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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. Our teams develops in-house connectors to connect with external systems and data warehouses. We are working to connect Snowflake with Fortune 500 companies - in the cloud. In this area you will be working on exposing API, blueprints and frameworks for other developers to create their own connectors. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Design and develop data integration and processing applications. These applications replicate data from various data sources (including relational databases, saas, data streams) into Snowflake, following CDC patterns. Develop and extend a robust connector platform to standardise and accelerate the development of connectors, either developed by Snowflake or by third parties. Typical example includes developing a scheduling service ensuring timely execution of tasks and optimal resource allocation. Optimize performance of the ingestion, meet with customers & troubleshoot issues and secure data transfer from external systems. Collaborate with teams across the organization and roles. Create design documents and present them to architects and other stakeholders, including company founders. Lead and mentor a group of engineers Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous communication to ensure goals are met. Collaborate with PMs and customers to understand busine

ABOUT THE ROLE Scale Peloton’s $1B+ e-commerce platform as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on the E-Commerce Subscriptions team. You will drive the technical roadmap for high-impact features in close partnership with Product, Design, Marketing, and International teams. If you excel across the full stack, champion engineering excellence, and thrive in a dynamic, high-growth environment, this is your opportunity to shape the future of fitness tech. YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON Design and deliver scalable, performant microservices and modern, high-conversion front-end web experiences Set the bar for code quality, testability, and system performance while driving architectural decisions, design docs, and cross-team alignment Lead pair programming, whiteboard sessions, and task breakdowns, while conducting empathetic, constructive code reviews that foster a culture of learning Work directly with product and business stakeholders to evaluate technical trade-offs and drive informed product decisions YOU BRING TO PELOTON 6+ years of software development experience with proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (React preferred, Vue), server-side languages (Python, Kotlin), and relational databases (PostgreSQL) 3+ years designing and scaling reliable, modern systems, supported by modern deployment tools (Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) Grounded in Agile, Lean, DevOps, and SRE principles, with a strong focus on quality, detail, and continuous learning in a fast-paced environment BONUS Experience with e-commerce, subscriptions, payment processing, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), or microservices architectures Familiarity with TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, or internationalization (i18n) Active engagement in the software community via open-source contributions, meetups, or conferences #LI-KN1 #LI-Hybrid The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position based at our New York City headquarters. The actual base salary offered f

Squarespace is seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to support and evolve the systems at the core core of our monetization platform: billing, payments and orders. In this role, you will provide technical oversight over the critical monetization machinery that accepts orders, processes payments and bills subscriptions. You will regularly collaborate with engineering leadership and key product, strategy and finance stakeholders to align technical strategy with Squarespace’s business objectives. This is an opportunity to take on IC technical leadership responsibilities and own system architecture for high-visibility initiatives tied directly to Squarespace's core businesses. This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Director of Revenue Systems. You'll Get To... Own system architectural vision and design for critical areas of our business. Transform high-level system vision into estimated project plans for initiatives central to Squarespace’s strategy. Serve as technical lead and cross-functional liaison on business-critical projects, making and defending engineering decisions key to the success of the business. Mentor engineers on the team to deliver ever greater quality with ever growing autonomy. Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding Set the engineering quality bar for the team through regular, high-quality code contributions across billing, orders and payments. Who We're Looking For 10 or more years experience specifying, delivering and maintaining complex distributed backend services. Significant experience with multiple programming languages (especially Java) and a broad range of tools like Springboot, hibernate, databases, etc. Demonstrated experience leading system architecture decisions across multiple teams or initiatives Proven ability to serve as a technical lead on cross-

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.

MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Documentation Platform Engineering Team. The Documentation Platform delivers 60M page views a year and is critical to our users’ understanding of MongoDB products.It is also increasingly the context engine that helps AI tools understand, surface, and recommend MongoDB correctly. You will contribute to the evolution of our documentation platform by building and improving internal infrastructure, integrations, and applications that support our documentation and learning experience. This role can be based out of one of our offices in Canada or the USA, or remotely in Canada or the USA. Our ideal candidate Hands-on experience and understanding of Git, TypeScript, React, Next.js, CI/CD, MDX and other markup languages Experience with MongoDB (or a strong track record of working with other databases) Has worked on complex, in-production web applications Deep understanding of TypeScript or JavaScript, preferably TypeScript Can write, discuss, and review code in a collaborative way Understands how to make resilient, scalable, and maintainable software Has 2+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems At MongoDB, you will Contribute to the development and enhancement of the MongoDB Documentation Platform Explore ways to improve documentation accessibility, discoverability, and user engagement Develop features that enhance the user experience for documentation consumers and contributors Contribute to and occasionally lead small-to-medium scoped features and platform improvements, collaborating with partner teams as needed Analyze user

MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Documentation Platform Engineering Team. The Documentation Platform delivers 60M page views a year and is critical to our users’ understanding of MongoDB products.It is also increasingly the context engine that helps AI tools understand, surface, and recommend MongoDB correctly. You will contribute to the evolution of our documentation platform by building and improving internal infrastructure, integrations, and applications that support our documentation and learning experience. This role can be based out of one of our offices in Canada or the USA, or remotely in Canada or the USA. Our ideal candidate Hands-on experience and understanding of Git, TypeScript, React, Next.js, CI/CD, MDX and other markup languages Experience with MongoDB (or a strong track record of working with other databases) Has worked on complex, in-production web applications Deep understanding of TypeScript or JavaScript, preferably TypeScript Can write, discuss, and review code in a collaborative way Understands how to make resilient, scalable, and maintainable software Has 2+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems At MongoDB, you will Contribute to the development and enhancement of the MongoDB Documentation Platform Explore ways to improve documentation accessibility, discoverability, and user engagement Develop features that enhance the user experience for documentation consumers and contributors Contribute to and occasionally lead small-to-medium scoped features and platform improvements, collaborating with partner teams as needed Analyze user

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

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 API Platform team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces. What you’ll do You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe. By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers. We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and deliverin

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 Service Infrastructure team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces. What you’ll do You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe. By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers. We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and

Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! About the Role We are seeking a seasoned Manager, Software Engineering with 12+ years of experience to lead our Database Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure team. In this role, you will lead a team of high-performing engineers responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing multi-cloud relational and in-memory database platforms. You will bridge technical execution, engineering leadership, and strategic infrastructure planning across AWS and Azure environments. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Lead the architectural design and operations of enterprise-grade, multi-cloud relational databases across AWS (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora) and Azure (Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance). Drive high-availability architecture strategies, including Multi-AZ deployments, auto-failover groups, read replica scaling, and cross-region disaster recovery (DR). Oversee zero-downtime operations, including major-version engine upgrades, schema migrations, and blue/green deployment strategies. In-Memory Infrastructure & Open-Source Strategy Manage scale operations for in-memory datastores (AWS ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis), focusing on cluster mode operations, eviction policies, and persistence tuning. Spearhead open-source caching initiatives and migration pathways from Redis to Valkey (e.g., AWS ElastiCache for Valkey) using zero-downtime tools like RedisShake to ensure open-source license compliance and optimize cloud spend. Aut

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’s Bikes & Scooters team is developing the future of micro-mobility and we are looking for a solid, experienced Software Engineer to join our Stations Software Platform team to work on helping us transition our customers to our latest generation platform and to make the platform evolve in a solution that can be brought to multiple different markets and business models. Technical interviews and interactions with the other offices in the company will be in English; however, the working environment in Montreal is bilingual. Responsibilities: Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Lead projects from idea to positive execution Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices Experience: BSc/MSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience 5+ years of software engineering industry experience Experience with object-oriented programming Experience in distributed systems Experience with Java and/or Python, familiarity with Scala is a plus Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL Experience writing clear, scalable and clear design documentation Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components Must have a track record of professional excellence Benefits: Extend

About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great dev

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Engineering Manager - Database Change Management An overview of this role As Engineering Manager, Database Change Management, you'll lead a remote backend engineering team in the Database Excellence stage. The team owns database health and the database upgrade experience across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. You'll guide two missions at once: keeping one of the largest PostgreSQL installations in the world within its capacity limits, and delivering a multi-year replacement of GitLab's database migration system so customer upgrades become dramatically faster and safer. Reporting to the Database Excellence stage's enginee

About Clutch Clutch is Canada's largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Named one of Canada's Top Growing Companies two years in a row and awarded a spot on LinkedIn's Top Canadian Startups list, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by world-class investors including Canaan, BrandProject, Real Ventures, D1 Capital, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca Technology Full TypeScript stack for front- and back-end, with some legacy JavaScript Front-end: ReactJS app with functional components and context API Back-end: ExpressJS with PostgreSQL database and Sequelize ORM Microservices architecture using Docker, Terraform, AWS ECS, and other AWS services Interservice communication via RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka About the role Clutch is seeking a Team Lead, Software Engineering to lead a team of engineers building and scaling our platform. This is a player-coach role: you'll split your time roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and team leadership, mentoring engineers, owning team delivery, and partnering with product to ship work that moves the business forward. You'll partner closely with other engineering leaders on technical direction and cross-team initiatives while owning the health, growth, and execution of your team. What you'll do Lead a team of 3–5 engineers, owning their growth, performance, career development, and day-to-day delivery Stay hands-on, contributing roughly half your time to code, architecture, and technical design across the stack Partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate business priorities into a clear roadmap and well-scoped engineering work Drive execution and de