Public summary
Join an innovative social tech company based in Berlin, focused on building a trustworthy and safe neighborhood platform for real people. The role involves leading technical trust and safety initiatives, developing backend and user-facing safety features, threat modeling, and managing compliance under the Digital Services Act and GDPR. Candidates should have strong experience in Ruby on Rails development, security-first mindset, and the ability to work cross-functionally with moderation, product, and legal teams within an international English-speaking environment.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Berlin
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- German requirement signal
- Unclear
- Detected job language
- English
Salary
EUR 420.00 - 420.00 year
Responsibilities
Design and implement technical safeguards such as abuse detection, rate limiting, and verification checks within the platform's API and backend; ship user-facing safety features including reporting flows, warnings, blocking and privacy controls; threat-model new products before release; lead response efforts to potential threats and abuse; decide between building internal solutions or integrating vendor tools for content scanning; collaborate closely with Community Management to enhance moderation tooling and standards; ensure platform compliance with legal regulations and maintain audit-ready evidence; measure effectiveness of safety interventions and maintain transparency reporting.
Qualifications
Several years of experience in building and operating production web platforms with focus on trust & safety, anti-abuse, fraud prevention or application security; solid Ruby on Rails experience or proven aptitude to learn new languages; strong SQL and database expertise; deep understanding of client-server architecture and infrastructure including AWS, logging, and observability; security-first mindset and up-to-date knowledge of social platform attack vectors; ability to develop user-facing frontend safety features utilizing React and TypeScript; excellent English skills for international team collaboration; capability to communicate technical risks in plain language and work effectively with non-engineering teams. German language skills and experience with German market moderation context, fraud waves, vendor tooling integration, or offensive security background are considered a plus.