Senior Software Engineer
Develops fraud detection and prevention products, focusing on device fingerprinting to combat bots and abuse. Requires 6+ years experience, familiarity with C/C++ and modern languages, collaborating with leadership on high-impact features in a remote-first environment.
About the job
See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as a Senior Software Engineer for Stytch, where you'll shape the next generation of fraud prevention products.
About the job
As a Senior Software Engineer you will help develop Stytch’s fraud detection and prevention products as we bring Stytch capabilities to Twilio’s full customer base, delivering secure, developer-first identity and fraud prevention experiences. You’ll primarily work on our Device Fingerprinting product that detects bots, manual abuse, and highly sophisticated reverse engineering to help protect our customers’ from fraud and abuse. You’ll partner closely with product and engineering leadership to evolve our detection techniques to continue to stay ahead of threats. This is a rare chance to operate like a startup within Twilio: you’ll work in a high-ownership environment with startup speed, backed by Twilio’s reach and scale.
Responsibilities
- Build and own fraud detection capabilities for Stytch’s fraud platform on Twilio—go deep on browser and device internals for complex signal collection to improve identification of bad actors and keep our customers safe.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into technical plans, and deliver high-impact roadmap features.
- Collaborate across Twilio and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives.
- Operate with deep technical ownership: author design docs, drive key technical decisions, review code, and stay close to the systems you ship.
- Build in ambiguity—break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and adopt new technologies or strategies when they improve outcomes.
- Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation.
- Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture.
Qualifications
Required:
- 6+ years experience in designing, building and operating production systems.
- Familiarity with C/C++, production experience not necessary
- Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related industry experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.
Desired:
- Familiarity with Javascript, Go, WebAssembly
- Experience with reverse engineering and/or reverse engineering detection and prevention such as experience with browser automation, botting, and/or fraud detection and defense techniques
- Offensive and/or defensive security software engineering experience
- Builder at heart. Through a hobby or your profession, you are passionate about being hands on and seeing your work come to life.
Skills
C++, JavaScript, Go, Webassembly, Fraud Detection, Reverse Engineering, Browser Automation, Security Engineering, Observability, Device Fingerprinting
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