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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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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. As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Voice Communication team, you'll help build how tens of millions of people talk to each other on Roblox. Voice is one of our most important levers for deeper social connection, and you'll shape the client experience that makes real-time communication feel fast, reliable, and natural on any device.Your work has a direct impact on how many people use communication on Roblox every day. and it sits at the center of our mission to reimagine how people come together. You will lead the charge in architecting a robust, highly scalable voice client foundation designed to serve as a company-wide platform. Your work will ensure that any internal team at Roblox can easily onboard and integrate voice capabilities into their products. By building this solid technical core, you will enable the next generation of social interactions, moving from simple in-experience chat to sophisticated, persistent social presence across the entire ecosystem. Furthermore, you will empower our creator community by developing sophisticated, yet accessible APIs that allow them to build deeply immersive experiences tailored to their unique visions. You'll design these systems with safety b

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $295.3K/yr

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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. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team, you will lead large, multi-team initiatives with long-term technical vision and group-level impact. You will be expected to define and drive the platform-wide strategy powering how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox. In this role, you will set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and serve as a key architect of our long-term technical direction. You Will Drive Strategy & Execution: Own the outcome of complex, business-critical programs spanning several teams, often lasting years. Innovate at Scale: Develop and drive a multi-year technical vision for content creation and sharing, anticipating scale, technology, and business evolution. Elevate Reliability: Lead high-severity incident response across groups; drive durable systemic solutions that improve reliability and velocity. Architect Foundations: Regularly improve shared infrastructure and foundational systems, introducing frameworks that uplift development speed across the organization. Align Teams: Aligns multiple teams on shared technical direction, producing detailed design docs, phased roadmaps, and planning models that balance short an

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $295.3K/yr

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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 Content Safety? As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Content Safety, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions, focused on critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning for content moderation. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of massive-scale ML systems that mitigate violative UGC content before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community thoughtfully and fairly, while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for our broad community of over 100 million daily active users. You will: Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions in Content Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and mitigate violative content at massive scale. Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with execu

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $399.4K/yr

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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 Economy ML team sits at the center of this mission. We build ML and AI systems that power personalization, search, pricing, recommendations, and virtual item intelligence across Roblox Economy surfaces, including Avatar Marketplace, Payments, Developer Monetization and Subscriptions. As Roblox continues to invest deeply in AI and ML, this organization also plays a key role in advancing next-generation AI capabilities across the company through close partnership with Discovery, Foundation AI, Engine, Creator and product engineering teams. Our work spans both product impact and foundational ML innovation at Roblox scale. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead and scale Economy ML. This leader will define the strategy, organization, and execution model for a fast-growing ML organization spanning recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, search, content intelligence, and Generative AI applications. Why Roblox for ML/AI AI/ML is a top company priority , with strong executive support and long-term investment. Massive real-world scale: Millions of users, creators, and economic interactions every day. Unique technical challenges: Recommendations, pricing, fraud, search, and conte

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $196.8K/yr

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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. What You’ll Do: The Marketplace team, part of the Economy org, owns the platform and infrastructure that supports the Avatar customization and Avatar Marketplace within Roblox. As a Senior Engineer on our team, you will lead the work on building personalized and streamlined shopping experiences for over 100M users within Roblox. Beyond this scope, you will be involved with several additional areas also owned by subteams such as: Avatar Identity Scaling and Serving Avatars to tens of millions of users on the platform Building new Avatar customization features and continuously improving user experience Driving users and creators towards high-quality, high-fidelity Avatars that will shape Roblox’s look and feel going forward The systems above power the engine APIs that enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions. The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding customer needs, optimizing performance, and delivering exceptional user experiences. You Have: 3+ years of professional experience in software development Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, Go,

