Senior Software Engineer, Site Defense

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Social Media and Online Communities

• Salary up to $267,100
• Eligibility for equity in the form of restricted stock units
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
• Generous paid parental leave
• Opportunities for professional development and mentorship

• Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems to protect against DDoS attacks and automated abuse
• Analyze and develop ingress-level defenses across various infrastructure layers
• Build systems to detect and mitigate malicious traffic in real-time
• Collaborate with internal teams to balance security, performance, and user experience
• Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis for network or abuse events

• 5+ years of experience building and operating high throughput and low latency production distributed systems
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration
• Experience with DDoS mitigation and abuse prevention systems
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals such as HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, and CDNs

• Prior experience with cloud infrastructure systems like Kubernetes or AWS/GCE
• Familiarity with ML systems in production, particularly real-time inference
• Knowledge of traffic analysis, anomaly detection, or large-scale telemetry systems

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