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

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco (HQ)

Employment Type: FullTime

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting, and most creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. The terms of our culture should not be set by gate-keeping legacy media or chaos-fueling social media, but by the people who make and participate in that culture. Substack's model, based on direct subscriptions, has fueled an explosion of independent publishing. It empowers creators with economic autonomy, creative ownership, and a direct connection to their most engaged audiences.

We are looking to hire a Systems Engineer to partner with our Standards & Enforcement team. Standards & Enforcement (“S&E”) at Substack is tasked with enforcing content guidelines and legal compliance platform-wide while upholding Substack’s commitment to free speech. As an S&E Engineer on our Systems team, you’ll work with our team of S&E specialists and with product stakeholders to fight spam and platform abuse.

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

• Our tech stack includes Typescript, Node/Express, React, Postgres, Redis, and DynamoDB. It’s helpful if you’re familiar with some of these already, if not, we’ll be excited to help you learn.

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.

Substack's compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and exceptional benefits. Our cash compensation salary range for this role is $140,000 - $260,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. We’re seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we’d love to meet you.

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