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
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