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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 Integrations & Application Engineering team owns the integration and automation platforms at Airbnb. We enable teams across the company to self-serve in connecting their systems and automating solutions, and we integrate Airbnb’s enterprise systems end-to-end. The team also builds and manages custom in-house solutions and the application infrastructure that supports them. This is a hybrid IC and people-leadership role focused on Finance integrations and automations. As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead and grow a team of engineers while operating hands-on at a senior IC level, setting technical direction, owning delivery, and writing and reviewing code yourself. We’re looking for someone with deep ERP product knowledge who builds integrations in general-purpose languages, takes ownership of systems and people, and is enthusiastic about applying AI, building tools and integrations with Claude Code that extend what the team can do. A Typical Day Lead the Finance and ERP integration practice: set direction, run initiatives in parallel, and own the systems and processes your team supports. Balance management with hands-on work: unblock the team, review designs and code, and build complex integrations, backend services, APIs and MCPs yourself. Partner with Finance, Procurement, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into integrations, automations, and reporting. Coach and grow engineers and contractors through design reviews, architecture discussions, and career development. Own the smooth operation of month-end financial integrations and reporting, proactively surf

Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for a Manager, Platform Engineering that can lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on Developer Experience, DevOps, SRE, and Quality. You will own the systems and processes that enable teams to build, test, release, and operate software with high velocity and reliability, driving engineering efficiency and operational excellence across the organization. What you’ll do: Lead a fast-paced, autonomous team of engineers focused on platform engineering, developer experience, DevOps, SRE, and quality engineering Own and drive the internal developer platform strategy and roadmap, improving how engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate services Create transparency into engineering efficiency and system health through meaningful metrics across delivery, reliability, and quality Enable teams to move faster by improving CI CD pipelines, environments, tooling, and overall developer workflows Provide technical leadership across platform, infrastructure, and reliability, helping teams build scalable and resilient systems Ensure strong engineering practices across release processes, testing, quality, reliability, and security Define and enforce release guardrails, validation standards, and rollback mechanisms to improve production safety Improve environment stability and consistency across development, QA, and pre production environments Drive test strategy and automation maturity to improve overall product quality and confidence in releases Define and implement observability, monitoring, and alerting standards across systems Improve incident detection, response, and RCA practices, ensuring learnings translate into platform and system improvements Drive cloud infrastructure best practices across AWS, containers, and infrastructure as code Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement within the team Provide innovative solutions for attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent I

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. The Engineering Architect Team The Architecture team is a small group of very senior engineers reporting to our VP of Engineering Excellence, working broadly across the organization in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security. We partner deeply with other Engineering teams for large projects, and provide direction and architectural guidance for smaller initiatives. We have a dual-pronged charter to “level up the tech stack and level up the people stack” via both technical contributions and partnerships/mentoring. In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly contribute to Auth0’s future technology direction. Through your experience, knowledge of industry trends, and technical abilities you will provide guidance, build proof of concepts, and deliver production software implementations that help Auth0 Engineering teams move faster by using and developing standard patterns and technologies. You will also help advance the engineering culture and help uplevel other engineers. Note that while this role involves a lot of guidance, documentation, and leadership, it also requires substantial hands-on coding and development of both applications and systems. What you’ll be doing You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture. Foster and lead innovation in the IAM space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity Lead initiat

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 CRM Engineering team builds world-class tools that drive growth and foster meaningful relationships between Airbnb and its community, including Hosts, Guests, Law Enforcement, Government Regulators, Local Community Leaders, and more. This team tackles some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business. Here are a few examples: Growth Platform: Designed to increase supply and retain existing hosts. Policy Platform: Enables Airbnb to engage with regulatory bodies across the globe regarding short-term rental regulations. This platform tracks regulations that impact the Airbnb business and provides intelligence to address unique business challenges. Community Platform: Establishes a social platform to drive community enablement, collaboration, and success. Agent Tools: Empowers agents to understand and resolve issues that customers are unable to address on their own. Aircover Claims Platform: Facilitates the processing of claims for Aircover insurance products, offering protection to both hosts and guests. The Difference You Will Make: As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and craftsmanship while building scalable, reliable, and impactful systems that drive Airbnb’s growth. Our team is building an AI-driven growth platform to power Airbnb’s supply expansion by leveraging AI-driven intelligence to generate sales insights, address diverse supply needs, empower existing hosts to succeed, and attract high-quality hosts to the platform. You will partner clos

