Software Engineer - Standards & Enforcement (formerly Trust & Safety)

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, and they are seeking a Systems Engineer to partner with their Standards & Enforcement team. The role involves enforcing content guidelines and legal compliance while developing robust trust and safety features within the Substack product.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally to build robust trust & safety features into the Substack product
• Build systems that balance user experience with platform safety, and own projects end-to-end

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Can contribute across the full web stack, with strong backend experience
• Strong candidates will have experience building and maintaining abuse detection systems at scale
• Independent and autonomous. We're too small to micromanage, and expect that every person at the company owns their work and can be a leader
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems
• Take pride in building elegant and delightful product experiences. Substack works best when it gets out of the way so writers can focus on writing and connecting with their readers
• Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of thinkers while bringing our own unique experience and background to the team
• Believe in Substack's mission to build a better business model for writing
• Familiarity with Typescript, Node/Express, React, Postgres, Redis, and DynamoDB