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title: 'Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety at Gamma'
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# Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Trust & Safety at Gamma

- **Company:** Gamma
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma/1d76bf68-c948-4594-a6f5-b836eaf33c4b

## Job description

## WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS NOW

AI has dramatically lowered the barrier for bad actors. Generating convincing phishing pages, spinning up realistic-looking fraudulent accounts, and producing abusive content at scale no longer requires specialized skill — a motivated attacker with access to widely available models can do it.

At the same time, AI is transforming what's possible on the defensive side. A small, sharp T&S team equipped with frontier models can now build detection, triage, and response systems that would have required a team five times the size just a couple of years ago. AI-assisted content scanning, automated investigation workflows, and intelligent alert prioritization mean that a lean team can protect millions of users — if they build the right infrastructure.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll architect and scale the trust infrastructure that keeps 70M+ users safe while preserving the creative freedom that makes Gamma magical. This means designing distributed systems for real-time content scanning, anomaly detection, and rate limiting; helping define and evolve the core data model and storage systems behind abuse detection; and shipping the high-volume event pipelines and internal tools that let our support teams act quickly on threats.

You'll join a small, high-impact team building the foundation for trust at scale. You'll work across databases, public APIs, and event infrastructure, balancing long-term technical investments with rapid shipping velocity. You'll collaborate across engineering, product, and design to define how Gamma approaches safety for the 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
- Architect distributed systems, APIs, and high-volume event pipelines that power real-time abuse detection at Gamma's scale
- Help define and evolve the core data model and storage systems that underpin trust and safety across the product
- Build tools that empower internal support teams to investigate and act on suspicious or malicious activity
- Leverage AI/LLM-based detection to stay ahead of AI-generated abuse — phishing, fraud, and malicious content that's increasingly indistinguishable from legitimate activity
- Build automated triage and investigation workflows that let a small team operate at the scale of a much larger one
- Investigate and resolve complex security incidents with limited context
- Partner with engineering and product to balance security with user experience
- Shape Gamma's long-term trust and safety strategy and technical roadmap

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable, high-traffic production systems
- Strong systems thinking and experience building highly available web APIs
- Strong proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar) and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Experience with event streaming systems (Redis, Kafka, or similar) and high-volume event pipelines
- Hands-on experience implementing trust features like rate limiting, content detection, and fraud prevention
- Track record shipping high-quality, complex applications under tight timelines
- Product-minded approach with understanding of how technical decisions impact user experience and business metrics
- Passion for security, user protection, and solving problems at scale

## Nice to have

- Experience with AI/LLMs for content moderation, or familiarity with TypeScript, Prisma, Apollo GraphQL, or AWS
- Experience building AI-assisted moderation pipelines or using frontier models for automated abuse detection and response
- Familiarity with the evolving AI threat landscape — how generative models are being used for phishing, social engineering, and content abuse at scale
- Experience with real-time collaboration systems

## COMPENSATION RANGE:

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $180K–$310K plus benefits & 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.

## About Gamma

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered productivity software / presentation and content creation
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual creators, professionals) and B2B (teams, enterprises)
- **Mission statement**: “We build tools for imagination” – making it easy for anyone to share ideas beautifully and quickly without design or communication expertise.

## Products & Services
- **Presentations**: Turn any idea or outline into a polished slide deck; export to PPT, PDF, Google Slides, and more.
- **Documents**: Create structured, visual documents (one-pagers, white papers) with AI assistance.
- **Websites**: Generate a shareable, hosted website in minutes – no coding required.
- **Social Media**: Produce platform-ready social content sized and styled for posting.
- **Graphics**: AI design agent for creating custom, on-brand graphics, infographics, and illustrations.
- **API**: Programmatic creation for automation, integration, and scaling content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2.1B (as of 2026, per company about page)
- **Key Metric**: $100M+ annual recurring revenue (ARR); 100 million total users; over 1 million creations per day
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (likely venture-backed given valuation)
- **Growth Signals**: Achieved profitability in 2023; rapid user adoption (100M users); expanding from presentations into websites, social, and API; strong B2C viral growth with growing B2B enterprise traction.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for AI collaboration, not retrofitted.
- **Multi-format versatility**: One platform for presentations, documents, websites, social posts, and graphics – reducing tool sprawl.
- **Viral B2C love + massive B2B opportunity**: Millions of individual users drive organic adoption into enterprises.
- **Profitable growth**: Profitable since 2023 while still scaling rapidly, demonstrating unit economics.

## Strategic Focus
- **Disrupting the presentation market**: Replacing legacy tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides) with an AI-first experience.
- **Expanding the creative layer**: Moving beyond presentations to become the default tool for all modern communication (documents, websites, social).
- **Enterprise go-to-market**: Building on viral B2C adoption to capture B2B contracts with features like brand controls, team collaboration, and API integrations.
- **Continuous AI innovation**: Leveraging 20+ AI models and constant iteration to improve output quality and creative capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity” – a team of dreamers and doers that ships constantly.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/on-site presence in San Francisco (primary hub) and New York; many roles listed as “San Francisco” or “New York” with on-site expectation; some remote flexibility may exist for certain roles.
- **Notable perks**: Being part of a profitable, high-growth unicorn; working on a product used by 100M people; opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered communication.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on AI, data science, and product design; roles include AI Engineer, Research Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and UI Engineer.

## Sources
1. [Gamma About Page](https://gamma.app/about)
2. [Gamma Careers Page](https://careers.gamma.app/)
3. [Gamma Job Listings (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma)
4. [Gamma Product Pages](https://gamma.app/?lng=en)
5. [Gamma Team Page](https://team.gamma.app/)

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