Trust & Safety Engineer

TL;DR

Trust & Safety Engineer (Cybersecurity): Building scalable abuse prevention systems focused on authentication, account integrity, and abuse detection with an accent on stopping automated and coordinated attacks. Focus on designing risk-based controls, developing internal tooling, and collaborating across security and engineering teams to mitigate abuse while preserving user experience.

Location: Remote-first (United States; British Columbia and Ontario, Canada only)

Salary: $164,000 - $329,000 USD/CAD depending on location and experience

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first company building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform that empowers teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers.

What you will do

• Harden login and registration flows using risk-based controls such as rate limiting, behavioral signals, and automated mitigation.
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to identify and remediate abuse.
• Develop internal Trust & Safety tooling to centralize risk signals, improve investigation workflows, and automate enforcement actions.
• Create and productionize abuse detection logic by translating adversarial patterns into scalable signals and engineering controls.

Requirements

• Location: Must be based in the United States or British Columbia/Ontario, Canada.
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience, including 2–3 years in trust & safety, security engineering, or fraud/abuse prevention.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, or Node.js.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Cloudflare), data pipelines, and querying large datasets.
• Familiarity with rate limiting, fingerprinting, bot detection, observability, metrics, and alerting tools.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Strong understanding of risk-based authentication, abuse detection heuristics, and adversarial behavior.
• Experience working across security, product, and data teams.
• Interest in emerging technologies like AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity (RSUs) in a growing, privately held company.
• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision with most premiums covered.
• Paid parental leave and inclusive family care benefits.
• Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and sabbatical program.
• 401(k) with 100% employer match in the U.S. and global retirement support.
• Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses.
• Annual bonus program for full-time employees.