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Senior Ai Research Engineer in Toronto

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$40/hr

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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 qualitative User Experience Research Intern to join our team, which aspires to elevate the user experience for our drivers and riders across 300+ cities nationwide. You will conduct research studies, as well as participate in studies alongside more senior researchers from which you’ll gain strong mentorship. You will partner with Design, Product Management, Analytics, and Engineering in order to derive deep insights about our users’ behaviors and attitudes, and communicate results and actionable recommendations across the company. Interns contribute to user-facing products, working side-by-side with top User Experience Research team members in the industry while having autonomy from the get-go. Lyft fosters a collaborative environment in the office, so there's always a sharp mind eager to hear about your next idea. So what's yours? Responsibilities: Design and conduct studies across key Lyft product areas -- independently and in conjunction with more senior researchers. You will utilize methods such as ethnographic & field research, diary studies, surveys, user/usability testing (remote and in-person), guerrilla research, and any other methods you find impactful Review, analyze, and communicate qualitative and/or quantitative data to generate tactical and strategic insights, as well as actionable recommendations which drive product innovation and design improvements for users Experience: Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related field from a university in Canada with a graduation date between December 2027 and Summer 2028 (required) Available during Summer 2027 for an internship in Toronto Extraordinary organizational skills and meticulous eye for detail Str

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$118K/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 role At Okta, we believe AI will fundamentally transform how design, research, and product development happen. We are looking for a Senior Design Operations Program Manager, Agentic Design to lead the operationalization and enablement of internal AI agents, plug-ins, and automated workflows across our Design team — reimaging how designers create in the AI era through internal AI agents. In this role, you will bridge the gap between AI tooling capabilities and practical design ops execution. You will partner closely with design, product management and design systems to govern, evaluate, deploy, and scale AI-driven design capabilities — making our 60+ person design org dramatically faster, more consistent, and highly innovative. This is a tactical, execution-focused builder role for an operations leader who is deeply curious about AI tools, understands modern UX workflows, and excels at change management, team enablement, and operationalizing new frameworks. What you'll do AI & Agentic Design Enablement Serve as the operational connective tissue driving AI adoption, evaluation, and workflow integration across Product Design, UX Research, and Content Design. Manage the intake, evaluation, and approval process for design plug-ins, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and generative AI tools (e.g., custom content design assistants, design-to-code agents). Partner with internal engineering teams to operationalize, ship, and drive adopt

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80%

From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role As the founding Channel Partner Manager for Canada, you will build the partner motion that helps Canadian businesses discover, evaluate, and adopt Ramp through trusted advisors and ecosystem partners. This is a zero-to-one role. You will own the full partner lifecycle, from identifying and engaging Canadian accounting, advisory, private equity, and venture capital partners through signing, enablement, activation, and partner-sourced pipeline. Your early results will help determine how Ramp scales its Canadian channel motion. You will work closely with Sales, Growth, Product, Engineering, and the broader Partnerships organization. The right person is a hands-on builder: equally comfortable opening a new relationship, running a partner meeting, solving an operational blocker, and turning early learnings into a repeatable playbook. What You’ll Do Build Ramp’s Canadian channel strategy and operating rhythm from the ground up. Research, identify, source, qualify and sign net-new Canadian partners. Create joint go-to-market and activation p

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$146K/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. Role and Team Context The Senior Product Manager for the UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a cornerstone for Okta's global user experience infrastructure. Joining the Product Platform group, you will own the foundational architecture that ensures every Okta product is elegant, scalable, and performant. Your role extends across owning the UI framework, design systems, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility (WCAG) standards, you provide the critical infrastructure that enables a cohesive, high-quality experience for Okta Workforce Identity products. Key Responsibilities Technical Product Vision : Define and champion the technical evolution of the Okta UI framework. Ensure the platform serves as a single source of truth for core administrative experiences across Okta products. Platform Roadmap Ownership : Prioritize and execute a complex roadmap across design systems, globalization, and accessibility. You will balance the needs of multiple product lines to ensure a unified developer and end-user experience. Strategic Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with global engineering, design, and research teams to deliver infrastructure that supports Okta’s massive scale. Ecosystem Synthesis : Engage with global customers and internal stakeholders to synthesize complex requirements into broad-value features that support a diverse, international ecosystem. Data-Driven Developer Experience : Leverage product data

