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ABOUT THE TEAM The Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform that powers Mural’s visual thinking experience. This includes the infinite canvas, key editor components, document editing behaviors, asset management, real-time collaboration, and the systems that enable fast, reliable, and intuitive interaction on the canvas. We’re also responsible for the Mural UI, the real-time message protocol that enables seamless remote collaboration, and the developer-friendly APIs that internal teams use to build features like diagramming, workshops, presentations, integrations, and AI-enabled product capabilities. Our mission is to ensure the Mural editor is fast, reliable, intuitive, and easy to build on. We prioritize performance, simplicity, developer experience, and platform quality, enabling teams across the company to ship quickly and safely on top of Canvas Core. YOUR MISSION As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help design, build, and improve the Canvas platform so that the Mural editor remains reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for our users. You’ll work on the systems that power real-time collaboration, shared document editing, spatial interactions, rendering and interaction performance, asset management, developer APIs, and AI-enabled product capabilities across the Mural editor. Your role will be to reduce platform complexity, improve the quality and speed of Canvas development, and help teams ship high-quality editor experiences quickly and safely. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to turn ambiguous product and platform problems into clear, maintainable technical solutions. Senior Engineers at Mural lead by example through strong technical execution, thoughtful design, high-quality implementation, and collaborative problem-solving. They help raise the bar for their team through design discussions, code reviews, mentoring, documentation, and pragmatic improvements to engineering practices. WHA

About the Role Chime is looking for Senior Staff and Staff Engineers to lead our high impact member Trust and Safety group. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the vision for one of Chime’s foundational pillars. The Trust and Safety organization is tasked with fueling sustainable growth, protecting our members, and reducing fraud losses and operational costs. You will provide technical and architectural guidance to multiple teams crafting industry defining solutions. These teams are responsible for providing scalable, extensible frameworks to create smooth and streamlined risk experiences across every checkpoint of a member’s experience at Chime. You will work function-wide across Chime’s engineering and cross-functional teams to deliver Trust and Safety’s vision. In this role, you can expect to Work with engineering and product leadership to build cross-functional vision Design and evolve new and existing capabilities Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in our software development process and infrastructure Write and guide engineers to produce elegant, scalable code, with an owner's mindset Serve as a mentor, leading others in designing elegant code and architecture that scales to meet Chime's growing needs As needed, play the role of Team Lead during the course of a project Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals Contribute to the organization-level discovery, vetting and decision-making on critical architecture and technology, bringing your domain expertise into larger conversations To thrive in this role, you have 12+ years of experience in software engineering Previously built and evolved high-scale back-end solutions Passion and previous experience in building end to end member facing features and systems Strong competency in distributed systems, scalable and extensible platforms high avai

Truveta is the world's first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta's ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software, and big data experience who share our company values. This role is based in the greater Seattle area, with our office located in Hyderabad, India. Who We Need Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. Beyond core capabilities, we are seeking problem solvers, passionate and collaborative teammates, and those willing to roll up their sleeves while making a difference. If you are interested in the opportunity to pursue purposeful work, join a mission-driven team, and build a rewarding career while having fun, Truveta may be the perfect fit for you. This Opportunity Patients, doctors, and medical researchers deserve to benefit from the same large-scale technological innovation and digital intelligence that have driven progress in office productivity, entertainment, and social networking. We are looking for a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer excited by the opportunity to improve health care in far-reaching ways. In this role, you will lead and build modern, scalable software solutions across the full stack to streamline our engineering processes and accelerate our mission. You will collaborate with internal users to analyze their use cases, requirements, and expectations, and lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based software solutions that remove inefficiencies and pain points, enabling our users to deliver faster and do more. This role also gives you the opportunity to work closely with other senior and principal software engineers across the company

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the App Promotion engineering team. In this role, you will own the engineering roadmap to take Pinterest’s App Install Optimization product from beta to GA, hardening the current alpha/beta experience, closing critical measurement gaps, and ensuring readiness across Ads Manager, backend services, and mobile clients. You will lay the groundwork for future optimizations (App Event Optimization, tROAS, and retargeting) by partnering with Ads Quality, ML, and Measurement teams to build scalable models, robust experimentation, and trustworthy reporting. You will manage a team of 5–6 full stack and mobile engineers, foster an inclusive and high-performing team culture, and work closely with cross-functional leaders across Ads, Measurement, and Product to align on strategy, tradeoffs, and execution. What you’ll d

