Back-end Engineer, Trust & Safety (Go)
- Location
- Tokyo
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 4 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Japan. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Japan, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Match Group's posting.
Backend engineering for trust and safety on Pairs, a Japanese dating app. The work covers designing and running systems that detect, prevent, investigate and respond to violating and malicious users. It sits in Platform Backend Team, which builds microservices and infrastructure for the core app.
What you'd do
- Design and build mechanisms that reduce policy violations, malicious use and abuse on Pairs
- Review and analyze user behavior, system logs and intervention results to spot risk signals and trends
- Gauge the scale of issues and assess how well countermeasures work
- Continuously improve detection, prevention, investigation and response systems as risk patterns shift
- Work with T&S stakeholders, data analysts, product backend, SRE and security teams on quality, performance and reliability
What it asks for
- 3+ years of building, releasing and operating commercial applications
- Experience building commercial web APIs on AWS or Google Cloud
- Experience designing test approaches
- Experience creating and operating commercial container images for web apps
- Basic knowledge of Nginx and MySQL
- Business-level Japanese and conversational English
- Experience with scalable database and application design for large data and access volumes (preferred)
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About Match Group

The employer
About Match Group
Dating and community · Dallas, TX · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 1995
Portfolio of dating apps including Tinder, Hinge, Match and OkCupid.
Moderation, reported
Match Group files its moderation decisions with the European Commission, separately for each service below. The newest we hold cover May 2026.
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- OKCupid
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