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$118K/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. Here is the updated summary for the Okta Device Access (ODA) and Okta Verify (OV) space, adapted to match the collaborative, ownership-focused, and candidate-centric tone of your PAM example: In this role, you will work as a trusted cross-functional partner on our Okta Device Access (ODA) and Okta Verify (OV) products, and have the opportunity to influence product and design decisions through your work. You will own the UX roadmap for ODA and OV, working closely with your design, product, and engineering partners to ensure that your work is aligned to the highest priority needs of the endpoint identity area, informing both long and near-term decisions. You’ll provide mentorship and coaching to more junior team members, helping raise the quality bar and impact of the team. ODA and OV’s goal is to develop products that enable Okta customers to secure their workforce right from physical device bootup, providing frictionless, phishing-resistant, and passwordless authentication. In this role, you’ll get to: Grow and develop a research practice aimed at understanding the needs of the OPA and OV teams, collaborate with stakeholders to craft research questions and execute research Scope, prioritize, organize, and manage research initiatives across these teams. Exercise flexibility in research methodology (as appropriate for the product space and timeline) by designing and utilizing generative studies or evaluative research, appropriately. Facilitate cross-dis

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

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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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$124K/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. Join the Okta Device Access (ODA) team as an outcome-driven and customer-focused Product Manager. Okta Device Access unifies access management from any device to all applications to minimize modern security risks and improve business efficiency. As a Product Manager for Okta Device Access, you will own key product areas and contribute to the continued evolution of ODA to meet customer and business needs. You will work closely with senior product leaders, engineering, and design to define how enterprise organizations secure and manage identity on Windows and macOS endpoints - from deploying the first device, to day two troubleshooting, to fleet level visibility. If you’re passionate about improving customer security and engaging with a vibrant community, we’re looking for you. Your primary responsibilities in these areas will include: Define and execute the roadmap for the Okta Device Access Experience & Lifecycle Own the administrator experience for fleets of devices with Okta Device Access across multiple platforms Drive the Okta-joined administrator experience end-to-end: from enrollment and provisioning to support troubleshooting to device lifecycle management. Collaborate with engineering, design and research teams to define and document user stories and use-cases to guide product development. Conduct research and analysis to identify customer needs and pain points, and use this information to inform innovation, product decisions and prioritiz

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From C$160K/yr

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Overview: The Senior Product Manager sets a clear, compelling product vision and is accountable for executing it. They are a self-starter, a visible organizational leader, a hands-on problem solver, and a relationship builder. The Senior Product Manager continuously builds institutional knowledge that spans all teams and functions within the company as well as a deep understanding of the evolving competitive landscape. They translate that vision into an executional roadmap, and drive it to delivery across web, mobile and MCP. They go deep into how each client segment actual works by sitting with users, mapping end-to-end workflows, and translating what they learn into product features. They own feature prioritization and the backlog. They will author stories and participate in the agile product development cycle. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. What You’ll Do: Segment Depth: Develop an expert-level understanding of each client segment's end-to-end workflow. Translate that understanding directly into product requirements, features, and prioritization decisions, so the roadmap reflects how clients actually work rather than how we assume they do. Customer Focus: Champion the voice of the customer across all initiatives. Gather and synthesize customer needs and pain points through both quantitative data (and qualitative insights. Product Vision & Roadmap: Own, articulate, and execute a clear product vision and strategy, and rally the organization behind it. Leverage insights from market research, competitive analysis, customer feedback, and performance metrics to prioritize and shape the product roadmap. Lead quarterly and annual planning, ensuring clear goal-setting and metric tracking aligned with business objectives. Product Evangelism: Serve as the primary advocate for your product internally and externally. Lead product rollouts, including developing training materials, documentation, and leading both virtual and in-person product

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time· Hybrid
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About the role There’s a wide gap between an agent that works in a demo and one that works across millions of live transactions. Closing it is the job. You’ll embed with the teams and customers who depend on AI — risk, fraud, collections, payments, support, developer experience — and design, build, and ship agentic systems into their production environments. You’ll also help build the platform underneath: Paytm’s AI inference platform (Pi) and the agentic runtime, orchestration, and tooling that lets agents reason, plan, use tools, and run multi-step workflows safely.

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📍 Toronto, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%
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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. Lyft is building the next generation of intelligent agents powered by AI. We're seeking a Senior AI Agentic Engineer to lead this transformation across the enterprise. This is a strategic role for someone who can bridge the gap between AI technology and business value, designing and deploying AI-powered workflows that deliver measurable outcomes. You'll work across IT, people operations, marketing, sales, finance, legal, and procurement to architect AI-first solutions that solve complex business problems. Responsibilities: Architect and implement AI agents and intelligent workflows that transforms complex, multi-step business processes and deliver quantifiable business outcomes Partner with business leaders and stakeholders across multiple departments to identify high-impact AI opportunities that align with organizational objectives Elicit requirements from diverse stakeholders and translate complex business problems into technical solutions Build compelling business cases that clearly articulate ROI, implementation costs, benefits, timelines, and strategic alignment Evaluate, recommend, and implement AI solutions that best fit organizational needs and use cases Design solutions with an AI-first approach, ensuring optimal value delivery and user experience Monitor and measure the performance of AI workflows, using data-driven insights to demonstrate value and drive continuous improvement Design and deliver training programs, workshops, office hours, and enablement materials that help teams understand and adopt agentic solution Create frameworks, best practices, templates, and reusable patterns that accelerate AI adoption and ensure consistent quality Build a community of practice around AI and intelligent agents, empowering others to identify opportunities and contribute to the agentic roadmap Act as

