Variance
https://www.variance.coWorld-Class Tooling for Trust & Safety teams
Build safer platforms with Intrinsic. Get access to the best safety technologies from one unified API. Enable your Trust & Safety team to tell cohesive stories from policy to product, to enforcement. Michael and Karine first met two years ago at Apple’s Fraud Engineering, Algorithmic Risk team, which evolved to become Apple’s Trust & Safety function. We are both engineers and helped solve online abuse problems, including spam, botting, account security, and developer fraud for Apple’s customer base of over a billion users.
Total Open and Closed Positions
Total open positions, and positions newly closed since the previous update
Department Headcount Over Time
Open positions per department · top 6 at any point in the window
Newly Opened and Closed Positions
Position Churn Rate
Positions closed within 14 days of opening · a high rate suggests posting instability — duplicates, pulled listings, or roles filled through internal or off-market channels
Time-to-Fill Distribution
Days from open to close · closed positions only
Salary Trend Over Time
Monthly median base salary · USD · annualized · p25/p75 dashed
Salary Range by Department
Employment Type
Technical vs. Non-technical
Open positions · by department
Top Roles by Department
Seniority Mix
Derived from job title keywords
Equity Range by Department
Top Skills
Top Tech Stacks
Skills Trend
Change in share of postings · recent 3 months vs. prior 3 months
Tech Stack Evolution
Positions opened per month · top 5 technologies