SafetyKit

Senior Backend Engineer (Staff)

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over 1 year ago

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, high-performance infrastructure.
  • Design architectures that enable engineers and language models to quickly create, test, and deploy application code.
  • Create monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for platform stability and performance.
  • Mentor teammates and lead technical decision-making across the organization.
  • Collaborate with AI and product teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions.
  • Drive engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, and documentation.
  • Use code-generation models to accelerate engineering productivity.

Requirements

  • Experience designing scalable, high-performance infrastructure and software architectures.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and some Python.
  • Knowledge of AWS serverless products, including Lambda, Step Functions, and RDS Aurora.
  • Ability to design reliable monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
  • Ability to mentor teammates and lead technical decision-making across the organization.
  • Ability to collaborate with AI and product teams on complex technical requirements.
  • Commitment to rigorous engineering practices, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
  • Curiosity, strong judgment, ownership, and the ability to learn quickly.

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About SafetyKit

11-50 employees

SafetyKit builds AI agents and a unified risk platform that automates complex trust-and-safety workflows—such as underwriting, investigations, and content moderation—for large marketplaces and payment providers. It sells enterprise SaaS to consolidate rules, models, and human review into a single system for fraud prevention and compliance. The company is privately held, based in San Francisco, and counts Etsy, Patreon, and Discord among its customers.

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