Silver Tail Systems provides behavior based fraud detection and prevention against business logic abuse on websites. Based in Palo Alto, Silver Tail is VC backed, and been in business for over 3 years. We currently have around 30 employees, but are growing rapidly. Silver Tail was founded by a team of fraud prevention experts who built anti-fraud and anti-phishing tools at eBay and PayPal. Combining experience with cutting-edge proprietary algorithms, Silver Tail has built highly scalable products that minimizes false positive rates and are extremely flexible at adapting to changing fraud attack vectors through the use of Silver Tail's unique behavior analysis algorithms. Silver Tail Systems Forensics and Mitigation products help divert and block bad behavior in real-time. Silver Tail customers are some of the largest sites on the Internet spanning multiple industries. We are cash-flow positive, growing rapidly and looking to add high caliber professionals to our team
Responsibilities:
Work with a creative, high-energy, and collaborative team to develop innovative crime-fighting products (Yes… this is very cool work)
Constantly work to achieve higher and higher standards of quality
Work within the agile software development process with one week sprints
Take direction and smartly build on it
Be passionate about finding innovative methods for fighting bad guys online
Software Engineer (strong C/C++ distributed systems working with "big data" is a plus) -----------
Ideal candidate has a 5-7 years of experience in software development and ideally comes from a top tier academic background
Must be intelligent and creative, and appreciate creativity from others
Individual must have superb coding skills C++
Background working with either Unix or Linux is essential for this role
Experience in multi-threaded, distributed, systems is also a key element for this role
Strong TCP/IP skills are a plus
Strong self-starter with strong desire to truly make a difference with in taking an important role in developing product for release to the market
Proven track record of accomplishments in their career
Must be flexible and adabptable to change
Strong skills outside of computer science are a major plus (ex. math, physics, linguistics, economics, etc…)
Must love challenges
Silvertail Systems is a leader in the anti fraud, analytics area in the rapidly expanding market of the WWW and Internet. We offer an outstanding compensation package as well as lucrative equity in our firm. Please send your information to Herbnj@gmail.com
