Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety

The role

You will architect and scale trust infrastructure for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, and rate limiting. You will design distributed systems, APIs, and high-volume event pipelines to protect millions of users.

What you will do

• Own detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content
• 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
• Help define and evolve the core data model and storage systems
• Build tools that empower internal support teams to investigate and act on suspicious or malicious activity
• Leverage AI/LLM-based detection to stay ahead of AI-generated abuse
• Build automated triage and investigation workflows
• 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

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering 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 and business metrics
• 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
• Experience with real-time collaboration systems

Benefits

• benefits
• equity

About the company

Gamma is building trust infrastructure to keep 70M+ users safe while preserving creative freedom.