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The mission of our team is to build a scalable and secure AI platform that enables security teams across Robinhood to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions with confidence. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Security team, you’ll help lead and build the foundational platform, infrastructure, and security primitives that make it easier for teams to develop AI-powered security capabilities at scale. You’ll work on complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security, with a particular focus on areas such as identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety. You’ll partner closely with security and engineering teams across Robinhood to create systems that make AI development easier while ensuring security is built into the platform from the start. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building platforms, solving complex technical problems, and helping shape how AI is securely adopted across security. This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Link team builds the premier consumer network for next-generation commerce, leveraging our base of 300M+ registered consumers to pioneer the future of Identity, Consumer Finance, and AI-driven transactions. While our foundation was built on high-conversion merchant payments and a flexible digital wallet, we are expanding far beyond. We are building the infrastructure for a world where AI agents transact on your behalf, stablecoins go mainstream, and identity dictates how money moves. The Consumer Preference team is building the Link experience across the web app and agents — building the wallet product consumers need to feel confident, excited, and inspired by the new ways payments and identity are changing online. As a senior member of the team, you will create new experiences such as financial insights powered by purchase history, rewards cards backed by a stablecoin balance, safe agentic purchase UX, automatic purchase protections, and subscription management. What you’ll do We’re hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new consumer capabilities in Link. The ideal candidate will combine technical depth across the stack with a strong product sense. In this role, you will take ambiguous product opportunities, create ways to validate them early, and ultimately ship complete products. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad technical and organizational scope. You will own large, cross-functi

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. Lyft’s Infrastructure organization builds the high-scale foundation that every engineer at Lyft relies on to ship safe, performant, and reliable services. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundational Infrastructure & Networking team , you will own the core routing, service mesh, and control planes that power hundreds of microservices processing millions of rides daily. This is an IC role with massive engineering leverage: your technical architecture, systems design, and performance optimizations will directly amplify the velocity of every software engineer across Lyft while ensuring platform resiliency at scale. Responsibilities Architect & Scale Core Networking: Design, build, and optimize our service mesh, ingress/egress infrastructure, and edge routing capabilities using Envoy Proxy and custom control planes on AWS. Optimize High-Throughput Control Planes: Enhance load-balancing algorithms, service discovery, and dynamic scaling mechanisms across high-concurrency data and control planes running on Kubernetes. Drive Systems Reliability & Observability: Operationalize deep telemetry, metrics, and distributed tracing across our networking stack to drastically reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and resolution (MTTR). Hands-on Production Debugging: Lead complex technical investigations into cross-stack incidents spanning kernel parameters, cloud VPC network layers, DNS, and distributed microservice protocols. Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Elevate engineering rigor through RFC reviews, technical vision, incident response post-mortems, and mentoring engineers across the broader Infrastructure org. Experience 6+ Years of Production Systems Experience: Proven track record building and operating massive-scale cloud infrastructure and networking platforms. Expertise in Cloud Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of Linux networking, TCP/IP, DNS, gRPC, HTTP/2, load balancing, and AWS networking a

About the Role Chime’s Data Platform team builds the infrastructure every engineering and analytics team depends on - ingestion, transformation, quality, governance, and self-serve tooling across batch and streaming workloads. You’ll own core platform systems at scale, design the frameworks other teams build on, and set the technical standards for how data moves through Chime. High autonomy, real architectural trade-offs, production impact from day one. We’re hiring multiple engineers into this role at the senior level. In this role, you can expect to Design, build, and operate self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks supporting both batch and streaming workloads, with direct ownership of pipeline reliability, data quality SLAs, and schema evolution Drive the technical roadmap for our data platform - evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, define integration patterns, and set standards that engineering teams across the company adopt Partner with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing as a technical lead to design data contracts, onboard new data domains, and scale ingestion without sacrificing governance Architect and enforce data lineage, schema registry, and access controls across all domains - ensuring compliance with fintech regulatory requirements (SOX, PII handling) Own the platform - monitor, alert, debug, and resolve incidents across the data platform with the urgency expected of infrastructure that powers financial products Raise the technical bar of the team through code review, design reviews, and hands-on mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary. To thrive in this role, you have 5+ years building, shipping, and operating data infrastructure in production - not just writing pipelines, but owning their reliability, performance, and cost at scale Strong system design skills - you’ve written desig

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financing Engineering team within the Institutional group, you'll design, build, and scale the systems that safely manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending, and more. Financing is foundational to the Prime Brokerage business, enabling customers to use leverage on trading positions and generate yield on long holdings. You'll own critical backend services that drive recurring revenue, increase trading activity, and keep institutional assets on platform. What you'll do: Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations. Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks that support loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking. Drive engineering excellence by improving developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems. Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter. Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support the team's ability to ship safely at speed. Required skills and

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Foundations, Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group, you'll own the backend systems that power the secure movement of funds across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for Coinbase's institutional clients. This team is responsible for transaction processing, settlement, and asset transfer infrastructure that underpins the entire institutional platform. You'll drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and build the next generation of financial systems at scale. What you'll do: Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems. Drive code quality and maintainability through rigorous code reviews, refactoring, and active participation across all stages of the development lifecycle. Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial infrastructure, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues. Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps and deliverables. Propose and implement architectural improvements that accelerate team velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and professional growth,

