Staff Software Engineer, Fraud

Twilio

Location
Remote - US
Salary range
USD $138,700 – $173,400 base
Workplace
Remote
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
7 months ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $240k to $310k at an employer this size for a remote role. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P4 · asks for 6+ years · posts $139k to $173k base at a company over 5,000 for a remote role.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Twilio's posting.

Engineering work on device fingerprinting and fraud detection products that find bots, manual abuse, and reverse engineering attempts against customers on Twilio's platform. The role sits in the fraud platform team, which brings Stytch's identity and fraud capabilities to Twilio's full customer base.

What you'd do

  • Build and own fraud detection tools, digging into browser and device internals to collect complex signals for spotting bad actors.
  • Set direction with product and engineering leads and turn customer needs into technical plans.
  • Align with Twilio and Stytch teams on architecture and integrate platform capabilities across initiatives.
  • Write design docs, make key technical calls, review code, and stay hands-on with the systems you ship.
  • Evolve detection techniques to stay ahead of threats from bad actors.
  • Raise production quality through monitoring, incident handling, and fixes.
  • Coach engineers through pair work, feedback, and sharing knowledge.

What it asks for

  • 6+ years designing, building, and operating production systems.
  • Expertise in C or C++.
  • Familiarity with a production-grade codebase in a modern programming language.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
  • Strong skills in writing and speaking clearly.
  • Ability to work non-standard on-call rotation, weekend, and holiday hours.
  • Familiarity with JavaScript, Go, or WebAssembly (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • On-call rotation with weekend and holiday hours.
  • Occasional travel for in-person team or project meetings.

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