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $192K/yr

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Applied AI is where Datadog's ambitious AI bets get built and shipped ( Bits Chat , updog ). We sit at the intersection of research and product: turning promising capabilities from Datadog AI Research lab and the research community into production systems that reach real customers. The team builds the foundations for agentic systems capable of operating at scale in complex production environments. Current bets span agents that run autonomously at scale, context and memory layers that make those agents more intelligent over time, and tools that help customers build and validate AI-native services in production. The mandate is to move fast from idea to customer impact, and when a product finds its footing, to set it up for growth. As an Engineering Manager I in Applied AI, you will lead a team of engineers and applied scientists working on one of these challenges. You will define technical direction, run short feedback loops, make deliberate decisions about what to pursue or stop, and work closely with product managers, research teams, and cross-functional partners to ship AI capabilities that matter. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture, the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do Lead and develop a team of engineers and applied scientists focused on building the foundations for agents operating at scale Work closely with product managers, research teams, and cross-functional partners to shape the team's bets from initial framing through to broader adoption, with a clear definition of success criteria at each stage Own end-to-end delivery of high-quality AI systems, from early research exploration to production-grade reliability, with high standards for operational excellence, system reliability, and technical quality Navigate the unique challenges of shipping AI-powered products: balancing quali

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $156K/yr

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The Team We are Datadog’s in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog’s worldwide growth by educating potential partners and ensuring that our integration ecosystem is high-performing, secure, and valuable. Partner Technology Solutions Engineers (TSEs) are the technical bridge between Datadog and our third-party developer community. We act as consultants, helping partners build world-class monitoring solutions on the Integration Developer Platform (IDP) . The Opportunity Datadog is looking for a Partner Technology Solutions Engineer to join our fast-paced team. You will be the primary technical contact for our partners, guiding them through the entire integration lifecycle—from initial architectural design to final publication on the Datadog Marketplace. This is a unique role that combines deep technical troubleshooting with high-level consulting and platform advocacy. You will work directly with external developers and see your contributions immediately reflected in the Datadog ecosystem. You Will Act as the technical lead for partners, advising on OAuth flows, log pipelines, OpenTelemetry, and agent-based vs. API-based configurations Perform architectural assessments and deep-dive code reviews for partner integrations in the integrations-extras and marketplace repositories, ensuring they meet our Quality Rubric Solve complex technical challenges for partners via Zendesk, Slack, and dedicated technical consultations Identify friction points in our Integration Developer Platform (IDP) and partner with our internal Product and Engineering teams to build a better developer experience Maintain public-facing developer documentation and internal tracking systems ( JIRA ) to ensure transparency and scale You Are A technical expert with 3+ years of experience in a technical role (Support Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Software Development) Proficient in at least one language (Python or Go preferred) An observability enthusiast who unders

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📍 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Do you get excited about complex distributed systems? Do you love data? We’re looking for an experienced technology leader to lead and grow our global engineering team and help our customers build better software by building the next generation of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) by leading our Agent teams. New Relic is committed to giving our customers valuable insights into their systems, and New Relic’s APM agents are used by tens of thousands of companies to evaluate and improve the performance of their most important business applications. Opportunity to work from a remote office may be available depending on the applicant's location. What you'll do Hands on with data analysis and technical problem solving Leverage open source tools like OpenTelemetry to acquire data Help design and build our APM agents that run in our customer environments and give engineers deep insight into application performance, and business line owners actionable intelligence on their business performance Build processes that ensure reliability, scalability, team growth and execution Work across teams to build engineering plans and execute, getting things done in a distributed, large-scale, and fast-growing environment This role requires 4+ years of experience leading people and teams 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering Proven track record of leading and scaling strong technical teams Experience handling high performing self-directed remote teams Capable of div

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📍 Palo Alto, CA, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $177.2K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Pinterest’s big data storage platform. You’ll work on some of the most exciting big data open source technologies — especially Apache Iceberg — at exabyte scale to power the data infrastructure that helps Pinners discover and do what they love. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll serve as a technical leader and hands-on contributor, designing and building highly scalable storage systems for Pinterest’s data lake. You’ll partner closely with teams across data, ML/AI, analytics, and infrastructure to evolve our storage and metadata management capabilities, enabling efficient, reliable, and governed access to data at massive scale. What you’ll do: Design, implement, and optimize Pinterest’s exabyte-scale data lake storage platform. Lead complex technical projects and

