The Opportunity The world of design is changing rapidly, and the Pro Design team is leading that transformation. We are the Adobe organization behind Illustrator, InDesign, and emerging experiences that connect creativity, collaboration, and AI. Our teams are reimagining what professional design looks like for the next decade - building intelligent, connected tools that empower creators and teams to move faster without sacrificing craft. We are looking for a Senior Business Data Scientist who is creative, analytical, and unafraid to question the status quo and shape the decisions that move key business metrics at scale. Join us and build Adobe’s future products! What you'll Do Map the user funnel and build the metrics, cohorts, and dashboards that Product and Growth rely on to see how users move across free, trial, and paid tiers—and pinpoint where they drop off. Dig into the hard questions (what drives activation, which behaviors predict retention and expansion) and build propensity models for conversion, upgrade, churn, and expansion that feed real-time targeting and in-product nudges. Find and size growth bets and work with Product to ship them. Set north-star, driver, and guardrail metrics with your partners, and stand up multivariate experiments across onboarding, paywalls, in-product prompts, and pricing. What you need to succeed Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or similar) or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or a similar quantitative role. Proficiency in SQL and Python (or R) for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling. Hands-on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests and interpre
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NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. NVIDIA has a rapidly expanding ecosystem of data center platform designs. From single node HGX/DGX systems all the way up to large multi-node NVLink domain rack architectures. These designs have become core to NVIDIA's rapidly growing enterprise and cloud provider businesses. Each brings together the full power of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink, NVIDIA InfiniBand networking, NVIDIA Grace CPUs, and a fully optimized NVIDIA AI and HPC software stack. We are searching for a highly motivated engineer to lead performance benchmarking and optimization efforts for our data center products. You will be instrumental in ensuring our data center solutions deliver industry-leading performance for accelerated computing workloads. What you will be doing: Design and execute comprehensive performance benchmarking strategies for our data center platforms and products Characterize real-world AI training, inference, and HPC workloads at scale Define, track, and report key performance indicators (throughput, latency, efficiency, scaling) Build automation tools and frameworks for performance monitoring and analysis Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks across compute, memory, network and storage subsystems Work closely with architecture, hardware,
From $192K/yr
About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Team: The Revenue Data Engineering Teams designs, builds and runs the data pipelines and helper systems to accurately and in a timely manner quantify our customers’ usage across all Datadog products. This team is at the leading edge of any new product we release. The Revenue Data Processing team builds and operates the data pipelines that does billing, and cost attribution for all Datadog products. We process terabytes of data daily to power revenue-critical systems and are at the center of every new product launch at Datadog. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own meaningful parts of a large-scale, mission-critical processing platform — driving architectural improvements, building new billing capabilities, and maintaining the high reliability bar our downstream consumers depend on. You Will: Design and build high-throughput data pipelines for billing and cost attribution Drive platform improvements — latency reduction, Spark optimization, sharding, and cross-datacenter reliability Own root-cause investigations on billing accuracy issues in collaboration with Finance and Product teams Contribute to new billing features Work across Python and Scala, with technologies including Spark, Airflow, Trino, and Apache Iceberg Participate in on-call rotation and maintain a high reliability bar for production systems Contribute to engineering standards and help grow the technical culture of the team You Are: You have significant experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale using Spark and Airflow
$160K – $200K/yr
About Us: Blockworks is an information platform that sits at the center of the crypto industry. We transform raw, complex data and facts into actionable research, trusted alpha-driven insights, and world-class events. The result is transparency and confidence. Blockworks connects investors and businesses in onchain capital markets. We give businesses a platform to earn trust and provide investors with the information they need to underwrite the asset class. Who You Are: Software engineering is your passion, and you have special talents focused on data architecture, design, and API development. You are a player-coach and a natural leader who understands the technical and human elements that go into great software design. You have a results-oriented attitude and a passion for delivering flawless releases and developing digital product pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). You have a proven track record facilitating engineering teams to increase productivity and quality. You're excited at the possibility of helping design and develop our data pipelines as well as leading our data-related projects and strategies for Blockwork's suite of projects. You love moving quickly in a fast-paced start-up, but you also bring intentionality, sustainability and scalability to your approach as an engineer. What You’ll Do: As our Senior Data Engineer , you will be directly responsible for leading the creation and execution of our data models and strategies that feed our products. You'll work collaboratively with other members of the engineering team to design, develop, implement, and evolve our data pipeline and approaches. Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will do things like: Own Data Sourcing Pipelines: You'll be responsible for helping to architect our data warehousing, ingestion and sourcing strategy, working with multiple SDKs to aggregate data from various sources into Blockwork's own data warehouse. Design and Implement ETL Solutions: You'll be responsible for
$151.7K – $205.3K/yr
Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: Drata is looking for a Senior Data Engineer! This person will be a key member of the growing data team, supporting one of the fastest growing B2B SaaS startups to achieve unicorn status. At Drata, we’re on a mission to help build trust across the internet! Data accuracy is an essential cornerstone of our mission. We are looking for a senior data engineer that can help us strategize
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. Our Data and Analytics team is currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join us! You’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class business analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future. What you’ll do as a Senior Data Scientist at Vanta: Build and maintain trusted product data assets using dbt, Snowflake, and modern analytics infrastructure Leverage AI-powered analytics tools and data agents (e.g., Snowflake Cortex) to accelerate insight generation, automate repeatable analysis, and scale decision-making Define and evolve measurement frameworks for product health, customer lifecycle, and AI-powered product experiences Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Customer Success to influence product strategy through data Help define Vanta’s analytics strategy and AI measurement practices as our product and data platform evolve Lead executive analytics reviews, translating complex analyses into clear recommendations that drive company decisions How to be successful in this role: 4+ years of experience working with data as a Data Scientist, Product Analyst, or Analytics Engineer in an applied business setting Strong foundation in SQL, Python (or R), statistics, and machine learning Experience designing and evaluating experiments, predictive models, and other statistical analyses to inform product decisions Experience building scalable data assets, metrics, and analytical frameworks on modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, dbt) Deep experience with da
