Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety

Gamma
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 310,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Systems thinking","Problem-solving","Product-minded","Collaboration","Security focus"]

Architect and scale trust infrastructure to keep 70M+ users safe while preserving user creativity. Build distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, rate limiting, and account security, plus high-volume event pipelines and internal tools that help support teams investigate and respond quickly. Work with frontier-model/AI-assisted detection, define evolving data models and storage, and partner across engineering, product, and design to balance safety and user experience.

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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety

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Job Summary

Architect and scale trust infrastructure to keep 70M+ users safe while preserving user creativity. Build distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, rate limiting, and account security, plus high-volume event pipelines and internal tools that help support teams investigate and respond quickly. Work with frontier-model/AI-assisted detection, define evolving data models and storage, and partner across engineering, product, and design to balance safety and user experience.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content across millions of users.
  • •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 for real-time abuse detection.
  • •Define and evolve the core data model and storage systems that underpin trust and safety.
  • •Build tools and workflows that enable support teams to investigate, triage, and resolve threats, including AI/LLM-based detection.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 310,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable, high-traffic production systems.
  • •Strong systems thinking and experience building highly available web APIs.
  • •Backend proficiency in Node.js or Python (or similar) and databases including PostgreSQL and Redis.
  • •Experience with event streaming systems and high-volume event pipelines.
  • •Hands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:Systems thinkingProblem-solvingProduct-mindedCollaborationSecurity focus
Tech Stack:Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLRedisKafkaTypeScriptPrismaApollo GraphQLAWSAILLMEvent streamingAPIs

Company Brief

Gamma
Gamma (gamma.app) is an AI-powered visual storytelling platform that generates presentations, websites, documents, and social content from text or briefs — combining AI design agents, smart layouts, and collaboration tools for fast, polished outputs.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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