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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including: Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding. Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety What You’ll Do Product & Engineering Execution: Partner closely with cross-functional partners in product, design, and platform engineering to execute on product strategy and build novel, user-centric media features. Full-Lifecycle Development: Drive the complete development lifecycle—from technical design and architectural proposals to implementation, unit/integration testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment. Quality & Velocity: Move fast while

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including: Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding. Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety What You’ll Do Product & Engineering Execution: Partner closely with cross-functional partners in product, design, and platform engineering to execute on product strategy and build novel, user-centric media features. Full-Lifecycle Development: Drive the complete development lifecycle—from technical design and architectural proposals to implementation, unit/integration testing, experimentation, performance analysis, and deployment. Quality & Velocity: Move fast while

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. Datastores Engineer, Platform Infrastructure The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers all around the world - and we're growing fast! The Platform Infrastructure team enables Auth0 engineers to move faster by giving them tools to easily deploy and manage their services on AWS and Azure. This is a role with a huge impact. You will get to work with engineers throughout the organization and what you build will be a foundational piece of the infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come. We are looking for Engineer who are passionate about distributed systems, availability, and delivering customer value to join our Platform Infrastructure Datastores team. Because we build and support the overall Auth0 platform, the ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about infrastructure, operations, databases and not intimidated by cross-organization coordination and collaboration. You will: Develop our large, distributed and highly-available infrastructure. Implement platform tools that allow feature teams to deploy and manage the datastores for their services. Research new technologies to accelerate new environment creation. Carry cross team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc. Participate in the team's on-call rotation. You might be a good fit if you: Have 5-8 years of software development experience. Are proficient in or have a desire

About Appier Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information. About the role Appier’s solutions are powered by proprietary deep learning and machine learning technologies to empower every business to use AI to turn data into business insights and decisions. As a Software Engineer, Data Backend, you will be involved in helping to build critical components of this platform. Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs using Python. Build and manage robust data warehouses utilizing ClickHouse, Trino/Presto and Pinot. Design and develop data pipelines using Apache Airflow and Apache Spark. Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop automation tools that streamline daily operations. Implement state-of-the-art monitoring and alerting systems to ensure optimal system performance and stability. Address queries from applications in a timely and effective manner, ensuring high client satisfaction. Work on cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, leveraging their capabilities to optimize data operations. Utilize Kubernetes (k8s) for container orchestration to facilitate efficient deployment and scaling of applications. About you [Minimum qualifications] BS/MS degree in Computer Science 2+ years of experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems or applications Experience in Kubernetes development, Linux/Unix Experience in managing data lake or data warehouse Expertise in developing data structures, algorithms on top of Big Data platforms Ability to operate effectively and independently in a dynamic, fluid environment Ability to wor

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years. We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. We're a team of 170+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Lithic’s Card Authorization team, which owns the real-time systems that make every card authorization decision correct, reliable, and fast. The team also owns related fraud tooling, including Lithic’s Rules Engine and 3D Secure integration. You’ll own high-impact projects end-to-end, solve distributed-systems problems at scale, and help build the tools customers use to control fraud and payment risk. What you'll do: Write reliable, secure, scalable code for Lithic’s real-time authorization and fraud-prevention systems with minimal tech debt Build customer-facing features, such as rules improvements, velocity controls, 3DS flows, fraud tooling, and transaction monitoring. Own projects from planning to launch. Improve the reliability of systems in team’s scope and participate in the team on-call rotation Lead efforts to improve systems and processes within the team What you'll bring: 4+ years building production backend systems. Full stack experience is a plus. Experie

Senior Software Engineer - (Agent Training and Evals) Engineering Prolific Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models. The role As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be one of the first engineers on our Agent Training & Evals team. You'll build infrastructure to evaluate AI agents at scale against real human expertise, in safe and secure environments. The better we get at this, the more useful, reliable and safe agents become. This is a genuine 0→1 role. There isn't a well-established playbook or existing architecture for you to simply maintain. You’ll shape the team’s technical direction and the products we build. You'll work closely with engineering, product and AI research to turn ambiguous problems into scalable systems, and you'll see the impact of what you build directly. What you’ll be doing in the role Build a platform to support evaluating and fine-tuning agents Take prototypes to production; turn experiments and research ideas into reliable, well-tested software Own what we ship as it scales in production Solve hard problems around data, compute, orchestration, scaling, security and reliability Work with emerging agentic AI technologies and rapidly evolving models Make effective product and technical decisions in a highly experimental environment Partner closely with customers, product engineering and AI research to turn problems and opportunities into working products Drive direct impact in a fast-moving, high-ownership, cross-functional team What you’ll bring to the role A background in Software Engineering, Data Engineering or MLOps Strong experience building scalable infrastructure or distributed systems in the clo

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 Tokenization team's mission is to bring both public and private equity to be tradable 24/7 on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) across the Robinhood Chain. We work at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems - with a focus on accessibility, security, and scalability. Equity markets have been closed nights and weekends for a century; we're building the infrastructure that changes that. As a Senior Software Engineer , you will design and build the core systems that issue, custody, and settle tokenized equities on-chain and keep them in sync with traditional brokerage and ledger systems. You'll lead technically complex projects end to end, make architectural decisions on a foundational Robinhood initiative, and work in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable - the systems you build move real customer assets, continuously, across multiple chains and jurisdictions. This role is based in our Toronto, ON office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week . At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office