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Card Loan Platform team builds the high-throughput decision engine at the heart of Affirm’s card products. Unlike traditional cards, every pay-later transaction is backed by its own unique loan, and our system is the "invisible piping" that makes this complex model work at scale. Every swipe triggers our platform to solve a hard problem in milliseconds: matching messy, fragmented payment network data to the correct loan to drive real-time approvals, origination, and refunds. As Affirm experiences explosive growth, our team's contributions are a key enabler. This isn't just another backend role; you'll be building the "financial brain" for our flagship card products, with your work on the critical path for every single swipe. We're tackling a unique, high-stakes distributed systems challenge that demands exceptional correctness and massive scale. You will partner closely with product, data science, and engineering teams to design and build the future of our industry-leading money movement platform. If you are passionate about making foundational design decisions and building a beloved, lasting financial brand—come join us. It’s going to be an amazing ride! What you'll do Drive technical strategy by leading the planning, prioritization, and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with product, technical, and business goals. Lead the end-to-end system design and development of large-scale, high-availability services. This includes building robust APIs and data models for our micro-service and event-driven architectures. Collaborate across functions with partners in Product, Analytics, Design, Legal, and Accounting and to define requirements and execute our card loan attribution and lifecycle strategy. Ensure system health and performance by analyzing and troubleshooting complex technical

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Card Loan Platform team builds the high-throughput decision engine at the heart of Affirm’s card products. Unlike traditional cards, every pay-later transaction is backed by its own unique loan, and our system is the "invisible piping" that makes this complex model work at scale. Every swipe triggers our platform to solve a hard problem in milliseconds: matching messy, fragmented payment network data to the correct loan to drive real-time approvals, origination, and refunds. As Affirm experiences explosive growth, our team's contributions are a key enabler. This isn't just another backend role; you'll be building the "financial brain" for our flagship card products, with your work on the critical path for every single swipe. We're tackling a unique, high-stakes distributed systems challenge that demands exceptional correctness and massive scale. You will partner closely with product, data science, and engineering teams to design and build the future of our industry-leading money movement platform. If you are passionate about making foundational design decisions and building a beloved, lasting financial brand—come join us. It’s going to be an amazing ride! What you'll do Drive technical strategy by leading the planning, prioritization, and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with product, technical, and business goals. Lead the end-to-end system design and development of large-scale, high-availability services. This includes building robust APIs and data models for our micro-service and event-driven architectures. Collaborate across functions with partners in Product, Analytics, Design, Legal, and Accounting and to define requirements and execute our card loan attribution and lifecycle strategy. Ensure system health and performance by analyzing and troubleshooting complex technical

The Autonomous Ops & Maintenance (ATOM)Team is developing an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence and automated systems to empower engineering groups in safely executing complex operations and software maintenance. Their primary objective is to minimize repetitive toil while delivering the precise visibility, oversight, and trust necessary to run automated solutions in mission-critical environments. Consider it an intelligent virtual collaborator operating alongside development and infrastructure engineers, directly offloading routine operational overhead that currently requires manual intervention. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us design and scale our foundational architecture. In this role, you will synthesize vast technical datasets into rich structured knowledge, engineer AI-driven components capable of analyzing intricate operational workflows, and construct highly reliable systems to execute automated modifications seamlessly. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead a greenfield initiative from inception to scale, shaping foundational product architecture, engaging directly with users to refine early concepts Build mission-critical solutions that customers depend on daily Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments Who You Are: You have 6+ years of experience You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You are proficient in Go You are comfortable building and operating production services end to end: You will independently own features and components, work through ambiguous technical problems, and be responsible for the reliability, observability, and operational q

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration, own outcomes end to end, and push for excellence from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft and builders grow by solving meaningful technical problems. What you’ll do The Identity and Access Management team builds and maintains secure, user-friendly authentication and authorization systems that protect users, safeguard company assets, and provide a seamless access experience for developers. The team owns critical platform capabilities including login methods, step-up authentication, our custom authorization platform, account delegation flows like Copilot, Pro Access login, embedded partnerships authentication, and core vendor integrations such as Okta and Oso. As a Senior Software Engineer on IAM, you will lead projects and initiatives

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration, own outcomes end to end, and push for excellence from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft and builders grow by solving meaningful technical problems. What you’ll do The Identity and Access Management team builds and maintains secure, user-friendly authentication and authorization systems that protect users, safeguard company assets, and provide a seamless access experience for developers. The team owns critical platform capabilities including login methods, step-up authentication, our custom authorization platform, account delegation flows like Copilot, Pro Access login, embedded partnerships authentication, and core vendor integrations such as Okta and Oso. As a Senior Software Engineer on IAM, you will lead projects and initiatives