Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer I for their Decision Systems team. In this role, you will lead projects in the Trust & Safety space, design and build decisioning services, and collaborate across teams to enhance enforcement systems that protect buyers and sellers.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects aligned to your squad’s objectives in the Trust & Safety space
- Design and build decisioning services and pipelines that combine rules, model outputs, and human feedback into high throughput, low-latency systems
- Turn risk and enforcement strategies into concrete, observable controls that protect Etsy’s buyers, sellers, and business
- Collaborate across Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to build for the external users who experience the outcomes of these decisions
- Design and build decision systems
- Implement and evolve services that evaluate signals, scores, and rules to produce consistent enforcement outcomes (e.g., holds, reviews, limitations)
- Partner with Ops, Analytics, ML and Product to clarify requirements, align on tradeoffs, and share impact
- Join partners in incident remediation as needed to identify patterns of abuse and shut them down
- Mentor other engineers via pairing, code reviews, and sharing context
- Help others break down problems and reason about risk tradeoffs
Skills
- Experience crafting and operating backend services that make or orchestrate automated decisions (for example, risk controls, rules engines, or workflow/decision systems), ideally in a large-scale, distributed environment
- Familiarity with the world of cybersecurity, particularly financial fraud
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as PHP, a frontend language like Typescript, and a query language like SQL
- Comfortable learning the rest of the stack as needed
- Use of data, experimentation, and engineering principles to shape solutions, and incorporation of learnings back into the system
- Enjoyment of collaborating with a diverse set of partners, building trust through empathy and follow-through
- Ownership in ambiguous spaces, while bringing in the right collaborators and asking for guidance when it unblocks the work
- Investment in tests, monitoring, and documentation
- Use of incidents and surprises as input to harden systems and improve craft
Benefits
- Equity package
- Annual performance bonus
- Competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy
- Different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team
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