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Generating convincing phishing pages, spinning up realistic-looking fraudulent accounts, and producing abusive content at scale no longer requires specialized skill - a motivated attacker with access to widely available models can do it. \nAt the same time, AI is transforming what's possible on the defensive side. A small, sharp T&S team equipped with frontier models can now build detection, triage, and response systems that would have required a team five times the size just a couple of years ago. AI-assisted content scanning, automated investigation workflows, and intelligent alert prioritization mean that a lean team can protect millions of users - if they build the right infrastructure.\nAbout the role\nYou'll architect and scale the trust infrastructure that keeps 70M+ users safe while preserving the creative freedom that makes Gamma magical. This means designing distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, and rate limiting; helping define and evolve the core data model and storage systems behind abuse detection; and shipping the high-volume event pipelines and internal tools that let our support teams act quickly on threats.\nYou'll join a small, high-impact team building the foundation for trust at scale. You'll work across databases, public APIs, and event infrastructure, balancing long-term technical investments with rapid shipping velocity. You'll collaborate across engineering, product, and design to define how Gamma approaches safety for the long term.\nOur team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4-5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content across millions of daily users\n\nDesign and build scalable trust infrastructure including rate limiting, content scanning, anomaly detection, and account security\n\nArchitect distributed systems, APIs, and high-volume event pipelines that power real-time abuse detection at Gamma's scale\n\nHelp define and evolve the core data model and storage systems that underpin trust and safety across the product\n\nBuild tools that empower internal support teams to investigate and act on suspicious or malicious activity\n\nLeverage AI/LLM-based detection to stay ahead of AI-generated abuse - phishing, fraud, and malicious content that's increasingly indistinguishable from legitimate activity\n\nBuild automated triage and investigation workflows that let a small team operate at the scale of a much larger one\n\nInvestigate and resolve complex security incidents with limited context\n\nPartner with engineering and product to balance security with user experience\n\nShape Gamma's long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap\n\nWhat you'll bring\n5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable, high-traffic production systems\n\nStrong systems thinking and experience building highly available web APIs\n\nStrong proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar) and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)\n\nExperience with event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar) and high-volume event pipelines\n\nHands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention\n\nTrack record shipping high-quality, complex applications under tight timelines\n\nProduct-minded approach with understanding of how technical decisions impact user experience and business metrics\n\nPassion for security, user protection, and solving problems at scale\n\nNice to have\nExperience with AI/LLMs for content moderation, or familiarity with TypeScript, Prisma, Apollo GraphQL, or AWS\n\nExperience building AI-assisted moderation pipelines or using frontier models for automated abuse detection and response\n\nFamiliarity with the evolving AI threat landscape - how generative models are being used for phishing, social engineering, and content abuse at scale\n\nExperience with real-time collaboration systems\n\nCompensation range:\nThe base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $180K-$310K plus benefits & equity.\nFinal offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.\nIf you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! 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