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As Engineering Manager for the Vanta for Government team, you'll lead a team on one of Vanta's most strategically significant expansion bets: building the compliance platform that will serve government vendors, federal agencies, and SLED organizations at scale. The Vanta for Government team is building and evolving Vanta's AI-powered platform for government vendors, federal agencies, and State, Local, and Education (SLED) organizations. Our mission is to make government compliance not easy, but easier: helping organizations automate the heavy lifting across complex frameworks like FedRAMP, CMMC, and NIST, strengthen their security posture, and support mission-critical work with greater confidence. You'll join at a critical juncture in the product's development, working directly alongside early design partners, translating evolving requirements into real product, and establishing the engineering practices and team culture that will define how this team operates as it grows. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Engineering Manager at Vanta: Build and grow a high-performing team: lead, coach, and develop engineers while hiring strategically, closing gaps in team composition, and raising the bar on quality and delivery Drive execution across the government product roadmap: deliver against multi-quarter initiatives spanning core compliance workflow features, FedRAMP/CMMC/NIST-specific capabilities, and integrations designed for government vendors and customers Partner closely with Product and Design to define what gets built and in what order — translating ambiguous, e

Zoox is on a mission to reimagine transportation and build autonomous robotaxis from the ground up that are safe, reliable, clean, and enjoyable for everyone. With bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering, our vehicle allows us to maneuver through compact spaces and change directions without needing to reverse. We are at a critical inflection point as we scale our robotaxi deployment, and it is a great time to join Zoox and have a significant impact on executing our mission. Our growing ML performance engineering leadership team is looking for an Engineering Manager, ML Performance Optimization. The centralized ML performance team at Zoox plays a crucial role in enabling innovations across all our ML research teams to develop and deploy models across our robotaxi and cloud infrastructure and to advance cutting-edge training and inference optimization techniques. The Opportunity We are working on many interesting challenges to enable rapid experimentation and scale our multi-modal Foundation models and RL infrastructure, and ensure these models run efficiently on our vehicles, meeting our latency targets. You will get to work across all ML teams within Zoox - Perception, Prediction, Planner, Simulation and our Advanced Hardware Engineering group, and have the opportunity to significantly push the boundaries of ML scaling and acceleration at Zoox. You will lead a team of strong ML performance engineers and this team has many growth opportunities as we expand our geofences at U.S markets and venture into new ML domains. If you want to learn more about our ML Infrastructure, here is one of our past talks at re:Invent. In this role, you will: Leadership & Team Growth <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:

Opportunity Overview: We’re seeking a strategic and execution-focused Technical Program Manager to drive large, cross-functional initiatives from concept through launch. In this role, you will lead end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team programs—such as platform migrations, architectural modernization, reliability improvements, and major product launches—while defining clear milestones, success metrics, and sequencing plans. You’ll partner deeply with Engineering to proactively manage dependencies, mitigate risk, and ensure technical and business alignment. This role also strengthens our execution systems by improving program transparency, standardizing launch rigor, and translating technical complexity into clear executive-level insights. What you’ll do: Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team initiatives (e.g., platform migrations, architectural modernization, reliability improvements, major product launches) Define milestones, critical paths, and measurable success criteria Break ambiguous initiatives into executable phases with clear sequencing Identify and manage cross-team technical dependencies Proactively surface risks and tradeoffs with mitigation plans Run structured risk reviews and escalation processes when needed Participate in technical design discussions to understand architecture and constraints Ensure design reviews, capacity planning, and rollout strategies happen early Collaborate with EMs and engineers leaders to align on realistic timelines Establish program tracking mechanisms that create transparency without bureaucracy Standardize launch readiness, milestone reviews, and postmortem follow-ups Identify systemic delivery bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement Provide concise executive updates with clear status, risks, and asks Maintain decision logs and documentation for key initiatives Translate technical complexity into business impact What you’ll need: Must-haves 6+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering pr

