Safety Engineer (Back-End Leaning)

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Strong backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, working with databases, and building scalable services.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with modern backend frameworks.
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
  • Comfortable owning systems end to end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Experience working across different parts of the stack, with the ability to build internal tools or frontend interfaces when needed.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and non-technical stakeholders across different functions.

Nice to haves

  • Experience building Trust & Safety, content moderation, fraud detection, or abuse prevention systems.
  • Experience building guardrails or safety infrastructure for AI agents and LLM-based applications.
  • Experience deploying and integrating ML models into production applications.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Experience with React or other modern frontend frameworks.
  • Experience with real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, or technologies such as Kafka and Redis.

What you'll be doing

  • Design, develop, and scale automated moderation systems, abuse detection capabilities, and guardrails for AI agents.
  • Partner with the Investigations team to identify emerging abuse patterns and improve safety systems and detection mechanisms.
  • Build and maintain internal safety services, managing their architecture, deployment, reliability, and ongoing operation.
  • Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy and integrate fine-tuned ML models into production safety systems at scale.
  • Develop backend services, APIs, internal tools, and user-facing interfaces for moderation, safety operations, and policy enforcement.
  • Work closely with Product, Legal, and Safety Policy teams to translate business, regulatory, and policy requirements into engineering solutions.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and guide the evolution of safety infrastructure as products and challenges grow.

Perks and benefits

  • Innovative culture with the opportunity to shape the future of AI alongside a pioneering team.
  • Numerous growth opportunities to drive impact beyond immediate roles and responsibilities.
  • Annual discretionary stipends for professional development and social travel to meet with colleagues.
  • Annual company offsite events in exciting locations like Croatia and Italy.
  • Monthly co-working stipends for employees not near main hubs.
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