Trust & Safety Engineer

At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together. We’re looking for a Trust Safety Engineer to help prevent abuse at scale by building technical controls across authentication, account integrity, and core product. This role will focus heavily on stopping abuse at login and registration, mitigating automated and coordinated attacks, and partnering closely with internal teams to address logic abuse across the product. This is an engineering role focused on building durable, scalable abuse prevention systems to reduce risk exposure while preserving legitimate user growth and experience. About the role: Location: Remote-first (United States; BC ON, Canada) Full-time Permanent Exempt The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills. United States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States) Zone A: $187,000 - $289,000 Zone B: $175,000 - $271,000 Zone C: $164,000 - $254,000 Canada (figures cited below are in CAD and pertain to workers in ON BC, Canada) $227,000 - $329,000 This role is also eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program. Target amounts are a percentage of base salary and vary by career level. Payouts are based on company performance against established financial and operational goals. Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.Application Information: Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled This posting is for a new position Reporting to the Senior Manager of Trust Safety As a Trust Safety Engineer, you’ll … Harden login and registration flows using risk-based controls such as rate limiting, behavioral signals, progressive friction, and automated mitigation. Partner closely with Security and Engineering teams to identify and remediate abuse. Develop internal Trust Safety tooling that centralizes risk signals, improves investigation workflows, and automates enforcement actions. Create and productionize abuse detection logic by translating adversarial patterns into scalable signals, metrics, and engineering controls. About you: Requirements: BA/BS degree or equivalent experience 5–8 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in trust safety, security engineering, or fraud/abuse prevention Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Python, Go, Node.js, etc.) Experience building and maintaining internal tooling at scale Experience building and publishing applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Cloudflare, etc.) Familiarity with data pipelines and querying large datasets (SQL, BigQuery, etc.) to surface abuse patterns Experience with rate limiting, fingerprinting, bot detection, or similar abuse prevention primitives Experience implementing observability, metrics, and alerting (OpenSearch, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.) You’ll thrive as a Trust Safety Engineer if you: You’ll thrive as a Trust Safety En ... (truncated, view full listing at source)