The Role

Bitly is looking for a Software Engineer III to improve and expand the services that power all of our products. As a member of the Trust & Safety Platform team, you will be focused primarily on the continuous improvement of our systems to protect our users from harmful content and abusive behaviors. You will have a crucial hand in shaping the technology for how we approach Trust & Safety in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. You’ll leverage existing systems and bring some opinions of your own to the discussion to improve the Trust & Safety ecosystem.

What You'll Do

  • Create, manage, and improve back-end services that enhance the trust & safety of our platform and products, leveraging a variety of tools and languages including, Go, NSQ, MySQL, Memcached, and more
  • Draw from previous engineering at-scale experiences to build content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, human moderation platforms, risk insight systems and other systems that will be able to handle scale for both today and beyond
  • Collaborate with Product owners, Legal and other Trust and Safety engineers to shape the strategies and approaches we employ to keep the Bitly platform safe in multiple contexts

Who You Are

  • 3+ years as an engineer or individual contributor and at least 2 years working on a Trust & Safety team (or related responsibilities)
  • Fluency in Golang (we're a Golang-heavy shop). Alternatively, experience with C++, Rust, Java, Python, NodeJS, or other modern web languages/frameworks
  • You are familiar with relevant tools and technologies and have the drive to stay up-to-date with ongoing changes and advancements
  • You clearly communicate technical concepts and ideas to other engineers and other parts of the organization
  • You care about the quality of the code you write and strive to leave things better than you found them
  • You take the initiative in addressing issues or seeking support from fellow team members
  • You have experience with and are a proponent of automated testing
  • You have experience using a flavor of version control—we use git and Github to collaborate and manage pull requests

Bonus Points

  • Extensive experience with GoLang and/or Python
  • Experience working on/with an internal-facing platform, SRE, and/or security team
  • Experience writing and maintaining APIs
  • Experience with front-end/full-stack development
  • Experience with Test Driven Development
  • Experience working with data driven, probabilistic threat models
  • Building internal applications and tooling for other engineering teams
  • Something new and not listed above? We’d love to learn and hear about it
Technical Skills
C/C++
Rust
Android (Java)
Python
Node.js
Is a Remote Job?
Remote
Employment Type
Full time

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