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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 Datalake team builds and maintains Stripe's foundational data access and governance infrastructure — the paved path for safe, fast, and compliant access to Stripe's critical big data assets. We serve developers, data engineers, analysts, ML and AI teams, security teams, and business users across the company. The team is in the middle of a significant architectural transition as Stripe grows. We are making Stripe's data lake a first-class citizen of the modern data ecosystem to support our growing scale and diverse workloads. What Makes This Role Compelling Foundational infrastructure with broad reach: The Datalake team's systems sit in the critical path of nearly every data workload at Stripe. Decisions affect petabytes of data, hundreds of production pipelines, and every engineering team that builds on Stripe's data lake. Active, high-stakes architectural transformation: The team is executing a multi-year migration to modern, OSS-aligned solutions — a technically deep project with real architectural choices at each step, including API design, compute engine integration, authorization model, and per-table credential vending. Active, high-stakes, OSS-aligned architectural transformation: You will lead a multi-year migration to modern, open-source solutions like the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog. This is a technically deep project involving critical architectural choices at each step, from API design and compute engine integration

Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. The Challenge We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead technical direction in support of D eveloper E xperience at OneTrust. Staff Engineers determine their own approach on complex, often ambiguous assignments, and their technical judgment is trusted well beyond their immediate team. Your Mission Technical Leadership & Architecture Lead design and architecture for major features or components, ensuring alignment with the broader system architecture. Independ ently d etermine approach and methods on complex, ambiguous assignments without an established playbook. Cross-Team Collaboration Partner with other engineering teams, and architecture to shape solutions before implementation begins. Build working relationships and technical credibility beyond your immediate team. Quality & Standards Establish and champion engineering best practices adopted by your team and beyond. Maintain a strong focus on customer outcomes Mentorship Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow their techni

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next generation of CLEAR's enterprise identity platform, CLEAR1. We’re creating frictionless identity solutions for some of the most sophisticated companies in the world and pushing the boundaries everywhere we go. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own high-impact, cross-functional products and integrations end to end from problem framing and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and measurable outcomes. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in scrappy, ambiguous environments, while bringing the technical rigor and operating discipline developed at larger companies. You’ll partner across teams, establish reusable patterns and standards, improve reliability and execution, influence technical direction, and mentor other engineers. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that power CLEAR’s identity platform. Own projects end to end—from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Design for reality by understanding failure modes, system dependencies, degradation strategies, recovery paths, and the points where systems may break under scale. Build quality and operability into the design from the start, including test strategy, observability, alerting, sa

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Role: As a Staff Quality Engineer on the Content Portfolio team, you will own and drive test strategy, build automation frameworks, and embed a culture of quality ownership across the engineering organization. Your deep expertise in automation, cloud services, Kubernetes, and modern programming languages will directly shape how we test, release, and deliver reliable software at scale. You will partner closely with developers, product managers, and platform teams to define test requirements, architect quality infrastructure, and ensure AlphaSense ships with confidence at velocity. You will: Lead the development of test automation frameworks across UI, API, and GraphQL layers, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and speed Design and integrate AI evaluation frameworks to assess accuracy, consistency, and reliability of LLM-powered features L

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: The Experience team is at the center of one of the most exciting transitions in software development history — the shift from human-driven to agent-driven product experiences. We own Pinecone's API, clients, authentication, revenue, and observability systems, and right now that means redesigning all of it for a world where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans. This is a wide-scope role. You'll own things end-to-end — from backend architecture to API design to SDK and web surfaces. You’ll be working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to identify user needs and build the right thing, at the right abstraction level, at the right time. Along the way, you will be building high-leverage platform capabilities that accelerate Pinecone’s product development and user growth systems. We're looking for an engineer who sees this moment for what it is: a rare opportunity to shape how developers and agents interact with a category-defining product. You're not waiting to see how the industry figures out MCP, agentic workflows, and AI-native interfaces — you're already experimenting, already forming opinions, already building. You know that speed and leverage matter more than labor, and you've internalized AI-assisted development not as a productivity trick but as a fundamentally different way of working. Responsibilities: Pioneer our agent experience. Shape how AI agents interact with Pinecone — designing interfaces, protocols (MCP), and tooling that make Pinecone the easiest and most capable platform f

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: The Experience team is at the center of one of the most exciting transitions in software development history — the shift from human-driven to agent-driven product experiences. We own Pinecone's API, clients, authentication, revenue, and observability systems, and right now that means redesigning all of it for a world where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans. This is a wide-scope role. You'll own things end-to-end — from backend architecture to API design to SDK and web surfaces. You’ll be working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to identify user needs and build the right thing, at the right abstraction level, at the right time. Along the way, you will be building high-leverage platform capabilities that accelerate Pinecone’s product development and user growth systems. We're looking for an engineer who sees this moment for what it is: a rare opportunity to shape how developers and agents interact with a category-defining product. You're not waiting to see how the industry figures out MCP, agentic workflows, and AI-native interfaces — you're already experimenting, already forming opinions, already building. You know that speed and leverage matter more than labor, and you've internalized AI-assisted development not as a productivity trick but as a fundamentally different way of working. Responsibilities: Pioneer our agent experience. Shape how AI agents interact with Pinecone — designing interfaces, protocols (MCP), and tooling that make Pinecone the easiest and most capable platform f

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: We are hiring a senior/staff software engineer to help design and build core components of our next-generation knowledge retrieval system built for the AI era – search and retrieval infrastructure that powers high-quality, scalable, and enterprise-grade agentic systems. You’ll build the framework that allows our customers to connect knowledge–synthesized from structured and unstructured data–to modern LLM-powered applications, leveraging the world’s best-in-class vector DB supporting semantic search and hybrid retrieval. This role is ideal for someone who loves backend system architecture, distributed systems, and applied AI infrastructure. It is a high impact role with significant ownership across architecture, performance, and system reliability. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval via query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks Design APIs for internal and external user and agentic consumers Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads Drive technical direction for reliability and security What You’ll Bring to the Table: To thrive in this role, you don't need to check every single box, but you should be deep

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: We are hiring a senior/staff software engineer to help design and build core components of our next-generation knowledge retrieval system built for the AI era – search and retrieval infrastructure that powers high-quality, scalable, and enterprise-grade agentic systems. You’ll build the framework that allows our customers to connect knowledge–synthesized from structured and unstructured data–to modern LLM-powered applications, leveraging the world’s best-in-class vector DB supporting semantic search and hybrid retrieval. This role is ideal for someone who loves backend system architecture, distributed systems, and applied AI infrastructure. It is a high impact role with significant ownership across architecture, performance, and system reliability. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval via query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks Design APIs for internal and external user and agentic consumers Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads Drive technical direction for reliability and security What You’ll Bring to the Table: To thrive in this role, you don't need to check every single box, but you should be deep

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: Join a team that builds robust, real-time distributed systems for a cutting-edge database. We care about performance, reliability, scalability, and most of all learning and having fun together. Whether you’re a seasoned coder or just getting started, if you’re passionate about technology and eager to learn, you’ll fit right in. Who we are: We show up to work, ready to collaborate and build technologies that make a difference, with people who genuinely care. We chase improvements such as tail latencies, bytes throughput, cache hit rate, and operational cost efficiency. We believe learning is ongoing and that even the most complex problems can have simple solutions. What You’ll Do: Collaborate with teammates to design and build database features that power AI applications. Learn how to tune performance and support reliability in distributed systems (don’t worry, we’ll guide you). Help Pinecone run smoothly on popular cloud providers. Take ownership of your work and grow your skills every day. Have fun. Who You Are: 5+ years of work experience - programming in Rust, Go, C++, or a comparable language. You’re genuinely curious about distributed systems and eager to dive deep into technical challenges. You approach problems with creativity and persistence, and you’re comfortable asking thoughtful questions or seeking feedback. You’re excited to learn, value constructive feedback, and appreciate mentorship. Bonus Points: You have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or have demonstrated an ability to pick u

