Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse

What this role involves

The Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse role focuses on designing and building backend and data systems for detecting, preventing, and responding to fraudulent and abusive behavior at scale. The engineer will work cross-functionally with trust & safety, security, and product teams to harden defenses against emerging attack patterns. The tech stack includes Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka.

Skills this posting asks for

• terraform
• kubernetes
• azure
• python
• postgres
• kafka
• fraud detection
• abuse analysis
• machine learning
• backend systems
• data systems

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

ABOUT THE TEAM The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL·E; and the APIs for GPT-5, embeddings, and fine-tuning. We also operate inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate horizon. Our customers build fast-growi…