We’re looking for aSenior Data Scientistto join our quickly growing team and make a big impact.

As a senior data scientist in the Tech org, you’ll work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and designers, to develop Machine Learning technologies which help simplify the jobs of our users. You’ll work on major technical projects with large data volumes, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes. Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience. 

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:

• 5+ years total professional experience with Machine Learning or Statistical Analysis
• A capacity for a high degree of autonomy and out-of-the-box thinking
• The ability to write sophisticated data analysis & machine learning code in Python
• A commitment to collaborating closely with other engineers and across functions

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:

• Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data
• Experience with text modeling, NLP, and large language models
• Interest in search
• Interest in journalism, news, media, or social media

In addition, we’re always looking for candidates who:

• Perform an analysis to make a recommendation to other team members as to whether data science methods can be used to solve a given problem
• Research and evaluate new analytical methodologies, approaches, and solutions
• Build, test, and deploy supervised or unsupervised learning models
• Write queries (SQL, elastic search) to grab the right set of data to solve their problem
• Build tools to enable other data scientists to scale their knowledge and increase impact
• Interpret and communicate analytic results to analytical and non-analytical business partners and executive decision makers
• Participate in code reviews and model reviews of their teammates

Interview Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
• Take-home coding assignment (2 hours max)
• Peer interviews, including a 30 min code review discussion
• Final call(s) with executive team member(s) 

Salary

The starting salary for this role is between $140,000 - $172,000, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and Twitter,  and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role

Twitch is looking for candidates to join our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Reporting to the Senior Manager of Incident Response under our Director of Security Resilience, our SIRT's mission is to help Twitch find, communicate about, handle, recover from, and especially learn from security incidents. We’re looking for people with experience in security monitoring, incident handling, threat hunting, threat intelligence, or digital forensics. If that sounds interesting we encourage you to apply!

You can work from San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; or remote anywhere in the United States!

You Will:

• Participate in an on-call rotation that includes your peers on the SIRT
• Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what a security incident is
• Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
• Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Participate in information sharing groups; communicate securely and responsibly
• Write and follow clear procedures so that our work can be accountable, repeated, measured, and improved
• Communicate with peers and leadership up to the executive level about who did what to what, when, with what potential and realized impact, how we discovered it, and how we're handling it
• Coordinate security incident response activities with affected teams to do the right thing for our customers and our organization
• Identify automation opportunities to reduce the impact of security incidents to Twitch

You Have:

• 3+ years relevant experience doing information security work or equivalent BS degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related fields
• Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
• Knowledge of internet security issues and threat landscape
• Background in cloud, host, network, and application security

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.

Job ID: TW8467

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About the Role:

The Professional Services Solutions Architect is an experienced technologist who works with Planet’s highest profile customers to architect their implementations of Planet's product offerings. The Solutions Architect is an exemplary engineer of solutions; their efforts are directly visible to customers and stakeholders within Planet. The Solutions Architect provides technical input and project support for the wider Professional Services team and is instrumental in ensuring customer engagements have successful outcomes.

You will use your experience to deliver innovative solutions for Planet’s highest profile customers, helping stakeholders from C-level executives to software architects, achieve success with the implementation of the Planet Platform. In this role, you will align Professional Services projects to customer business and technology requirements and ensure that Professional Services teams are delivering exceptional customer value.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Engineer solutions applying your remote sensing and geospatial technologies knowledge and experience to help Planet’s Professional Services customers be successful in their adoption of the Planet Platform.
• Perform high level architectural design and the implementation of Professional Services software solutions: technical architectural oversight, build software tools, applications and customer demonstrations using Planet’s APIs and analytics endpoints, communicate project timelines, scope and risks.
• Drafting requirements documents, applying your expertise in data analytics, collaborating with software engineers, lead training events, and deliver solutions to clients.
• Build software tools, applications and customer demonstrations using Planet’s APIs and analytics endpoints
• Assists in scoping new projects and in technical writing for proposals and project reports.
• Own the customer success lifecycle for Professional Services engagements, from scoping and discovery, to project execution and delivery.  
• Champion Planet’s products and offerings in-person and via online assistance by providing training, presenting at conferences, writing technical tutorials, and publishing articles and videos.
• Influence the direction of Planet’s products and offerings by gathering insights from customer engagements and the user community.
• Interact and engage with users in Planet’s Education and Research program to source novel customer applications and unique insights.
• Focus on new applications and use cases coupled with data, offerings and needs by collaborating with both internal and external actors.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years experience working in a technical geospatial or remote sensing role.
• Degree in GIS, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Geography or a related field. 
• Extensive experience programming with Python to process imagery, manipulating vector data, interacting with APIs and building data processing pipelines.
• Expertise with QGIS, Esri software, GDAL or other common geospatial software.
• Demonstrated ability to lead customer engagements with technical aptitude, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to run workshops or training sessions with users.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a proven ability to tackle unique challenges presented by its dynamic condition.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures or machine learning.
• Proven ability to quickly learn unfamiliar systems and code bases.
• Proactive and innovative thinking. 
• Advanced degree is preferred.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

