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
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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $240k - $270
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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 Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities to include mentoring other engineers on defining requirements with stakeholders and communication tradeoffs of technical implementations on feature and capabilities until they are accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Orchestrate feature implementation across the Federal engineering team to ensure architectural consistency. Define technical strategy for agentic guardrails, explainability, and fleet orchestration. Ensure system reliability and performance across multiple security classifications and network types. Mentor engineers in the process of defining requirements with stakeholders and gathering acceptance. Communicate high-level technical trade-offs and implementation strategies to senior government stakeholders and Scale C-Suite members. Influence the long-term product strategy and technical roadmap for the Federal business unit. Consult on the architecture of AI-powered solutions for large-scale federal contracts. 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
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Scale GP (Scale Generative AI Platform) is an enterprise-grade Generative AI platform that provides APIs for knowledge retrieval, inference, evaluation, and more. We are looking for a strong engineer to join our team and help us build and scale our product in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices, as well as experience with large-scale distributed systems. You will be responsible for owning large new areas within our product, working across backend, frontend, and interacting with LLMs and ML models. You will solve hard engineering problems in scalability and reliability. You will: Own large new areas within our product Work across backend, frontend, and interacting with LLMs and ML models Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production Be able, and willing, to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly Ideally you'd have: 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation Experience scaling products at hyper growth startups Experience tinkering with or productizing LLMs, vector databases, and the other latest AI technologies Proficient in Python or Javascript/Typescript, and SQL Experience with Kubernetes Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval
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. Okta Workflows is the secure, no-code automation platform that empowers organizations to build identity-centric workflows across cloud applications — all without writing code. Our intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows enterprises to automate complex business processes at scale, enhancing productivity, enforcing security, and simplifying IT operations. Customers like Netflix, MGM, and NTT rely on Workflows to automate high-impact identity scenarios with speed and confidence. As we continue to scale, we’re investing in extensibility, developer experience, and performance. Join us to help shape the future of cloud automation and low-code development. Position Description We’re hiring a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join the Integration Builder team within Okta Workflows. This team owns the core no-code surface that enables both internal teams and third-party developers (ISVs) to build powerful integrations and automation experiences with ease. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead initiatives that span front-end and back-end services — delivering performant, secure, and scalable features. You’ll help define architecture, drive implementation, and collaborate closely with Design, PM, and Platform teams. You’ll also work directly with our technical architects to help shape what we build — and how we build it. This is a high-impact role in a growing, strategic product area with strong executive visibility. Role Details: Design, build, and maintain end-to-end feature
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. Position Description: You will proactively construct and own an AI-forward research roadmap for key product pillars at Okta, operating at the intersection of Identity, Security, and Artificial Intelligence. As a Staff-level individual contributor, you will drive both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to define user experiences for non-deterministic AI agents, automated workflows, and enterprise platforms. Additionally, you leverage agentic tools and AI workflows internally to scale qualitative coding, synthesis, and research operations across the organization. In this role, you’ll get to: Drive Product-shaping Research: Lead foundational and evaluative research to inform strategic and tactical product decisions. Execute Balanced Mixed-Methods: Drive qualitative depth (contextual inquiry, cognitive walkthroughs) and quantitative rigor (large-scale surveys, behavioral telemetry, statistical modeling) to evaluate AI products. Pioneer AI Research Operations: Integrate AI tools, prompt engineering, and agentic research workflows into your daily practice to accelerate quality research outputs. Lead Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Facilitate research to drive cross-discipline clarity, executive alignment, and decision-making across complex security and admin workflows. Solve Complex Problems: Bring stakeholders together across multiple teams to scope problems and collaborate on research in ways that nurture a culture of curiosity and learning. Cultivate E