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Team The Perception ML Operations team sits at the center of how Nuro's vehicles learn to see. We are responsible for the training and evaluation data that powers perception models across every sensor modality: vision, lidar, radar, and beyond. We work alongside ML engineers, product owners, data engineers, and external labeling partners to turn ambiguous, fast-moving requirements into data deliverables the Perception team can build on with confidence. This is a team that operates at the intersection of ML urgency and operational discipline. Here is what the work actually looks like day-to-day: Sitting in a roadmap review, hearing a new feature requirement land, and walking out with a concrete data collection and labeling plan already scoped against timeline and budget. Reviewing vendor throughput against milestone dates and catching a capacity gap before it would become a release risk. Querying pipeline data directly to unders

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer ne

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer ne

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Tooling team at Roblox builds the shared tools, frameworks, and developer experiences that make data reliable, discoverable, governable, efficient, and easy to use. Our work spans data quality, lineage, metadata, ownership, observability, lifecycle management, optimization, and self-service workflows that support Data Engineering, Data Science, Experimentation, Machine Learning, and product teams across Roblox. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building these highly leveraged capabilities. You will help define the roadmap, grow and develop engineers, establish durable engineering standards, and partner across the company to turn complex data-operability challenges into simple, scalable workflows. You will balance near-term customer impact with long-term platform foundations. Your team’s work will help users understand the health and cost of their data, discover the right datasets, respond to failures faster, meet quality and lifecycle standards, and safely improve the efficiency of the data platform. You Will Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, thoughtful hiring, and meaningful technical and career development. O

About Highnote Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. As an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform, we provide digital-first organizations with the flexibility to seamlessly issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities—empowering businesses to drive growth and profitability. We’ve raised $145M+ and have grown our team to 140+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states. Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet. We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen. Job Description Highnote is looking for a Senior Technical Writer to own our developer documentation. You'll set the voice and standards for how we explain card issuing, acquiring, and money movement to developers — and build the tooling that holds that standard as the platform grows. You'll join Developer Experience, the team that owns our API, our SDKs, our docs, and our design. What you'll do: Own our API documentation: reference, developer guides, and tutorials Collaborate with the engineers who build the API you're documenting, and support the PMs shipping it Set the voice, tone, and style of our docs, and encode that standard into our tooling so it holds across content you didn't write yourself Build and refine AI workflows that draf

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences – all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We're on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Why Safety AI Systems? As Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, you'll lead technical efforts and manage a team of experienced engineers to develop innovative AI solutions for language and text content safety. You'll oversee machine learning systems, data quality, training pipelines, and model performance to address challenges like real-time content understanding across Roblox's experiences

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Why Safety AI Systems? As Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, you'll lead technical efforts and manage a team of experienced engineers to develop innovative AI solutions for multimodal content safety. You’ll oversee machine learning systems, constructing multimodal model architectures, improving data quality, training pipelines, and model performance to address challenges like real-time multi-verse content understanding and advanced moderation with large vision language models, spanning avatars, images, videos, audios, text, code / data models, and their composites. In close collaboration with product, policy, and Trust & Safety teams, you'll design large-scale systems to detect and mitigate abusive behavior before it harms the community. You'll own critical services at massive scale, balancing user freedom with platform civility to protect and empower our users. Your leadership will help ensure Roblox remains a safe, inclusive space for self-expression and shared experiences. You Will Own the vision, technical direction, and execution of machine learning solutions for the Multimodal Safety AI system, ensuring these systems effectively detect and prevent ha

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The platforms in our Engineering Acceleration org dictate how thousands of Roblox engineers ship, and how every backend service gets built, deployed, and kept reliable at scale. They sit on the critical path for production reliability, developer velocity, and security posture. Reporting to Andrew Swerdlow, you will rethink the entire engineering toolchain from the ground up to be agentic-native, creating a world where AI agents are first-class participants in software development and humans set direction and supervise. This is a unique opportunity to define what modern engineering infrastructure looks like at one of the largest platforms in the world. You will: Reimagine the engineering toolchain as agentic-native, designing the platforms, guardrails, and feedback loops that let AI agents safely drive migrations, validation, and routine operational work. Set a bold technical direction for AI-driven quality, including agent-generated tests, automated coverage of untested paths, intelligent verification, and continuous-deployment workflows. Make software quality and SEV prevention a measurable property of the platform by investing in safe-change mechanisms, automated verification, progressive