Platform Engineer, Trust & Safety — AI-Powered Risk & Infra

partiful; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Partiful is seeking a Trust & Safety engineer to deepen enforcement across the platform. This backend-leaning role focuses on detecting, investigating, and mitigating abuse, with a strong emphasis on scalable policy enforcement.

You will work with React/Node.js/Typescript stack on GCP, building AI-powered decision systems and observability tooling. The role combines high ownership with rapid delivery in a fast-growing consumer platform.

Qualifications

• 3–11 years of full-stack or infra engineering experience in a fast-paced or high-growth environment.
• 2+ years of experience in trust & safety; experience in consumer social is preferred but not required.
• Experience building enforcement systems end-to-end: detection, action pipelines, escalation workflows, and appeals.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement AI-powered real-time decision-making and policy enforcement at scale.
• Build observability tooling to monitor abuse trends and respond quickly to novel attack patterns.
• Balance risk and user experience: ensure interventions deliver value with minimal friction for trusted users.
• Collaborate with Operations to define policy, translating high-judgement calls into scalable rules.
• Empower Support with tooling, escalation paths, and appeal workflows for enforcement.
• Work with Data Science to build trustworthy threat and anomaly detection.
• Join Product Engineering and Design to keep privacy and safety at the core of the product.
• Participate in on-call rotation for Trust & Safety incidents.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure across GCP services.
• Collaborate with engineers to design performant APIs, databases, and backend systems.
• Drive the Trust & Safety roadmap balancing safety with business needs.
• Join an ambitious team that moves fast and shapes the culture of T&S at Partiful.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Trust & Safety

API design & scalability

AI/ ML tooling

Security fundamentals

Tools

React

React Native

Node.js

TypeScript

GCP

Cloud Functions

Firestore

Redis

Pub/Sub

Sentry

Job description

Partiful is seeking a Trust & Safety engineer to deepen enforcement across the platform. This backend-leaning role focuses on detecting, investigating, and mitigating abuse, with a strong emphasis on scalable policy enforcement.

You will work with React/Node.js/Typescript stack on GCP, building AI-powered decision systems and observability tooling. The role combines high ownership with rapid delivery in a fast-growing consumer platform.