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 Tokenization team's mission is to bring both public and private equity to be tradable 24/7 on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) across the Robinhood Chain. We work at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems - with a focus on accessibility, security, and scalability. Equity markets have been closed nights and weekends for a century; we're building the infrastructure that changes that. As a Senior Software Engineer , you will design and build the core systems that issue, custody, and settle tokenized equities on-chain and keep them in sync with traditional brokerage and ledger systems. You'll lead technically complex projects end to end, make architectural decisions on a foundational Robinhood initiative, and work in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable - the systems you build move real customer assets, continuously, across multiple chains and jurisdictions. This role are based in either our Menlo Park, Toronto or New York city offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE Everpure Cloud Azure Native is a generally available service that brings enterprise-grade block storage natively to Azure. With the first version already live, we are expanding the service into new use cases and markets while improving its reliability, operability, and customer experience. Our Foundation team owns a Go-based control-plane service that coordinates how customers provision and use storage in Azure. Around it, we work with a modern cloud stack including Temporal and other platform services for workflows, automation, and observability. This is a production cloud service: the code you write directly shapes how customers deploy, scale, and operate storage in their Azure environments. You’ll work on a core storage service in a major public cloud , as part of a joint effort between Everpure and Microsoft. You’ll design and evolve APIs and service behavior in the critical path of real customer workloads, collaborating closely with engineers across both companies. Clear API contracts, long-lived interfaces, test automation, and CI/CD are fundamental to how we build. You’ll have the opportunity to own services end to end and solve complex distributed-systems problems in the public cloud. WHAT YOU'LL DO Own and evolve a production cloud service that powers Everpure Cloud Azure Native, taking features from idea and design through deployment and operation in Azure for real customers. Build new capabilities and i

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 Partner Merchant Interfaces - Integration team within Decisions Foundations is growing and we are looking for a Software Engineer. You will be part of a fast paced team which is responsible for the APIs that Partners and Merchants use to integrate with Affirm, and also power some of our top partners like Amazon and Stripe. What You'll Do · With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals. · You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work. · You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime. · You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities. What We Look For · You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin. · You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. · You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code. · You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews. · Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. · You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effect

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. Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service — production and internal deployments, Kubernetes fleets, CI/CD, etc. Our cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. The Cloud Efficiency team builds a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform along with AI skills and agents that makes spend observable, attributable, governable while driving insights and optimization of our cloud spend. AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform for resource ownership registry, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling. Build AI agents, tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis. Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud utilization, cost and efficiency data at scale. Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand attribution and observability needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility. Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring. Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of team-managed platforms by participating in on-call rotations and incident management. Partner with Finance, Product and Engineering teams t

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit's Transport and Site Defense teams build and operate foundational infrastructure behind one of the largest sites in the world. These teams own how requests enter Reddit, how services discover and talk to each other, how traffic moves across clusters and clouds, and how Reddit protects itself from DDoS attacks, scrapers, bots, and other undesired traffic. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Site Defense team within Reddit’s Infrastructure organization. Site Defense is responsible for protecting Reddit at internet scale—serving as the first line of defense against DDoS attacks, automated abuse, large-scale scraping, and other network-level threats. This is a high impact role that sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, security, and applied machine learning. You will design and own the critical infrastructure that safeguards Reddit’s data from large scale attacks. You will: Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems that protect Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse. Analyze, develop and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers. Build systems to detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic in real time at per-request and per-user granularity Partner closely within Infrastructure and with Security, and internal Safety teams to balance security, performance, and user experience Mentor junior engineers in their professional growth. Contribute to the team’s ML-at-Ingress initiatives, including experimentin

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations: Austin, TX | London , UK | Lisbon , Portugal About the Team Cloudflare operates one of the largest and most interconnected anycast networks on the Internet. To make that happen, a complex orchestra of IP address configuration and distributed systems need to be in harmony to deliver packets from users, through our edge network and then onwards to our customers origin servers or networks. On the Addressing team, you will archit

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 Payment Intelligence is comprised of multiple product teams building AI-first solutions to some of our customers’ biggest challenges, including fraud/abuse ( Radar ), payment optimizations ( AuthBoost ), Disputes, Authentication, and merchant analytics. We’re a mix of machine engineering engineers and full-stack software engineers impacting ~every Stripe transaction, creating revenue opportunities for Stripe and our customers, and helping protect the broader ecosystem. We have the benefit and privilege of working on cutting edge technologies with incredible scale and reach while also working directly with our merchants every day to build the right products for their needs. What you'll do As a Staff Engineer on Payment Intelligence, you’ll work across our product portfolio to ensure we’re building in a consistent, efficient, and effective manner. Experience with large, distributed systems on the critical path will help candidates succeed, as will comfort working across the stack and interacting with ML teams and models. Responsibilities Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, with a focus on quality and performance Champion a quality-first engineering culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale Partner with some of Stripe’s largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence Partner cross-functionally

Atlas Stream Processing enables developers to continuously process streaming data alongside critical application data stored in their database. It builds on MongoDB’s integrated developer data platform, so developers can stand up a stream processor and database with just a few API calls and lines of code, all fully managed. Our product is quickly gaining traction, and we are adding core features that you will contribute to and own. The team owns the C++ stream processing engine that powers Atlas Stream Processing, built on top of MongoDB's Aggregation Framework. The team operates like a startup within the company, a small group with real autonomy, responsible for everything from the core execution engine and stream processing stages . We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve this execution engine. Position Expectations Design, build, and deliver core components of the system in collaboration with other stakeholders Help shape architecture, development practices, and escalation policies as the teams and the product grow Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects Qualifications Strong background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization) 5+ years of experience in building database services, distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational material of computer science, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers, and assume project ownership and accountability Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or