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Staff Software Engineer - Protect

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Responsibilities

  • 01Care deeply about the product and the value you create for our customers
  • 02Learn how customers use our product and the specific fraud challenges they face; build solutions to address them
  • 03Identify new frontiers in fraud detection, build focused prototypes to test the riskiest assumptions, and turn validated ideas into reliable production systems
  • 04Collaborate closely with the DS/ML team
  • 05Navigate our data landscape, run Jupyter notebooks and Spark jobs, or develop in Tecton to deliver business impact independently
  • 06Lead the team by example on AI assisted engineering: write skills and linters, automate things, push code in unfamiliar languages, systems and repos
  • 07Raise the technical bar through mentorship, design reviews, and hands-on leadership across the organization
  • 08Set the technical direction for the systems that serve Trust Index scores and fraud attributes in real time
  • 09Lead ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives while staying hands-on in architecture, critical production code, data investigation, and production debugging
  • 10Work closely with DSML teams, product, and fraud researchers to identify opportunities for new fraud signals and product expansions
  • 11Shorten the path from a promising fraud insight to measurable customer value
  • 12Iterate on Protect, from API changes to new integration modes and product modules

Requirements

  • 01Extensive experience, typically 8+ years, building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale
  • 02Must be comfortable working hands-on directly in the codebase
  • 03Strong product judgment: the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into deliverables, make principled tradeoffs between rapid validation and durable architecture, and define measurable outcomes