Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Gamma

$180K — $310K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on abuse, spam, or fraud prevention.
  • Proficient in building highly available web APIs in at least one programming language across a modern web stack.
  • Hands-on implementation of trust features like rate limiting and content detection.
  • Experience with event streaming systems such as Redis or Kafka.
  • A strong passion for security and user protection with proven problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own detection and prevention systems for fraud and malicious content for millions of daily users.
  • Design and construct scalable trust infrastructure including anomaly detection and account security.
  • Build internal tools to empower support teams in investigating suspicious activity.
  • Investigate and resolve complex security incidents under limited context.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to balance security and user experience.
  • Shape long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap for Gamma.
  • Utilize AI-based detection to combat increasingly sophisticated abuse and fraud.

Benefits

  • Strong in-office culture with in-person work 4-5 days a week in San Francisco.
  • Flexibility to work from home when focus is needed.
Full Job Description
About the role

Gamma is tackling one of the most critical challenges for any fast-growing AI platform: keeping millions of users safe while preserving the creative freedom that makes the product magical. As a Trust & Safety Engineer, you'll architect the systems that protect our platform from phishing, abuse, fraud, and malicious content, all while ensuring Gamma stays fast, reliable, and delightful to use.

You'll join a small, high-impact team building the foundation for trust at scale. You'll design infrastructure that serves millions, ship improvements daily, and build the internal tools that let our support teams act quickly on threats. You'll collaborate across engineering, product, and design to define how Gamma approaches safety for the long term.

Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4-5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

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
  • Build tools that empower internal support teams to investigate and act on suspicious or malicious activity
  • Investigate and resolve complex security incidents with limited context
  • Partner with engineering and product to balance security with user experience
  • Shape Gamma's long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap
  • Leverage AI/LLM-based detection to stay ahead of AI-generated abuse-phishing, fraud, and malicious content that's increasingly indistinguishable from legitimate activity
  • Build automated triage and investigation workflows that let a small team operate at the scale of a much larger one


What you'll bring
  • 5+ years as a software engineer with a focus on abuse, spam, or fraud prevention
  • Strong systems thinking and experience building highly available web APIs, with proficiency in at least one programming language and comfort working across a modern web stack
  • Hands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention
  • Experience with event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar)
  • Passion for security, user protection, and solving problems at scale
Nice to have
  • 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


Compensation range:

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $180K - $310K plus benefits & equity.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.

If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.

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