Engineering Manager (Anti-Abuse)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Anti-Abuse): Building and leading hirify.global's Anti-Abuse team from the ground up to protect the platform from adversarial actors with an accent on AI-native abuse, identity infrastructure, and fraud prevention. Focus on designing progressive verification systems, prototyping detections using AI tools, and establishing core anti-abuse metrics.

Location: Hybrid: Must be based in Foster City, CA (In-office requirement: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

Salary: $210,000 – $275,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language.

What you will do

• Define the 0-to-1 anti-abuse roadmap and threat model, prioritizing vectors like phishing, cryptomining, and AI agent exploitation.
• Design progressive verification and identity infrastructure (the "ladder of trust") to gate platform capabilities.
• Act as a hands-on manager, using AI coding tools to prototype detections and build internal tooling.
• Establish a measurement foundation, including data pipelines and dashboards for abuse rates and fraud loss.
• Hire and grow a high-leverage team of software engineers and data analysts.
• Partner cross-functionally with Support, Legal, Security, and Growth teams to balance fraud prevention and conversion.

Requirements

• 6 to 10+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years of team management, preferably in anti-abuse or trust and safety.
• Hands-on orientation with a current practice of writing code and reviewing PRs.
• Experience building scalable detection and enforcement systems (rules engines, ML risk scoring, reputation systems).
• Strong product and metrics intuition with a track record of defining success for ambiguous problems.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a 0-to-1 environment.
• Must be based in or able to work from the Foster City, CA office.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-native abuse vectors like prompt injection and LLM token farming.
• Familiarity with payment fraud, card testing, or promotional abuse.
• Experience integrating KYC and identity providers (e.g., Persona, Socure, Stripe Identity).
• Background at a hypergrowth consumer platform, developer tool, or cloud provider.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity.
• 401(k) program with a 4% match (US only).
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) and paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Monthly wellness stipend and in-office amenities.
• Autonomous work environment with quarterly team gatherings.