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 a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our engineering team and business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Data Engineer at Vanta: Design and deploy data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions Design and implement complex data orchestration models, modeling metadata, scaling reporting tools for data science and ML products users Be the company’s expert on data administration, data management and scalable data systems Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses Work with the Product and Enterprise Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise Help maintain CDC pipelines to power customer reporting Help develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide How to be successful in this role: Have at least four years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field. Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster). Have good working knowledge of AWS data infra systems and Terraform. Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Data Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries Deep kn
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Making data-driven decisions is key to Plaid's culture. To support that, we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide golden datasets and tooling to teams across engineering, product, and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need, which ultimately helps Plaid serve our customers more effectively. In addition, Plaid will not be successful if we can't move quickly. We build the data systems and tools that enable everyone at Plaid to be data-driven, making analytics easy, obvious, and proactive across the company. Data Engineers heavily leverage SQL and Python to build data workflows that integrate with our Golang applications. We use tools like DBT, Airflow, Redshift, Atlan, and Retool to orchestrate data pipelines and define workflows. We work with engineers, product managers, business intelligence, data analysts, and many other teams to build Plaid's data strategy and a data-first mindset. You will be in a high impact role that will directly enable business leaders to make faster and more informed business judgements based on the datasets you build. You will have the opportunity to carve out the ownershi
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Senior Data Scientist supporting Plaid App, a critical user-facing product within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. In this role, you’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development as the team launches and scales the product from 0 to 1. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and metrics tied to business goals, and support feature ship decisions through experimenta
$130K – $170K/yr
About Taskrabbit: Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! Prior to applying please note: We are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, F1, CPT or other employment-based visas). Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. This role is hybrid requiring 2 days in office at our San Francisco hub every Tuesday & Wednesday (located at 130 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA). About the Role We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build the data foundation for a new discovery-stage team focused on Taskrabbit client retention and personalization. The team's mandate is to turn our biggest unaddressed retention bet — predicting what home service a client will need and when, then reaching them proactively — from concept into validated, in-market tests. You'll be one of four new hires on a small, cross-functional pod (Product, Design, Marketing, BizOps, Machine Learning, and E
From $263.7K/yr
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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and creators. WHY CREATOR PLATFORM? At Roblox, the Creator Platform team is responsible for the systems that determine how creators build, publish, earn, and thrive on the platform. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be the primary strategic data partner across some of the most business-critical and safety-sensitive areas in the creator ecosystem — including creator reputation, publish gating, anti-abuse, rewards, data foundations, and AI enablement. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role. You will work across trust & safety,
From $263.7K/yr
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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact on our community of players and developers. WHY CONSUMER FRONTEND? Consumer Frontend’s team mission is to deliver the frontend architecture, components, libraries, navigation patterns, and core UI necessary for a high-quality, performant, intuitive, and observable consumer user experience for gaming and all future use cases. One of the focus areas is UX Excellence through Standardization, where the goal is to maintain a comprehensive library of high-quality components and navigation patterns that ensure a consistent and intuitive experience across all consumer surfaces.
From $221.4K/yr
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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization’s mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and creators. WHY CREATOR SERVICES? At Roblox, the Creator Services team enables unbounded creation through reliable core services and novel AI applications. As a Senior Data Scientist focused on Machine Intelligence , you will bridge the gap between high-tier engineering infrastructure and cutting-edge ML applications. You will be the primary strategic partner to product and engineering leadership, transforming unstructured data into actionable business insights and user-facing products. This is a "zero-to-one" environment. You will be tas
From $221.4K/yr
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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY AUTHENTICATION & SECURITY? Authentication & Security sits at the intersection of trust, product, and growth. The team builds the systems that allow users to sign in, recover, and protect their accounts with confidence, while defending the platform against account takeovers, credential abuse, and fraud at massive scale. This role is an opportunity to shape a high-stakes product area where small changes in friction or protection can meaningfully affect sign-ups and user frequency. You will act as a strategic leade
The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity. MongoDB is seeking a Senior Analyst to support data-driven, people-focused decision making for the company. Partnering with our People team, you will transform HR and organizational data into actionable insights to help us hire the right talent, manage our overall workforce, and improve workforce effectiveness, leading to better outcomes for our people and the company. This position requires someone with strong analytical and technical skills, the ability to tell a story with data, and who is comfortable working across multiple functional areas in a fast-paced, challenging environment. This role can be based out of our NYC office or remotely in the US region. Responsibilities Partner with People teams (business partners, recruiting, culture/talent/development, etc.) to understand their questions, turn analyses into actionable data-driven insights, and make business recommendations Help develop and execute against roadmap for people data investments to both capture near-term value and set up the team for long-term success Leverage understanding of statistics to conduct analyses that help People teams make quicker, more informed decisions Write and maintain complex queries to conduct deep-dive analyses on the impact that People initiatives have on employee engagement, productivity and retention Liaise with Data Engineering and HRIS teams to create
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