Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Trust & Safety
Tinder Trust & Safety is a cross-functional team of highly motivated engineers, data scientists, product managers, community moderators, and anti-fraud specialists. Our projects range from ML
experimentation and deployment, distributed signal processing, and building highly robust account review and moderation pipelines all the way to user-facing in-app safety features.
As Tinder continues to grow and create new and exciting experiences for our users, the challenge of maintaining a safe and protected experience grow ever-larger and more complicated – that’s where Tinder Trust comes in. Our team is responsible for creating a user experience free of abusive behavior such as spam, fake accounts, scams, and toxic behavior, using a combination of state-of-the-art machine learning, human analysis, distributed systems engineering, deep cross-team collaboration, and anything else in-between!
On this team, you will:
- Work with signal Computation, Anti-abuse, Case Moderation, Rules Engines, Real-time stream
- processing, complex transactional APIs, ML data pipelines, and End-user client API
- Report directly to the head of the Trust & Safety engineering team, and will serve as a principal
- technical player across all 4 Trust Engineering teams/lanes
- Be the key steward of the Trust Platform, overseeing architecture, implementation, testing and
- operation of the core systems
- Oversee the architecture and integration of all Trust related backend systems and client APIs
- Conceive, implement, monitor, and improve creative new ML based systems for detecting and
- removing bad actors
- Collaborate across various teams, including product, devops, platform, clients, community, etc.
- Ensure that technical designs support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability,
- availability, maintainability, and security
- Influence the roadmap and product development for the Trust & Safety roadmap
- Guide, inspire, and mentor engineers across the Trust organization
- Drive new technical initiatives that will ultimately improve the day-to-day efficiency of all users
- of the internal Tools platform
We're looking for:
- Excellent knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data
- structures, algorithms, software design and coding
- Hands on experience building distributed backend systems handling high volumes of traffic
- Experience in handling ambiguous business requirements with excellent prioritization, time
- management abilities, and a focus on execution
- Passion to solve complex problems and make continuous improvements
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Hands-on experience with database technologies at scale (either SQL or NoSQL)
- Strong Java/Scala skills and experience
- Eagerness to keep learning and growing, and a passion for providing mentorship
- Passionate about making high user impact and moving key metrics
- A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering from a top school, but a wonderful
- project list is even better
Bonus points if you have:
- Extensive experience using streaming technologies such as Flink, Spark, Beam
- Experience with Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis
- Experience with Docker containers along with Kubernetes or ECS
- Leadership experience
- Implemented machine learning algorithms in production
- NodeJS experience
- AWS/Devops skills
As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:
· The hustle of a startup with the impact of a global business
· Tremendous opportunity to seek some of the industry’s most exciting problems
· Working with an outstanding team of creative, fun and highly motivated people
· Comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, and 401(k) match
At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.