About the Role At DoorDash we are redefining what it means to be a designer. We are building towards a team of makers, builders, and doers. Between 2005 and 2015, "web designer" became "product designer" and the scope widened. The same shift is happening now — LLMs are expanding the T again, toward strategy on one end and direct execution on the other. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead this shift across your team: not just practicing build-first design, but multiplying it through the people and systems around you. We're seeking an ambitious and system design minded Staff Product Designer to lead “Meals for Work” within DoorDash for Business , a strategic area at the heart of redefining workplace dining and company perks. You’ll craft transformative consumer and enterprise experiences, from tools that make team lunch ordering effortless to scalable solutions for catering, company paid recurring meals, and grocery benefits. This role offers a unique opportunity to design powerful systems that help workplace admins plan, manage, and operate food programs with confidence, while pioneering new offerings in an evolving market. This position is open for candidates in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, and will report to the Head of New Bets Design within our Consumer organization. You will work in a hybrid model, working from one of our offices 1-2 times a week with the rest working from home. Your primary impact is making the team faster and more autonomous. You build reusable workflows, shared tools, and decision frameworks that let every designer on your team operate at a higher level with less coordination overhead. Your secondary impact is revenue: the speed and quality gains you unlock translate directly into more experiments shipped, faster iteration cycles, and measurable business outcomes across your team and adjacent teams. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Define projects with a clear point of view on what to build,
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. Join the engineering team that builds the AI-native apps, agents, and tools the rest of Amplitude runs on. We are full stack, automation, integration, and data engineers delivering internal apps, data products, automations, and integrations to Finance, People Ops, Product Ops, Legal, HR, and more. We embed in each team, become experts in their business problems, partner on the solution, and accelerate time-to-value. This is an AI-first, full-stack software engineering role spanning the complete scope of our team’s work. Your engineering experience and fluency with frontier AI technologies will drive continuous improvements in both the systems we build the way we build them. The sum total of this work will produce meaningful business impact on the way all of Amplitude’s critical business functions operate. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: Desi
About the Role: The Growth team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to full funnel user acquisition and growth, including SEO user registration, onboarding, and account management. As a Staff Engineer (L5) on this team, you act as the technical leader for one or more Growth areas. You own the technical architecture and direction, solve ambiguous problems that few others can, and influence cross-functional teams across multiple pods. You will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features, while driving the front-end architecture that ensures performance and scalability for millions of users. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Own the technical roadmap and architecture for a Growth area with large amounts of ambiguity: driving direction across web, mobile web, and smart TV platforms, and influencing the team to invest in new projects. Solve challenging, ambiguous problems with a focus on scalability and performance; proactively identify systemic issues and propose innovative solutions. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features; independently design, implement, and interpret a series of A/B experiments that move growth metrics. Lead and coordinate major rollouts and releases: including cross-team coordination, migrations, and phased releases of major initiatives across Web and OTT apps. Establish team-wide quality and engineering standards; set the bar for code quality and front-end best practices. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall fr
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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About Eve Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and we're building the team that will take us there. We help firms handle more cases, recover more for clients, and grow with AI that works across every stage of a case, from intake through resolution. The next generation of great plaintiff firms will be AI-Native, and Eve is how they get there. But what makes Eve different isn't just the product. It's how we build it. If you're someone who takes ownership, stays curious, and wants to build AI that's already changing how law is practiced, this is where you belong. Product-market fit: Eve is trusted by over 1000+ law firms, and we’re growing fast. Backed by top investors: We’ve raised over $160M from world-class partners including Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz(A16z), Menlo Ventures, and Lightspeed. Built by a world-class team: Engineers, designers, and operators from places like Scale, Meta, Airbnb, Cruise, Square, Rubrik, and Lyft are building Eve from the ground up. AI-Native from day one: We’re on the bleeding edge of AI, collaborating directly with teams at OpenAI and Anthropic to build best-in-class AI workflows tailored for legal work. Explosive growth: We are growing 2X revenue Quarter over Quarter. About the role 1,200+ law firms already run their practice on Eve. This role is about helping firms find and grow into the parts of Eve that matter most to them. You'll own growth and monetization design: trial-to-paid, usage-based pricing, upgrade moments. It's a role that sits close to the business side of the product, where design decisions directly shape revenue. We move fast, but never at the cost of building the wrong thing. We're high-autonomy and team-first — people who take initiative on their own, but still lean on the team, tend to do well here. What you'll do Shape how Eve's AI features get priced and packaged: usage tiers, seat/case limits, credits, premium features. Own growth design end to end: trial-to-pa
