Backend Software Engineer, Trust and Safety Engineering (Singapore)
- 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 3+ years · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Backend engineering on TikTok's Trust and Safety platform, building scalable tools that protect users from harmful content and abusive behavior across the product globally. The team builds systems for high traffic loads and works with trust and safety specialists and machine learning engineers on the platform's design.
What you'd do
- Build a scalable, efficient trust and safety platform and its tools
- Translate product objectives into an easy-to-use platform that meets customer needs
- Partner with safety specialists, subject experts and ML engineers on the platform
- Improve system design and architecture to keep trust and safety services stable and performant
- Support trust and safety teams in protecting TikTok users worldwide
What it asks for
- Degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Three or more years of relevant experience
- Development experience in C++, Go or Java (at least one)
- Focus on high-quality, technically sound code
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems (preferred)
- Familiarity with data storage systems and queries (preferred)
- Experience with trust and safety (preferred)
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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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