Platform Engineer, Trust and Safety

The role

You will architect and implement AI-powered systems for real-time decision-making and policy enforcement. You will also build observability tooling and manage scalable infrastructure on GCP to detect and mitigate risks like phishing, spam, and fraud.

What you will do

• Architect and implement AI-powered systems for real-time decision-making and policy enforcement at scale
• Build observability tooling to monitor abuse trends and respond to novel attack patterns
• Balance risk and user experience by monitoring the impact of protective systems
• Partner with Operations to define policy and translate calls into enforceable rules
• Empower Support by building tooling, escalation paths, and appeal workflows
• Work with Data Science to build threat and anomaly detection
• Join forces with Product Engineering and Design to keep privacy and safety at the core of the product
• Participate in an on-call rotation for Trust & Safety incidents
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across GCP's ecosystem
• Collaborate with other engineers to design performant APIs, databases, and backend systems

Required qualifications

• 3–11 years of full-stack, infrastructure engineering, or applied machine learning experience in a fast-paced or high-growth environment
• 2+ years of experience in trust & safety
• Experience building enforcement systems end-to-end: detection, action pipelines, escalation workflows, and appeals
• Fluency with common abuse vectors on consumer social platforms
• Experience with legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements for trust systems
• Experience designing and managing serverless or event-driven systems at scale
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and best practices
• Experience with observability systems (such as Sentry, GCP Cloud Logging & Metrics Explorer)
• Solid grasp of networking, security, and performance tuning fundamentals
• Comfort working in Typescript/Node.js environments
• A builder's mindset
• A habit of leveraging AI tools to move faster, debug smarter, and prototype more effectively

Nice to have

• experience in consumer social

Benefits

• 401(k) with up to 6% matching
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAS and HSA plans available)
• Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services
• Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships
• Unlimited vacation (minimum 3 weeks required)
• Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product
• Annual team off-sites
• Get invited to exclusive parties

Before you apply

• In your application, please include a note on what's got you excited about Partiful!

About the company

Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events. The product helps users throw events with memorable party pages to plan and communicate with guests.