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beehiiv is a rapidly growing platform (approaching $50M ARR, 100% YoY growth) where creators build, grow, and distribute newsletters, podcasts, and digital products. The platform integrates email, podcast hosting, websites, community, and digital products with unified publishing, growth, and monetization tools.
You will join a small, focused Trust & Safety Software Engineering Team as a Security Software Engineer specializing in anti-abuse systems. This is a hands-on technical role combining software engineering expertise with digital security and fraud prevention.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain anti-abuse and security systems protecting the platform and users from malicious and fraudulent activity
- Develop and implement security and anti-abuse features in the core product
- Collaborate with the Trust & Safety team on projects, strategy, and problem-solving
- Lead code reviews for security-related features, ensuring quality and best practices
- Support machine learning model development by preparing and collating training data
- Work cross-functionally to ensure new features launch with robust anti-abuse measures
- Investigate security incidents and abuse reports
- Implement third-party security integrations into production systems
- Stay current with emerging security threats and anti-abuse techniques
Required Experience:
- 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend development with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks
- Proficiency with modern test frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Selenium, Rspec)
- Solid understanding of full-stack web architectures and production system behavior
- Fundamental computer networking knowledge (subnetting, DNS, HTTP/S)
- Experience with security tools (WAF rules, RECAPTCHA, anti-abuse systems)
- Familiarity with threat feeds, intelligence, and enterprise fraud/security/KYC tools
- Strong technical judgment and track record of owning systems long-term
- Quality-first mindset balanced with pragmatism and delivery focus
Ideal Candidate Traits:
- Problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to identify root causes
- Abstract thinking and creative approach to undefined threats
- "Hacker" mindset—curiosity about system exploitation and malicious actor perspective
- Proactive, forward-looking approach to anticipating and preventing threats
- Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative team player with strong code review and feedback skills
- Adaptable and comfortable with rapid iteration and context switching
- Autonomous, excited about owning projects and executing creative solutions
Why This Role: High-impact, high-visibility opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and build a new security team. You'll own meaningful projects with significant organizational visibility and work on hard problems in a quality-focused environment.
Note: Not a traditional 9-to-5 role. Requires managing multiple priorities, navigating complex organizational dynamics, and balancing speed with quality under high expectations.
