We Build Tools to Defend Children From Sexual Abuse | Thorn We are dedicated to ending the sexual exploitation of children. And we won’t stop until every child can just be a kid. We build technology and digital programs to defend children from sexual a...
📎 thorn.org
🗓 Founded in 2012
👩💻 117 employees
🧱 Consumer Services
💰 $30,000,000/y
🇺🇸
United States
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Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your skills, expertise and passions to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our staff solves dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners from tech companies, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. If you are able to bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy problems, you could be a great fit for our team.\n\nEarlier this year, we took the stage at TED and shared our audacious goal of eliminating child sexual abuse material from the internet. A key aspect of our work is partnering with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and building technology to optimize the broader ecosystem combating online child sexual abuse.\n\n**What You'll Do**\n\n* Collaborate with other engineers on your team to build a data pipeline and client application from end-to-end.\n* Prototype, implement, test, deploy, and maintain stable data engineering solutions.\n* Work closely with the product manager and engineers to define product requirements.\n* Present possible technical solutions to various stakeholders, clearly explaining your decisions and how they address real user needs, incorporating feedback in subsequent iterations.\n\n**What We're Looking For**\n\n* You have a commitment to putting the children we serve at the center of everything you do.\n* You have proficient software development knowledge, with experience building, growing, maintaining a variety of products, and a love for creating elegant applications using modern technologies.\n* You’re experienced with devops (Docker, AWS, microservices) and can launch and maintain new services.\n* You are experienced with distributed data storage systems/formats such as MemSQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Druid, Cassandra, Parquet, etc.\n* You have worked with real-time systems using various open source technologies like Spark, MapReduce, NoSQL, Hive, etc.\n* You have knowledge in data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques for big data platforms.\n* You have an ability and interest in learning new technologies quickly.\n* You can work with shifting requirements and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.\n* You have experience prototyping, implementing, testing, and deploying code to production.\n* You have a passion for product engineering and an aptitude to work in a collaborative environment, can demonstrate empathy and strong advocacy for our users, while balancing the vision and constraints of engineering.\n* You communicate clearly, efficiently, and thoughtfully. We’re a highly-distributed team, so written communication is crucial, from Slack to pull requests to code reviews.\n\n**Technologies We Use**\n\n*You should have experience with at least a few of these, and a desire and ability to learn the rest.*\n\n* Python\n* Elasticsearch / PostgreSQL\n* AWS / Terraform\n* Docker / Kubernetes\n* Node / Typescript \n\nPlease mention the words **SIGHT CARBON SCISSORS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNg==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Work from Home, DevOps, Elasticsearch and Node jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States
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This job post is closed and the position is probably filled. Please do not apply. Work for Thorn and want to re-open this job? Use the edit link in the email when you posted the job!
\nThorn is searching for a software engineer to join its engineering team as a full-time (40 hrs/week) contractor. This is a 6 month contract, with the possibility of extension, or full-time consideration.\n\nThorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. The team’s current areas of focus include human trafficking, dark web child abuse/exploitation content, and social media platform safety. In this role you will work on our Industry Toolkit, which will be used to clean online communities of child abuse. The work spans large scale hash matching, building RESTful APIs, generating XML reports, and building systems for cloud and on-premise deployment.\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* Professional software development experience.\n\n* Adept at quickly learning new technologies.\n\n* Experience implementing, testing, and deploying code to production.\n\n* Skilled at rapidly prototyping applications.\n\n* Ability to collaboratively solve problems with internal and external stakeholders.\n\n* Clear, efficient, and eloquent communicator — we are a distributed team, so written communication is crucial, from Slack to pull requests.\n\n\n\n\nTechnologies We Use\n\nIf you don’t have experience with some of these, fear not. We still want to work with you as long as you have the desire and ability to learn.\n\n\n* Node / React / TypeScript\n\n* Docker / Kubernetes\n\n* AWS / Terraform / Packer\n\n* Python\n\n* PostgreSQL\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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\nThorn is searching for software engineers to join our engineering team to help build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. The team’s current areas of focus include human trafficking, dark web child abuse/exploitation content, and social media platform safety.\n\nYou will work on our dark web investigation tool, as well as a variety of other projects. Examples of projects include our Child Finder Service, in which we apply computer vision to find missing children, and our Industry Toolkit, which will be used to clean online communities of child abuse. You will also participate in broad exploration to fight child abuse and trafficking. The work spans engineering and data science topics from security to artificial intelligence — including adaptive crawling, statistical analysis, search, machine learning (NLP, computer vision, sentiment analysis), data pipeline development, and UX design.\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* \n\nProfessional software development experience\n\n\n* \n\nAdept at quickly learning new technologies\n\n\n* \n\nExperience implementing, testing, and deploying code to production\n\n\n* \n\nSkilled at rapidly prototyping applications\n\n\n* \n\nAbility to collaboratively solve problems with internal and external stakeholders\n\n\n* \n\nClear, efficient, and eloquent communicator — we are a distributed team, so written communication is crucial, from Slack to pull requests\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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