Software Engineer, Trust & Safety
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment type
Full-time
About us
We're building the creative layer for modern communication. Every month, over a billion people make presentations — but the tools they use to make them haven't evolved in decades. We're changing that, using AI to disrupt a massive market.
📈 Millions of people rely on Gamma to create, teach, and persuade, creating more than 1 million gammas every day.
💻 We see Gamma as the next great workplace tool, combining viral B2C love with a massive B2B opportunity. We believe AI can be a true creative partner: one that understands context, clarity, and taste.
💸 We’ve reached a $2.1B valuation, crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue, and have been profitable since 2023.
💙 We're an imaginative, passionate team who takes our work seriously, but not ourselves. Our culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity.
About the role
Gamma is tackling one of the most critical challenges for any fast-growing AI platform: keeping millions of users safe while maintaining the creative freedom that makes our product magical. As a Trust & Safety Engineer, you'll architect the systems that protect our platform from phishing, abuse, fraud, and malicious content—all while ensuring Gamma stays fast, reliable, and delightful to use.
You'll join a small, high-impact team building the foundation for trust at scale. This role combines systems thinking with rapid execution: you'll design infrastructure that serves millions, ship improvements daily, and collaborate across engineering, product, and design to define how Gamma approaches safety long-term.
Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.
What you'll do
  • Own detection and prevention systems for fraud, abuse, spam, and malicious content across millions of daily users
  • Design and build scalable trust infrastructure including rate limiting, content scanning, anomaly detection, and account security
  • Ship trust and safety features daily across our stack
  • Build tools to empower our internal support teams to investigate and take action on suspicious & malicious activity
  • Partner with engineering teams and product managers to balance security with user experience
  • Investigate and resolve complex security incidents with limited context
  • Shape Gamma's long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap
What you'll bring
  • 5+ years as a software engineer with a focus on abuse, spam, or fraud prevention
  • Strong systems thinking and experience building highly-available web APIs
  • Hands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language and comfort working across a modern web stack
  • Experience with event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar)
  • Passion for security, user protection, and solving problems at scale
  • Computer science degree or equivalent experience (Nice to have)
  • Experience with AI prompting and LLMs for content moderation (Nice to have)
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, Prisma, Apollo GraphQL, or AWS (Nice to have)
Compensation range:
$180K - $275K, plus competitive equity.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.
If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.
Engineering at Gamma
Our tech stack:
We're building on a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies.
Frontend
AI
  • We use our own custom, open-source AI prompting framework, AIJSX. We have a lot of custom tools built in-house, but also new ones like Vercel AI SDK.
Our tiny team operates at massive scale:
1M+
AI generated presentations daily
70M
users around the world
6M+
AI images generated daily
1 trillion
LLM tokens processed per month
Life at Gamma
🤝 You’ll fit right in if…
  • You get energy from small teams doing big things.
  • You love when design, code, and storytelling overlap.
  • You default to action, even when the answer isn’t clear yet.
  • You value details, but know when to ship and move on.
  • You bring both the spreadsheets and the sparkle, equal parts workhorse and unicorn.
  • You believe AI should amplify creativity, not replace it.
  • You know kindness and intensity are not opposites.
  • You like working with people who care deeply: about their craft, their teammates, and the users on the other side of the screen.
💙 Who we are
Gamma is full of imaginative, passionate people who take their work seriously but not themselves. The culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity. It’s the kind of place where you’ll debate a pixel on Monday, laugh over someone’s keyboard setup on Tuesday, and ship something remarkable by Friday.
We care about craft, move with intention, and don’t mind getting a little scrappy. It’s fast, creative, and occasionally chaotic — but that’s what makes it interesting.
💬 Here’s a bit about what it’s like to work here, from people on the inside:
We asked the team what makes Gamma, Gamma. Here were some of their answers:
  • "quirky, inspiring, fun, a little wild in the best way"
  • "You can have an idea and just run with it."
  • "Everyone’s talented and humble — the mix keeps you sharp."
  • "We ship cool stuff, learn a ton, and laugh a lot doing it."
Meet the team
We're a team of dreamers and doers building in beautiful San Francisco 🌉
We're kabbadi enthusiasts, pickleballers, dog herders, woodworkers, keyboard nerds, potters, and more — and we can't wait to meet you!