Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior Trust & Safety Engineer at Webflow if you:

• Have a strong understanding of, rate limiting and traffic shaping, risk-based authentication, abuse detection heuristics
• Have an ability to reason about adversarial behavior
• Are comfortable owning abuse prevention end-to-end
• Work effectively across security, product, and data teams
• Are comfortable with exposure to potentially harmful content
• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact.

Please note: This position involves exposure to sensitive and graphic content, including but not limited to vulgar, violent, and sexual content.

Our Core Behaviors:

• Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
• Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.
• Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible.
• Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.

Benefits

• Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
• Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
• Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
• Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
• Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally. 
• Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
• Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.

To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment.

If you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes.

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