Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Trust & Safety, to design, build, and operate the large-scale, real-time distributed systems that stop abuse and fraud on the platform, including fraud committed through AI agents, fraud that abuses deployments and compute resources, and payment fraud on token-based usage. You will write the services, detection systems, and large language model (LLM) tooling that disrupt abuse at internet scale. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City, with three days a week in the office.

What it asks for · 1

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale, real-time distributed systems

Also a plus

• Shipped an AI-based trust and safety system to production
• Worked in abuse prevention, trust and safety, or security engineering
• Built or hosted a project on Vercel

What the job covers

• Design and build production services that detect and disrupt fraud committed through AI agents, fraud that abuses deployments and compute resources, and payment fraud on token-based usage
• Build detection systems that find abuse patterns across large datasets
• Ship LLM-driven systems for abuse detection, classification, and prevention, and build the datasets and evaluation pipelines that measure them
• Build and maintain internal tools for trust and safety workflows
• Analyze threat actor behavior to inform detection logic, and work with security, product, and infrastructure teams to move prototypes into stable production

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• abuse7×
• fraud7×
• systems7×
• build5×
• production5×
• detection4×
• safety4×
• trust4×
• engineering3×
• status3×
• abuses deployments2×
• agents fraud2×
• compute resources2×
• datasets2×
• design2×
• detection systems2×

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