Careers at Smyte

Welcome to the Smyte careers repository. We have a few open positions on our team right now:

• Account executive (SaaS)
• Infrastructure engineer
• Anti-Abuse Engineer

Why Smyte?

• We stop the victimization of innocent people online.
• We are the highest-quality product in this space.
• We have a seemingly endless supply of interesting technical problems and not enough people to work on them all.
• We have the strongest team tackling this problem.
• We just raised a series A and our growth is out of control.
• We offer competitive salary, benefits, and equity.

How do apply?

Are you interested? Just send us an email at jobs@smyte.com. No recruiters please.

Some of our team's favorite projects

Pete (CEO, founder, ex-Facebook, original member of React.js team)

• Replacing Riak with multiple services built on RocksDB
• Developing a "layers framework" (modals, tooltips, and focus management) on the frontend
• Learning devops

Josh (backend, founder, ex-Instagram, previously founder of SnapBill)

• Working with interns to implement and productionize the Sliding HyperLogLog algorithm
• Implementing and deploying a domain-specific language for writing efficient, stateful rules

Julian (anti-abuse, founder, ex-Google anti-fraud on wallet & anti-abuse on drive)

• Fighting fraud and abuse with custom reputation and relation databases
• Rate limiting billions of events with minimal false positives

Alana (anti-abuse, worked on policy and enforcement at Google & YouTube)

• Within a few hours, identified and successfully blocked almost all spammy account creation for a new client, cutting down total signups by ~16%.
• Identified stats on rule performance and overlap, manual review results, and business metrics from data in BigQuery.

Yunjing (infra, data infrastructure at Square, Ph.D in cloud performance & security)

• Building domain-specific databases using Kafka, RocksDB, and Kubernetes that serve streaming processing results at scale
• Supporting customers with 100s of millions of monthly active users to fight attackers that are constantly evolving

Paul (infra, ex-Inkling, studied system design at University of Waterloo)

• Building a machine learning pipeline with TensorFlow
• Building a reliable and efficient webhook delivery system

Dave (infra, founded Minefold and Assembly.com)

• Building a service mesh to better manage our microservices
• Move our api to graphql to better support web and mobile clients

Kristen (sales, managed sales at Dropbox)

• Working with companies to learn and advocate where we can best help them fight fraud and abuse.
• Building relationships with our communities of customers and partners.

Lauren (chief of staff, previously Lonely Planet)

• Operations and human resources

Meyer (design, design contractor at Dropbox/Venmo)

• Designing and implementing our live rules editor
• Making the transition from design to front-end engineering

Interested? Email jobs@smyte.com. No recruiters please.