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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 Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated software engineer to join us building features for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes where quality is uncompromising, where we work on balancing and growing these unique marketplaces within the wider Lyft ecosystem and influencing driver behavior to facilitate highest-quality rides. Ownership is a key quality for this team; this person should be driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code they write reaches users and drives impact. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers. Preferred applicants intend to work regularly from our CDMX office, where team members collaborate together in person. Responsibilities: Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and understanding of customer needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Experience: Engineering industry experience Experience with object-oriented programming Experience in distributed systems Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation Design, build and improve a set of team owned components Please submit your resume in English.

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams. Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. Mentor and grow junior engineers. Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. Ensure operational readiness of

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we execute on a multi-year roadmap and prepare to launch and rapidly scale services that handle petabytes of data. Come do some of the most interesting work of your career as we Think Big and Go Far for our customers! This role can be based out of our New York City office (hybrid working model) or remotely in the North America region. What you’ll do Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances. Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions. Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on-call improvements. Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates. Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps. Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment. We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence. Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++. Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes). Experience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards). Experience with distributed systems

About Anyscale: At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the role Ray aims to provide a universal API for building distributed applications. To achieve this goal requires a distributed system with high levels of performance and reliability. We're looking for engineers with systems software experience that are interested in contributing to the Ray backend. About the Ray Core Team The Ray Core team develops and maintains the Ray C++ backend (e.g., distributed scheduler, language runtime integration, I/O and memory subsystems). We are responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ray as well as ensuring that Ray provides the right feature set to support higher level libraries and use cases. The team works on a balance of new features / distributed libraries, test infra improvements, debugging, and longer-term architectural improvements to Ray. A snapshot of projects you can work on: Optimizing performance of large-scale workloads on Ray Stability and stress testing infrastructure Improving fault tolerance (HA) As part of this role, you will: Leading cross-team projects while mentoring junior team members Develop high quality open source software to simplify distributed programming (Ray) Identify, implement, and evaluate architectural improvements

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. As a Software Engineer II at Smartsheet, you will help build the next generation of our platform while tackling meaningful distributed systems challenges alongside a talented engineering team. You will collaborate closely with product managers and fellow engineers through code reviews and architectural discussions, and you will have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers as you grow in your own career. This role is a strong fit for someone with a couple of years of hands-on development experience who is ready to take on more ownership, sharpen their skills in cloud infrastructure, and help shape how the team uses AI tools to work smarter and faster . You Will: Build scalable back-end services for the next generation of applications at Smartsheet (Kotlin, Java) Solve challenging distributed systems problems and work with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) Take part in code reviews and architectural discussions as you work with other software engineers and product managers Mentor junior engineers on code quality and other industry best practices Forge a strong partnership with product management and other key areas of the business Actively use AI tools to improve personal and team efficiency across coding, testing, design, and troubleshooting, exploring AI integration opportunities within team processes and features, and coaching others on effective AI use You Have: 2+ years software development experience building highly scalable, highly available applications 2+ years of programming experience with full st

MongoDB’s Replication Team builds the infrastructure that enables high availability, fault tolerance, automatic failover, and tunable consistency. As an engineer on the team, you will design and implement distributed-systems features that protect data and keep applications available under demanding operating conditions. You will work primarily in C++ on core database code, partner with engineers across MongoDB, and help shape features that are central to major MongoDB releases. This is an opportunity to apply distributed-systems fundamentals to a widely used database while solving challenging problems in correctness, performance, and operability. We're looking to speak with candidates based in New York City for our in-office working model. What you will do Design and implement replication features based on the Raft consensus protocol Improve failover behavior, availability, correctness, and performance across the replication system Write production-quality C++ and the unit, integration, and system tests needed to demonstrate correctness Use JavaScript and Python where appropriate to extend test coverage and validate end-to-end behavior Diagnose test failures, investigate bugs, and drive issues through root-cause analysis and resolution Measure the performance impact of code changes and prevent or resolve regressions Collaborate with partner engineering teams and stakeholders on large, cross-functional initiatives Investigate distributed-systems issues raised by customers and Technical Support, communicate findings clearly, and help deliver durable fixes Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions that improve the quality of the team’s work Interview candidates and mentor junior engineers and interns What you bring Required At least five years of experience programming, debugging, and performance-tuning distributed or highly concurrent software systems Strong systems fundamentals, including multithreaded programming, concurrency, debugging,

Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote/Hybrid Available) 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 As a Software Engineer focused on Fleet Telemetry & Control at Verse, you will be working closely with our energy solutions partners to design, implement, and test distributed energy resource controls and telemetry software on customer hardware at sites around the world. You will be part of a dynamic, high-performance team building applications directly on bare-metal or on hardware-level virtualization platforms. As an advanced technical leader in network programming and state management development, engineering teams will look to you for best standards and practices for interfacing with on-premises grid assets using solutions you will build and maintain. Key Responsibilities Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and transparent communication with a high caliber of mutual respect and consideration for stakeholders Mentor and support career and junior level engineers in their fleet telemetry and control software career development

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Software Engineer. About the job This position is needed to design, build, and optimize the core signalling infrastructure that powers real-time video communications for our customers. You will play a key role in ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability of our video platform, enabling seamless and secure video experiences. Responsibilities In this role, you’ll: Design, implement, and maintain video signalling protocols and server components for real-time video calls (e.g., WebRTC, SIP, RTCP/RTP) in a highly scalable distributed system. Collaborate with cross-functional distributed teams and various stakeholders to deliver high-performance, low-latency media experiences. Ensure secure transmission and compliance with industry best practices (e.g., end-to-end encryption, privacy standards). Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews, mentoring junior engineers as needed. Stay current with

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We’re hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform’s reliability, correctness, and performance. Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success OUR IDEAL MANAGER WILL HAVE : Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems. Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go. Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers. Excellent interpersonal co

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Description of the team The Dashboard Foundations team is the product platform team that stewards the Plaid Dashboard ( dashboard.plaid.com ). As both the portal for applying for production access and also the host for many products, the Dashboard is a critical touchpoint for our customers. Our mission is to build the platform of every product engineer’s dreams, with rich tooling, abstractions, and resources available to support every phase of the software development lifecycle so that developing a high quality, secure product is fast and easy. Our customers are over a dozen teams building in the Dashboard, representing products in areas such as Fraud, Credit, Signal, Account Verification, Transfer products, and more. We are a full stack team made up of former product engineers, drawing upon our experience to set our north star vision. We have in-person members in New York and San Francisco as well as some members distributed in various locations across the United States. Responsibilities You will lead a team of 8 engineers, ranging from Junior to Staff, developing them through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback. You’ll define and drive the long-term strategy for this foundational area, in c

Citi is evolving its current commerce offerings and branching into new avenues of growth by offering merchants access to high value cardmembers across Citi’s digital properties and partner placements. By combining Citi’s scale, trusted customer relationships, and real purchase insights, the business delivers advertising that is relevant to customers and drives measurable, incremental impact for advertisers. If you're early in your career and have been working within AdTech, MarTech, or data environments and are ready to deepen your technical expertise while helping build a platform from the ground up, this is the role. The Junior Solution Architect will support the design and implementation of Citi Commerce’s AdTech and data infrastructure by translating defined architecture into scalable, working technical components. This is a highly hands-on, detail-oriented role focused on execution—ensuring platforms are properly integrated, configured, and optimized to support campaign activation, ad serving, and measurement. This role is ideal for an early-career technologist with AdTech or MarTech exposure who enjoys working across systems, troubleshooting integrations, and enabling seamless data flow across platforms. Responsibilities: Support implementation of Citi Commerce’s end-to-end AdTech and data architecture across platforms Assist with integrations across ad servers, DSPs, CDPs, and measurement platforms (e.g., GAM, DV360, LiveRamp) Configure and maintain tagging, tracking, and pixels to ensure accurate campaign execution and reporting Help build and manage data pipelines, ensuring reliable data ingestion and flow across systems Troubleshoot technical issues related to integrations, tracking discrepancies, and data inconsistencies Assist in QA and validation of platform integrations, tagging, and measurement frameworks Document system c

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox’s Safety Operations team is dedicated to protecting our users from bad actors. The Critical Harms Investigations & Incident Management (CHIIMS) team applies subject matter expertise to our highest-level risks, working closely with cross-functional partners. As part of our commitment to safety, we are looking for a Junior Specialist with an investigator’s mindset, skills, and curiosity to investigate and respond to some of our highest-risk escalations. You will work with teams and leaders across the company to quickly and professionally respond to urgent requests for support, and balance competing priorities to get the job done. You will share findings with internal partners to help identify and mitigate risks across the platform. Please Note: This role may review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content in line with Roblox’s content moderation practices. You Will: Incident Investigation and Triage Support, then lead, rapid investigations into critical and complex incidents, including but not limited to threats against child safety, violent extremism, and other high-severity harms. Utilize internal tools, data analysis, and open-source inte

