Jobs at Bluesky Social

Build and manage relationships with legislators, regulators, agencies, civil society, and industry groups. Promote Bluesky and AT Protocol adoption among public-sector stakeholders, monitor technology legislation and regulation, and translate policy developments into recommendations. Partner with legal, trust and safety, product, communications, and leadership teams on policy engagement. Define success metrics, report results, and manage external consulting workstreams. Regular travel to Washington, DC is expected.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

Design, implement, and operate infrastructure for high-scale production systems serving millions of users. Own reliability, observability, incident response, deployments, capacity planning, cost management, and operational excellence across bare-metal and cloud environments. Develop automation and performance tooling, improve production readiness, manage vendors, lead incident reviews, and mentor engineers on reliability and distributed-systems practices.

Lead product design for Bluesky by owning complex, end-to-end design initiatives across iOS, Android, and web while managing 2–4 designers. Responsibilities include defining visual identity, evolving design systems, conducting critiques, mentoring and hiring designers, partnering with product and engineering leadership, shaping roadmaps, and translating user research into product improvements. The role is highly hands-on and requires strong visual, interaction, prototyping, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Own Bluesky’s narrative across press, social channels, and the broader internet. Create and commission content, build journalist and creator relationships, manage launches and campaigns, support executive speaking opportunities, shape brand voice, lead crisis communications, and coordinate with product, engineering, community, freelancers, creators, and agencies. The role requires strong writing, internet culture fluency, fast execution, and extensive communications or marketing experience.

As a Senior Backend Developer, you'll design and maintain high-volume pipelines and databases, implement ETLs for automated abuse-prevention, and develop monitoring solutions while collaborating with teams on safety systems.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, you will build and maintain moderation and user-safety applications for Bluesky's Trust & Safety team, collaborating with product teams and improving tools based on user feedback.