Software Engineer - Applied Safety

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Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

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.

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.

Preferred qualifications:

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