Position Overview: A Junior Research Analyst within the Diligent Market Intelligence function supports subject matter expertise in specialized research areas such as compensation, governance, activism, voting, and risk. Their main responsibilities include assisting in the design and management of data collection methodologies, overseeing third-party service provider workflows, and ensuring high-quality, timely data delivery. They are also expected to execute manual data collection from global sources, maintain strong quality assurance practices, and collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure operational efficiency and accuracy. Additionally, Junior Research Analysts take ownership of specific daily and weekly tasks, contribute to ongoing projects, and play a key role in training service providers while keeping process documentation clear and up to date. The role requires strong numeracy, attention to detail, independent work habits, and a proactive approach to continuously improving research products and processes. Key Responsibilities: Proactive communication and management of outsourcer workload. Conduct data collection tasks to uphold the integrity of our database and keep it current. Execute systematic checks to identify data inaccuracies and operational inefficiencies as per predefined protocols. Provide regular updates and reports to the Vertical lead on progress and challenges. Take ownership of specific daily and weekly tasks, as well as ongoing projects within the assigned research vertically. Required Experience/Skills: Entry level Analytical approach and problem-solving attitude Strong written and verbal communication skills Ability to manage deadlines Ability to adapt to difficult workload demands, e.g., time/resource constraints Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel About Us Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 70

Want to work in technology at an investment bank? Graduate training, ongoing support, opportunities at leading global employers – the Alumni graduate program gives you everything you need. (And don’t worry, there’s no training bond. No exit fees, no hidden catches). Here at mthree, we pair great graduates with brilliant global businesses. Our clients include tier one investment banks and other organizations across a range of industries, from insurance to healthcare to travel. mthree has an exclusive partnership with Columbia Univ. School of Engineering. All mthree Alumni are eligible to receive two Executive Education certificates from Columbia Engineering as part of their Academy and industry placement experience at no cost. Further, all participating Alumni will have access to the Columbia Engineering network and ongoing training. What you'll do: Production support plays a vital role in enterprise technology, from algorithmic trading engines to regulatory reporting. Think of it as healthcare for technology. As a production support analyst with mthree, you’ll be on a shared mission to look after the technical systems and processes other teams rely on. How the Alumni program works: Apply via this job advert. Complete our assessment process. Get trained at mthree Academy in an online class for 4-8 weeks with other graduates. Join a mthree client for 12-24 months while receiving support and salary increases every 12 months. The vast majority then convert to permanent employees with the client at the end of the program. What you’ll learn at the mthree Academy: How to discuss production support activity at a high level including ITIL (information technology infrastructure library), monitoring, DevOps, SRE (site reliability engineering), and disaster recovery. How to discuss common financial topics, including financial markets, equity trading, derivatives, currency, treasury, regulation, and risk. How to write a basic computer program in Python, including user input

Want to work in technology at an investment bank? Paid graduate training, ongoing support, opportunities at leading global employers – the Alumni graduate program gives you everything you need. (And don’t worry, there’s no training bond. No exit fees, no hidden catches). Here at mthree, we pair great graduates with brilliant global businesses. Our clients include tier one investment banks and other organizations across a range of industries, from insurance to healthcare to travel. mthree has an exclusive partnership with Columbia Univ. School of Engineering. All mthree Alumni are eligible to receive two Executive Education certificates from Columbia Engineering as part of their Academy and industry placement experience at no cost. Further, all participating Alumni will have access to the Columbia Engineering network and ongoing training. What you'll do: Production support plays a vital role in enterprise technology, from algorithmic trading engines to regulatory reporting. Think of it as healthcare for technology. As a production support analyst with mthree, you’ll be on a shared mission to look after the technical systems and processes other teams rely on. How the Alumni program works: Apply via this job advert. Complete our assessment process. Get trained at mthree Academy in an online class for 4-8 weeks with other graduates. Join a mthree client for 12-24 months while receiving support and salary increases every 12 months. The vast majority then convert to permanent employees with the client at the end of the program. What you’ll learn at the mthree Academy: How to discuss production support activity at a high level including ITIL (information technology infrastructure library), monitoring, DevOps, SRE (site reliability engineering), and disaster recovery. How to discuss common financial topics, including financial markets, equity trading, derivatives, currency, treasury, regulation, and risk. How to write a basic computer program in Python, including user