Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack) - Trust and Safety

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

The Trust and Safety(TnS) engineering team are 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.

We are building an engineering team dedicated to Trust and Safety's Risk and Response business. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams (XFN) that include Product Managers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and QAs, to establish public trust through providing solutions to support risk and response business, especially escalation handling.

Key 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;
- Had solid user-facing product experience in building, designing, and scaling software architecture
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in trust and safety or risk control system design and implementation is preferred.

About this role

Summary

Design and develop scalable trust and safety platform and tools.

Job title

Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack) - Trust and Safety

Experience level

2+ years

Minimum experience

2+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Located in Seattle, remote work not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programming: pythonprogramming: goprogramming: phpprogramming: c++programming: javadata structuresalgorithmsproblem-solvingcommunicationteamwork

Preferred skills

trust and safetyrisk control system designsystem architecture

Specializations

backendfullstacktrust and safety
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City