Safety Engineer
Core
Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for automated moderation, abuse detection, and guardrail systems to protect the platform and users across a multimodal AI space.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (AI safety & infrastructure)
Builds
Production-grade safety infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, and monitoring systems for content moderation and agent guardrails
Domain
AI safety, content moderation, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
backend software engineering, distributed systems, Python (asynchronous), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines, observability (Prometheus, Grafana), system architecture
Preferred skills
Trust & Safety/Content Moderation experience, MLOps, SQL, real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Redis), event-driven architectures, React
Technologies
Python, AWS, GCP, Docker, K8s, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Redis, React
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation and abuse detection; Architect robust APIs, data pipelines, and service architectures for real-time and batch workflows; Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems; Partner with ML engineers to translate research models into production-ready systems; Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
