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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. Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems. The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. Rider Engagement develops rider-facing engagement levers and optimizes user pricing experience to drive both short term and long term business outcomes. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintaina

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is a global company that connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they are going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's Privacy team is composed of engineers and analysts dedicated to ensuring appropriate data protections are applied to our drivers' and passengers' data. Our goal is to make privacy the default setting for our internal engineers and our customers. We help design architectures, build a scalable data platform, and define policies to reduce the exposure of user data and ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are applied across the company. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Software Engineer to join our Privacy team. As a member of this team, you will design and build systems that make privacy the default at Lyft. Every day, you'll partner with engineering, product, legal, and compliance stakeholders on high-impact projects — from building data redaction pipelines to enabling users to exercise their privacy rights to deploying data management systems across a diverse set of Lyft services. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, a passion for privacy, and the ability to lead large projects from idea to execution. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational privacy initiatives Partner with senior engineers to design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across the organization Independently lead tasks from idea to execution Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Parti

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. Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones. Without mapping services, none of these real world interactions between people and transport can happen. The Mapping organization at Lyft has spent the last few years building up Lyft’s mapping assets and capabilities by combining many internal and external data sources and services into an increasingly powerful and mission-critical technology stack. In doing so, we’ve also enabled new user experiences and features across all of Lyft’s products, including rideshare industry leading firsts like CarPlay, Android Auto, and real-time driver feedback! We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Mapping experiences team that builds end user features to enhance drivers and riders experience on Lyft’s platform by using our in house navigation system. We are looking for an engineer with expertise in system architecture, cross team collaboration, and experience in building scalable solutions in the cloud environments. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, operations, and AI/ML teams on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations Share your knowledge by giving brown ba

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. Core Services powers the passenger and driver state machines from request and accept through drop-off and payment completion. The team enables new ride variations like autonomous vehicles, taxis, scheduled, business concierge, health and more. The “Core Services” are a suite of distributed Python and Golang systems central to Lyft’s backend. As a software engineer on the team, you will work on integrating new rider and driver products and features onto the state machine and enhancing the performance and reliability of ride state transitions. If you are excited about solving back-end distributed systems problems and owning a mission-critical part of Lyft’s operations, this team is for you. As a Software Engineer at Lyft, you will collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams, such as product, data science, and analytics, to lead and execute large projects—from concept to efficient execution. We are looking for motivated engineers who are passionate about solving challenging technical problems and excited to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and cross-functional environment. In this role, you will tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing. Key traits for success include being passionate about Lyft’s business and product, a quick learner, a collaborative mindset, and an eagerness to drive initiatives both within and across teams. You'll be joining a small, close-knit team with engaged and collaborative co-workers. Responsibilities: Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of the Fulfillment tech stack 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 knowledg

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 AV brings the autonomous future to life by matching our community of riders with self-driving vehicles to meet their transportation needs today. The program is powered by a technical team innovating to build new features, experiment, and evolve approaches for emerging business needs. At the same time, we prioritize production quality because our customers put their trust in us for safety and reliability. As a Software Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles, you’ll be responsible for executing integrations with partners, making tradeoffs between technical investments and product work, and collaborating with other engineers on system design. You will help shape the product direction by developing a deep understanding of the customer and working closely with cross-functional partners from Product, Design, Science, and Operations. You will work with a group of talented engineers and help the team to deliver significant business impact while being open to change through constant experimentation in an ambiguous emerging product. If you enjoy collaborating with technical and nontechnical partners in a fast-moving space with real-world impact, this is the role for you. 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: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience Experience in distributed sy

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Job: Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb's belongs anywhere mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we'll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts. Airbnb's business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments' processing volume. Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization. Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets. As a Senior Staff Engineer and Technical Lead for the Payments Compliance organization, you would own the technical vision and architectural direction across the full Compliance engineering landscape — spanning Policy Enforcement, Identity, Screening, Auditing, and Compliance Experience. You will ensure our compliance systems are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with broader company priorities as we navigate an increasingly complex global regulatory environment. The Role: We are looking for a seasoned technical leader who can operate at the intersection of deep systems expertise and organizational influence. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will serve as the connective tissue across Complia

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Host Pricing & Settings team builds the platform and tools that help hosts run their business — with pricing strategies informed by market intelligence, comparable listings, and demand signals. We partner with Search, Listings, Tax, and Payments to ensure our guidance is accurate, timely, and trusted. Behind every pricing recommendation is a sophisticated ML system undergoing a fundamental rearchitecture. Our north star: a serving infrastructure where training, inference, and evaluation are consistent by design — features from a centralized store, model composition in one place, and backfills available on demand so data scientists and MLEs can evaluate candidates in days, not weeks. The Difference You Will Make: As a senior technical individual contributor, you will own the technical strategy for the full Modeling → ML Serving → API interface across the Host Pricing org. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers — you are expected to be hands-on and contribute code. Define the architecture and contracts governing how models move from development to production — feature store design, model schema management, online/offline inference consistency, and multi-version support. Lead the buildout of a unified serving stack that eliminates per-model one-off implementations and gives data scientists a turnkey path from training to production. Architect backfill and evaluation infrastructure so the modeling team can simulate production inference over historical data in days, not weeks. Establish do

