Software Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $160,000 – $250,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 6 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ years · posts $160k to $250k base in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Variance's posting.
Variance builds AI agents that make high-precision judgment calls in the gray areas of risk investigations, fraud, and identity review. The product serves Fortune 500 companies, global marketplaces, and regulated financial services, and the engineering team works directly with the founders.
What you'd do
- Build and ship features end-to-end, from backend systems to UI to production.
- Turn ambiguous investigation and review problems into reliable product experiences.
- Build AI decision systems that act in real time, weighing accuracy, latency, and user trust.
- Expand the product into new industries and workflows by running quick pilots and client demos.
- Refine the product using fast feedback loops, testing, and hands-on execution.
- Partner directly with founders on large-scale problems.
What it asks for
- 1-3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Comfort with React/Next.js and TypeScript.
- Familiarity with MySQL and ClickHouse, or strong fundamentals in other technologies.
- Hands-on experience taking features from start to finish on a fast, short-cycle team.
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About Variance
AI agents that run fraud and risk investigations end to end, and formerly Intrinsic.
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