Replit

Security Engineer, Anti-Abuse

Replit

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Foster CityCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $192,700 - $250,000 per year

About the role

  • Design and implement LLM guardrails that detect abuse scenarios in AI-generated code and agent interactions
  • Build AI-powered detection systems that use LLMs to identify malicious patterns, classify threats, and automate response decisions
  • Build and operate abuse detection systems that identify phishing, cryptomining, account takeover, and financial fraud across millions of daily user actions
  • Design automated response mechanisms that enforce platform policies without manual intervention
  • Own the full abuse response lifecycle: detection, investigation, enforcement, and handling appeals alongside Support and Legal
  • Analyze attack patterns using BigQuery and Hex, turning investigation findings into new detection rules
  • Maintain and extend internal detection tools (Slurper, Netwatch) that continuously monitor user activity
  • Integrate and tune security scanners (SAST, SCA) in CI pipelines with tight performance SLAs
  • Track abuse trends, measure detection effectiveness, and adapt defenses as attack patterns evolve

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in security engineering, anti-abuse, trust & safety, or fraud detection
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript for building detection systems and automation
  • Experience with SQL and data analysis at scale (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar)
  • Experience building or fine-tuning ML/LLM-based classifiers for security or abuse detection
  • Familiarity with prompt injection, jailbreaking, and other LLM-specific attack vectors
  • Ability to investigate complex abuse patterns and translate findings into automated defenses
  • Familiarity with common attack patterns: phishing infrastructure, account takeover, credential stuffing, resource abuse
  • Clear communication skills for working across Security, Support, Legal, and Engineering teams.
Benefits
  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • 401(k) Program
  • Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • Autonomous Work Environment
  • In Office Set-Up Reimbursement
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
  • Quarterly Team Gatherings
  • In Office Amenities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonTypeScriptSQLBigQuerydata analysisML classifiersLLM-based classifiersautomated defensessecurity scannersCI pipelines
Soft skills
clear communicationinvestigationproblem-solvingcollaboration