# Sara Behn

> Software Engineer @ Paces | Ex-Meta

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarabehn

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Paces
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Software Engineer, AI Safety @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
- Integrate safety tooling into AI applications across dozens of Meta products
- Accelerate time to launch through developing an automated evaluation process to replace manual adversarial testing

### Software Engineer, Facebook Privacy @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Created a long term strategy for data management work, by coordinating across several engineering and cross-functional teams, developing several project areas for engineers to execute on through 2025
- Led a team of 3 engineers to build a novel codemod script migrating 600 callsites to a new, privacy safe API, ultimately saving 1200 developer hours
- Developed a unified API to access 30,000 assets across 5+ custom services with built-in privacy, using abstractions to maximize efficiency and developer experience
- Determined and implemented data retention policies for two of Facebook’s most expensive data categories, saving 10M dollars per year
- Architected, iterated on, and thoroughly tested a framework through which to return access to 190B posts missing over the last decade, ensuring regulatory compliance

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
I worked as a UTA for Computer Science 201 (Data Structures and Algorithms), an introductory computer science class at Duke, for 6 semesters. I lead a weekly discussion section for 30 students to clarify what they had learned in lecture, monitored an online message board to answer any questions that arose, and held office hours to personally tutor students who needed extra help.

### Software Engineering Intern, Home Performance @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
- Spearheaded the remodeling of a user flow through the Instagram iOS app by collaborating cross
functionally and proposing creative solutions
- Designed and implemented an algorithm to show new content based on readiness of the content
- Constructed a new caching system for unseen content in order to improve user experience upon first
opening the app

### Software Engineering Intern, Search Speed @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California
- Constructed a new caching system in order to improve search speed performance on the Android mobile application
- Developed, ran, and analyzed an experiment to decrease the size of a client-side storage table, which resulted in a 25% reduction
- Created a plugin for Flipper, a mobile application debugger, that allows developers to access and manipulate databases in the Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Android applications

### Software Engineering Intern @ Aeris Communications
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
While at Aeris, I developed a Java tool from proof of concept to deployment which will be used to retrieve hundreds of spreadsheets from an online server, parse and validate them, and store them in an Oracle SQL database. I also Built a RESTful API using NodeJS/Express and a ReactJS user interface to push authentication commands to IoT devices and created a Python script to standardize service monitoring requests sent to the ELK stack.

### Intern @ AJC Global
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chicago, Illinois
During my internship, one of my main responsibilities was planning and executing recruitment and donor events, including an intern luncheon for forty students that featured a panel with an investment banker, a nuclear engineer, and an immigration lawyer. This event was a success, bringing in 15 new members to the organization. I also drafted letters and corresponded with foreign diplomats to advocate for Israel Through these experiences, I gained both leadership and teamwork skills and honed my ability to write effectively.

### Student Teacher @ Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
During high school, I worked to tutor students in Hebrew to help them prepare for their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

### Intern @ Family Service of Lake County
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Highwood, Illinois
As an intern for the county's free summer camp for underprivileged children, I worked to use the funding we had to develop and schedule 5 weeks of camp activities. I managed a budget of $5000, used for marketing, activities, and field trips, as well as advertised in the community through creating flyers, making phone calls, and sending emails. In addition, I oversaw 5 volunteers and supervised 20 children.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Major, English Minor
Duke University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hello-sara

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Last updated: 2026-04-05