Sr. Software Engineer, Trust and Safety

At Vimeo, we love designing and engineering tools that combine power with ease of use. As an engineer in the Content Policy and Moderation Tools team your mission will be to empower our team of moderators to find and dispatch spammers, scammers, hackers and exploiters by supplying and improving the tools at their disposal. If you like the idea of being one of the heroes that shields our magical forest, read on!

We’re a small team that cares about collaboration, encourages curiosity, celebrates technical excellence, and is driven by careful attention to detail and planning for the future. We believe diversity of perspective and experience are key to building great technology and believe that the best way to iterate towards success is by taking care of ourselves, our families, our users, and one another.

What you’ll do:

• Build and improve tools that enable Vimeo’s trust and safety team to protect our users, and our platform
• Work closely with our customer facing Trust and Safety teams, and other internal teams to build products to improve their day to day
• Build user facing security features that protect our users from bad actors, and search for creative solutions to common abuse problems
• Sculpt the architectural vision for significant parts of our stack to allow for rapid iteration and long term stability.
• Work closely with other engineers on the team to aid in their technical growth.

Skills and knowledge you should possess:

• 3+ years of experience, perspective and deep understanding of the Trust and Safety domain
• Extensive experience with at least one server-side programming language (PHP, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, Node, etc)
• Proficiency in front end web development including React and/or NextJS
• An intimate knowledge of relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc) and data modeling techniques
• Proven experience in building scalable web applications, including backend services, APIs, and databases
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate respectfully and effectively with both technical and non-technical teams
• Organized and have the ability to break up projects into manageable pieces and complete them with limited compromises by the established deadline
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot debug complex issues
• Experience mentoring members of your teams through architectural guidance and thorough code reviews

Bonus points (nice skills to have, but not needed):

• Microservice implementation and design experience
• Experience with cluster managers like Kubernetes
• Experience with distributed metrics systems like Graphite, Statsd, or Prometheus

Targeted Base Salary Range: $127,800 to $196,000

The base salary range listed above is for candidates located in the U.S., including the New York City metro area.

At Vimeo, we strive to hire and nurture amazing talent across the globe. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience, specialized skills, internal alignment and a candidate’s home base.

Base salary is just one component of Vimeo’s total rewards philosophy. We offer a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base! Other rewards may include bonus or commission, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), paid time off, generous 401k match, wellbeing resources, and more.

About Us:

Vimeo (NASDAQ: VMEO) is the world's most innovative video experience platform. We enable anyone to create high-quality video experiences to better connect and bring ideas to life. We proudly serve our community of millions of users – from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams at the world's largest companies – whose videos receive billions of views each month. Learn more at www.vimeo.com. Vimeo is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. At Vimeo, we believe our impact is greatest when our workforce of passionate, dedicated people, represents our diverse and global community. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion is championed in how we build our products, develop our leaders, and strengthen our culture.