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. Job Description Okta’s Auth0 is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. We make everyone’s login experience awesome. If you are a problem solver who wants to make this login experience even better, then look no further - Okta Auth0 B2C Authentication domain is where you want to be. Our domain’s mission is to provide a simple, secure, standards-compliant and delightful authentication experience for both end users and developers. We work with NodeJS, React, golang, Swift, Java / Kotlin, Postgres/MongoDB databases and our services run on both AWS and Azure. Our tech stack continues to evolve and expand to new technologies and trends. We are proponents of using the right tools for the job. We are looking for an engineer who leverages AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude) to accelerate the software development lifecycle without compromising security. You should be proficient in using LLMs for rapid prototyping, boilerplate generation, and complex refactoring , effectively cutting down development time. Crucially, you must possess the judgment to audit, debug, and secure AI-generated code, ensuring it meets our strict authentication standards. You will use AI not just to write code, but to generate comprehensive unit tests, document systems, and simulate edge-case scenarios in our auth flows. As a member of the Native Apps team you will: Be a part of fast paced, agile team comprising of engineers, a

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 Unified Data Store (UDS) team is the architect of Airbnb’s global system-of-record. We design, build, and operate the mission-critical storage platform that powers every user profile, listing, reservation, and financial transaction on the platform. Supporting over 150 million users worldwide, our work is the bedrock of Airbnb’s reliability and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer in our Brazil Engineering Hub , you will join a high-impact group of technical leaders who value craft and operational excellence. You won't just be managing data; you will be building a modern distributed infrastructure service that enables hundreds of product teams to ship features with total confidence. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who thrives on solving deep architectural challenges and leading through ambiguity. As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as the Technical North Star for the UDS Client Stack, ensuring our data access layer is seamless, high-performance, and future-proof. A Typical Day: Define Technical Strategy: Lead the multi-year roadmap and long-term architecture for the UDS client stack, balancing immediate execution with systemic platform evolution. Architect for Scale: Design and operate a high-performance data access layer that abstracts complexities like indexing, replication, and global consistency models. Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead deep-dive design reviews and establish best practices for building fault-tolerant distributed systems across the organization. Empower Developers: Act as a bridge between infrastructure and

Role Overview Build reliable software services that power products, platforms, and business decisions. As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll design and deliver scalable applications, backend services, and integrations that perform well in production and evolve with changing business needs. You’ll apply strong software engineering practices across APIs, data-intensive applications, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and deployment pipelines. You’ll help shape technical solutions, improve system reliability, and contribute to a high-quality engineering culture. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Design and develop scalable backend services and applications using Python or TypeScript. Lead the development of APIs, integrations, reusable software components, and AI-enabled features. Build reliable solutions for data ingestion, manipulation, service-to-service communication, and intelligent automation. Apply AI technologies and modern software engineering practices to improve product capabilities, developer productivity, and operational efficiency. Make sound technical decisions around architecture, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability. Deploy and operate applications using AWS services and CI/CD practices while improving testing, monitoring, documentation, and delivery standards. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview 5+ years of professional experience developing and delivering production software. Strong hands-on experience with Python; TypeScript or similar languages is also valuable. Proven experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and service-oriented applications. Experience applying AI technologies, such as generative AI, machine learning services, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled application features. Strong understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and secure development. Experience working with cloud platfor

#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a focused team of developers, product managers, and designers who are passionate about using technology to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbor they can rely on. We are a small, high performing team of engineers that wear multiple hats and prioritize impact for our customers. We care about moving fast and delivering impact, without compromising on quality and reliability as guided by our Engineering Principles . You will have the opportunity to learn from your co-workers and teach them. As a team, we will make each other better and build great software. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make We believe in empowering our teams to own all aspects of bringing Nextdoor to life. As such, you’ll get the opportunity to make key contributions across our enginee

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio's next Staff Software Engineer on our Data Substrate team. Who we are & why we’re hiring Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences. Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a global company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business. About the job We are seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Data Substrate team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting scalable and reliable data solutions, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners driving technical innovation, and mentoring a team of talented engineers. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in data syste

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio's next Senior or Staff Applied Software Research Engineer for Emerging Technologies. We are hiring for multiple positions at either a Senior or Staff level. Who we are At Twilio, we're shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you're part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we're acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. Welcome to Twilio Forward, the incubation lab where we push boundaries, unlock next-era growth, and turn the once-unimagined