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Posted 4 weeks agoSoftware Engineer, Distributed Systems (Trust & Safety)
at Gamma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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Responsibilities
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content across millions of daily users - Design and build scalable trust infrastructure including rate limiting, content scanning, anomaly detection, and account security - Architect distributed systems, APIs, and high-volume event pipelines that power real-time abuse detection at Gamma's scale - Help define and evolve the core data model and storage systems that underpin trust and safety across the product - Build
Requirements
- WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS NOW AI has dramatically lowered the barrier for bad actors.
- At the same time, AI is transforming what's possible on the defensive side.
- AI-assisted content scanning, automated investigation workflows, and intelligent alert prioritization mean that a lean team can protect millions of users — if they build the right infrastructure.
- experience building scalable, high-traffic production systems - Strong systems thinking and
- experience building highly available web APIs - Strong proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar) and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) -
- Experience with event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar) and high-volume event pipelines - Hands-on
- experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention - Track record shipping high-quality, complex applications under tight timelines - Product-minded approach with understanding of how technical decisions impact user
- Experience with AI/LLMs for content moderation, or familiarity with TypeScript, Prisma, Apollo GraphQL, or AWS -
- Experience building AI-assisted moderation pipelines or using frontier models for automated abuse detection and response - Familiarity with the evolving AI threat landscape — how generative models are being used for phishing, social engineering, and content abuse at scale -
Experience
- experience - Shape Gamma's long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 5+ years of backend engineering