• Additional company winter holidays and regular global days off
• Remote friendly work environment and flexible working hours
• Contribution to our growth by offering equity options for employees
• Giving back to the community - one day per quarter for charitable work
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Regular hack-weeks and meetup events to exchange knowledge
• Home office budget
• Employee Resource Groups providing empowering spaces for connection and mentorship

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OVERVIEW

We are looking for economists and machine learning engineers to join our fast-moving team. The Economics team at Instacart works on a range of interesting and challenging problems, from aligning the incentives in our multi-sided marketplace to analyzing the role of prices and product placement in our customers' decision-making.

There is tremendous opportunity in front of us, and joining now gives you a chance to grow your career and interests as we succeed.

The ideal candidate for this role will bring a combination of experience in both economics and machine learning. This might be a recent economics PhD graduate with relevant research experience, typically in  computationally intensive empirical topics, as well as some exposure to machine learning coursework and applications. We are also interested in candidates with industry experience in the creation, deployment, and maintenance of machine learning models at scale, especially if they have some background or experience in economics or an economics-adjacent field.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Economics team at Instacart works on a range of interesting and challenging problems, from aligning the incentives in our multi-sided marketplace to analyzing the role of prices and product placement in our customers' decision-making. Some of the core areas of focus for our team include pricing, online advertising, uplift and long term value modeling, and general causal inference.

ABOUT THE JOB

• You will help design and build end-to-end machine learning solutions
• You will be working in small and cross-functional product teams, with great opportunities for growth and ownership of projects
• You will be an active member of an internal community, including economists, data scientists, operations research scientists and machine learning engineers, sharing learnings, best practices and research across many domains
• You will develop high impact solutions to support Instacart's ambitious growth plans
• You will work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to recommending a solution and testing it in controlled experiments
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate-level research experience on data-intense problems or 1+ years of industry experience in machine learning or economics-focused roles
• A blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business skills that let you jump into a fast-paced environment and contribute from day one
• Expertise in causal inference with observational and experimental data
• Strong engineering skills with expertise in R or Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and machine learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
• An ability to identify and prioritize high-impact problems and deliver solutions that provide reasonable trade-offs between urgency and quality
• Willing and able to travel internationally based on job requirements
• Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Economics with focus on data-intense problems or 3-5 years of industry experience in machine learning or economics-focused roles
• A blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business skills that let you jump into a fast-paced environment and contribute from day one
• Expertise in causal inference with observational and experimental data
• Strong engineering skills with expertise in R or Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and machine learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
• An ability to identify and prioritize high-impact problems and deliver solutions that provide reasonable trade-offs between urgency and quality
• Willing and able to travel internationally based on job requirements
• Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership
• Experience with training large-scale models and model deployment on cloud services (Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure)

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What you’ll do

In a few words…

Abarca is igniting a revolution in healthcare.  We built our company on the belief that with smarter technology we are redefining pharmacy benefits, but this is just the beginning…

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Team manages and maintains all cloud-related systems, network, and infrastructure at Abarca Health. Our team ensures peak performance, availability, stability and security of our cloud-based systems and platform. We leverage the latest Azure technologies to continually improve and modernize our cloud operating environment. We partner with product and software development teams to drive business outcomes.

Azure Cloud Engineers -FinOps are responsible for the maintenance of secure and highly available cloud computing environments. This position is designed for someone who is passionate about leveraging cloud technologies to optimize financial operations within Azure environments. You will be instrumental in driving cost-efficiency and maximizing cloud investment returns.

