About the Role
Architect and scale the trust infrastructure to keep over 70 million users safe while preserving creative freedom. Design distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, and rate limiting. Define and evolve core data models and storage systems for abuse detection. Ship high-volume event pipelines and internal tools for threat response. Join a small, high-impact team building foundational trust infrastructure at scale, balancing long-term investments with rapid shipping.
Responsibilities
- 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 for real-time abuse detection.
- Define and evolve core data model and storage systems for trust and safety.
- Build tools to empower internal support teams for incident investigation and action.
- Leverage AI/LLM-based detection to combat AI-generated abuse like phishing and fraud.
- Build automated triage and investigation workflows for efficient operations.
- Investigate and resolve complex security incidents with limited context.
- Partner with engineering and product to balance security with user experience.
- Shape the long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable, high-traffic production systems.
- Strong systems thinking and experience building highly available web APIs.
- Hands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention.
- Track record of shipping high-quality, complex applications under tight timelines.
- Product-minded approach with an understanding of how technical decisions impact user experience and business metrics.
- Passion for security, user protection, and solving problems at scale.
Skills
- Backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar)
- Databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar)
- High-volume event pipelines
- AI/LLMs for content moderation
- TypeScript
- Prisma
- Apollo GraphQL
- AWS
- AI-assisted moderation pipelines
- Automated abuse detection and response using frontier models
- Real-time collaboration systems
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-office (4-5 days per week)
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level to Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $180K–$310K
Benefits
- Benefits
- Equity
About the Company
- AI has dramatically lowered the barrier for bad actors, enabling easier generation of convincing phishing pages, fraudulent accounts, and abusive content at scale.
- AI is also transforming defensive capabilities, allowing smaller teams equipped with frontier models to build advanced detection, triage, and response systems.
- Gamma aims to protect millions of users by leveraging AI-assisted content scanning, automated investigation workflows, and intelligent alert prioritization.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
