Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety

About this role

This role focuses on building and scaling trust and safety infrastructure to protect Gamma's 70M+ users from increasingly sophisticated AI-powered abuse. You'll design distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, and fraud prevention, while collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams. The team emphasizes in-person collaboration in San Francisco while offering flexibility for focused remote work.

What you'll do

• Develop detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content.
• Design and build scalable trust infrastructure like rate limiting and content scanning.
• Architect distributed systems and high-volume event pipelines for real-time abuse detection.
• Contribute to the data model and storage systems underlying trust and safety.
• Create tools for internal support teams to investigate and respond to threats.
• Leverage AI/LLMs to identify and mitigate AI-generated abuse.

What they're looking for

• Backend Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• API Design
• Node.js/Python
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Event Streaming (Kafka)
• Systems Thinking

Benefits

• Equity
• In-office collaboration