Sunday, 27 July 2014

Software Engineer - User Safety | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA


Software Engineer - User Safety | Twitter, Inc. | San Francisco, CA


Software Engineer - User Safety

Software Engineering | San Francisco, CA

About This Job:

Join us in our mission to reach every person on the planet!


Twitter’s products influence everything from pop culture to politics, delight our users and change lives. We have over 200M active users and over 600M logged-out monthly users -- a significant portion of the global population. Twitter also has one of the largest APIs in the world. We serve over 15B API requests and 2.5B search queries per day. To date, our API has enabled over 750K developers to build over 1M creative and unique applications.  Our engineers work in small teams to build products for our users and developers.


Follow our core value of Respecting the Users Voice by designing and implementing features that allow our users to communicate in a safe and secure manner.

Implement industry wide best practices in identifying and validating user access to the Twitter Platform.
Work with the Design and Product teams to Simplify using Twitter to reach everyone on the planet.
Our technology stack is mainly based on Scala on the backend and Javascript, CSS, HTML on the frontend. Twitter is a major contributor to over 70 open source projects, including Hadoop, Pig and others (many are hosted here - https://github.com/twitter)  
Responsibilities:
Design and implement awesome new features through innovation and data-driven iterations at Twitter scale
Push limits of product innovation using the latest advancements in technology and methods - working closely with product managers, designers and other engineering teams
Rapidly iterate on product and platform features
Requirements:
Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
Disciplined approach to TDD, BDD and Agile
Experience with web infrastructure and distributed systems
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
Desired:
Twitter Product Knowledge
Data-informed product development experience, e.g., analytics, A/B testing
Prior experience working for a consumer Internet company
 
 
 
 
 

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