Senior Software Engineer, OpenSea
Trust and Safety
$160-305k
+ Equity
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Job no longer available
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-305k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- If you are enthusiastic about earning users’ trust, and have experience in the adversarial modeling domain, we want to hear from you!
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 4+ years of experience in adversarial domains like abuse/fraud/spam prevention, anomaly detection, risk management, trust and safety
- Proven record of leading engineering design, implementation, and deployment
- Experience with service-oriented architecture, big-data stack, experimentation framework
- Growth-minded, data, and impact-driven
- (Nice to have) Web3 ecosystem experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for experienced engineers to join our Trust and Safety Engineering organization
- In this role, you will build the foundational risk platform and detection models
- You will deploy risk management features on our product surface to protect the ecosystem
- You will collaborate closely with our Product, Policy, Operations, Data, Search & Discovery teams
- Design and build scalable risk data infrastructure and detection engine with low-latency capability
- Design and build platform solutions for human review process, evidence collection, reporting, and more
- Develop rules and ML models to detect policy violations and identify bad actors
- Define success metrics, design and conduct A/B testing to measure product impact
- Partner with Product, Policy, Legal, Operations, and Communications to deploy punitive/corrective/friction solutions
- Lead the technical direction to scale our detection, review and enforcement ahead of business growth
Our take
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for NFTs or uniquely identifiable digital items. These items are authenticated with blockchain and are part of a new internet economy that consists of digital products representing art, game characters, domain names, and event tickets.
As NFT adoption surged, the platform initially faced speed and cost challenges tied to the limitations of the Ethereum network. In response, OpenSea expanded support to more scalable solutions such as Polygon, improving transaction efficiency and user experience while broadening access to lower-cost trading.
Despite increased competition following the fallout from FTX and the rise of rivals like Blur, OpenSea has continued to adapt its strategy with a renewed focus on long-term growth and community trust. Recent updated, including the decision to delay its SEA token launch to ensure strong rollout, the introduction of temporary 0% trading fees, and user-focused initiatives such as optional fee refunds, signal a more measured, user-centric approach as it promotes a revamped platform. While the competitive landscape remains intense, these moves suggest OpenSea is prioritizing sustainability and product quality, placing itself to remain a central player in the evolving NFT ecosystem.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $427.3m
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Devin Finzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding OpenSea in 2017, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma which he joined as an Engineering Manager. He also co-founded Iris Labs and spent nearly 2 years at Pinterest as a Software Engineer.
Nadav Hollander
(CTO)Prior to joining OpenSea in 2022, Nadav co-founded Dharma where he served as the CEO. He was also a Software Engineer at Coinbase.
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