Backend Software Engineer, Account Safety - Trust and Safety
- Location
- Singapore
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Singapore. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Singapore, 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: asks for 2+ years · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Backend engineering for the Account Safety area of trust and safety at TikTok, building the platforms that moderation teams use to act on harmful content and abusive behavior. The work sits in the TnS engineering team, which builds content moderation process systems, a rule engine, strategy and feature engines, human moderation platforms and risk insight systems.
What you'd do
- Create high-capacity, economical and resilient tools for trust and safety operations.
- Turn product objectives into easy-to-use platforms that fit the needs of internal customers.
- Partner with trust and safety specialists, domain experts and machine learning engineers.
- Improve system design and architecture to keep trust and safety services stable and performant.
- Work with trust and safety teams to protect the platform globally.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a closely related technical field.
- At least 2 years of industry experience.
- Proficiency in data structures, algorithms and at least one of Python, Go, PHP, C++ or Java.
- Experience with big data systems such as Hive, Flink or ClickHouse.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
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About TikTok
The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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