Senior Software Engineer, Enforce - Safety Processing

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Enforce - Safety Processing (Backend): Building infrastructure and decision systems for content moderation at scale with an accent on accuracy, efficiency, and fairness. Focus on stabilizing, scaling, and evolving hirify.global's enforcement systems.

Location: Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).

Salary: $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits.

Company

hirify.global is used by over 200 million people every month and plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.

What you will do

• Own high impact projects within a complex distributed system from end-to-end that help Safety at hirify.global scale.
• Improve production services that process millions of enforcement decisions per day, including participating in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Apply an adversarial mindset to enforcement systems to anticipate abuse patterns, edge cases, and failure modes in systems that must be accurate, fair, and legally compliant.
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Policy, ML, Data Science, and Legal teams to deliver enforcement changes ranging from policy updates to compliance-critical pipeline improvements.
• Contribute to measurement foundations by working with Data Science to define and baseline enforcement metrics like recidivism rate, over-enforcement rate, and unintended churn.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience building and operating distributed systems and production services at scale ( use GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, KKV, and gRPC).
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver results on time, including in ambiguous or transitional environments.
• Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate complex, multi-service codebases.
• Demonstrated adversarial thinking and the ability to anticipate misuse, edge cases, and system vulnerabilities.
• Experience being in 24/7 on-call rotations.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across Trust & Safety, Policy, Legal, or Operations stakeholders.
• Using Gen AI products, like Claude Code, as part of your daily workflow.

Nice to have

• Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, enforcement infrastructure, or related problem domains.
• Familiarity with Rust
• Familiarity with legally mandated reporting pipelines or compliance-sensitive systems.
• Experience with workflow automation or decision systems, particularly handler-based or rules-driven enforcement architectures.
• Experience with observability tooling, defining SLOs, building dashboards, and instrumenting distributed systems with Datadog or similar.
• A strong passion for hirify.global and making online communities safer.

Culture & Benefits

• Multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
• Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.