The fundamentals for the job…

• Implement and manage Azure cloud services focusing on cost optimization and financial governance.
• Collaborate with IT and finance departments to develop and enforce cloud spend policies and best practices.
• Analyze and report on cloud expenditures, providing insights and recommendations for cost savings and operational efficiencies.
• Use Azure Cost Management tools to monitor, allocate, and optimize expenditures across multiple departments and projects.
• Develop automated solutions for budget tracking, alerting, and reporting to enhance visibility and control over cloud costs.
• Design and implement tagging strategies to ensure accurate cost allocation and chargebacks.
• Lead cloud cost reduction initiatives, including reserved instances, sizing, and scaling adjustments.
• Stay updated with Azure’s pricing and service catalog to advise on cost-effective cloud architectures and services.
• Train and mentor team members on Azure cost management practices and tools.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to ensure cost-efficiency is embedded in all cloud projects.

What we expect of you

The bold requirements… 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure environments.
• Deep understanding of Azure services, pricing models, and billing dashboard.
• Proven experience with Azure Cost Management, Budgets, and other financial management tools.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret financial data to make business recommendations.
• Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, etc.) for automation of cloud services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams.

Nice to haves…

• Certifications in Azure, such as Azure Cost Management and Billing preferred.
• Financial experience, cost accounting/billing experience.

Physical requirements…

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

At Abarca we value and celebrate diversity. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are guiding principles of Abarca and ensure Abarca’s workforce reflects the communities it serves.  We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Abarca Health LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify.  “Applicant must be a United States’ citizen. Abarca Health LLC does not sponsor employment visas at this time”

The above description is not intended to limit the scope of the job or to exclude other duties not mentioned. It is not a final set of specifications for the position. It’s simply meant to give readers an idea of what the role entails.

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The Solutions Architect assists in the sales process by providing detailed consultation on customer requirements, customer needs, and, most importantly, how Nextiva’s platform can improve business outcomes. This individual will work hand in hand with the sales teams, partners, prospects, and customers to ensure that all team members are aware of the design requirements. As an SA, you will participate as a technical liaison to the sales and service delivery organizations and manage requests for technical pre-sales assistance, scheduled customer discovery sessions, and solutions demonstrations. This individual will be responsible for creating and introducing solutions to the customer that will help lead the way to Closed/Won business..

The Solutions Architect is an expert who understands customer-specific needs in order to provide business-driven consulting to prospects as well as existing customers. ESA’s provide business-centric expertise that helps our Sales team establish market and deal-level visibility 

Key Responsibilities

• Execute thorough discovery of customer requirements and participation directly in sales interactions via calls and webinars
• Develop comprehensive and creative use cases for prospective Nextiva customers
• Present the Nextiva solution in conjunction with customer predefined requirements
• Review quotes, RFPs, business plans and other customer documents to develop and prepare an effective response or proposal
• Maintain a working knowledge of the industry and competitors in order to act as a valuable resource to the customer and sales teams
• Participate in work groups regarding custom requests and professional services for unique customer requirements
• Develop relationships with vendors including keeping track of new information and sharing with your team
• Develop comprehensive documentation to be leveraged in the composition of the Statement of Work for the Service Delivery Organization
• Provide technical assistance to other departments, including Product Management, Marketing, and People Development teams
• Ensure the solution(s) will work for the customer through demonstration and also through proof of concept (POC) or trial deployments

Communications and Presentations:

• Must be compelling, passionate and enthusiastic speaker with communication skills of the highest caliber
• Deliver and present comprehensive and customized product and service demonstrations in a clear and concise manner to many levels of technical skill sets and audience sizes
• Understand customer-specific needs to provide business-driven consulting to prospective and existing customers.
• Provide business-centric expertise that helps our Sales team establish market and deal-level visibility that resonates with prospects and customers, clearly differentiating our solutions from the competition.
• Be regarded as an experienced operator/practitioner in the Contact Center space and is highly knowledgeable about the unique nuances of this industry.
• Solutions Consultant/ Architect must be able to move between many key facets of the sales cycle from pre-sales engineering support to solution qualification and execution, to solution architecture and post-sale upsell.
• The Solutions Consultant/ Architect is recognized as a credible thought leader, is confidently able to address C-level discussions, and able to help the seller effectively expand the revenue opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years CCaaS, and/or SaaS experience and 4+ years as a Sales or Solutions Engineer
• BS Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Understanding of  sales process, strategies and solutions selling
• Demonstrate ability to develop, build and maintain strong relationships with sales team, partners, vendors, prospects, and customers
• Create, present and document technical solutions
• Outstanding presentation skills
• Exceptional work ethic, time management, and organizational skills
• Deep knowledge of Customer Service Software, Customer Relationship Software, Data Warehousing Software, Artificial Intelligence and the application of each.
• Ability to create convincing proposals and documentation, including solution diagrams
• Capable of completing job responsibilities with minimal supervision
• Ability to apply solutions, technology and products to a business opportunity

Competencies

• Office 365 and Google G-Suite programs and applications
• Salesforce application knowledge preferred
• Google Cloud certifications preferred
• Visio and Lucidchart - network diagram tools.
• PHP, Java, Python and other programming languages.
• API structure and development capabilities.
• Data Networking, SIP, Contact Center technical certifications
• Strong experience with networking protocols, standards, and hardware
• Legacy Contact Center platforms and modern SIP endpoints.
• Proficiency in using hosted contact center applications
• Travels to internal meetings and customer sites as warranted (travel estimate 20-50%)

Nextiva Core Competencies / DNA:

• Drives Results:  The successful candidate will be action oriented, with a passion for solving problems.  They will bring clarity and simplicity to ambiguous situations.  This individual will challenge the status quo; asking what we can do differently and finding ways to create and build more success.  They are a change agent, prepared to lead and drive changes as we transform. 
• Critical Thinker:  The successful candidate is fact based and data driven, able to understand and articulate the “why,” identifying key drivers and learning from the past.  They are forward-thinking, anticipating problems before they arise.  They’ll recommend and action well thought out solutions, understanding the risks and dependencies. 
• Right Attitude:  The successful candidate will be team-oriented, collaborative and competitive with a winning mindset; they’re resilient and able to easily bounce back from setbacks.  They will be able to zoom in / out, willing to be hands-on to help solve important problems while being a motivating figure for the team along the way.  They will embrace a culture of service and learning with a focus on caring, supporting and respecting our customers and team members.

Compensation, Rewards & Benefits:

The salary or hourly wage offered by Nextiva to external candidates considers a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skills sets, experience, training, licensure and certifications, etc. Our compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. For this sales role, our estimate of the expected hiring range for the position as posted is $140,000 - $200,000; this includes annualized base salary and annualized target sales incentive. A different level in the job hierarchy apply to a specific candidate resulting in a different hiring range.

Nextiva provides a comprehensive employee benefits package that includes medical (including supplemental plans for accident, hospitalization and critical illness), telemedicine, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, legal assistance, an Employee Assistance Plan, paid parental bonding leave, PTO for hourly employees and Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried employees, an employee long-term savings plan (401k) through Fidelity with Nextiva matching, comprehensive employee wellness programs and loads of learning and development opportunities which are coupled with career paths to last a lifetime.

Interested in joining our amazing team at Nextiva HQ? Apply today as we launch the future of business conversations!????

Established in 2008 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nextiva secured $200M from Goldman Sachs in late 2021, valuing the company at $2.7B.To check out what’s going on at Nextiva, check us out on Instagram, Instagram (MX), YouTube, LinkedIn, and the Nextiva blog. 

Nextiva is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.Nextiva participates in the E-Verify Program where and as required by law. For additional information about E-Verify visit USCIS. 

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Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.  

Last year, more than $3.3 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers. 

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Work/Project Scope:
This role will participate in our production on-call rotation in your day-time and on some weekends  with focus on below areas:

• Incident Management: Play an active role in production on-call, responding swiftly to troubleshoot and resolve production issues. Ability to size-up a situation, assess the effectiveness of various tactics/strategies, and make rapid decisions on appropriate courses of action

• Ensure high availability by implementing and maintaining resilient cloud architectures, monitor system performance and proactively identify and resolve potential points of failure

• Develop and maintain automation scripts, tools and processes to streamline system deployment, monitoring tasks and eliminate toil/reduce operational overhead

• Create and maintain a comprehensive dashboard and playbooks for production on-call. Continuously improve the production on-call experience and system sustainability/ effectiveness

• Identify areas to improve service resilience through techniques such as chaos engineering, performance/load testing, etc

• An out-of-the-box, critical thinker and you don’t just understand the challenges at the present but also know what to plan and do to improve in the future

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• 3+ years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or Devops role, with primary focus on managing cloud-based services and infrastructure

• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, ECS, VPC, ElasticSearch, Lambda), LInux system administration and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana,Cloudwatch, Datadog, Dynatrace)

• Have good working knowledge of load balancer, firewalls and TCP/IP networking architecture

• Strong programming skills in Python, Shell scripting and Terraform

• Should have critical thinking, good debugging and problem solving skills

• Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operation load with software

• Familiarity with micro services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes

• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.