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $177.2K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Team & Mission The Measurement Products team helps advertisers measure the incremental impact of their Pinterest campaigns and make informed investment decisions. We own and operate core measurement products including Pinterest Conversion Lift (PCL) Studies and Brand Lift Studies. We build the platform these products run on and are evolving it into our next‑gen Measurement Hub, an extensible platform that enables faster product iteration, onboarding of new study types, and deeper integration with Pinterest’s enterprise data and experimentation systems. Our mission is to measure true incremental impact and translate it into actionable insights for advertisers and partners. Role Summary We’re seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architecture and technical direction of the measurement platform behind how advertisers understand the impact of the

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $177.2K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest's performance marketing engineering team owns the end-to-end systems that turn marketing dollars into measured user growth spanning attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management across major advertising platforms. This role is responsible for designing systems that scale across channels and adapt as privacy landscapes shift. What you’ll do: Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, defining the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend Design and evolve the measurement stack — attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approac

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering. The team is responsible for efficiently managing one of the largest-scale cloud-native infrastructures in the world. This role is highly impactful, as efficiency is an ongoing strategic priority for Pinterest. The role has direct visibility across Pinterest Engineering and with Engineering and company leadership. The team is looking for a candidate with a strong background in implementing performance and efficiency projects on large scale distributed systems. In this individual-contributor role you will own and drive performance and efficiency for a core area of Capacity Engineering, partnering with the company-wide efficiency lead and collaborating with performance and efficiency leaders across the organization. What you’ll do: Drive efficiency in large-scale shared environme

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $177.2K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Intro : The Service Communications team manages the foundational high-layer networking systems ensuring reliable, secure, and performant service-to-service interactions at Pinterest. Our Envoy-based mesh and multi-language frameworks provide critical primitives for hundreds of internal services, and we are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy across identity, traffic optimization, and platform scaling. What you’ll do: Architect and deploy advanced service mesh features, focusing on service discovery, traffic shaping, and deep observability using Envoy proxy. Lead the organization-wide adoption of service identity and mTLS to satisfy critical AAA security requirements for service-to-service paths. Design traffic optimization primitives like locality-aware routing to materially reduce data transfer costs for high-vo

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $285.5K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic vision and execution for Pinterest’s core and ads serving platforms, overseeing the infrastructure that enables high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and ads across all Pinterest surfaces. They will define the multi-year architecture to ensure our serving systems are reliable, performant, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid innovation for product and ML teams. What you’ll do: Set the long-term technical and operational vision for the Core and Ads Serving Platform, aligning infrastructure investme

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $164K/yr

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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: We are looking for an Advanced Analytics Lead to help Airbnb enable travel for our millions of guests and hosts on our platform. This role will sit under the Advanced Analytics family and support Product and Business leaders within our CS organization. The Difference You Will Make: Data thought partner to product and business leaders across teams through providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions Drive day to day analytics and create scalable data tools Identify pain points in customer support operations and work with product leadership to improve experiences for our guest, host and agent community In addition, you will leverage Airbnb’s rich and unique data, state-of-art machine learning infrastructure, and other central data science tools to build and grow the measurement capacity within the organization. You will also be deeply involved in the technical details of the various systems we build, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers and operations agents to achieve shared, cross-functional goals to help keep Airbnb’s community safe and trusted. You are passionate about solving complex problems within the Community support domain with data & insights; adding a new perspective to existing solutions and making business decisions based on careful and thoughtful analysis You are highly proficient in building and analyzing analytical frameworks, statistical models and experimentation methods to establish and communicate causal relationships You are a story

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