Software Engineer - Community Notes

We are the Community Notes team — empowering the people to keep each other better informed, with a fully open source algorithm and data. Community Notes is constantly advancing the state-of-the-art in improving the quality of information on the internet and we employ an experimental, fast-moving, iterative approach to find product solutions that work for people of all different points of view.

What You’ll Do:

1. Build new, core functionality that makes Community Notes better — if you’d been here last year, here are a few examples you might have helped build:

• Media notes, which automatically show notes on posts that contain matching media.
• Making notes appear way faster by moving our scoring system to real-time streaming infrastructure.
• Notifications to people who engaged with a post before it received a note.
• Note previews that can significantly improve note quality by quickly gathering ratings on promising new notes.
• … and many more … we shipped >1 product update per week on average through 2023.

Qualifications:

1. Proven experience building and operating software services at scale.
2. Great understanding of writing performant backend code in a distributed systems environment.
3. Bonus but not required: Experience with client engineering (web, iOS, and/or Android).
4. Bonus but not required: Experience with modern data pipeline and ML infrastructure.
5. Enjoy working in a 0-to-1 space with no known machine learning or product solutions, and trailblazing to build novel solutions that work.
6. Love doing whatever work is needed to get things done, enabling rapid iteration on the product.

Join our small, but mighty team and empower the people to keep each other better informed.

If you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!