Backend Software Engineer - Trust and Safety - Seattle

Seattle, Washington, US Until 8/21/2026 2+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

TikTok identifies trust and safety as a top priority, and our team obsesses over it daily.

The Trust and Safety (TnS) engineering team is responsible for protecting our users from harmful content and abusive behaviors. With the continuous efforts of our trust and safety engineering team, TikTok can provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world. Our team is responsible for achieving goals by building content moderation process systems, rule engines, strategy systems, feature engines, human moderation platforms, risk insight systems, and all kinds of supportive platforms across TnS organization.

Responsibilities:
- Build a highly scalable, efficient and robust trust, and safety platform and tools;
- Understand product objectives to develop an easy-to-use platform that aligns with customers' needs;
- Collaborate with trust and safety specialists, experts, and machine learning engineers;
- Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services;
- Work with Trust and Safety teams to protect TikTok globally.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor or above degree in computer science or a related technical discipline;
- At least 2 years of industrial experience;
- Proficiency in designing data structures, building algorithms, and at least one programming language: python/go/php/c++/java;
- Experience in problem-solving with related internet products;
- Great communication and teamwork skills;
- Passionate about techniques and solving challenging problems.

About this role

Summary

Design and build scalable safety platforms, collaborate with teams to ensure system stability.

Job title

Backend Software Engineer - Trust and Safety

Experience level

2+ years

Minimum experience

2+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Seattle, WA; on-site preferred but remote possible.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythongophpc++java

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

content moderationsystem designalgorithmplatform
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

On-site City