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Staff Software Engineer, Radar
San Francisco, Seattle +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, Seattle
US - Experience
- 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience.
About the job
Builds and operates Radar software and infrastructure that help businesses detect and prevent fraud and abuse, investigate threats, and configure defenses.
What you'll do
- Build and operate reliable, low-latency fraud and abuse prevention services, APIs, dashboards, and shared infrastructure.
- Partner with users, product teams, and ML and data science teams to develop and launch capabilities, including models and AI.
- Own projects end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and iteration.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, including ownership of large, ambiguous systems end to end.
- Strong coding skills in any programming language and experience building and maintaining production software.
- Technical leadership delivering large, complex software projects, and experience leading and unblocking engineers as a senior individual contributor.
- Significant hands-on coding as a senior IC leader in the last year; experience building trusted consumer products at scale and working closely with fast customers, including leading upsell calls.
Nice to have
- Track record of shipping products with data science and ML teams, or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
- Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript; payments, fintech, or regulated financial products; or stablecoins and digital assets.
Tools
Java, Ruby, TypeScript
AI focus
Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals, models, and AI capabilities into production for fraud prevention.
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