Manager Software Engineering Salary Guide in San Francisco

About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will execute across the surfaces of our in-house Spark deployment that serves the entire company. The work spans Spark runtime upgrades and performance, multi-tenant scheduling and executor bin-packing on Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle automation, and the observability and incident automation that keep the platform sustainable. You will move between layers as the work demands — picking up the next high-leverage problem regardless of where it sits — and partner closely with the rest of the team and with platform consumers across the company. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and operate an in-house Spark platform that runs at company-wide scale, spanning runtime, scheduler, reliability, and user-facing tooling. Drive multi-tenant scheduling, executor bin-packing, and cost-aware placement that let a small team serve dozens of consumer teams. Own pieces of cluster lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, capacity changes, and node-failure handling — at a scale where these stop being manual events. Build the observability and incident automation that make the platform debuggable end-to-end and keep on-call sus

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 Infrastructure builds the systems engineers depend on to ship stable, scalable, and efficient services. We're hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to run cross-functional programs across our infrastructure and data platform teams. This role blends program delivery with product sense: you'll own the roadmap for your area, set priorities, and act as the voice of the customer back into how we build. Responsibilities Run infrastructure programs end to end, from kickoff through delivery Own the roadmap for your platform area: shape the strategy, sequence the work, and make the prioritization calls Drive data platform migration and modernization work, coordinating across engineering, data, and platform teams to keep dependencies and timelines under control Be the voice of the customer: partner with engineering teams across Lyft, surface their pain points, and feed that back into priorities and roadmaps Define success metrics and adoption goals, gather and document customer requirements, and make sure what ships actually solves the problem Build feedback loops with customer teams and turn what you hear into concrete improvements Partner with engineering and infrastructure leads to build plans, call out risks early, and keep stakeholders aligned Own program health: track milestones, surface blockers before they slip, and keep decision-makers in the loop Use your technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure to ask sharp questions and build plans the team believes in Share in the team's release oncall rotation Experience 5+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role A background in software, data, or systems engineering, enough to go deep with engineers Experience owning a roadmap: setting strategy, prioritizing across competing demands, and defining what suc

About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role For many of our creators, streaming on Twitch is a career, and our payment systems are central to making this possible. We're operating at a massive scale and you'll help millions of creators to earn a living doing what they love. As a key member of the engineering team, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Payments team and have the opportunity to build and scale solutions that affect millions of users and broadcasters. You will take high ownership of your services - architecting, building and operating them. You will partner with other engineers, product managers, designers and data specialists to deliver solutions. Our team is based in San Francisco, CA You Will: Work with technical leads and other engineers to design and develop commerce/payments platform and services Contribute to customer-focused project deliveries Work with other teams to clarify product requirements Improve engineering processes Participate in design and code reviews You Have: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or prior relevant engineering experiences Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, data modeling and schema design 1+ years as an software engineer Experience creating detailed technical documentation Proficient experience level in one or more of the fol

About the role Every enterprise is racing to build AI-powered apps and agents but speed without the right runtime creates chaos, not transformation. Sigma is the AI Runtime Environment that makes those apps governable, scalable, and real, and the Sr. PMM, Sigma Apps will play a critical role in developing and executing the go-to-market narrative and strategy for Sigma Apps. This role requires someone who understands both sides of the enterprise software conversation: the IT leaders and data engineers who evaluate and govern application infrastructure, and the line-of-business owners who care about outcomes, speed, and usability. You'll translate Sigma's application development capabilities into stories that resonate with both and create the materials the sales team needs to tell those stories in the field. What you'll do Develop and maintain positioning and messaging for Sigma Apps including no-code app building, AI-assisted workflow automation, embedded analytics, and apps built with external coding agents working closely with the Director of Product Marketing, Apps and the Product team. Support new feature launches and capability expansions, coordinating across product, design, marketing, and sales to bring new capabilities to market clearly and effectively. Work closely with Product and Engineering to deeply understand and influence the Sigma Apps roadmap bringing market, customer, and competitive insights that help shape and prioritize it. Partner with sales reps and the Enablement team to understand what's working in the field and use those insights to sharpen messaging, update battlecards, and improve enablement materials. Partner with the Enablement team to build and maintain sales enablement content solution briefs, pitch decks, use case guides, competitive comparisons, and discovery question frameworks that help the field confidently sell Sigma Apps Build and maintain competitive analysis and battlecards for the no-code/low-code, embedded anal

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 Lyft Business Product Platform team builds the systems and experiences that power Lyft's B2B products — enabling companies, organizations, and their employees to seamlessly access Lyft's transportation network. We sit at the intersection of product and platform, owning both the customer-facing features and the underlying infrastructure that makes them reliable at scale. Our work directly impacts how businesses integrate with Lyft, how admins manage their programs, and how millions of riders get where they need to go. Responsibilities: Drive architecture and technical design for systems that are highly available, scalable, and built to last — not just for today's requirements but for where the product is heading Own features end-to-end: from shaping the technical spec and design through to production rollout and operational health Think critically about how AI capabilities can be incorporated into Lyft Business products to improve the experience for business admins and riders — and bring that perspective into roadmap and architecture conversations Make well-reasoned trade-off decisions and communicate them clearly to peers, leads, and cross-functional partners Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold a high bar for the same in code reviews Partner across engineering, product, and design to align on direction and get buy-in on technical approaches Proactively engage in incident response, contributing both to resolution and to long-term reliability improvements Grow the team's technical culture through design reviews, tech talks, and mentorship Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale Strong system design instincts — you can reason through distributed systems trade-offs, identify failure modes, and

