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Trust & Safety Engineer

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About the role

We're looking for an experienced trust and safety engineer to join our team.

Over the past year, we've grown from a private beta serving hundreds of active users to a hot AI tool growing faster everyday with millions of users hitting our servers from around the world at all hours of the day. Gamma.app never sleeps!

This position is an onsite role in San Francisco with a hybrid flexible work culture. You'll be expected to come in to our Potrero Hill office 3 days per week with a schedule that works best for you.

We're looking for candidates from diverse backgrounds who are interested in:

Building product features, platforms, and tooling to protect Gamma's platform from phishing, objectionable content, spam, account takeovers, and other fraud and abuse

Ensuring these systems scale to millions of users while maintaining high performance and availability

Moving fast and shipping to production daily

Working fully across our React Express NodeJS Postgres stack, mostly written in Typescript

Contributing to the vision and roadmaps for long-term Trust & Safety and articulating Gamma's overall approach and philosophy on Trust Engineering

Above all, we're looking for someone with a passion for keeping Gamma safe and secure, writing code, collaborating with various engineering teams and product managers, and solving new problems as Gamma grows. We care as much about your attitude and curiosity as your technical knowledge, and less about how long your resume is.

What you'll do:

Identify the largest gaps in our existing infrastructure for protection against fraud and abuse

Propose, validate, and socialize potential trust and safety improvements

Implement improvements while partnering with other engineers and product managers

Ship to production daily across our React Express NodeJS Postgres stack

Develop and maintain systems to detect and prevent malicious activity

Help build a scalable infrastructure that can support our rapid growth

Debug thorny and complex security issues without much to go on

Read and suggest improvements to our trust and safety architecture

Our ideal candidate has:

5+ years experience as a software engineer, preferably with a focus on abuse/spam/fraud detection and prevention

A degree in computer science or related field

Strong proficiency in at least one programming language

Experience developing & implementing trust and safety features such as rate limiting, content detection, anomaly detection, and fraud detection

Experience writing and maintaining highly-available web APIs

Experience with event streaming systems like Redis Pubsub or Apache Kafka

Experience working in large complex production scale codebases

Passion for security and protecting users from bad actors

Average salary estimate

$135000 / YEARLY (est.)

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What You Should Know About Trust & Safety Engineer, Gamma

Are you an experienced Trust & Safety Engineer looking for your next adventure? Join our vibrant team at Gamma.app in San Francisco! As we continue to grow from a private beta to a fast-paced AI tool with millions of users, we need talent like you to help keep our platform secure from the likes of phishing, objectionable content, and account takeovers. We believe in a hybrid flexible work culture, so expect to collaborate in our Potrero Hill office three days a week, ensuring that you find a schedule that suits you best. Your role will involve building cutting-edge features and tooling to protect our users, while also developing scalable systems that maintain top-notch performance. You’ll work across our tech stack, mainly in React, Express, NodeJS, and Postgres, and you'll be encouraged to contribute to the vision of the Trust & Safety team. We’re all about passion, a curious mindset, and problem-solving skills. If you have over five years of engineering experience, a degree in computer science (or a related field), and a strong grasp on trust and safety measures like rate limiting and anomaly detection, you could be the perfect fit for us. Come help us make Gamma.app a safe space for everyone!

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What type of projects can I expect to work on as a Trust & Safety Engineer at Gamma.app?

As a Trust & Safety Engineer at Gamma.app, you can expect to engage in a variety of projects, mainly aimed at enhancing our platform’s security. This includes building new features that detect and prevent malicious activities, integrating advanced fraud detection mechanisms, and collaborating on architectural improvements that facilitate scalability. With millions of users relying on our services, your contributions will have a direct impact on the safety and trustworthiness of Gamma.app.