Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

OpenRouter
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 215,000 - 285,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Judgment","Agency","Discretion","Communication","Resilience"]

Build and operate trust & safety systems that detect abuse and fraud across signup, payments, and usage. Own the end-to-end enforcement pipeline from detection to human review and account restrictions. Create internal investigation tooling and monitoring to reduce false positives while improving risk coverage. Collaborate with data scientists on risk and abuse ML models, analyzing incidents and scaling the platform’s safety guardrails.

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OpenRouter
OpenRouter
14 hours ago

Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

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Job Summary

Build and operate trust & safety systems that detect abuse and fraud across signup, payments, and usage. Own the end-to-end enforcement pipeline from detection to human review and account restrictions. Create internal investigation tooling and monitoring to reduce false positives while improving risk coverage. Collaborate with data scientists on risk and abuse ML models, analyzing incidents and scaling the platform’s safety guardrails.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and operate technical systems to detect abuse and fraud across signup, payments, and usage.
  • •Own the enforcement pipeline end to end, from detection proposals to human review and restrictions rollout.
  • •Develop internal tools for investigation and enforcement decisions, including case queues, evidence summaries, bulk review, enactment, and alerting.
  • •Ship content-safety solutions across the inference path, including illegal content detection/reporting and KYC/third-party intelligence to stop fraud.
  • •Investigate incidents using data and build analytics/monitoring to distinguish real abuse from false positives and reduce risk spikes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 215,000 - 285,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years building and operating production systems, ideally in trust & safety, fraud, payments risk, security, or anti-abuse.
  • •Proficiency with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and JavaScript runtimes.
  • •Ability to write SQL on large event datasets and evaluate base rates, precision/recall, and decision cost.
  • •Sound judgment working with incomplete evidence and bias toward action to iterate and ship quickly.
  • •Strong communication skills to explain incident findings, detection rules, and systems to varied audiences.
Experience:4+ years
Skills:JudgmentAgencyDiscretionCommunicationResilience
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptNext.jsJavaScriptSQLClickHouseBigQueryStripe RadarKYCObservability platformsML modelsLLM abusePrompt injection

Company Brief

OpenRouter
Provides a unified, standards-compatible API and marketplace to route requests to 400+ large language models and cloud hosts, optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability for developers and enterprises.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Micro (1 to 10 employees)
Revenue: USD 1M to 5M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2023
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