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Platform Engineer, Trust and Safety

Partiful· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$165k - $210kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Trust & Safety-focused backend-leaning platform engineer role at Partiful, responsible for detecting, investigating, and mitigating risks (phishing, spam, objectionable content, scraping, and fraud) while maintaining product velocity and privacy.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement AI-powered systems for real-time decision-making and policy enforcement at scale, including the scaffolding to improve those systems over time
  • Build observability tooling so the team can monitor abuse trends and respond to novel attack patterns quickly
  • Balance risk and user experience: proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction
  • Collaborate deeply across functions: Partner with Operations to define policy and translate high-judgement calls into scalable rules; Empower Support with tooling, escalation paths, and appeal workflows; Work with Data Science on threat and anomaly detection; Align with Product Engineering and Design on privacy and safety

Qualifications

  • 3–11 years of full-stack, infrastructure engineering, or applied machine learning experience in a fast-paced or high-growth environment
  • 2+ years of experience in trust & safety; consumer social experience preferred but not required
  • Experience building enforcement systems end-to-end: detection, action pipelines, escalation workflows, and appeals
  • Fluency with common abuse vectors on consumer social platforms
  • Experience with legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements for trust systems
  • Experience designing and managing serverless or event-driven systems at scale
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and best practices
  • Experience with observability systems (such as Sentry, GCP Cloud Logging & Metrics Explorer)
  • Solid grasp of networking, security, and performance tuning fundamentals
  • Comfort working in TypeScript/Node.js environments
  • A builder's mindset — automating, optimizing, and empowering teams through tooling
  • A habit of leveraging AI tools to move faster, debug smarter, and prototype more effectively
  • Deep sense of ownership and bias towards action

Skills

Required:AI-powered real-time decision systemsObservability toolingPolicy enforcement at scaleServerless / event-driven architectures

Benefits

  • 401(k) with up to 6% matching
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and dependents (FSAs and HSA available)
  • Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services
  • Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships
  • Unlimited vacation (minimum 3 weeks required)
  • Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product
  • Annual team off-sites
  • Get invited to exclusive parties
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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