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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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. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta’s AI offerings, setting technical strategy, and leading projects that leverage AI to deliver smarter, faster outcomes for our customers. You'll be part of a team integrating AI into the Vanta product, working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, designers, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain AI-enabled product experiences. In this role, you’ll build products that enable Vanta’s customers to leverage AI to accelerate their journey towards compliance, managing risk, and earning trust. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an engineer working on Applied AI at Vanta: Work cross-functionally to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLMs with Vanta’s existing products and systems. You’ll work with other product engineers across Vanta to understand how AI systems can accelerate product adoption at Vanta Instrument evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring, and review customer usage to continually improve quality Collaborate with AI Platform engineers shaping foundational AI systems and tooling that accelerate product teams Make pragmatic tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation Mentor engineers, champion good technical and product instincts, and model a collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture How to be successful in this role: At least 7 years of industry experience as a software

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$136K/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. Lyft is looking for software engineers from a scope of 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 engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. The Applied AI team is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the AI Entries team. You will build the foundational infrastructure that connects Lyft to emerging AI ecosystems and devices and architect the APIs and orchestration layers that allow third-party agents and multimodal interfaces to interact with Lyft. By building these robust integration, you will help make Lyft available where our riders are. Responsibilities: Establish engineering best practices and patterns; help uplift the team's craft and drive a culture of engineering excellence Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to deliver the best user experience Produce and drive scalable system design for large, complex features — from idea through execution and launch Mentor engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and supporting their growth Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge across the team Participate in the team's on-call rotation; identify, triage, debug, and resolve issues across our 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. 5+ years of software engineering/production

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📍 Toronto, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +37.5%
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Counsel, Services - Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility Overview Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to serve as a dedicated Canadian privacy and data responsibility counsel supporting Mastercard’s products, services, and go-to-market activities in Canada. This role will provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on Canadian privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, and related regulatory requirements, with a primary focus on enabling Canadian product launches and supporting remediation of existing products, services, processes, and controls to meet Canadian legal and regulatory expectations. Role The Senior Counsel will work closely with product, regional, regulatory, commercial, and global privacy stakeholders to help Mastercard bring innovative products and services to the Canadian market in a responsible, compliant, and scalable way. The role will support the identification, prioritization, and implementation of compliance controls for Canadian requirements. You will: Serve as the Canadian Data Protection Officer for our Services business Act as the lead legal advisor on Canadian privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, and related regulatory matters. Provide practical legal guidance to product, business, and legal teams on Ca

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

C$188K – C$242K/yr

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Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework. About the role: You will join a small, highly autonomous cross-functional team to build AI agents that fundamentally transform how operations work at scale. Instead of writing bespoke software for every workflow, we are developing an agent platform that can read operational knowledge, reason about it in context, and execute tasks end-to-end. This approach allows us to scale complexity through knowledge and reasoning, rather than simply through code. This is an opportunity to join a foundational team, which currently consists of fewer than five engineers. The work spans critical areas including LLM-powered agent design, robust backend service architecture, tool and integration development, and sophisticated knowledge infrastructure. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong pas

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$136K/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. At Okta, we’re building the next generation of authentication for the Agentic AI era. We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our AI Authentication team – a group of product-minded, deeply technical engineers delivering features to define what identity and access mean in a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. This is a great opportunity for an Senior engineer who thrives in collaborative environments, is eager to grow their technical depth, and wants to build scalable systems that solve real-world security problems. Auth0 Emerging Tech is the Engineering organization where we take care of the hottest technology out there: we ship fast, we don't break things. We are a dynamic and collaborative distributed and diverse team. We value ownership, learning and innovation. We launched our Auth for GenAI offering and we are looking for an Senior Engineer to join us to lead the team taking care of the Identity Protocols parts of the game. Auth0 works with NodeJS ( Javascript or Typescript), a hint of Go and MongoDB or PostgreSQL databases. What will you do: Bring expertise in identity and security while building innovative features and standards that will secure the Agentic AI world Build and maintain scalable services using TypeScript, NodeJS PostgreSQL/MongoDB. Collaborate with other product managers, designers, and senior engineers to deliver features that improve identity and access for GenA

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