Software Engineer II, Safety (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineer II (Safety): Designing, building, and maintaining tools, infrastructure, and integrations to detect, prevent, and mitigate abuse and harmful activity across the hirify.global platform with an accent on safeguarding the community from threats such as spam, malware, and fraud. Focus on engineering robust solutions to complex adversarial problems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape resilient product designs.

Location: In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Salary: USD $83,400.00 - USD $221,400.00 /Yr

Company

hirify.global is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with over 150 million developers and the biggest open-source community on earth.

What you will do

• Write and review front- and back-end code to support and scale abuse moderation operations.
• Design and maintain integrations with internal and external services to detect and mitigate trust and safety issues.
• Collaborate with safety analyst partners, Security, Threat Intelligence, and Legal stakeholders to engineer and prioritize novel moderation solutions.
• Document the systems you help build thoroughly.
• Review new products and advise product teams on resilient, abuse-resistant designs.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• 1+ years of experience developing and maintaining web applications and APIs, ideally using TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in fighting spam, malware, fraud, or attack activity at scale.
• Experience with data pipelines, event stream processing, or working with large-scale data.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Flink), or building rules engines and moderation platforms.
• Experience in analytical fields, ambiguous technical challenges, and problem-solving.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.
• Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
• Strong culture built on empathy and high trust.
• Values collaboration, empathy, quality, positive impact, and shipping.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace with accommodations for disabilities.