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Senior Software Engineer, Fraud

210k – 265kFoster City, CAHybrid4+ YOE
Summary

Build and operate AI-powered fraud and abuse detection systems on Replit's agentic platform. Design LLM guardrails, ML classifiers, and automated response mechanisms to combat phishing, cryptomining, and platform exploitation.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement LLM guardrails that detect abuse scenarios in AI-generated code and agent interactions
  • Build AI-powered detection systems that use LLMs to identify malicious patterns, classify threats, and automate response decisions
  • Build and operate abuse detection systems that identify phishing, cryptomining, account takeover, and financial fraud across millions of daily user actions
  • Design automated response mechanisms that enforce platform policies without manual intervention
  • Own the full abuse response lifecycle: detection, investigation, enforcement, and handling appeals
  • Analyze attack patterns using BigQuery and Hex, turning investigation findings into new detection rules
  • Maintain and extend internal detection tools (Slurper, Netwatch) that continuously monitor user activity
  • Integrate and tune security scanners (SAST, SCA) in CI pipelines with tight performance SLAs
  • Track abuse trends, measure detection effectiveness, and adapt defenses as attack patterns evolve

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in security engineering, anti-abuse, trust & safety, or fraud detection
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript for building detection systems and automation
  • Experience with SQL and data analysis at scale (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar)
  • Experience building or fine-tuning ML/LLM-based classifiers for security or abuse detection
  • Familiarity with prompt injection, jailbreaking, and other LLM-specific attack vectors
  • Ability to investigate complex abuse patterns and translate findings into automated defenses
  • Familiarity with common attack patterns: phishing infrastructure, account takeover, credential stuffing, resource abuse
  • Clear communication skills for working across Security, Support, Legal, and Engineering teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience at a platform company dealing with user-generated content or compute abuse
  • Background in fraud detection, payment abuse, or financial crime
  • Familiarity with device fingerprinting, IP reputation, and email validation services
  • Experience with CI/CD security tooling (SAST, SCA, Dependabot, Snyk)
  • Knowledge of container security, Linux internals, or cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
  • Prior work with abuse reporting pipelines, trust & safety tooling, or content moderation systems

Tools & Tech Stack

  • Languages: Python, TypeScript, Go, SQL
  • Data: BigQuery, Hex
  • Detection tools: Slurper, Netwatch, Stytch, ClearOut
  • CI/CD Security: Dependabot, Snyk, SAST/SCA scanners
  • Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes
Skills
PythonTypeScriptSQLBigQueryMachine LearningLLM GuardrailsPrompt Injection DetectionGCPKubernetesSASTSCA
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