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Software Engineer – Applied Safety

Software Engineer – Applied Safety

CompanyX
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA, San Jose, CA, USA
Salary$127000 – $297000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • 3+ years working in software engineering or machine learning engineering roles
  • Proven experience building and operating software services at scale
  • Experience and familiarity with the modern data pipeline and ML infrastructure ecosystem
  • Enjoy working in a 0-to-1 space with no known machine learning, engineering, or product solutions, and trailblazing to build novel solutions that work

Responsibilities

  • Work across the stack or dive deep into ML to deliver step-wise improvements to our abuse, spam, financial fraud, child safety, and/or tooling systems
  • Architect and deliver new systems with a high degree of autonomy
  • Produce scalable systems capable of handling thousands of events per second
  • Apply creative problem solving cross-functionally across the entire safety ecosystem, whether it’s through engineering, product, or operations
  • Code using primarily Scala; Map-Reduce frameworks such as Scalding; and scripting languages such as Python
  • Potential for technical leadership in payments risk/financial fraud, child safety, or abuse

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience in Trust and Safety
  • Fluent in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, or SQL
  • Familiarity with machine learning