Role Description As an Infrastructure Engineer, your role will be crucial in shaping and constructing the robust systems that not only support our current flagship products but also lay the groundwork for the next wave of engineering innovations. From optimizing user experiences across various projects to ensuring seamless scalability and data integrity, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the technological backbone of our platform. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll leverage your expertise to tackle audacious challenges and push the boundaries of what's possible. Your contributions will directly impact millions of users, as every line of code you write furthers our mission to revolutionize the way people work and collaborate. Join us in redefining the future, where your passion for building scalable, reliable systems will drive meaningful change on a global scale. Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here . Responsibilities Build infrastructure capable of managing metadata for hundreds of billions of files, handling hundreds of petabytes of user data, and facilitating millions of concurrent connections. Lead the expansion of Dropbox's function as the data-fabric, connecting hundreds of millions of applications, devices, and services globally, while also driving initiatives to enhance interoperability and adaptability across diverse ecosystems. M easur e and optimiz e Dropbox's analytics platform to maintain its status as one of the most advanced in the industry for extracting meaningful insights from vast data volumes. Collaborat e with cross-functional teams to innovate and implement solutions that enhance the performance, reliability, and security of Dropbox's infrastructure, ensuring a seamless experience for users worldwide. Proactively identify new opportunities and drive imp

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. 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. What you’ll do Responsibilities Architect, build, and maintain robust APIs, services, and systems across engineering teams using Ruby and Java; Act as a domain expert of the payments family of Stripe products, and in particular various payout methods and underlying rails used in US / UK; Build and enhance software infrastructure, encompassing the complete development lifecycle from coding to testing, deployment, debugging, and maintenance; Design software systems leveraging scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure design outcomes; Contribute to core interface design and write code; Serve as a role model for how great software should be written; Contribute code changes in every layer of the stack, from launching a net new payout method API to making a UI change in the Stripe Dashboard for the Stripe Connect product; Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale; Engineer payments integration with banking partners to launch new markets, payout methods, and capabilities, while ensuring reliability and scalability; Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale; Design and implement secure systems for sensitive data storage; Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is necessary

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. 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. What you’ll do Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams using Java, Ruby, Scala, and Go Build software infrastructure, including developing, testing, and deploying it Design and develop software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design Engineer payments integration with various financial partners software systems Design APIs and underlying data models to support complex financial abstractions and multi-party integrations, enabling flexible billing and settlement configurations across international markets Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale Build new systems to securely store sensitive data; Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes Integrate observability tools and alerting mechanisms (Datadog, Prometheus) into high-traffic production systems, defining SLAs and real-time diagnostics to meet the reliability standards required by financial partners Mentor junior engineers, lead technical design reviews, and establish best practices in code quality, system design, re

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 Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration. While Stripe is renowned for industry-leading payment protection, we are expanding our focus to provide a comprehensive security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their entire digital ecosystem on Stripe. As a founding member of this team, you'll architect a large-scale customer-facing security data pipeline and presentation layer. Much like modern security observability platforms and data lakes that have transformed cloud infrastructure, we're building an API-first service that transforms massive streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence. This team operates at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and cybersecurity, creating the systems that will allow the world’s most sophisticated companies to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real time. What you’ll do As a Senior Software Engineer on this founding team, you'll lead the technical design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You'll define how we capture security signals, process them at scale, and deliver them to our users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. If you have security domain knowledge, you'll have opportunities to help shape

About the Team The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities across the enterprise admin experience and OpenAI's growing multi-product portfolio. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems that are foundational to our enterprise business. This role requires operating well beyond a single service or feature area. You will identify the most consequential architectural investments, align teams around durable solutions, and ensure our identity platform meets an exceptionally high bar for scale, availability, latency, and security. This role will be based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office. In this role, you will: Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces. Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base. Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products and enable the organization to scale. Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities. Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team. Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization. You might thr

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect our model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. We partner with teams across OpenAI—Applied Engineering, Research, IT, and Security—to provide a secure and scalable platform for permissioning, orchestration, and innovative AI research. About the Role We’re looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to help build and evolve the identity infrastructure that supports OpenAI’s research, engineering, and internal platforms. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and software engineering. You’ll work across production systems, infrastructure-as-code, cloud control planes, identity providers, and operational infrastructure to build secure, scalable, and reliable systems used broadly across the company. The ideal candidate has experience building and operating large-scale, mission-critical systems with strong reliability and security requirements, and is comfortable writing production code, designing distributed systems, and driving ambiguous projects from 0 to 1 while building the operational rigor needed to run critical infrastructure over time. In this role, you will: Lead the architecture, development, and operation of identity infrastructure that spans cloud platforms, internal systems, and critical engineering services. Design and evolve systems for authentication, authorization, access governance, auditability, and policy enforcement with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and secure-by-default design. Build foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities that are broadly used across engineering, research, and security teams. Improve the reliability, observability, performance, and op

About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. You’ll write production code, design shared infrastructure, and solve technical challenges involving performance, distributed systems, and system reliability. You’ll also own how those systems behave in production: how changes are rolled out, how issues are detected and diagnosed, and how recurring operational problems can be addressed through better software and system design. This is a strong fit for backend engineers who enjoy complex systems problems and want a direct connection between the infrastructure they build and the experience of ChatGPT users. In this role, you will: Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely. Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow. Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads. Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact. Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational lea

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end. This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage. Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable. Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems. Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams. Own governance systems