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About Eve Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and we're building the team that will take us there. We help firms handle more cases, recover more for clients, and grow with AI that works across every stage of a case, from intake through resolution. The next generation of great plaintiff firms will be AI-Native, and Eve is how they get there. But what makes Eve different isn't just the product. It's how we build it. If you're someone who takes ownership, stays curious, and wants to build AI that's already changing how law is practiced, this is where you belong. Product-market fit: Eve is trusted by over 1000+ law firms, and we’re growing fast. Backed by top investors: We’ve raised over $160M from world-class partners including Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz(A16z), Menlo Ventures, and Lightspeed. Built by a world-class team: Engineers, designers, and operators from places like Scale, Meta, Airbnb, Cruise, Square, Rubrik, and Lyft are building Eve from the ground up. AI-Native from day one: We’re on the bleeding edge of AI, collaborating directly with teams at OpenAI and Anthropic to build best-in-class AI workflows tailored for legal work. Explosive growth: We are growing 2X revenue Quarter over Quarter. About the role: Design at Eve is at an inflection point. We've shipped a product that 1,000+ law firms use every day — and we're now building the design team to match our ambition.You'll own complex product surfaces end to end, partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction, and help raise the bar for how design works across the org. We're a team-first group and co-create together. Design at Eve is AI-first. The workflow moves from LLM to code prototype to Figma/the tool of your choice. We want designers who already work this way, or who are ready to make it their default What you’ll do: Own the full arc of design work. You define the problem, shape the approach, push back when the framing can be better, and stay
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the team Engineers on this team build the application our customers and internal teams use to configure, operate, manage, and visualize complex incentive compensation workflows. There are many complex and difficult areas across the product, especially across frontend architecture and user experience, because of high data volumes, wide configurability, complex business logic, and mission-critical operational workflows. The work is not just about building screens; it is about helping users understand, act on, and trust complex compensation data and operational processes. We are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST timezone, with some teammates in PST and Central. We are far from maintenance or simple progressive evolution in many areas; there is a lot of room to make a meaningful impact on the overall user experience, product architecture, and frontend design patterns. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the Staff Frontend Engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Forma’s customer-facing and internal operations experiences. You’ll operate as a frontend technical leader, working across teams to drive alignment, set standards, and solve complex, ambiguous problems in a highly configurable, data-intensive product. You’ll partner closely with product, design, engineering, and leadership to define not just what we build, but how we build it — ensuring
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! The Opportunity As a Staff Security Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader strengthening security across Forma's application, cloud infrastructure, development lifecycle, internal systems, and incident-response practices. Security today is shared across Engineering and DevOps. You'll work closely with both teams and have real room to shape how Forma approaches security as we grow. Depending on your interests and the needs of the business, the role could develop into a deeper individual-contributor position or help build a dedicated security team. You'll work directly with Engineering, DevOps, IT, Product, Legal, and Privacy to identify risks, design practical controls, automate security processes, and help teams ship secure and reliable software. What you'll do Cloud and infrastructure security Design and implement security controls across Forma's AWS environments, with a focus on IAM, least-privilege access, service identities, and account boundaries. Embed security requirements into Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code, and improve secrets, certificate, encryption-key, and credential management. Build automated checks for insecure configurations, excessive permissions, exposed resources, and configuration drift across Kubernetes, containers, serverless workloads, networking, and data services. Application, data, and AI security Run threat modelling and security architecture reviews for new products, services, APIs, data pipelines, and third-party integrations
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team Engineers on this team construct our rules-based calculating engine for processing sales commissions. This might sound simple if you have never been exposed to sales comp plans, it is not! We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in PST and Central as well. We are far from maintenance / progressive evolution in many areas, there is a lot of room to make a big impact in the overall design. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, you will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform. You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design. You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma. As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and trust. This includes proactively identifying architectural risks, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating for improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the system. We value engineers who bring forward thoughtful perspectives - even when they challenge assumptions - and who help the team see around corners. You will: Design and evolve backend services that power product workflows. Architect data models representing hierarchical & graph structures, relationships, and large-scale enterprise datasets. Build
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