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Software Development Engineer II

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10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and systems for Trust and Safety use cases.
  • Build systems that detect, prevent, and mitigate abuse, fraud, suspicious activity, and other platform risks.
  • Develop real-time and batch processing capabilities for trust-related signals.
  • Use large-scale datasets and event streams to build reliable risk detection and decisioning systems.
  • Design APIs, services, and data pipelines supporting trust, safety, and platform integrity workflows.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Security, and Engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Build reliable systems focused on performance, availability, scalability, and data quality.
  • Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions.
  • Develop monitoring, alerting, and operational mechanisms for trust-system reliability.
  • Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best-practice initiatives.
  • Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the scalability, accuracy, and efficiency of Trust Engineering systems.

Requirements

  • Strong programming experience in Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software engineering fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling.
  • Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies is preferred.
  • Understanding of distributed systems, caching, asynchronous processing, and microservices architecture.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance-tuning skills.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
  • Understanding of security, privacy, authentication, authorization, or risk systems is a plus.
  • Exposure to fraud detection, abuse prevention, Trust & Safety, identity, risk management, or security engineering is preferred.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 2–5 years of experience in backend or software engineering, preferably with large-scale consumer or platform systems.
  • Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
  • Trust & Safety, Fraud/Risk, Security, Identity, or similar domain experience is a strong plus.
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

  • JioStar is an equal opportunity employer committed to a workplace free from discrimination and supportive of diversity and inclusion.
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