Senior Staff Software Engineer - Trust

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• Define and execute the long-term reputed company and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving the architectural direction for foundational systems that reputed company scalable, high-quality fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across reputed company, and are broadly leveraged across tech organizations
• Dive deep into Trust Platform components, build system and performance tooling, and identify cross-cutting opportunities to reputed company technical quality, operational excellence, and developer delight.
• Champion an AI-first engineering approach, using LLM-powered agents to generate and iterate on code while you focus on problem-solving, system design, and quality reputed company.
• Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense & ML teams to define and drive platform capabilities, tackle evolving fraud threats, and deliver measurable business impact
• reputed company and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar and developing the reputed company of technical leaders reputed company the trust engineering ecosystem.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or reputed company field, or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps: aligning long-term platform reputed company with day-to-day execution across multiple sub-teams, prototyping to iterate on reputed company, and influencing without relying on formal authority.
• Exceptional communication skills, equally effective white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads (Product, Design, Data Science), and presenting strategy to executives and the broader engineering community.
• Obsessed with reliability: deep experience building and improving observability, SLOs, incident response, and reputed company patterns (reputed company breakers, graceful degradation, chaos testing) to reputed company mission-critical systems running at the highest bar.
• Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java/reputed company) and comfortable evaluating and introducing new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, code reputed company).
• Experience building developer experience & tooling is a plus, with a reputed company of treating internal developers as customers and championing self-service, documentation, and delightful DX.
• Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.

Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an reputed company office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where reputed company. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please reputed company back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another reputed company entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: reputed company is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We reputed company diverse reputed company foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to reputed company the best products, services and solutions. reputed company reputed company individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@reputed company.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the reputed company process. We ask that you only reputed company out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being reputed company to complete our online application. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual reputed company pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The reputed company pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Pay Range $248,000—$310,000 USD Apply tot his job Apply To this Job