Senior Security Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Security Software Engineer role at Riskified

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.

About the Role

As a security software engineer, you’ll build and maintain our sophisticated user-authentication and browser/device fingerprinting applications. Working in a dynamic, agile environment with cutting-edge technologies, you’ll contribute to Riskified’s merchant protection solution to authenticate genuine users during online transactions.

This position requires someone with strong technical skills, creativity, independence and the desire to prevent fraud. Our developers take full ownership, from feature planning, to selecting technologies, coding, reviewing, deploying in a CI/CD environment, testing and monitoring post-deployment.

The team focuses on collecting insights and making them available to Riskified’s advanced merchant order analysis. The insights are at a robust scale, and you’ll have the opportunity to engage end-to-end.

Responsibilities

- Design and develop advanced JavaScript and/or mobile techniques for browser and/or device fingerprinting, device identification, and detection of browser automation tools, bot activity and spoofing attempts

- Collaborate with research and data science teams as well as product team, to define and implement new features and capabilities; and take an active role in planning the roadmap

- Stay current with evolving browser and mobile security features and potential exploits

- Deploy your code to production continuously (we have advanced CI/CD pipelines)

Qualifications

- Proven experience in security for web or mobile

- Understanding of either browser internals, DOM manipulation, and browser APIs; or mobile internals, mobile security-related APIs

- A passion for security or anti-fraud research, targeting web browsers and related technologies, web security, browser fingerprinting, and bot detection

- Knowledge of WebGL, canvas fingerprinting and/or audio fingerprinting - an advantage

- Background in e-commerce security and understanding of common fraud patterns in e-commerce - an advantage

- 2+ years of proven experience in hands-on programming for web/mobile

- Hands-on experience with TypeScript/React/Angular/Objective C - an advantage

- Great attitude - an independent self-learner and a strong team player

Life at Riskified

We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking.

We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.

Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

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