Senior Software Engineer

Variance

Location
San Francisco
Salary range
USD $200,000 – $300,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
12 months ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $190k to $260k in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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.

Learn more about this and similar levels
Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 4+ years · posts $200k to $300k base in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Apply on Variance

The role, in T&S terms

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

Building AI agents that make gray-area judgement calls in risk investigations, fraud, and identity reviews for Fortune 500 companies and global marketplaces. The team is small and works on systems touching billions of events and entities, aiming to free human reviewers from manual effort.

What you'd do

  • Take features and systems from architecture and build through launch and later iteration, owning them fully.
  • Make the major technical calls across the stack, weighing speed, quality, upkeep, and scale.
  • Build AI-powered interfaces and real-time decision systems that need high precision and user trust.
  • Work directly with the founders on fraud, abuse, and risk problems.
  • Expand the product into new industries and workflows via pilots, live demos, and quick feedback cycles.
  • Shape internal tools, patterns, and engineering standards to improve team velocity.

What it asks for

  • Four or more years of professional software engineering work, or the equivalent.
  • Strong fundamentals in React/Next.js, TypeScript, MySQL, and ClickHouse, or ability to ramp quickly.
  • Track record of building dependable large-scale systems and fixing production problems.
  • Able to make sensible technical trade-offs when requirements are unclear and things move fast.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

Our best summary of the posting, and it can be wrong. The employer's posting is what counts: read it in full on Variance before you apply. If we got something wrong, report this listing.

Tired of job hunting?

Let the roles come to you. Switch on Available, and when a hiring manager or recruiter brings us a role that fits, we'll put you forward. Never to the company you work for.

Join Hidden Talent

Still listed 14 hours ago

About Variance

The employer

About Variance

Safety tooling · San Francisco, CA · Founded 2022

Company profile

AI agents that run fraud and risk investigations end to end, and formerly Intrinsic.

Other jobs at Variance

6 other jobs open

All 6 jobs at Variance

More jobs like this

All jobs

Listed automatically from Variance's public job board. Applications go to the employer. The T&S Network isn't involved in hiring for this job.

More free resources