Staff Engineer

🕒 August 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Thorn

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Venture Round on 2017-01

Non-profit • Social Impact • Cybersecurity

Thorn is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet safer for children and defending them from sexual abuse. Founded in 2012, Thorn creates and implements technology solutions to identify and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and assist in the identification of victims. In addition to providing resources for youth, parents, and platforms, Thorn engages in cutting-edge research on online threats and opportunities for safety. The organization is committed to empowering individuals and businesses to protect children and has partnered with companies like Slack to enhance online safety protocols. Thorn also influences policy and supports the prevention of online child exploitation through education and awareness campaigns.

📋 Description

• Lead high-impact initiatives within the Safer product area • Design and deliver complex, multi-system projects • Anticipate technical risks and make architectural and implementation decisions • Improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and long-term sustainability • Partner with Product and Engineering to translate broad goals into actionable technical plans • Collaborate with engineers across multiple ownership areas to build and maintain scalable systems and applications end-to-end • Independently take on large, complex initiatives, identify unknowns, gather input, break down ambiguous problems, and communicate progress • Lead technical discussions across teams and define requirements with Build and Product • Develop user-focused solutions, articulate tradeoffs, incorporate feedback, and iterate • Participate in day-to-day coding, code reviews, production troubleshooting, on-call rotations, system reliability, and incident response • Identify and prioritize technical debt • Share expertise, provide feedback, mentor teammates, and support work outside the primary domain • Research and incorporate new tools, technologies, or patterns that improve products and workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to putting the children Thorn serves at the center of everything you do • Substantial experience building and operating backend services in production, including Python • Hands-on experience deploying or supporting production applications in Kubernetes • Ability to work with common Kubernetes resources and troubleshoot application-level issues • Experience building and operating services in a production cloud environment • Strong architectural judgment and consideration of broader system impact • Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and bring clarity to complex technical challenges • Autonomy and sound judgment in knowing when to seek input • Ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs and balance immediate needs with long-term maintainability • Ability to influence technical decisions through clear articulation of tradeoffs and collaboration • Ability to mentor engineers, provide feedback, and establish shared technical standards • Empathy and ability to advocate for users while balancing product vision and engineering constraints • Clear, efficient, and thoughtful communication, especially in a highly distributed team • Experience with Python and Kubernetes required; experience with every other listed technology is not required • Helpful experience with high-volume systems or data-processing pipelines • Helpful experience building software, platforms, APIs, or tooling for other developers • Helpful experience with AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL, or Elasticsearch

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work model, structured around working from home most of the time • Company-wide gatherings • In-person team meetings and team-building events • Attendance at specific conferences • Broad range of employee benefits • Reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities