3+ years of software engineering industry experience Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale di

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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$100K – $125K/yr

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About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role At Sentry, Support is an engineering discipline. Our customers are the greatest technical minds in the world—developers at elite enterprises building the future of software—and they deserve answers that go deeper than a knowledge base link. We are architecting the Technical Support engine . We’re looking for a veteran engineer to help us redefine the standard of technical support by combining deep human expertise with autonomous agentic systems. You are a debugger of both code and systems. You will treat support volume as a data signal to build automated resolution paths, ensuring our human engineers only touch the most complex, high-impact architectural puzzles. Sentry Support Engineers aren't just clearing queues; they are Orchestrators . You will engage with our users across GitHub, Discord, and our internal systems, while acting as the Technical Lead for our Agentic Ops. You ensure that when a developer asks a complex question, our systems have the right context and a seamless "Human-in-the-Loop" path to you when deep, nuanced expertise is required. In this role you will Master the Sentry Ecosystem & Support Elite Developers Deep-Dive Debugging: Perform root-cause analysis on complex issues and distributed tracing gaps across polyglot environments. Support the Great Minds: Act as a strategic consultant for senior engineers at our largest enterprise customers, solving high-stakes architectural challenges that push the boundaries of observability. Troubleshoot SDK Implementations: Go deep into the source code of Sentry’s SDKs to help developers instrument complex frameworks and custom environments. Engin

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -65.2%

From C$160K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Streaming Foundations team builds services and operates data pipeline infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale. In this high-impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come. What you’ll be doing Help set the technical direction for the team and influence the engineering roadmap for the Platform’s streaming capabilities Design and lead the implementation of our most complex and critical systems for data-intensive use cases. Research and champion new technologies and architectural patterns to solve strategic challenges and scale the platform. Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives, ensuring technical alignment and successful execution across multiple teams. Improve the operational posture of our systems by designing for observability, reliability, and scalability, and by mentoring others in operational best practices. Coach and mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across the engineering organization. Collaborate with different stakeholders like product teams whenever needed. What you’ll bring to our teams 7+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment Experience working with Golang or Java is preferred H

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