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

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 Mapping team at Lyft is tasked with building a digital representation of the physical world - a map. We collect and serve the freshest and most accurate mapping data possible, along with algorithms, models, platform services, and map-based user experiences that power Lyft’s current and future transportation offerings. Mapping represents a huge opportunity for Lyft’s business, but also a big challenge. We build and scale systems that deal with large data storage, real-time data processing, machine / deep learning pipelines, routing and ETA models, driver and passenger location tracking, and more. We built beautiful and magical user experiences on top of all those services, and compete with companies that have been in the mapping business for decades. To strengthen our efforts, we are hiring a Senior ML Engineer who will work end-to-end on creating and improving new capabilities to detect changes in the environment and reflect them in our Lyft map using a wide variety of input sources from the Lyft fleet. For this we are looking for someone who values software engineering best practices, loves the algorithmic and geospatial side of the challenge and is data-driven from start to end. Our technology stack ranges from basic machine learning models to large language models and running them at scale on millions of images. You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from machine learning, data science, and engineering on projects that delight our passengers and drivers – powered by an up to date map. Responsibilities: Partner with Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Partners to apply machine learning for business and user impact Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and propose ML solutions to both new and existing proble

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. You'll work side-by-side with talented product managers, data scientists, software engineers, fraud intelligence, and operations teams. Together, you'll design and build ML solutions that have direct, meaningful impact on user trust, business success, and the global Airbnb community. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team, you will actively contribute code and ideas that shape the ML systems protecting millions of Airbnb users. You'll own and deliver ML projects end-to-end — from designing and training models to productionizing and operating them at scale, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners. You'll tackle real-world challenges such as account takeover, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot detection. Your work

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. The Trust Frontier AI team is where new AI technology for Trust gets invented and proven. We build specialized models for mission-critical trust and safety problems, develop the AI agents and agentic capabilities that automate trust decisions, and create the benchmarks and evaluation harnesses that keep decision quality high as those agents take on more autonomy. We work on problems before the answer is known — prototyping, experimenting, and iterating with our partner teams until a solution proves itself against real business and top line metrics. You'll work side-by-side with talented product managers, data scientists, software engineers, fraud intelligence, and operations teams. Together, you'll design and build ML solutions that have direct, meaningful impact on user trust, b

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

About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and fi nancial reporting. Team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Sta ff Software Engineer,Data to be a technical lead and help architect and scale our data reliability, data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will... Own critical data systems that support multiple products/teams Develop, implement and enforce best practices for data infrastructure and automation Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Improve the reliability and scalability of our Ingestion, data processing, ETLs, Reporting tools and data ecosystem services Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We’re excited about you because... 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects 6+ years experience working in data platform and data engineering or a similar role 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 Pro fi ciency in programming languages such as Python/Kotlin/Scala 4+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and work fl ow management tools like Air fl ow Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing 4+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kaa/Flink/Spark Streaming Excellent communication skills and experience working

About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. By implementing pipelines, data structures, and data warehouse architectures; this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be a technical powerhouse to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. This is a hybrid position and you must be located in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Seattle. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements Work with engineering, product teams and 3rd parties to collect required data Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA and implement monitoring routines Improve the reliability and scalability of our ETL processes Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We're excited about you because... 5+ years of professional experience 3+ years experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Java 3+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie and Azkaban using AWS/GCP Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing 3+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Druid, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink. Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS platforms Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-tec

About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. By implementing pipelines, data structures, and data warehouse architectures; this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Softare Engineer II to be a technical powerhouse to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements Work with engineering, product teams and 3rd parties to collect required data Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA and implement monitoring routines Improve the reliability and scalability of our ETL processes Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We're excited about you because… 3+ years of professional experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role 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 Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Java 3+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie and Azkaban using AWS/GCP Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing 3+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Druid, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink. Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS

The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the development of a vertical feature or a horizontal capability to include defining requirements with stakeholders and implementation until it is accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend systems and distributed architectures for Federal customers. Manage the full lifecycle of feature development from requirement definition to deployment on classified networks. Direct the orchestration of asynchronous agent fleets to meet mission requirements. Lead customer engagements to translate mission needs into technical requirements. Own the communication with stakeholders to ensure implementation meets defined acceptance criteria. Conduct technical reviews and identify risks within machine learning infrastructure and model serving. Drive the platform roadmap by providing technical specifications for Federal product offerings. Ideally you will have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and contai

About the Team The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them. The team currently supports CockroachDB, Cassandra, Kafka and Redis as well as data abstraction services to reduce the complexity of interacting with storage systems for Product Engineers. About the Role The Storage team is building and operating a high-performance, scalable, and reliable data abstraction layer that optimizes both efficiency and reliability. Our goal is to create a platform that manages itself and fades into the background—empowering engineers to focus on delivering product experiences our customers love. This role is available across two teams within Storage, each solving unique and high-impact challenges: One team is building the orchestration layer for DoorDash’s storage platform—unifying lifecycle management, operations, and self-serve APIs for databases and streaming systems, turning complex, stateful infrastructure into reliable, developer-friendly services used across the company. One team builds and operates the distributed data platform powering DoorDash's largest stateful workloads -- including Cassandra, which backs critical product surfaces across DoorDash, Wolt, and Roo. You'll design high-throughput data abstractions, smart clients, and platform services that make distributed data reliable and easy to work with at multi-petabyte, multi-million-QPS scale, with opportunities to go deep on distributed systems internals and contribute to the open-source Cassandra ecosystem. If you're passionate about distributed systems, developer experience, and building foundational infrastructure at scale, we'd love to hear from you. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid pos